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T Xwenty years ago Maryknoll Sister Maura Clarke agonized about her decision to leave Nicaragua where she had served forl7 years. She had taught school in a remote mining town and then ministered to the poorest of the poor in a barrio of Managua. But she felt she was being called to move. "I know I must go to El Salvador to see if it is right for me to be there as one of our Sisters there (Ita Ford) has been alone for some time," she wrote to her family in July 1980. Her words came to light this fall as her niece , Deirdre Keogh of Menlo Park , read through Maura 's letters to her family which had been untouched for 20 years. As she wrote to her parents, Sister Maura was quietly confident God would help her decide. Sister Ita needed someone with experience to do emergency work with refugees in a country chaotic with civil war. Sister Carol Ann Peitte , Sister Ita 's friend and coworker, had just drowned in a flash flood leaving Sister Ita deeply shaken and alone in her ministry. Sister Maura 's decision to join Sister Ita cost Maura her life. Five months after she went to El Salvador, Sisters Maura and Ita along with Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay missioner Jean Donovan were kidnapped by five government soldiers, driven on dirt roads to a secluded woods, raped and shot. Last year the families of the four learned that the generals they believed had ordered the killings were within reach of U.S. courts. General Jose Guillermo Garcia, minister o! defense, and General Carlos Vides Casanova, director of the national guard, had retired to Florida. At lawyers' request, Deirdre began reading the letters to help build a case in the trial. Her mother, Julia, gave the letters to Deirdre because she found it too painful to read her sister's letters for the court case. Seeing her clear, careful handwriting again, reading her thoughts was both painful and fascinating for Deirdre. The image of her aunt that emerges is not that of an insurrectionist who might be dangerous to the dictatorship the U.S. supported at the time. The letters sketch the interior life of a woman absolutely dedicated to God. Her death flowed from the way she had lived , a woman totally absorbed by her mission and the people she served. The third-grade CCD teacher at Nativity Parish knew her aunt as a woman who was "out there." "We (our family) didn 't understand her then , but we do now," she said with wistful awe. "Maura was ' out there' as far as she could get, physically and religiously. We didn't understand what she was doing in Central America. We thought it was like an exotic vacation place. " Beginning at 15, Deirdre got to know her aunt when the Maryknoller was in the U.S. from 1976 to 1979 doing social justice work and community outreach in Boston and Washington, D.C. The woman who had been a Maryknoll Sister since 1953 SISTER MAURA, PAGE 11 had an otherworldly air to the teen-age Deirdre who had grown up in a comfortable,
ZJ convene for its inaugural meeting Nov. 30 at St. Mary 's JL JL Cathedral Conference Center, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. The advisory body's membership has been selected and is comprised of 17 ex-officio members, 22 elected members and 20 alternates. These members are meant to be "keepers of the vision ," who have as their focus the "larger picture," explained Father David Pettingill , primary author and compiler of bylaws, which the Council of Priests approved in February. Archdiocesan pastoral councils are part of the governance structure of the Church and "the principal way in which the laity can participate in decisions at the diocesan level - just as parish councils do at the parish level," explained Archbishop William J. Levada. "Having a pastoral council in place when I came here would have been a very useful resource to implement the Pastoral Plan," the Archbishop noted. Goals of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council include enabling a broad cross section of the Archdiocese to participate in the governance of the Church , drawing from the experiences of persons from various cultural backgrounds and ministries as well as those who now serve on parish pastoral councils, officials said. An important role of the Pastoral Council will be to promote continuing implementation and updating of the archdiocesan pastoral plan, "A Journey of Hope Toward the New Millennium: The Pastoral Plan of the Pilgrim Church of San Francisco." The Pastoral Plan was begun in 1993 and promulgated in 1996. The Second Vatican Council document Christus Dominus states that the purpose of an archdiocesan pastoral council is "to investigate under the authority of the bishop all those things which pertain to pastoral works, to ponder them, and to propose practical conclusions about them." The APC is a consultative body presided over by the Archbishop, and is scheduledto convene three timesper year. Issues the council might consider, according to Father Pettingill , include how Vatican II should be implemented; how the Archdiocese can best reach youth, young adults, and the homebound; and how well the Archdiocese is fairing ecumenically. Ex-officio members include the Archbishop, auxiliary bishop, vicar general, vicar for administration, vicar for pastoral ministry, a representative dean from each county, superintendent of Catholic schools, and a representative from the executive committee of the Council of Priests. In addition to these, one member from the Catholic Charities board, the CYO board, the Board of Education, the Liturgical Commission, and the Ecumenical/Inter-religious Commission will be ex-officio members, the by-laws state. Elected membershipwill include a lay person from each deanery, an PASTORALCOUNCIL, page 3
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parish and school in Eng land. Diane 's folks are parish council members, Jean and Arnold Low. Eldon 's mom and dad are parish youth ministers , Kathy and Dennis Gee. Happy 50th wedding anniversary to Eldon 's grandparents , Gwendolyn and Richard Gee, both 1938 graduates of Holy Family 's St. Mary 's Chinese Day School and now retired in San Francisco 's Inner Sunset.... Holy Family neighbor, Old St. Mary 's, says "so long " to Pat Ward, its "wonderful receptionist " who accepted a job elsewhere. Paulist Father Bob Pinkston, pastor, says he and administrative assistant , Julie Todd, will be on the p hone and door detail until someone new comes aboard.... Hats off to Jesuit Father Tom Hand who recentl y celebrated his 80th birthday with well wishers at Burlingame 's Mercy Center where he has been a staff member since 1984. Mercy Sister Judy Carle, president of the community 's Burlingame region , noted how Father Hand' s relationship with the congregation went back to his grade school days. Internationall y acclaimed composer, Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan, and Claire Giovannetti , music director , St. Charles Parish, San Carlos , led the revelers in Taize chant and a few of Sister Suzanne 's well-known hymns. Father Hand , whose twin sister Marguerite was also honored , said his has been "a wonderful life "....Hats off to St. John Bosco Council 613, Young Men 's Institute , based at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in North Beach. The group donated $9, 100
Happy 100th birthday to Dita Wilbur of St. Catherine of Siena Parish , Burlingame. Dita was born in the Phili pp ines where her dad , a U.S. Army captain , was stationed as director of customs. She came stateside with her famil y six years later. Dita 's husband is the late Brayton Wilbur , Sr., Dita Wilbur, who served as a lieutenant in 100 years old a regiment commanded by her father, and her favorite flower has always been the rose as the garden at her Peninsula home attests. Asked once if she knew Gen. MacArthur , the not-sh yabout-her-age senior quipped , "No , but I knew his similar parents."...A you 're-ag ing-but-I' m-not attitude was a mark of the late Nellie Kranske who died recentl y at age 96. George Devine , Sr., a frequent contributor to Catholic San Francisco , remembers meeting Nellie on Clement Street about 20 years ago when she had no time to talk because she was on her way "to visit the old folks."... Spurred by a CSF photo that reported an antiHalloween campaign in From left: Rita Carroll, princi pal, and St. Pius Elementary teachers , Julie Brand and Central America, Henie Colleen Gallagher pose with National Guard Airmen after their approximately 15 Wisniewski called to defend mile helicopter flight from Moffett Field to the Redwood City school on Oct. 18. The the holiday as not nearly as landing was a surprise for the school's 307 students who later were encouraged by bad as many make it out to be. the pilots to "stay in school , stay off drugs and stay out of gangs " in conjunction The St. Dominic parishioner with Red Ribbon Week of the Drug Awareness Resistance Education program. says "Jesus would enjoy the children having fun , even those dressed as witches and goblins."...Chinatown 's this year to nine charitable causes. Jim Calabretta , Holy Family Parish is proud and praying for parishioners Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Belmont, is prez. Diane Low, who entered religious life last year, and Eldon Group 's two veeps are Al Didero, of SF's Immaculate Gee, who is serving as a volunteer pastoral associate at a Conception Chapel and Rich Pisciotta of the Excelsior District' s Epiphany Parish....Was glad to tell Jackie Zuger of Noe Valley 's St. Phili p Parish that a video compilation of the Jubilee Mass and its accompany ing festivities will be forthcoming. Jackie, a member of the Jubilee Mass choir, called the day "wonderful" . Her husban d, Pete, also attended. Watch Catholic San Francisco for information about the Jubilee Mass video. Watch Congratulations to Catholic high school freshmen recently awarded Datebook for St. Philip 's scholarships from the Catholic Professional Women's Club; from left: upcoming Christmas Concert Meryl Louie, Tanya Susoew, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparato ry; featuring its choir under the Patricia McGuigan, chair of the group 's scholarship committee , and direction of Vince a parishioner of St. Anne of the Sunset; Natalia Gomez , Immaculate Peterson.... Conception Academy; John Herrera , Marriane Ugarte , St. Ignatius. Not Remember, no CSF next pictured is St. Ignatius freshman Tyler Peniston. Club president is Cathy Brash week. Happy Thanksgiving!
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President: Archbishop William J. Levada Ex-Officio representatives: • Bishop John C. Wester, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco; moderator of the Curia. • tvlsgr. Harry Schlitt , vicar for administration. • Sister Glenn Anne McPhee , O.P., superintendent of Catholic schools. • Harry Johnson , representative of the Catholic Charities Board of Directors. • Doris Munste rman , Ecumenical/Inter- reli gious Commission Representative; president of Ecumenical Ministry of Northern California. Board of Education: • Geralyn O'Mahoney, member of St. Cecilia Parish , San Francisco, CYO Board: • Brian Cahill , executive director of CYO and interim executive director of Catholic Charities. Council of Priests ' Executive Committee: • Father Michael Padazinski , judicial vicar and director of the Metropolitan Tribunal of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Liturgical Commission representative: • Deacon Bernie O'Halloran , member of St. Anselm Parish , San Anselmo. Clergy and Religious representatives: • Father John Treacy, S.J., rector of Loyola House at University of San Francisco. • Sister Maureen O'Brien , B.V.M. pastoral associate of the Church of the Visitacion , San Francisco. Dean representatives: • Father Richard Deitch , pastor, Star of the Sea Parish , Sausalito , dean of Deanery 6. • Father Lawrence Goode, pastor , St. Finn Ban-
Pastoral Council . . . ¦ Continued from page cover archdiocesan priest, a male religious, a religious woman, a permanent deacon, plus five representatives from ethnic groups. Alternates will mirror these specifications, and will be "phased in " at staggered times during three-year terms. In selecting deanery delegates, each parish nominated two members from its pastoral council. Like parish councils that officially dissolve upon a pastor 's departure, the archdiocesan council would cease to exist with reassignment, retirement or death of the Archbishop . Two archdiocesan pastoral councils existed previously in San Francisco, under Archbishops Joseph T. McGucken and John R. Quinn. Both featured a mixture of lay leadership, priests and religious.
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Padre Pio miracle possible
ROME (CNS) -- Italian Capuchin priests have submitted documents to the Vatican detailing the healing of an 8year-old boy which they hope will be the miracle accepted for the canonization of Blessed Padre Pio. A spokesman for the Capuchins in Foggia, the province to which Padre Pio belonged , said the documentation was delivered to the Congregation for Sainthood Causes in late October. In conjunction with a Nov. 12-13 television miniseries on the life of Padre Pio broadcast by RAI, the Italian state television , the network and several Italian newspapers reported the priest could be canonized as early as 2001.
