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Recently, Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) held a rather remarkable hearing on “Scientific and Medical Advances in the Field of In Utero Surgery.” Witnesses included Dr. Jim Thorp, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist; Michael Clancy, a photojournalist; and Mr. and Mrs. Armas, parents who had chosen in utero surgery for their son Samuel, now 3.

Samuel was twenty-one (gestational) weeks old when he had surgery to correct spina bifida. Michael Clancy was assigned by USA Today to photograph the experimental procedure. The entire surgery took place within the womb, which had been lifted out of Mrs. Armas’s body. At the end of the procedure, Clancy said, “I saw the uterus shake, but no one’s hands were near it. It was shaking from within. Suddenly, an entire arm thrust out of the opening, then pulled back until just a little hand was showing. The doctor reached over and lifted the hand, which reacted and squeezed the doctor’s finger.” Clancy snapped a photo.

When the film had been developed, Clancy’s editor called him to say it was the most incredible photo he had ever seen. Clancy had captured Samuel’s tiny fist, reaching out from his mother’s womb, grasping the surgeon’s finger.

Today, Samuel is a precocious three year-old. He loves bugs, especially lunar butterflies. After Senator Brownback showed Clancy’s photo at the hearing, he asked Samuel, “Have you seen this photo?” “Yes,” he replied. “They fixed my boo-boo.”

That photo, incidentally, was said to be too graphic for American audiences. It took four years for the mainstream press SURGERY, page 14 to pick it up.

(PHOTO BY MICHAEL CLANCY)

By Maureen Kramlich

During a procedure to correct spina bifida while still in the womb, Samuel Alexander Armas, a fetus at twenty-one weeks, reached out. As Dr. Joseph P. Bruner reached and gently lifted the hand, Samuel reacted and squeezed tightly.

Partial-birth abortion ban “an historic moment”

By Catholic San Francisco Staff By signing federal legislation this week that bans a medical procedure known as “partial birth abortion,” President George W. Bush brings to a successful conclusion the decade-long struggle by pro-life advocates to put such a law in place.

While the legislation already is being challenged by pro-abortion factions, the culmination of efforts by pro-life groups is being met with jubilation.

“It is a great victory for unborn children, for women and for all Americans,” said George Wesolek, director of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

“The signing of this ban truly is an historic moment,” he added. “It marks the enactment of the first federal law in 30 years to limit an abortion procedure,” he said.

The U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate passed the partial-birth abortion ban by wide margins in October. The final votes were to reconcile

House and Senate versions of the legislation.

Earlier, the Senate had amended the bill to include language endorsing the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v Wade decision. That language was dropped from the final legislation.

Republican support for the bill was nearly unanimous. Only four House and three Senate Republicans opposed the bill. A solid majority of congressional Democrats opposed the bill, but it did receive significant bipartisan support, with 63 House Democrats and 17 Democratic Senators voting for the bill.

California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer opposed the ban on partial birth abortion as did local Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), Tom Lantos (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) and Lynn Woolsey (D-Marin/Sonoma). Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-San Mateo) did not vote.

The first legislation to ban partial birth abortion was considered by Congress nearly 10 years ago.

Cathleen Cleaver Various polls have shown as much as 80 percent of the American people oppose the partial-birth abortion procedure, which ends the life of a nearly born baby by PARTIAL-BIRTH, page 15

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Bendix Daniel acquired a flag for the school – once flown over the Capitol - from the offices of U.S. Senator D i a n n e Feinstein….Serra Club of the Golden Gate and the

by Tom Burke Downtown Serra Club combined forces October 9th to sponsor Celebrating 60 years of married life November 6th the annual appreciation are Rita and Warren Vogel, parishioners of St. Denis, dinner for men and Menlo Park for the last 33 years and St. Charles, San women religious at San Carlos for 22 years before that. They took their vows at Francisco’s El Patio San Francisco’s St. Brigid Church with the now late Espanol.