Hail assisted suicide defeat
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Local and national Catholic officials hailed the repudiation of physician-assisted suicide by Maine 's voters Nov. 7. Gail Quinn , executive director of the U.S. bishops ' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, called the vote "an encouraging sign for efforts to respect the life and dignity of vulnerable people."
Ap olog izesfor child abuse
MANCHESTER , England (CNS) — An English bishop issued an apology to victims of child abuse throughout his diocese. In a pastoral letter read at Masses Nov. 11-12, Bishop Crispian HoIIis of Portsmouth said the current publicity surrounding the Cardiff Archdiocese and a recent documentary on BBC TV alleging that the Cardiff archbishop ignored warnings about two pedophile priests who worked in his archdiocese only underlines the urgent need to address the tragedy of child abuse. Meanwhile , following calls for his resignation, Archbishop John Ward of Cardiff , Wales, has asked Pope John Paul II to appoint a coadjutor archbishop to work alongside him. He said he had been considering requesting a coadjutor bishop since his strength was diminished by a recent stroke.
Irish Sisters sue TV station
DUBLIN , Ireland (CNS) — The Sisters of Mercy are taking legal action against an Irish television station after a progra m alleged members of the order assisted in ritual sexual assault on a child in their care during the 1960s. The
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II's plan to visit predominantly Orthodox Ukraine in June does not indicate the Pope has given up hopes of meeting the Russian Orthodox patriarch , a top Vatican official said. "The Holy Father remains open and very ready for a meeting with the patriarch should the situation arise," Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, told Catholic News Service.
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Nativity of the Blessed Virg in Mary in Biloxi. He was expected to be buried alongside his parents at his home church of Our Mother of Sorrows in Biloxi.
Debt relief bill signed
WASHINGTON (CNS) — A global effort for debt relief prompted by Pope John Paul II bore fruit Nov. 6 as President Clinton signed a bill setting aside $435 million to forgive debts owed by the world's poorest countries. At a White House ceremony celebrating approval of the legislation, Clinton praised the bipartisan political effort responsible for the bill 's approval .
Patriarch meets Arafat
JERUSALEM (CNS) — Latin-rite Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem met with Palestinian National Chairman Yasser Arafat in Gaza and expressed Christian solidarity with the Palestinian leadership. During the hourlong meeting Nov. 6, Patriarch Sabbah told Arafat he supported efforts to end the current violence and reach a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Patriarch Sabbah , who initiated the meeting, was accompanied by small delegation of priests."
Visa p rog ram extended
WASHINGTON (CNS) — A bill temporaril y extending for another three years a program th at grants visas to nonclergy religious workers was signed into law Nov. 1 after efforts to make the program permanent failed. President Clinton signed the bill after the House approved it Sept. 19 and the Senate signed off on it Oct. 19. The extension came a full month after the previous temporary law expired , leaving the application process in limbo during that time. The program has been "temporary," for 10 years, and supporters had hoped to end the periodic reauthorization hassle by
Start payments fo rfo rced labor
COLOGNE, Germany (CNS) — The Gennan Catholic Church has begun paying compensation to people who were used as forced laborers in Church institutions during World War II. The chairman of the German bishops ' conference, Bishop Karl Lehmann of Mainz, and Hellmut Puschmann, president of German Caritas, the Church's charitable agency, announced Nov. 7 that within days, payments of $2,500 each would be going to a man living in Poland and a woman living in Germany. Puschmann said it was expected that 10 peop le would be paid compensation before the end of the year.
Archbishop Marino dies at 66
. WASHINGTON (CNS) — Archbishop Eugene A. Marino , who was the first black archbishop in the United States and whose resignation in 1990 was linked to his affair with a woman, died unexpectedly Nov. 12 at a retreat house in New York. He was 66. Archbishop Marino, archbishop of Atlanta when he resigned, had Archbish Marino been serving for the past five years as spiritual director of an outpatient program for priests with mental illness, substance abuse and sexual behavior problems. The Clergy Consultation and Treatment Service is a program of St. Vincent's Westchester in Harrison, N.Y., a psychiatric branch of St. Vincent 's Medical Center in Manhattan. Archbishop Marino suffered an apparent heart attack after participating in a weekend retreat at St. Ignatius Retreat House in Manhasset , N.Y. Memorial Masses were scheduled for Nov. 15 at the Salesian High School chapel in New Rochelle, N.Y., and Nov. 16 at St. Francis Xavier Church in Baltimore, with a Mass of Christian burial set for 11 a.m. Nov. 20 at the Cathedral of the
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Phili p pines rally draws 70,000
MANILA, Philippines (CNS) — More than 70,000 people gathered to pray to Mary for peace in the country and for Phili ppine President Joseph Estrada 's resignation amid allegations of corruption. The people prayed the rosary at the Nov. 4 rally and invoked, "Mother Mary, we beg you bring peace to our land " after Scripture readings and reflections on the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Mother, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila, who called for the prayer rally, said, "We are here to pray for the president ... because he needs enli ghtenment and courage ... to live in the grace of God."
Pop e p raises Thanksgiving
VATICANCITY (CNS) - Thanksgiving takes on a special meaning in the Jubilee Year, as Christians express gratitude for the created world and for the Savior who redeemed it, Pope John Paul II said. The Pope spoke about Thanksgiving, celebrated on different days around the world, at a Hol y Year Mass with farmers Nov. 12. He said Thanksgiving began as a feast day for those involved in farming, as a way to show they appreciated the goods of the earth as a "priceless gift of divine providence." The Pope said, "In your dail y encounter with the beauty of God's creation, may you grow closer to the Lord of life, strengthen your commitment to be good stewards of his bountiful gifts , and grow in solidarity with others, especially our brothers and sisters suffering from poverty and hunger. May the Lord of the harvest bless your labors and fill you and your families with his peace."
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Wester, who were in Washington, D.C. for the fall meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, were informed of the arrest on Sunday, Nov. 12, by Msgr. Harry Schlitt , acting Vicar General . Arch bishop Levada ordered that Father Dabbene be relieved of his priestly fu nctions and public ministry and be placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of investi gations by civil auth orities and the Archdiocese. Msgr. Schlitt presented a formal letter of this action to Father Dabbene in a meeting with the priest and Salesian Provincial Father Reina Monday morning. Later that day, a memorandum was sent to all pastors informing them of the arrest and subsequent action taken by the Archdiocese. Msgr. Schlitt also met with workers at the Chancery/Pastoral Center to inform them of the news. In his comments, Msgr. Schlitt said, "Father Dabbene asked me to convey his regret and sorrow for this unfortunate incident and ask for your prayers, and that he hoped this would have a positive outcome." The Archdiocese learned of the arrest when police called Father Dabbene 's residence to confirm the priest 's address. Father Dabbene worked at the Chancery Office at 445 Church St. and was in residence at St. Mary 's Cathedral. He now is living at the Salesian Provincialate. Father Dabbene, 63, is a native of San Francisco and a gradu ate of Sts. Peter and Paul Elementary School, St. Ignatius High School and the University of San Francisco. He was ordained a priest in 1966. Father Dabbene was a high school teacher and principal in southern California and the East Bay before becoming pastor of Corpus Christi Parish in 1993. He was named Vicar for Parishes and joined the archdiocesan staff in 1999. Fred Gardner, a spokesperon for the District Attorney Terrence Hallinan said the priest could face 6 years in prison and $2000 fine if convicted of all charges.
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JubileeDayfor Lay Ministry coincides with holiday volunteer opportunities "• ram Nov. 24-26, the World Congress for the Apostolate of the Laity will be meeting in Rome to look at the lay vocation in today's world. It will be augmented on Nov. 26 by Jubilee Day for Lay /' Ministry in the United States. In conjunction with these Jubilee Year calls for works of compassion - intensfied during the Thanksgiving-Christmas holiday season — Catholic San Francisco has contacted a number of Bay Area organizations in need of volunteers and assistance. Organizations not included in this sampling are welcome to contact the newspaper for potential inclusion in a future issue: 441 Church St., San Francisco 94114; e-mail kmalier@catholic-sf.org; fax (415) 565-3631. While the focus here is volunteers - short-term and long-term - many of the groups can also use cash donations, warm clothing, or Christmas gifts certificates.
Holiday opportunities The St. Vincent de Paul Society, a Catholic lay men and women's group which collects food , clothing, furniture and other resources for those in need would appreciate persons to assist on its "Help Desk" - to staff the desk, sort food and clothing donati ons, and work with clients. During the winter months, demands increase. Call Louis Alessandria at (415) 977-1270 x 3001. Si. Anthony Foundation, a Catholic social service agency operated by the Franciscans, needs volunteers to stand curbside as cars drive by with holiday donations. Volunteers receive donations and issue receipts. Needed Nov. 18 through Thanksgiving Day and Dec. 18 through Christmas Day. Volunteers are also needed on a year-round basis for the Foundat ion's many outreach ministries. Call Francis Tolero at (415) 592-2727. Birthright of San Francisco, a pregnancy support service offering alternatives to abortion , including medical assistance, housing, baby furniture and clothing, has a newsletter mailing coming up. Help is needed to collate and prepare the newsletter as well as filing and gathering statistics. Call Mary Alba at (415) 664-9909 or (415) 456-4500. Birthright also welcomes donations of baby clothing, maternity outfits, and cash. Address: 1605 Taraval St., San Francisco, 94116. Web site: www.birthright.org. San Rafael Birthright would appreciate blankets and booties as well as supermarket gift certificates to help moms purchase diapers and food: (415) 456-4500. Address: 2144 Fourth St., San Rafael, 94901.
Local libraries need hel p in the following ways: helping clientele connect to the Internet; repairing, washing, shelving, or delivering books; checking and rewinding video tapes; adopting a shelf and keeping it in order; being a storyteller in the children's section; creating posters, signs and graphics; performing clerical work; indexing obituaries from the local paper; and cleaning up the area around the library. Call library branches. The San Francisco Public Library System needs ongoing volunteers to shelve books and help children and adults on computer-related issues. Six-month commitments of two or three hours per week are needed. Call (415) 557-4280, Paul Signorelli , director of volunteer services. 1he American Cancer Society needs drivers to transport patients to treaunent. Other opportunities include staffing a booth at a health fair and serving as office receptionist. Volunteer beauticians and cosmetologists are needed for patients who have undergone chemotherapy and radiation. Resale shops throughout the Bay Area need assistance to acquire merchandise, sort, price, display and sell. Contact numbers: Marin, (415) 454-8464; San Mateo, (650) 578-9902; San Francisco, (415) 394-7100. Jewish Family and Children 's Services needs volunteers to help seniors celebrate Hanukkah on Dec. 10 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Volunteers visit seniors for two hours and deliver a Hanukkah food basket. Volunteers should know what Hanukkah is about. . Reply by Dec. 1 to Debbi Goodman at (415) 4493832. JFCS is also organizing groups to serve holiday meals at St. Anthony Dining Room on Nov.24, Nov. 26, and Dec. 31 and at Martin de Porres on Nov. 24. Contact Rachel Kesselman at (415) 449-1288. Web site: www.jfcs.org.
Ongoing volunteer opportunities Most Holy Redeemer AIDS Support Group in San Francisco needs volunteers to provide practical and emotional support to people living with AIDS. Call (415) 863-1581. Bernal Heights Neighborhood Elders Support Team needs help in its ministry to assist seniors remain at home with rides, food delivery and companionship. Call Joanna Tom at (415) 206-9177. Pregnancy Resource Center in Novate needs volunteers in its work of providing free pregnancy tests, operating a pre-natal clinic, offering childbirth classes, abstinence education , and post-abortion outreach: (415) 892-0558. Web site: www.pregnancycenters.org /prc. The Red Cross needs people for administrative duties, fund raising, research, data entry, and certified disaster service. Call Jennifer Tracy at (408) 577-2063. Web site; www.redcross.org/ca/scv, Birthrig ht needs volunteer counselors for crisis pregnancies. Approximately six weeks of training is required. Also needed are presenters for the outreach program which teaches abstinence to eighth graders. Call Tami Wing at (510) 891-9985. hi
Guerrero House, a residential program for young homeless adults between the ages of 18 and 23, needs cash donations to purchase gift certificates to movies and music stores. Sweatshirts of all sizes and umbrellas are also on the priority list. Address: 899 Guerrero St., San Francisco 94110. Phone: (415) 550-4478.
Lagttna Honda Hospital's pastoral services program continues to look for volunteer eucharistic ministers, lectors and others to help as chapel escorts. Call Sister Miriam Walsh at (415) 664-1580.
Catholic Charities'Rita da Cascia needs volunteers to wrap presents and organize gifts for homeless mothers and children living with HIV. Contact Afifa Ahmed at (415) 202-0932.
San Francisco Suicide Prevention needs volunteer hot line counselors. Training required. Call (415) 984-1900.
Leland House of Catholic Charities, a residential program for individuals with AIDS/HIV needs holiday kitchen help throughout November, December and January to prepare meals for disabled residents. Contact Dan Sauers at (415) 405-2023.
The St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County needs volunteers at its Homeless Help Center/Soup Kitchen in South San Francisco. Call Joseph at (650) 589-9039- Financial help needed for rent and utilities assistance to prevent evictions/homelessness throughout the county. Donations will also help support holiday food basket and gift programs. Send donations to SVDP, 50 North B St. San Mateo 94401. Visitorsfor the incarcerated, and volunteers to do computer data entry also needed. Call (650) 373-0622. Volunteer opportunities, too, for English/Spanish speakers to take phone requests for help. Call (650) 373-0620.
Raphael House, a shelter for homeless families at 1965 Sutter St., San Francisco, which offers counseling, children's programs, and after care, will host a volunteer tour and information session on Nov. 29 from 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Call Carol Field: (415) 345-7265. Web site: www.raphaelhouse.org. Volunteers are needed on Nov. 21 from noon to 3 p.m. to put together holiday meals for former residents to cook at home. Contact Sue Hans at (415) 474-4621. Help needed for Thanksgiving food delivery on Nov. 22 from noon to 3 p.m. and volunteers are needed to help with three Thanksgiving dinners for neighborhood seniors and residents. St. Martin de Porres Catholic Worker House of Hospitality in San Francisco needs warmsocks and blankets. People can bring donations to the brown metal door at 225 Potrero Ave., San Francisco, Mondays between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. and Tuesdays through Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Ring bell. . Project Open Hand needs food delivery help, kitchen volunteers, and holiday grocery shoppers on days prior to and after the holidays themselves. Call Artrese Morrison at (415) 447-2310. The Marine Mammal Center needs volunteers with carpentry or plumbing skills to work on buildings, construct boards for rescuing animals, and paint walls. The center also needs administrative help. Tworetail stores in San Francisco's Pier 39 and the Marin Headlands need retail clerks. Call Al Jennings at (415) 289-7353, or Kathleen Hannah at (415) 289-7374.
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Wildcare in Marin has an ongoing need for volunteers to undergo training to care for wild life, from cage cleaning, to laundry, dishes, and preparation. Contact Gerald Lott at (415) 453-1000. The Marine Mammal Center in Marin is seeking volunteers able to make six-month commitments to care for animals. Call Al Jennings at (415) 289-7353, or Kathleen Hannah, at (415) 289-7374. Tl) e San Francisco Zoo needs volunteers weekly to care for animals, and work in the children's zoo and insect zoo. Special events' volunteers and zoo guides also needed. Adult program, Nicolette Heaphy at (415) 753-7068. Teen program, Laura Louttit at (415) 753-7073. Refugee Transitions needs volunteers to teach adult "English as a Second Language" lessons and to work in the Family Literacy Program. Training required. An orientation for the Family Literacy Program will be held Nov. 18, at noon, at 447 Sutter St., Suite 428, San Francisco. An orientation for the adult ESL program will be held in January. Call (415) 989-2151.
Volunteer referral agencies
The PresidioPark Stewards and Crissy Field Restoration Project needs help planting habitat. Planting experience not needed. Drop in Wednesdays or Saturdays at 9 a.m. Call (415) 561-3034, ext. 3445. Web site: wvw.cdssyfield.org.
Meetingfor Good is an organization for singles with the dual purpose of meetingother people and volunteering in the community.The agency hosts six to 10 volunteer projects per week. Call (650) 949-4611.
The San FranciscoAIDS Foundation needs clean-up helpers for its Thanksgiving Dinner Nov 23, its Dec. 19 holiday party, and for wrapping gifts and serving food. Contact Mary Pustilnikova at (415) 487-8084.
The Retired and Senior Volunteer Programorganizes volunteer opportunities for people 55 and older: (415) 731-3335.
The Societyfor the Preventionof Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) needs volunteers to help with pet adoptions in its "Holiday windows" at Neiman Marcus. Open Nov. 21 through Dec. 23, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Contact Dan Levinson (415) 522-3522. The San FranciscoFood Bank needs individuals to go out with drivers Tuesdaysthrough Fridays 7:30 am to 11:30 am to collect food throughout the city, and deliver it to 400 agencies. Help needed during daytime hours on Mondays to sort donations and pack holiday food boxes. Contact Chris Sams at (415) 282-1907, ext. 244; e-mail; csams@sffb.011.
The Volunteer Center has lists of opportunities available in Marin , San Francisco and San Mateo counties. Call in San Francisco ( 415) 982-8999; in San Mateo (650) 342-0801; and in San Rafael (415) 479-5660. Web address: www.volunteerinfo.org. San Mateo County Volunteer Center: (650) 342-0801.
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conservative Long Island community where private schools and role in the conflict during which 75,000 Salvadoransdied between "nice" cars were taken for granted. 1980 and 1992. "We must not be afraid. "I remember my grandmother was 80, and she was still makReligious communities in tire Bay Area grieved the deaths very ing Maura 's clothes, as she always had," said Deirdre. "Maura was personally. The response of many was to send members to Central No matter what happens we are one 50 then, and she believed you don ' t spend money on yourself. In a America to work with refugees. Five communities — Dominican with God and with one another." letter she asked grandmother when she (Maura) was coming to SLsters, Sisters of Mercy,Sisters ol Presentation, Holy Names Sisters, Boston , 'If you get a chance, could you borrow a coat for me?'" and Notre Dame de Namur Sisters -as well as many other religious Her sense of mission did not mean Mau ra was all seriousness. groups declared their grounds, campuses and facilities in the Bay Sister Teresa Mexander went on a earlier plane the next day.)"The "She was very happy," remembers Deirdre. "She had a lot of enerArea as sanctuary for refugees from El Salvador during the 1980s. praying together and being together has been a great blessing...Let gy, lots of friends, and among the Sisters she knew a million peoThe deaths shook Maryknoll, a religious community which us keep praying with faith and hope...The Lord will not abandon ple. There were always tons of people around when she was home. sends its members to serve the world's poorest. "Maryknoll has these poor struggling people. They have so much hope in him." Her life wasn't lonely. It was very full. " always had a special ministry to the poor and for social justice Discovery of the four women's bodies in shallow graves Dec. 2, Though shy and quiet , Sister Maura was willing to put her life issues,"says Maryknoll Sister Pat Edmunton , who drove Maura to 1980 sent reverberations throughout the U.S. The brutal murders on the line in an unfamiliar culture in a poverty-soaked land. "The the airport on that Dec. 2. "The women's deaths in some ways brought into sharp focus the struggle between the government area where we live is filled with poor people living in tents and transformed our theory into more concrete actions. It was also a military and the leftist guerillas, and put a spotlight on the U.S. shacks, " the nun wrote of Nicaragua. The civil war went on unifying force to minister more not only in our local misthere as Sandinista opposition grew to the iron-handed rule sions but on a larger scale, lobbying in Washington, workof the Somoza family. Sister Maura was quite aware they ing in the UN and collaborating with many religious groups lived in danger, but felt her role was with the people who in the U.S." were suffering losses of children, fathers, sons, brothers, Last year Deirdre began a campaign to support the friends. school in Nicaragua where Sister Maura taught. The Maura Sister Maura ' s goal was "to cooperate with the Holy Clarke School (Centro de Educacion y Capacitacion Spirit," she wrote in an early letter. Her faith took her to Integral Hna. Maura Clarke or CECIM) desperately needs work with Sister Ita in El Salvador, where they moved scholarship funds for children ($60per year) and support refugees to safe centers and brought them food and medifor teacher salaries ($55 per month) . So far Deirdre has cines. Even in the midst of the physical danger she gathered raised $10,000. The school educates 500 students from the people at the centers to pray together to find Christ in their Ciudad Sandino barrio of 140,000. lives. "That's what I mean by her being out there," said Later this month a contingent from the Bay Area Deirdre. mosuy religious women - will join people from all over the As the conflicts grew darker, Sister Maura allowed some United States in a trip to El Salvador sponsored by San sense of the threat and danger to come through in her letters. Francisco's SHARE Foundation commemorating the lives "The other day passing a small lake in the jeep, " Sister of the four church women and calling to what they say are Maura wrote in November 1980. "I saw a buzzard standing continuing injustices in Central America. on top of a floating body. We did nothing but pray and feel. For Deirdre, her mother, Julia, and brother, Scott, who We don't know how long this can continue, but the pain will travel to El Salvador on their own Dec. 1, the trip will goes on and on. " bring back memories of the December night when Julia In the letter written the night before her death , Sistei received the call from Maryknoll. Maura worried about nuns being sold to counter revoluThe letters might help them remember that while tionaries in Nicaragua and the death of six leaders of the Maura didn't choose her role as a martyr, she was prepared revolutionary movement. Although Sister Ita 's name by her faith as well asanyone could be. She had written two appeared on the death list that day, Sister Maura didn ' t months before her death,"We must not be afraid. No matter trouble her parents with diat personal news. Written late the what happens we are one with God and with one another." night of Dec. 1 in Nicaragua, she talks about the successCNSf i l peh o t oofs thefourchurchwomenmurdered in El Salvador ful meeting of a group of Maryknoll Sisters that day. by nationalguardsmen in 1980.Clockwisef rom top: LizDossais director of communicationsfor the Sisters "Tomorrow Ita, Maddie, Terry and I will be returning MaryknollSistersIta Ford and Maura Clarke, of Mercyof the Americas, Burlingame, and a frequent to El Salvador," she wrote. (Sister Madeline Dorsey and Ursuline SisterDorothyKazeland JeanDonovan. contributor to the Catholic Press.
Local reaction to Florida verdict: disappointment JL/isappointment characterized Bay Area reactions to a Florida jury 's Nov. 2 decision to clear two retired Salvadoran army generals of responsibility for the 1980 abductions, rapes and murders of Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay missionaryJean Donovan. "It is impossible to believe that the two generals did not have control over the troops under their command ," said Notre Dame Sister Margaret Hoffman, a communicationsofficial for her community and long involved in social justice issues. She was referring to Guillermo Garcia and Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, who have lived in Florida since 1989. Five guardsmen wereconvicted of the crime in 1984 but a 1993 amnesty law preventedfurther investigationinto the intellectual authors of the murders, a role of which the two generals were accused. In March 1998, Scott Greathead and Robert 0. Varenik of the LawyersCommittee for Human Rights (LCHR), traveled to El Salvador to interview the guardsmen in prison. Four of them admitted, for the first time, they acted on the orders of higher officials, accordingto LCHR media releases. With the information from the guardsmen, as well as findings from The Report of the Truth Commission in El Salvador and newly declassified U.S. government documentation, the families of the
American churchwomen filed a lawsuit in May 1999 against the two former Salvadoran officials. "Those who have followed the history of these war years," said Sister Hoffman , "know all too well that the Salvadoran military was involved in the very abuses they profess not to be able to have controlled." "The verdict is a grim and gruesome reminder of how far we have to go in human rights," said Dominican Sister Cathy Murray,director of the "Grass Roots" program of the SHARE Foundation which has supported "the empowerment of impoverished communities in El Salvador" since 1981. "On the other hand," added Sister Murray, "the deaths of the four women were not in vain. The women became role models and heroes. Some religious women made the transition from traditional ministries to activism shortly after their deaths." SHARE is sponsoring a local delegation's journey to El Salvador Nov. 30-Dec. 8. The more than two dozen local participantswill be part of a national group traveling there to commemorate the 20th anniversaryof the four church workers' deaths. A former president of the Sisters of Mercy, Burlingame, called the VERDICT , PACE n
Murderedwomen's relatives shocked, but hopeful By Tom Tracy "While we didn't win, we didn't lose," said Bill Ford, a New York trial attorney and the older brother of Sister Ita Ford , one of the Maryknoll missionaries killed by Salvadoran security forces during the decade long civil war in that Central American nation. Bill Ford had taken a lead role among the churchwomen's family membersin working with the New York-basedLawyers Committee for Human Rights to bring the retired Salvadoran military officers to court under the 1992 U.S. Torture Victim Protection Act. In the four-week trial in Ford vs. Garcia, the families had asked for a total of $100 million in damages from the men, both of whom are living in Florida. After the verdict, Ford said the families of the women were grateful for the chance to tell their story in a federal courtroom. Only two years ago, they had learned that the Salvadorans— Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, and former Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia — had been living in Florida since 1989, making the lawsuit possible. RELATIVES , PAGE n "We know more people know about this (atrocity) and more people
ReneFord-Sullivan (left), her brother Bill Ford and his wife, Maty Anne Ford, are pictur ed in West Palm Beach, Via,, after afederal juty Nov. 3 clearedtwo formerSalvadorangenerals of liability in the 1980 rape and murders of Maryknoll Sister ItaFord and three other U.S. missionary women. (CNS PHOTO BY TOM TRACY. FLORIDA CATHOUC)
Is it just me?
Jubilee call to ministry: Christ-inspired service Several reports in this week s Catholic San Francisco might be worth cutting out and pasting onto the refri gerator door as we enter the holiday corridor between Thanksgiving and the Epiphany. A single thread runs through them: Christ-inspired service to others. Two of the stories involve dramatic examples of persons — one who has died and another who has risked death — in pursuing their commitment to Christ 's commandment to feed , clothe and bring word of his saving grace to those in need. Sister Maura Clarke (see our cover story) was one of the four churchwomen raped and murdered in El Salvador almost 20 years ago to the day. Insights into her courage and commitment are clear in both her own words in her own handwriting and from the recollections of her niece, Deirdre Keogh, a Nativity Parish member kind enough to share both with readers. Bishop Macram Max Gassis (see page 8) has risked his life on numerous occasions to bring spiritual and material relief to his flock in Sudan. His first major appearance in the San Francisco Archdiocese a year and a half ago was a platform from which he has spread word of the "hidden holocaust" of the Nuba and Dinka peoples. And this week the U.S. Catholic bishops responded by passing a strongly worded condemnation of the Sudan government's "slavery, torture , executions, religious persecution (and) discriminatory laws" against its citizens. Stunningly, though, both Bishop Gassis and the martyred Sister Maura tell us that while providing support for the beleaguered and persecuted was and is important , the gift in return from those to whom they minister(ed) — and to us and the rest of the world — is even more profound. Wrote Sister Maura the day before she was murdered, "We are ... learning so much from these brave and suffering people." Speaking almost two decades later about Christians dying for their faith on another continent, Bishop Gassis echoes Sister Maura. "We are not just a recipient Church," he says of his parishioners, "we are a donor Church." The martyrdom of his peoples — "our blood" — gives powerful witness to Christ Jesus. Strains of that same wondrous truth — that grace and peace come to those doing their best to be servants to others — are seen in the stories about Free Trade Coffee (pages 6-7) and the "sampling" of potential volunteer needs in the Archdiocese on page 10. The stories of the martyred of Central America, including the four churchwomen featured in this issue, and the martyred of Sudan are as much or more spiritual stories than geo-political ones. The service opportunities available throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco are much more than "nice things to do". They are an opportunity to experience the grace of service and smile into the eyes of Jesus. Nov. 26 — three days after Thanksgiving — is the Jubilee Day for Lay Ministry in the United States. Let 's celebrate it right. DMY
I have been a Catholic for 83 years and as I look at my children and grandchildren and many of their peers I wonder why they do not find the joy and peace I have experienced as a member of this Roman Catholic Church. These individuals have treated me with love and kindness all my life and also show concern for their families and neighbors. For some reason they don 't find time or feel the need to belong to a faith community. These concerns are broug ht to prayer often and a question I ask myself is "Would Jesus recognize his Church?'' Sometimes I reall y wonder. During the ceremonies at the beginning of this new millennium when Pope John Paul II was celebrating the opening of the Holy Door at the Vatican I could not but be distressed by the pomp and ceremony, which |— to me overshadowed what was being celebrated. The poor Holy Father was so enveloped in wildl y patterned glittering fabric that he seemed lost in the pictures sent out oveT the airways. The contrast with the simplicity and poverty of the Holy Family was disturbing. Do we need all the trappings '? We are no longer illiterate peasants needing to be mesmerized by such excess of riches. I think if the Church truly followed the way of Jesus and of St. Francis with humility and poverty many would take notice. Mother Teresa of India lived in poverty and probabl y had more vocations to her order th an any other religious group during these past 40 years. Her life was one of service with love and compassion . Maybe more of us in this Church should take heed of her example as she lived and died serving her God. Am I making sense? Do any others feel this way ? A.C. De Patta Fairfax
say "enoug h" to the armchair liturg ists and their experimentation with our most sacred form of worship? LP. Sicotte, Jr. San Francisco
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Much has been said regarding the revision of the General Instructions of the Roman Missal potentiall y forthcoming later this year. I hope the U. S. bishops ' conference will take that occasion to issue a step-by-step instruction for the proper celebration of Mass by the celebrant , ministers and laity from the entrance to the recessional. Leadershi p in this regard by the metropolitan sees of California , the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles would be most helpful. My wife and I travel extensivel y throug h the United States and the wide variety of worship at Mass in different dioceses, even in parishes within the same diocese , often makes us wonder if we all belong to the same Church. Isn 't it time to
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I would like to add my congratulations to Noemi Castillo and all who worked on the myriad of details for Jubilee Mass 2000. I know the monumental task was increased by the inclement (to put it mildly) weather. Even with that undesired complication , the coordination of so many people was very well arranged. On behalf of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and especial ly for Mrs. Eva Baldwin and myself, we want to thank Noemi and her committees for including CDA in the pre-liturgy ceremonies. We were so pleased to be able to represent Catholic Daughters and to be part of such an historic and gracefilled occasion. Rose Marie Phelps California Past Regent, CDA San Rafael
Memories of "Raw"
1 For 26 years , 1957-83, 1 served as a medical consultan t, part-time, to the medical staff at San Quentin. In that capacity, I had occasion to visit Condemned Row many times. The Nov. 10 descri ption of the "Row 's" cells ("Face-to-face: reflections on California 's prison system") does not agree with my recollections. In fact, at that time the inmates on the "Row" had better accommodations than the men in the general population and were visited by a physician daily. However, aside from the medical issues, having 561 condemned inmates on the "Row" for as long as 20 years or more, makes no sense. I'd suggest doing away with the death penalty and assigning these inmates to life without possibility of parole and life in the general population. Charles Hoffman, M.D. San Francisco Ed note : Officials at San Quentin report that a Medical Technical Assistant (MTA) visits the Death Row area daily. If inmates wish to see a doctor, they fill out a form which is processed by the MTA. Typ ically, the official said , it takes about a week for a doctor-patient appointment , althoug h it can be longer. In cases of "genuine medical emergencies ,'' inmates are taken immediately to a p hysician , it was stated.
Divine Mercy Chap let
I am writing to you about a nun who was canonized by the Pope in Rome a few months ago, St. Faustina. She died in Poland on Oct. 5, 1932. The Divine Mercy Devotion and the Chaplet were given by Jesus to her, to give to the world. I was wondering wh y your newspaper hasn 't LETTERS, page 15
Guest Commentary
Responding to abused and neglected children A news story of an abused or neglected child pro- this year, child advocates thought they had an opporvokes our sympathy, anger and often-times , our action . tunity to fund some modest increases. Once the child has been taken from abusive or negStrengthening our case is the fact that expanding lectful parents , however, news coverage typically the pool of qualified foster families will actually stops. At this point the child is a ward of the state, and reduce costs to the state and counties, who could enters the foster care system, where privacy dominates decrease their reliance on group homes, which cost and the public attention fades. several times that of foster families. More important Unfortunately, out .of sight has generall y meant than saving money, however, the measure would have out of mind both for the general public and for policy resulted in more family-like placements and created a makers. At the recent close of the California legislative more stable and nurturing environment. It would also session , for example, a number of bills to improve have increased the likelihood of adoption , given the conditions for abused children silently died. Although fact three-quarters of dependency adoptions are by receiving wide bipartisan support , they lacked the foster parents. political clout or visibility to become law. Along with a number of other child welfare bills Over 110,000 children are in foste r care in this session , SB 949 died in the Assembly fiscal "susCalifornia , a fast-growing number which is projected pense" file, after having been passed by the full Senate to explode by an addiand the Assembly policy tional 40 ,000 over the It received Over 110,000 children are in foster committee. next five years. Because broad bipartisan support the number of foster care care in California , a fast-growing and yet expired, because providers has not the Assembly leadership increased significantl y in number which is p rojected to simply chose not to act. a decade , the system is It is unclear whether the currently under great explode by an additional 40,000 Governor influenced the strain. As a result , outcome of this bill , over the next five years. increasing numbers of although he did veto sevchildren are assigned to eral other foster care group homes instead of foster families , frequently bills passed by strong legislative majorities. moving from place to place, and separated from sibThere were victories this year for children in other lings. areas, securing new resources for education and childThis year, SB 949 by Sen. Jackie Speier (Daly care. The defeat of foster care enhancements can be City), would have expanded the number of licensed attributed , however, to the low visibility and the foster famil y providers by strengthening recruitment absence of political clout of foster children and their efforts, and would have improved quality by creating family providers. Even with the state facing an enorincentives for providers to seek additional training, mous budget surplus , advocates could not convince Part of the recruitment problem is that already low fos- legislative leaders and the Governor to secure these ter care reimbursement rates have further eroded due modest improvements. to inflation . Given the state's enormous budget surplus From a historical perspective, the Catholic com-
munity holds a special affinity for abused , neglected and abandoned children. Following the great wave of immi gration in the mid-1800s , for example, there were B y Rick Mockler thousands of roving "street children " in New York, largel y from Catholic families. Political forces at that time called for placing them in work programs, including sending them to farm families that needed labor. Catholic leadership at that time rose to the occasion, by working politicall y to secure the resources necessary to properl y care for the children. As a Church , our interest in vulnerable children and families continues. We are concerned about the trends in California. Over the next decade, California 's teen population is expected to grow at a rate which surpasses that of the baby boom in the 1960s, with the adolescent rate of growth twice that of the state 's overall population. In contrast , over the past two decades California has seen a decline in state funding for children, both as a percentage of personal income, and as a proportion of the state 's general fund. In the face of the expanding need , our commitment to children should also be expanding , not declining. For vulnerable children to become a higher priority, however, requires raising the visibility with our elected leaders. That is our current challenge as a Catholic community, to ensure that out of sight does not become out of mind. Rick Mockler is executive director of Catholic Charities of California, based in Sacramento. He can can be reached at rmockler@cacatholic.org.
On Being Catholic
To find peace in the Holy Land... The liturgy of Thanksgiving Day invites us to cel- initiatives have simply planted the seeds for the next ebrate God's goodness to our ancestors, "who came to harvest of violence. By all means we should urge our this land as if out of the desert into a place of promise elected official s to do all they can to encourage the and hope." As we give thanks for the peace and secu- peace process, but the Palestinians and Israelis have to rity which we enjoy in the United States , the sad and resolve these complex issues themselves. We should trag ic events unfolding in the Holy Land make a spe- also call upon our leaders to be as impartial as possible, condemning both acts of violence and the unjust cial claim on our attention. I was privileged to spend several months at the structures which provoke these acts. Tantur Ecumenical Center which is located on the borWhat can you and I do? I would offer three sugder between Israeli-controlled Jerusalem and gestions. First , follow the injunction of the psalmist, Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem. One of the advan- "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem." This is not a spiritages of living in another place is th at the longer you tual bromide, but a real necessity. Only God can heal are there, the less of an hearts filled with resentment expert you become. From a and fear; and it is only when safe distance we do not ...we are p rivileged to live in the resentment and fear are understand what provokes overcome that a lasting, just an area with significant J ewish of violence. We the spiral peace can be shaped. do not feel the real fear and Palestinian communities. Secondly, we are priviexperienced by Israelis , leged to live in an area with who for all of their military significant Jewish and power know that very powerful neighbors wish to see Palestinian communities . We need to do some grassthem destroyed and wonder where the loyalties of roots connecting here by getting to know our Arab and their Arab citizens lie. Jewish neighbors. The escalating violence in the Holy We have not experienced the humiliation of several Land and its play in the media generate anti-Arab and generations of Palestinians who are treated as prisoners anti-Jewish propaganda. Our efforts to connect with in their own country and feel that they have been made one another will offset demonizing caricatu res. the scapegoats for the West's guil t for the holocaust. Finally, while we must seek to be impartial by our Whatever role the international community, the condemnation of violence and injustice on both sides , United States and the Arab nations will play in bro- we as American Catholics need to manifest great parkering peace, the ultimate resolution of the terrible sit- tiality for the small community of Palestinian uation in the Holy Land rests with the people who live Christians in the Holy Land. They make up less than there. For three millennia outside powers have three percent of the population , and their very exis"brought " peace to that part of the world, and these tence is in jeopardy as the Arab-Israeli confrontation
grows. The American Jewish community has been exemplary in its active support of Israel; we should follow their example by our financial, moral and politiFather cal support for the Christian communities Milton T. Walsh in the Holy Land. Recent violence has led many to cancel Jubilee pilgrimages. We can make the journey in spirit by visiting the Holy Land museum organized by Father Labib Kobti at St. John of God Parish in San Francisco. Father Labib's museum ~ the Oasis of Peace Center - is open Monday through Friday from 1:30 to 5 p.m.; for information , call(415) 566-5610. Photos of the Center can be seen on his Web site: www.al-bushra.org/. If you do go to the Holy Land in the future , do not limit your pilgrimage to the holy places. Meet with the local Christian communitie s in Jerusalem , Nazareth and Bethlehem. The empty tomb only has meaning because of the risen Christ, and we meet him in the community of Christians who still profess our faith in the land where it was born. They need our help so thai pilgrims in the new millennium will find in Jerusalem not only an empty tomb, but a living Church. Father Milton T. Walsh is academic dean and an assistant professor of systematic theology at St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park .
Famil y Lif e
In many ways, we do go home 1 grew up outside of Chicago where autumn turns the air cold and dry and sets the foliage afire with color. Because the seasons change mom subtl y here in the Bay Area, the fall finds me missing some absent quality. While I am cheered by the pumpkins and corn cobs decorating doorways and windows, I cannot help yearning for brown , crunchy leaves beneath my feet and gray, slanting sunlight above bar- »«„«_«««. ren treetops. This feeling of homesickness reveals my age, for I remember being a teen-ager and wanting desperately to blow out of the Midwest. In the idle hours of my youth , my best friend and I would criticize our boring, little town and devise daring plans of adventure in the big, wide world. The last thing we wanted then was to settle down and raise families like our mothers. After not seeing this childhood companion for more than a decade, I recently visited her. Since our last meeting, she has married a man a good deal like her father, borne two children , and given up a management position. She and her husband live in an area reminiscent of
our hometown, and from the decor of their kitchen to the design of their garden , their home resembles the one in which my friend was raised . "In a few more years, with a bit more clutter, this place will be the spitting image of your parents ' house," I chuckled. "Heaven forbid ," my friend said with a smile. There is a saying that one can never go home again, but I do not believe it. While a person cannot return to exactly the same spot from where he started , because both he and the location have changed, in countless ways we do go home. From Halloween until New Years, do we not attempt to recapture some atmosphere from our childhood? Do we not recreate the aromas and flavors, the sights and sounds, associated with our fondest memories? During the first few years of our marriage, my husband and I argued over when to decorate the Christmas tree and whether to serve yams with Thanksgiving dinner because each of us preferred to celebrate the holi-
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We are not simply the children of our par ents, born to imitate them in many ways.
days the way we had as children. But there is more than nostalgia at the heart of our long ing. While we experience an impetus to return, we feel another movement as well, a striving toward some yet unrealized state of perfection. We do not want to merely repeat a past performance , with all of its mistakes. Rather, we want to rewind to the beginning, fast forward through the painful parts , and finish with a happy ending. This desire for resolution tells us something about ourselves. We are not simply the children of our parents, born to imitate them in many ways. We are also the children of God, destined to wander through this fleeting world on our way home to heaven.
Vivian W. Dudro
Vivian Dudro is the mother of four (ages four to 13) and a member of St. Mary 's Cath edral Parish.
Apocryphal books of Bible: what are they? Q> Could you answer a question from our Scripture study group ? When were the Apocryphal books (those in Catholic Bibles but not in Protestant Bibles) removed from the Scriptures ? It is our understanding that they were omitted in some of the very early English translations, like the King James Version. (Oklahoma) A. For those who might not be as familiar with the subject as you are, we should explain that the Apocryphal books you speak of are all or part of a number of books in the Old Testament which have not traditionally been included in Protestant ^*~*^ Bibles. f These include Tobit, Judith, Baruch , First and Second Maccabees , Ben Sirach (Ecclesiastics), Wisdom, and parts of Daniel and Esther. For reasons we cannot explore here, Bible scholars refer to these as deutero-canonical ("second canon") books, because of differing beliefs ancient Jewish scholars had about their authenticity or canonicity. As you note, following the Reformation , the custom developed of placing these parts of Scripture in a separate section or sometimes omitting them entirely. While they
were honored as sacred writings, they were not considered equal to the rest of the Bible as the word of God. Catholic faith , of course, is that the Apocryphal books are a genuine part of Scripture , on equal footing with the rest of the Bible. To answer your question , all early English Bible translations , including the King James Version, contained the Apocrypha. The Coverdale Bible (1535), the Great Bible (1539) and the Geneva Bible (1560) all included the Apocrypha in a separate section between the Old and New Testaments. The same was true of the King James Version in 1611. Only in 1644, under Puritan influence, were these books excluded. The first Bible printed in the New World, in 1783, also omits the Apocrypha. Interestingly, the Geneva Bible also accepted these nine books, even though the Protestants who published it added marginal notes identifying the Bishop of Rome with the scarlet woman in Revelation . King James abhorred such comments, which was one
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even mentioned this. You wrote about the beatification of Blessed Jacinta and Blessed Francisco , and mentioned the canonization of others , but not St. Faustina. It just seems to me the Divine Mercy Devotion and the Chaplet are tremendously important, not only for us Catholics, but for the ent ire world. None of us would have any hope of reaching heaven and being re-united to the eternal Father if it wasn 't for his mercy and compassion for Artist's rendition us. This mercy included sacof St. Faustina rificing his own Son for us , and the Savior has asked us to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet every day. It onl y takes 12 minutes to pray the Chaplet, and it seems to me this is little enough that we can do for our beloved Savior.' I have enclosed the Chaplet prayer with this letter. I ask you print it with this letter.
Chaplet of the Divine Mercy
(for private recitation on ordinary rosary beads) Begin with: "Our Father," "Hail Mary," "The Apostles ' Creed." Then on the Our Father beads, say the following words: "Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world." On the Hail Mary beads, say the following: . "For the sake of his sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world." In conclusion , three times recite: "Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world. "
I wonder, too, if all Catholics have thought to thank the beloved Savior each and every time we receive holy Communion. This sacrament comes from the love and compassion our dear Jesus has for us, and it just seems right to thank him each time we receive him. This simple little act can draw us much closer to Jesus. Theresa Murney South San Francisco
Father John Dietzen reason he commissioned a new translation by some of the leading Scripture scholars of his day. This new translation is what we know as the King James Bible. (Questions may be sent to Father Dietzen at Box 325 , Peoria, IL 61651 ; or e-mail; jjdietzen@aol.com.)
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To someone I met after Mass, the evening of Nov. 2, the Feast of All Souls. I think about him especiall y when I go to sleep at night and when I wake up in the morning . I Wonder I wonder if he feels lonely Lying huddled in the darkened garden? Do his bones ache from the moist of the earth, beneath/ his cardboard mattress? Does he feel cold with only a thin blanket for a cover? Is he uncomfortable sleeping in the same clothes/ day after day? Does he have visions of a warm shower and a shampoo? Does he feel scared to sleep in the streets with the rats ,/ insects and dirt? Does he go to sleep hungry with a pit in his stomach? Does he pray to God to find work the next day and for his/ family far away; or does he pray just for the next meal? Does he feel odd to have so little in a city where many/ have so much? Does he feel isolated , unwelcome and strange ? Does he feel lonel y? I wonder. Karen Aranas San Francisco
SCRIPTURE & LITURGY Readings rally us through current crises, and final victory When I first worked at Marin Catholic High School , we had rallies every Friday afternoon. These weekly exertions amazed me for two reasons. First, we had lost 42 out of 45 league football games and posed little threat to our next adversary. Yet we persisted with our rallies. (Out of loyalty to the Wildcats, I must say that this situation of prolonged losses no longer prevails.) Second , these rallies actuall y worked: thanks to song leaders and cheerleaders who sacrificed their education during the week to learn their routines , thanks to skits usually hig hli ghting the foibles of our fun-loving faculty, and thanks to loud cheering and clapping, we actually felt we were going to win our next game. Without any false promises, the Liturgy of the Word for Sunday offers a rall y for our spirits, assuring us that we belong to the people God will make victorious. The first (Daniel) and third (Mark) readings have a common literary form , apocalypic, designed to li ghten the burden and pick up the spirits of the hearers. In this form the author assumes the mantle of one who has been allowed to enter the Divine Council chambers, to get a glimpse of God's overarching plan which is revealed (revelation being the root meaning of apocalypsis , apocalyptic) to the author, and to be commissioned to reveal what lies hidden to the bruised and crushed hearts of his hearers. The crisis that precipitates this response from the author can easily be interpreted as the end of things as we know them or the end of the world. Daniel's hearers were enduring the weighty oppression of the Syrian ruler , Antiochus IV Epiphanies, who was trying to force the Jews to adopt the Greek style of life and worship. "Is this the end of us as God's people?" they asked. Mark's community was living through the Jewish uprising against Roman occupation (70 C.E.) and its violent suppression with the city of Jerusalem being ravaged. "Is this the end of the .world? Is this the beginning of God's judgment of the world and the time for the Messiah to return?" they asked.
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Daniel 12:1-3; Psalm 16; Hebrewa 10:11-14 , 18; Mark 13:24-32
Father David M. Pettingill Daniel's response to his hearers and us locates our focus not on us and our strategies but on God, who pursues his p lan throug h human history with the intent of making his people victorious: "At that time there shall arise Michael (representative and guard of Israel), the great prince , guardian of your people; it shall be a time unsurpassed in distress since nations began until this time. At that time your people shall escape, everyone who is found written in the book of life. Many of those who sleep in the dust of earth shall awake; some shall live forever, others shall be an everlasting horror and disgrace." Daniel' s final word is this: this present crisis is not the final one; and through them both God will guide his peop le. Mark has Jesus respond to the crises of his community in a similar view with vivid description that has for its sole purpose the conveying of God's final entrance into this world with all creation being brushed up against by this
Giant; "In those days after that tribulation the sun will be darkened , and the moon will not give its li ght , and the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory, and then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of the sky." Mark 's final word is this: this present crisis and the final fit into God's overarching plan which has as its climax the gathering of God 's victorious people by the Son of Man , who faced crisis for all and was vindicated. Our spirits rall y, revive , and perk up only because the happy ending of all human life and all creation has been written in the flesh and blood of Jesus of Nazareth , vindicated and glorified. To worship and feed at the holy table is to taste final day victory from a God who promises to transport us throug h present crises and the final one. Renew 2000 questions: â&#x20AC;˘ What effect does a biblical view of death have on one 's life? My death vs. the completion of God's plan for the world? My reward (hopefull y) vs. communal glory ? â&#x20AC;˘ How do we mediate God's faithfulness to his people in crisis?
Father David M. Pettingill is assistant to the moderator of the curia and parochial vicar at St. Emydius Parish, San Francisco.
The p lace of the tabernacle: new instructions What is the most appropriate place for the tabernacle? A favorite question of parishioners everywhere. A dreaded question for many parish priests and pastoral ministers. Controversial and delicate no matter what the response. Although the question seems to be about furniture , the answers are often felt on the level of passionate belief in the real presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. At their November meeting, the bishops of the United States will likely be discussing a new document about art , architecture, and worship. One section of the document answers the question about the location of the tabernacle. What is it that the bishops will be considering? What is the current law? What might the new law be? The current law of the Roman Catholic Church for every country states that the Blessed Sacrament is to be reserved in some part of the church that is distinguished, conspicuous, beautifull y decorated, and suitable for prayer. The current law highly recommends that this be in a special chapel , separated from the body of the church. Why would this be so? Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament was originall y intended for the communion of the sick, for those unable to attend Sunday Eucharist , and for viaticum for the dying. Over the centuries, reservation of the Blessed Sacrament was increasingly located within the main part of the church itself. This continuous, public presence of Christ inspired many Christians to a love of quiet prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. Their intimate union with Christ through this profound prayer also impelled them to live out this relationship in works of active charity serving Christ present in the poor and needy. The Second Vatican Council underscored these fundamental Catholic beliefs: the presence of Christ in the celebration of the Eucharist, the presence of Christ in the reserved Sacrament, and the responsibility of Catholics to feed the hungry and care for the poor. Since it is the celebration of the liturgy which is the "source and summit " of the Christian life, primacy was
Sister Sharon McMillan, SND given in the laws of the Church to the place of the altar, the ambo, the baptismal font and presider's chair. The very reason why a separate chapel for the tabernacle is so highly recommended is to establish a worthy place for the people to pray and venerate the presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. A second compelling reason is accessibility. Is the
Ultimately the tabernacle will be p laced according to the jud gment of the diocesan bishop .
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to people for as many hours of the day as possible for their private devotion? Is the tabernacle as physically near to the
St. Vernonica pre-Advent mission set Nov. 25-30
people as possible? Is the tabernacle as accessible as possible to people with disabilities? A Blessed Sacrament chapel is currentl y a recommended way to address these concerns. The document our bishops will be considering holds these important principles and adds others. For example: in new churches there is only to be one altar. The tabernacle may not be on it. It is for the bishop of the diocese to decide where the tabernacle will be. It may be within the sanctuary. It may be on an old altar which is no longer used for Mass. It may be placed in a separate chapel. In his decision, the bishop will consider the accessibility of the Blessed Sacrament to the people. If the old altar is too close to the altar used for Mass and too far from the people, perhaps another place would be more suitable. The distance between the altar and tabernacle is key; the distance between the tabernacle and the people is key. Ultimately the tabernacle will be placed according to the jud gment of the diocesan bishop . He will consider how best to uphold all the important values involved here: the assembly 's ability to focus on the eucharistic action , the piety and devotion of the people, the custom of his diocese, and the accessibility of the tabernacle to the people. Stay tuned! As the U.S. bishops discuss this new document and as the English translation of the new General Instruction is published , I will share the information as it is available. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; m in
Notre Dame Sister Sharon McMillan is assistant professor of sacramental theology and liturgy at St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.
South San Francisco's St. Veronica Parish has announced a pre-Advent mission led by Jesuit Father Tom Allender from Nov. 25-30. Theme of the six days is "Life 's Journey", focusing on spirituality and finding inner peace. Father Allender, who grew up in the Sunset District's Holy Name Parish, will
introduce the mission at the 5 p.m. Mass on Nov. 25 and all Masses on Nov. 26, and continue the exhortation for the next four days at 8:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. For more information, call the parish at (650) 588-1455. St. Veronica Church is located at 434 Alida Way off El Camino Real. Music will be by Steven Wilbom .
School of Pastoral Leadership For times, registration materials, costs, exact locations and additional information, call Joni Gallagher at (415) 242-9087 or spl@att.net Preregistration is necessary for many of these programs. Visit the Web site at www.splsf.org. Holy Hour each Fri. 1-2 p.m., National Shrine ol St. Francis of Assis i, Vallejo at Columbus, SF. Dec. 9: Ceremony of Lessons and Carols by the Schola Caniorum of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi , most recently heard at Jubilee Mass 2000, at St. Vincent Chapel, San Rafael.
Retreats/Days of Recollection VALLOMBROSA CENTER 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees, times and other offerings call (650) 325-5614. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, Program Director. Dec. 13; "He Came. So What?" an Advent opportunity to ponder what Christ's coming means today. How can Christ's coming make a difference in you? Facilitated by Vallombrosa pastoral associate , Sister Toni Longo. Silver Penny Farm offers retreat facilities near the wine country, 5215 Old Lakeville Rd., Petaluma, 94954. All quarters have bedroom and sitting room with fireplace. Call Father Ray Smith for a brochure at (707) 762-t498. MERCY CENTER 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. For fees, times and other offerings, call (650) 340-7474 3rd Sun: Salon, a monthly gathering of people in 1he second half of life to explore opportunities and challenges facing them using arts, literature and conversation. Facilitated by Sandi Peters. Nov. 18-19: Psychological and Spiritual Impact of Trauma for victims and caregivers with Robert Grant, Ph.D. Dec. 1-3: Centering Prayer weekend with Vicky Bolts and Mercy Sister Marguerite Buchanan. Includes meditation and communal sharing.
Taize Prayer 3rd Tues at 8:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., SF. Call Delia Molloy at (415) 563-4280 1st Thurs. at 5:30 p.m. at Old St. Mary's Cathedral, 660 Calfornia at Grant, SF. Call (415) 2S8-3809 3rd Thurs. at 7:30 p.m. at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park with Sister Toni Longo 1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452 3rd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Woods ide Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley. Call Dean Miller at (650) 328-2880 1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Delia Molloy at (415) 563-4280.
Social Justice/RespectLife Dec. 3: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and campus ministry of College of Notre Dame , Belmont commemorate the Dec. 2, 1980 martyrdom of Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel, and lay missioner Jean Donovan in ceremonies at the college chapel, Ralston Ave. midway between El Camino Real and Alameda de las Pulgas In Belmont at 7 p.m. Call Notre Dame Sister Margaret Hoffman at (408) 741-0324 or hoffm@aol.com. A similar commemoration takes place Dec. 2 in San Francisco at Justin Herman Plaza at Market and the Embarcadero at 5 p.m. Call Tara Carr at (415) 5653673. Jubilee 2000 USA, as part of a worldwide effort to relieve the crushing debt owed by struggling countries to stronger lands, announces a Bay Area speakers bureau. Knowledgeable speakers are available without charge to address parish groups and organizations on this Jubilee Year topic. Call William or Jean Lesher at (510) 524-6645 or welesher@aol.com. 3rd Sat.: Maryknoll Affiliates meet from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Maryknoll House, 2555 Webster (between Pacific and B'way), SF to share faith and plan an action agenda. This is a group comparable to some religious communities' Third Orders made up of lay women and men interested in assisting the Maryknoll mission. Call Marie Wren at (415) 3866600.
Prtufp f/ni 'Utitittn^ Healing Mass with Father Richard Bain presiding: Nov. 17: St. Catherine of Siena Church, 1310 Bayswater, Burlingame, 7 p.m. Nov. 18: St. Kevin Church, Cortland Ave., SF. (415) 663-1139 Nov. 19: Sunday evening prayer at St. Patrick Seminary chapet , a Jubilee Year pilgrimage site, 320 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park , 5:15 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Call (650) 325-5621. Also Dec. 3. Dec. 12: Annual Mass and reception celebrating Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Church of the Epiphany, 827 Vienna St. between Italy and Amazon , SF at 7 p.m. Music by parish choir and Mariachi Band. Call (415) 333-8437 or (415) 585-7878. 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
Datebook 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. Nov. 26: Mass for people living with AIDS at St. Boniiace Church , 133 Golden Gate Ave., SF at 5:30 p.m. Takes place on last Sun. of month. Call (415) 863-7515.
Blessed Sacrament Exposition Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park , 24 hours everyday, (650) 322-3013. St. Sebastian Church , corner of Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae, M - F 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Adoration Chapel, (415) 461-0704. St. Agnes Church, 1025 Masonic (near Page) SF, Fri., 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., (415) 487-8560. Our Lady ol Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame, MF after 8 a.m. Mass until 7 p.m. St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, Fri., 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Our Lady of Loretto Church, 1806 Novato Blvd., IMovato, Fri. 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., 1st Fri. 9:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Sat. St. Bruno Church, 555 W. San Bruno Ave., San Bruno, 24 hours everyday. Call (650) 588-0572. Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel. St. Francis of Assisi Shrine, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, SF, Fri. following 12:15 p.m. Mass until 4:15 p.m. 2nd Sat. at St. Matthew Church, One Notre Dame Way, San Mateo with Nocturnal Adoration Society of San Mateo County. Call Lynn King at (650) 349-0498 or Jim McGill at (650) 5743918 for times. Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, daily from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Call (650) 322-1801. St. Bartholomew Church, 300 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo , 1st Fri. from after 8 a.m. Mass until just before next day's 8 a.m. Mass.; St. Dominic Church, Bush and Steiner St., 8:30-9:30 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. each Mon. and Wed. (415) 567-7824. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 3 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley, Mon., 8:15 a.m. through Wed. at 7:30 a.m.; St. John of God Church, 1290 5th Ave. at Irving, SF. Mondays after 12:10 p.m. Mass , (415) 566-5610; St. Kevin Church, 704 Cortland Ave., SF, 1st Fri. following 9 a.m. Mass until 5:15 p.m. Benediction. Call (415) 648-5751. St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St., SF, M-F 8:45 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thurs. until 9 p.m.; 1st Fri. until 7:30 p.m. Mass. Call (415) 333-3627; St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon, M - F 7:45 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Call (415) 4351122; St. Mary's Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, 1st Fri. after 8 a.m. Mass until Sat. at 8 p.m.; Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Ave. and Lawton St., SF, Wed. 9:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Family Life Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages. The weekend and follow up sessions help couples heai and renew their families. Presenters are three couples and a Catholic priest. Call Peg or Ed Gleason at (415) 221-4269 or edgleason@webtv.net. Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a dynamic marriage enrichment experience designed to deepen the joy a couple shares. Call (888) 568-3018.
Single, Divorced, Separated Nov. 18: Annual Mass for separated, divorced, widowed Catholics with Bishop John C. Wester presiding at .USF's Xavier Hall Chapel behind St. Ignatius Church , corner of Parker and Fulton, SF. 3:30 p.m. Reception follows. Call (415) 273-5521. Sponsored by Separated and Divorced CathoJics Ministry of the Archdiocese. Catholic Adult Singles Assoc, of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 897-0639. Are you or someone you know separated, divorced, widowed? Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese is offering the Divorce Recovery Course which provides a chance to understand the emotional journey begun with loss of a marriage. Group meets Sun. through Nov. 19 at St. Dominic Church at Bush and Steiner, SF at 7 p.m. $40 fee includes materials. Call Pat at (415) 389-9780 or Theresa at (415) 666-0876. For information about additional ministries available to divorced and separated persons in the Archdiocese, call (415) 273-5521. New Wings at St. Thomas More Church meets on 3rd Thursdays. Call Claudia Devaux at (415) 334-9088 or e-mail stmchurch@hotmail.com. Call Ron Landucci at (650) 583-6016 about upcoming social activities.
Consolation Ministry Nov. 18: Holiday workshop for those grieving at St. Finn Barr Church, SF, 10 a.m.- noon. Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823. Thurs: "Good Grief" meets at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, James St. between Fulton and Grand, Redwood City, from 6 - 7:30 p.m. Call (650) 366-3802.
Lectures/ Classes/Radio-TV Nov. 18: A day of Celtic Spirituality with Eileen Moriarty, Ph.D. and Father Michael Healy at St. Philip Parish hall, 725 Diamond St., SF beginning at 9 a.m. and concluding with Mass at 5 p.m. $25 fee includes morning refreshments and catered lunch. Call Mary at (415) 333-3529 or Margaret at (415) 334-7212. Nov. 18-19 (in Vietnamese): "The Life in the
Holy Spirit Seminar " at Holy Name of Jesus Flanagan Center, 39th Ave. and Lawton St., SF. Sat. 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Sun. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Call (415) 499-7565. Landings , a program for returning Catholics will meet for 10 weeks on Mon. and Tues. evenings at St. Dominic Church , Steiner and Bush St., SFwith 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 13-week series airing Sundays on Catholic Family Radio, KDIA 1640 AM. Call (650) 866-3525. Catholic Healthcare West offers free classes and instruction on all areas of health at their San Francisco and Daly City facilities. Visit their web site at www.chwbay.org for details. Tours and seminars on the art and the church of St. Anne of the Sunset. Call Rosemary French at (415) 681-944 1 or Victoria Giambruno at (415) 731-7856.
Food & Fun Nov. 18-19; 25-26: Silent auction and exhibition of more than 40 unique needlepoint artworks by Conventual Franciscan Brother Robert Ouelette at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo at Columbus, SF. Includes Christmas ornaments , samplers , religious and secular depictions. 1 1 - 5 p.m. all days in shrine's lower level. Free admission. Dec. 5: Shrine's Advent Festa at 5 p.m. in shrine's lower hall following Advent Choral service featuring the shrine's Schola Cantorum at 4 p.m. Needlework silent auction/exhibition continues and closes at this event. $50 tickets include dinner and dessert from SF's best restaurants. Call (415) 979-8005 or http.//members. aol.com/advent festa. Proceeds benefit the shrine. Nov. 18: Enjoy a Holiday Fair and an early Christmas shopping start at Immaculate Conception Academy, 24th and Guerrero St., SF. Meet Santa, gather holiday gifts and decorations , plus delicious treats and refreshments. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Call (415) 824-2052. Sponsored by ICA Parents Guild. Nov. 18: Christmas Boutique benefiting St. Anne's Home, 300 Lake St. from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Choose fro m fabulous Christmas items , crafts , gourmet foods , garden shop. Box lunches available for $10.Wonderful things for everyone. St. Anne's Home is a work of the Little Sisters of the Poor, "serving the aged of San Francisco since 1902". Call Patt Parenti at (415) 681-6133. Nov. 17: "Gift fro m the Heart", a lundraising dinner sponsored by Westlake Catholic Women of Oui Lady of Mercy Parish, Daly City from 6 -10 p.m. in the parish hall, 7 Elmwood Dr. Benefits parish. Tickets $5/$3. Call Fe Hortinela at (650) 359-5583 or Amy Solas at (650) 994-2842. Nov. 18-19: Holiday Boutique benefiting retired Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose at Sisters' motherhouse , 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont , behind Mission San Jose. Sat. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Sun. 10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Homemade fruitcakes , oil paintings, ceramics , knitwear, Christmas and novelty items. Call (510) 657-2468. Nov. 18: "Under the Big Top", annual auction benefiting Junipero Serra High School. Enjoy buffet , no-host bar and silent and live auctions with items ranging fro m European Trips and craved sports memorabilia to ringside seats at local newscasts to bid on. Begins at 6 p.m. in school gym at 451 West 20th Ave,, San Mateo. Tickets $45. Call (650) 5739935. Nov. 18: Dinner Dance and Silent Auction benefiting building fund of Most Holy Redeemer Parish, SF, in Ellard Hall, 100 Diamond St., SF beginning with silent auction at 6:30 p.m. and dinner and dancing at 8 p.m. Tickets $75/$60/$40. Professional photographs also available for a fee. Call (415) 863-6259. Nov. 18-19: Noel Notions Fair at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Auditorium, 17 Buena Vista Ave., Mill Valley featuring collectibles, antiques, baked goods and other treats , arts and crafts , and Santa. Sat. 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 9 a.m. - noon. Call (415) 3884332. Benefits the parish. Nov. 19: St. Finn Barr Parish Pancake Breakfast from 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. in the parish hall, between Hearst and Edna off Monterey Blvd, SF. Tickets $5/$3.50/ $2.50. Enjoy pancakes, home fries, sausage, ham, eggs, bacon and more. Arts and Crafts and talent show, too. Call Virginia Chung at (415) 333-2895. Benefits school programs. Dec. 1: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club meets for 7 a.m. Mass, breakfast and a talk fro m Jesuit Father Stephen Privett, president , USF at St. Sebastian Church , Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae. Members $5/ non-members $8. Call (415) 461-0704. Meetings take place on first Fridays. Dec. 2-3: St. Brendan's Annual Christmas Boutique, two days of family fun in the Sunset District. Handmade gifts, colorful crafts and gourmet delights. Raffle and sports memorabilia, too. Special activities for children including Santa's Workshop with gifts at kids' prices. Sat. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Call Arlene Sawyer at (415) 731-2665. Dec. 2: Christmas Crafts Fair at Mater Dolorosa School, 1040 Miller Ave., South San Francisco from 10 a.m. Meet Santa, enjoy good food and take
away treasures. Call Irene De Nurra at (650) 8734014. Dec. 3: Christmas Jubilee Concert featuring the St , Gregory Parish Choir , 2 p.m at the church , 28th Ave. and Hacienda, San Mateo. Reception follows. Admission free. All invited. Dec. 5: 27th annual Christmas Boutique benefiting St. Dominic Elementary School, 2440 Pine St., SF, 8:30 a.m. -1 p.m. Hand crafted articles , kitchen delectables , and Santa , too. Ample parking. Call (415) 346-9500. 3rd Fri.: Open house and pot luck dinner and bingo at Catholic Kolping Society, 440 Taraval St., SF. No-host bar 6 p.m.; dinner 7 p.m.; bingo 8 p.m. Call Bill Taylor at (415) 731-1177. Knights of Columbus of the Archdiocese meel regularly and invite new membership. For information about Council 615 , call Tony Blaiotta at (415) 661-0726; Dante Council , call Vito Corcia at (415) 564-4449; Mission Council, call Paul Jobe at (415) 333-6197; Golden Gate Council , call Mike Stilman at (415) 752-3641. 3rd Sat.: Handicapables gather for Mass and lunch at St. Mary Cathedral , Gough and Geary St., SF, at noon. Volunteer drivers always needed. Call (415) 584-5823.
Reunions Alumnae of Notre Dame High School, Belmonl may contact Donna Westwood , alumnae director, al (650) 595-1913, ext. 351 or alumnae@ndhsb.org . Class of 1982 is planning its 20-year reunion. Call Denise Miller at Dmllsports@aol.com; Wynne Hegarty at WHegarty@aol.com; Amy Ellingson al Aimelling@aol.com; Lenore Wagner Grant at lenore@dellnet.com. Class of 1990 planning a 10th reunion. Call Megan Centis at (650) 369-9784 or mcentis@yahoo.com. Did you attend SF's St. Paul of the Shipwreck Elementary School? We need to hear from you. Please call the school 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 photos or written recollections of the Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Anne's Home or residents of the home. Contact John McGuckin at (415) 7652945.
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Nov. 18-19: Masterworks Chorale presents Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramirez; Susa's Carols and Lullabies; Bach's Gloria in Excelsis Deo; and Exultate Justi at St. Timothy Church, 1515 Dolan Ave., San Mateo, exit 3rd Ave. East off Highway 101. Sat. at 8 p.m; Sun. at 4 p.m. Tickets $19/$16. Call (650) 579-5568 or (650) 574-6210. Nov. 19: Golden Gate Boys Choir and Bellringers and Dec. 10, a sing-along carol concert with the St. Peter and Paul chorale and Howley Strings at St. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. at Washington Square, SF. Both at 2:30 p.m. Call (415) 421-0809. Dec. 4: "The Gospel According to John" performed by Leonardo Defifippis at St. Anne's Home, 300 Lake St., SF at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $6/$4. Call (415) 387-2324. Dec. 6: Enjoy the inspiring presentation at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., SF at 7 p.m. Tickets $10. Call (415) 387-5692. Sundays In Nov: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral featuring various artists 3:30 p.m. Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Sundays In Nov.: Concerts at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi featuring various artists at 4 p.m. following sung vespers at 3 p.m., Columbus and Vallejo, SF. Call (415) 983-0405.
Volunteer Opportunities SF's Laguna Honda Hospital is in need of extraordinary ministers including Eucharistic ministers and readers as well as volunteers to visit with residents and help in the office and with events. Call Sister Miriam Walsh at (415) 664-1580, ext. 2422. Raphael House, a homeless shelter for families in San Francisco's Tenderloin District, is in need of volunteers to help with various tasks. Hours are 5:45 p.m.-9 p.m. Call Carol at (415) 345-7265.
YoungAdults The Office of Young Adult Ministry can be reached at (415) or 5653629 christineop@sfyam.org or mjansen@sfyam. Org. Nov. 18: Thanksgiving dinner delivery to families in need with St. Vincent de Paul Society. More than 40 people are needed. Nov. 18: Benefit dinner and dance for St. Joseph's Village at St. Anne of the Sunset Church gym, 850 Judah St. at Funston, SF, 6:30 - midnight. $17 tickets include spaghetti dinner and dance. Comedy from Meehan brothers two bands and a DJ provide music. Come dressed in attire from previous decades. For both events , call or Joe Bernabe 512-7971 at (415) joebernabe@aol.com.
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Verdict . . . ¦ Continued f rom pag e 11 verdict "disappointing by not surprising. " "Reading former Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White 's comment, 'To my knowledge, no military person was ever punished for any crime ,' brought back memories of a 1988 trip I made to El Salvador with a delegation sent from the Archdiocesan Justice and Peace Commission. We went to investigate the execution of 10 camposinos by the military. We found incontrovertible evidence of high-level military involvement in the killings of peasants who had been labeled rebels. Our press conferences in El Salvador and back home about the findings were ignored." The head of the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns (OPPSC) which is a successor to the Justice and Peace Commission , George Wesolek,
Relatives... ¦ Continued from page II in Salvador who were brutal ized by these guys will come forward ," Ford said. "We are not done with these guys." The verdict came a month before the 20th anniversary of the deaths of Maryknoll Sisters Ford and Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan , a lay missionary. In 1984, five Salvadoran National Guard members were convicted of the killings and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Four years later, four of the guardsmen said they had been acting on orders from superiors. "I'm shocked," said Carol Clarke, a Florida resident and sister-in-law of Maura Clarke, after hearing the verdict. "The evidence was clear these general s were responsible. It is totall y absurd . Maybe they (the jury) really didn 't under-
stressed, "We must remember these martyrs. The fact the families of the four churchwomen lost their case is regrettable, but it did bring the issue out in the open again." Tara Carr, an OPPSC staff member who will be leaving the office in January to become a human rights observer in Guatemala, said the Florida verdict "points to the pattern and tradition of impunity exofficials and military leaders continue to enjoy even into the 21st century." "It also highlights the continued need for human rights observance and vigilance of human rights abroad by clearly making the link between current developments in Central America and U.S. involvement," Can- added. "We've very disappointed in the verdict," said Maryknoll Sister Nancy Thomas who served for five years in Bolivia. "I do know that Mr. Ford will continue his efforts. You just keep trying, but I don 't know how justice will ever be served. For so many years it has been such a struggle. Our hearts go out to the family."
"The deaths have drawn us together and made us realize in a brand new way the suffering the people are going through," the missionary added."Our pain was small in comparison to what the people of El Salvador and Guatemala , Bolivia , Peru , and Africa have suffered . Many tears have been shed for God's people all over the world. I think these tears for others are what the four would have wanted. " In a statement released Nov. 3, Mike Posner, executive director of LCHR said, "Despite our profound disappointment with this verdict , this was a historic opportunity to confront - in an American courtroom El Salvador 's military commanders with their bloody record . Others who command abusive soldiers should watch out. We will not give up our fight for justice. " For more information regarding the trial visit Web site: www.Ichr.org. Franciscan Father Ignatius De Groot , pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish , San Francisco, and a member of the archdioce-
san group to visit Central America in March, was highly critical of what he saw as U.S. involvement behind the scenes of the 1980 murders . "I can understand how a jury could not say it was proved in court," the Franciscan said, "but in El Salvador the people know the ones that did the crime went back to the airport to get orders from on high after they had taken the women as prisoners and so certainly something like that would have come from the hierarchy of the army who commanded it. " "In fact ," the priest added, "I would want to take it one step further. I think the U.S. was directl y implicated because they had advisers in almost every level of the army command and so the U.S. was involved in the killings. It is a terrible thing that the people of the U.S. are so unaware of the horrible part that this country has p layed in the killing of thousands and thousands of people in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala. "
stand the concept of command responsibility." Two high-profile Florida attorneys working pro bono on the case — Robert Kerrigan of Pensacola and Robert Montgomery of Palm Beach — said they believe the jury ultimatel y misunderstood their task . Both men think "command responsibility," a military concept at the heart of the case, may have been lost or distorted toward the end of trial. U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley told the jury that under international and U.S. law, a military commander is obligated to control troops under his command and keep them from committing torture or extrajudicial killing. But he also said the plaintiffs had to show that such activities went on in El Salvador at the time the churchwomen were slain , that the two Salvadoran officials should have known such actions were taking place and that neither tried to prevent them.
"The jury undoubtedl y felt there needed to be a clear line (of accountability) from top to bottom , from the generals to the massacre," said Kerri gan. "We will file a motion for a new trial on the basis that the j ury was confused on the legal doctrine of command responsibility." Montgomery said he was gratified to bring new information on the case to the American public. He said the case was a first under the U.S. Torture Victim Protection Act, which allows U.S. citizens to sue foreigners living in the United States for damages from human rights abuses committed in other countries. It will take more cases to test the parameters of the law, according to Montgomery. "We won the case the moment we walked in here to tell this story," he said . Both Vides Casanova and Garcia face another trial before the same jud ge next spring. That case involves a Salvadoran doctor who claims he was tortured in El Salvador
while doing relief work in 1980, and a thenpregnant Salvadoran woman who said she was tortured and later miscarried as a result. Meanwhile, the verdict in the Ford vs. Garcia case represents a loss for all Central American refugees , according to Father Frank O'Loughlin , a Palm Beach diocesan priest and longtime advocate for Guatemalan and Salvadoran refugees. "It means there is no accountability," Father O'Loughlin said. "The case was basically that (these men) did nothing to stop the series of murders. It was not an attempt to say that their handwriting was on these murders, because that record will never be there. The j ury didn ' t get it." The jud ge thanked jurors for sitting through the emotional , often horrific presentations of evidence surrounding the murders. "What is very clear in this case," he said , "is that these churchwomen continue to serve the Church in El Salvador in their deaths."
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"Red Planet" (Warner Bros.) Sci-fi drama set in the year 2050 in which a team of astronauts (including Val Kilmer , Carrie-Anne Moss and Benjamin Bratt) is sent to Mars to set up an alternate place ~? for humans to live since Earth is an env ironmental mess, ¦c - but their crash landing leaves them without a viable means of escape. Director Antony Hoffman 's predictable plot is mixed with mumbo-jumbo scientific chatter and gimmick y Wv. special effects which add up to a dull film. Some sci-fi violence, brief nudity, an instance of rough language. USCC , violence some crude sexual references , brief drug use, an classification is A-II — adults and adolescents. MPAA ratinstance of roug h language. The USCC classification is A- ing is PG-13. "You Can Count On Me" (Paramount Classics) III — adults. The MPAA rating is PG-13. Family drama in which a way ward drifter (Mark "Men of Honor" (Fox 2000) Fact-based drama about a sharecropper 's son (Cuba Ruffalo) returns to his small hometown to visit his loving Gooding Jr.) determined to become the first African- sister (Laura Linney), the single mother of an 8-year-old American master chief Navy diver despite a vicious instruc- son (Rory Culkin), but her brother 's inappropriate behavior tor (Robert De Niro) and racist attitudes of fellow seamen disrupts their peaceful existence . Althoug h its slow rhythm and those in command. While the diver 's story is stirring, takes getting used to, writer-director Kenneth Lonergan 's even insp irational , George Tillman Jr 's. heavy-handed sensitive film skillfull y exp lores the comp lex bond between direction backed by swelling patriotic music reduces a com- adult siblings orphaned at a young age. An extramarital plex struggle to simp listic terms. Some intense peril , drunk- affair, several sexual encounters , sporadic marijuana use, enness, frequent profanity. USCC classification is A-III — some profanity. USCC classification is A-IV — adults , with reservations. MPAA rating is R — restricted. adults. The MPAA rating is R — restricted. >a
Theater Rhubarb performs Tear and Misery in the Third Reich Fabic), and scene titles announced by a p rison guard (Brant Blower). These devices, along with an expressionistic acting style, are meant to jar the audience from identi fying with the characters emotionally in order to be more aware of the issues being played out. In the vignettes the six actors (announced in the program as cast members of the "actors penitentiary ") begin by marching in single file from the back to the front of the intimate 35-seat hall. We then witness scenes depicting the Third Reich's economic failure, such as "The Black Shoes" in which a mother (Heather Abbott) repeats to her
By Annette Lust Bertrolt Brecht 's "Fear and Misery in the Third Reich ," staged by the four-seasons-old San Francisco Theater Rhubarb Company, offers 17 vi gnette s dep icting life under Hitler 's Third Reich. Respecting Brecht 's aim to give theater and actor a social function , the vi gnettes unfold in Brecht 's epic theate r style in which the audience is incited to respond objectivel y to the dramatic action . This is aided by narrative devices such as pre-scene stanzas casually sung by a character in whiteface (Katarina
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Misery . . . ¦ Continued from page 18 Shoinozak i and by Bruno Kanter, the Jewish wife of a doctor telephones her friends and tells her husband she will be taking a short trip to Amsterdam. Alone on stage she reveals she will abandon her husband because as a Jewess in Germany she is harming his professional life. In "The Spy," parents are worried that a
conversation they just had criticizing Hitler 's system was overheard by their son who mi ght report it to the Hitler Youth Group, just as other youths have done when their parents complained. As they pace the floor awaiting their son 's return and their demise, they breathe a sigh of relief when he reappears to announce that he only went out to buy some chocolates. The evening ends with the actor-"prisoners" on stage screaming, "The best thing would just be one word—No!" to be
quelled by the prison guard who orders them to move back through the audience in single file without taking a curtain call. A cast performing intensivel y with blocking well handl ed by stage director Mark Nishimura in a tight , flat play ing area proves that meaningful theater when well acted can be done anywhere. The Brechtian message rings clearl y and remains after one leaves the theater. Catch Theater Rhubarb' s current Brecht production at Build , 483 Guerrero St., this
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