Carole Msgr. Donnell Walsh presiding. Their son Randy, a lifeKilgariff, event colong St. Charles parishioner and bearer of this good news, Talk about the old days and the days to come was high on the agenda of the chair, said almost 100 is now in his 34th year as teacher and admissions direcreception following St. Peter School’s 125th anniversary Mass. From left, sisters and brothers reptor at Junipero Serra High School. Their son, Scott and Mercy Sister Mary Sophia, Colleen McCarthy, Elsie Gallegos, resenting 17 congregahis wife, Irene, are parishioners of San Jose’s Queen of Richard Ceballos, and Carmen Gallegos. tions attended. the Apostles. Scott and Irene’s sons, Kenny, Jeffrey and Welcomes were offered Steven are all students at Archbishop Mitty High School….Thanks to new digs colleague Dorothy Yip John McGhee of San Gregorio. John is parish deacon at by Golden Gate prez, Margaret Diedrich. Among those for the chuckle about the conversation between an Our Lady of the Pillar Parish in Half Moon Bay with enjoying the get-together were Mercy Sister Mary American and a visitor from the Netherlands, a land with special attention to Our Lady of Refuge Mission in La Kilgariff, Franciscan Sisters Amalia Barrera and whom we share red, white and blue on our flags. “The Honda…. Graduates, friends and families packed St. Rosalba Pantoja, as well as Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary colors symbolize our taxes,” the visitor said. “We get red Peter Church October 5th for a 125th anniverKaren Conover. when we talk about them, white when we get our tax bill, sary Mass honoring St. Peter School. Auxiliary More than 40 Serrans and blue when paying them.” It’s pretty much the same in Bishop John Wester presided joined by concele“who enjoy putting on this country, the American explained, “only we also see brants including St. Peter pastor, Father Fabio the dinner” took part, stars.”…Happy 49 years married to Rosemary and Medina and former pastors, Father Bill Justice, Carole said…. Happy Father Tom 50 years married to Seagrave and Gloria and Robert Father Tom Suhl who renewed McElligott. Also on their vows at St. hand were Vicki Charles Church, San Butler, principal, Carlos with pastor, and former princiFather Kieran pals, Mercy Sisters McCormick, presidRosann Fraher, ing….Birthdays, Judith Morasci, births, anniversaries, and Marian Rose marriages, engagePower, who today ments, new jobs and continues her servall kinds of goings-on ice at the school.

Gloria and Robert Suhl are welcome here.

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Southern California fires unite parish communities with help, hope As wildfires pushed by winds as high as 70 miles an hour raced through the outskirts of Los Angeles and San Diego, priests did what they are meant to do: As fire approached, they warned their people of danger and took the Blessed Sacrament from the tabernacle for safekeeping. Then, when the fire had passed, they comforted the sorrowing and gave food, water and clothing to people who had lost everything.

Fueled by years of drought and vast strands of trees killed by bark beetle infestation, the most dangerous fires swept through old towns and new developments, destroying the suburban homes of the affluent and the mountain cabins of the elderly poor.

Many of the pines that helped create the whispering atmosphere in the mountains east of San Diego are gone. So is most of the Whispering Winds Catholic Conference Center just south of the old mining town of Julian, destroyed by the Cedar fire.

The center, a decades-old dream of Don Kojis, was 80 percent destroyed in a few hours despite the heroic efforts of firefighters. Kojis was told they had made a stand in the large square of lawn outside of the chapel as the firestorm swept over the camp. Firefighters escaped injury but most of the buildings were reduced to twisted metal and white ash.

The chapel, where firefighters took refuge, survived. Tears came to Don Kojis’ eyes as he spoke of the letters the firefighters left, thanking their “hosts” for putting them up during the cold nights. They even left $10 as payment for the snacks they ate, food left behind by the Cursillo group who fled the camp on Oct. 26.

Kojis, a National Basketball Association basketball player from 1963-1975 and two-time All-Star, began the center in the early 1980s and is now its executive director. He plans to rebuild and have the center operating again by March, with “the help of the Catholic community.”

Just to the north of Whispering Winds, firefighters saved the historic mountain town of Julian, including St. Elizabeth Church, but many nearby homes were lost.

Parishioners “are just now coming back up here to find that their houses were destroyed,” Father William Stevenson, pastor of St. Elizabeth, said. “My plan is just to be with the people and if they want me to go out with them to their homes, I’ll be happy to do that.”

Father Stevenson and the other residents

(CNS PHOTO BY VINCENT GRAGNANI, SOUTHERN CROSS)

By Patrick Joyce

Father James Poulsen, pastor of St. Gregory the Great Parish in San Diego, comforts Mary Ingram in front of her burned-out home Oct. 26. Some 55 parishioners from St. Gregory lost their homes in the wildfires that swept Southern California.

fled Oct. 28, as the Cedar fire charged up the tree-rich slopes outside of town. While others scooped up treasured belongings, Father Stevenson carried away with him the Blessed Sacrament and the parish registry.

Since his return, he has been “overwhelmed by the outpouring of support we are getting from the community.” People have been dropping off truckloads of supplies and clothing, canned goods and food, and he is in the process of trying to open up the building to organize the goods so that parishioners can help distribute them where the greatest needs are.

Father John Gubbins passed the word of the Scripps Ranch community evacuation order to the congregation as he celebrated 9 a.m. Mass at St. Gregory the Great Parish on Sunday, Oct. 26. Most of the congregation left. About 80 people stayed to finish Mass.

By that time flames were coming over the top of the hill behind the parish. Father Gubbins made sure everyone was out safely, posted a note on the church doors with his home phone number, took the Blessed Sacrament into his Hyundai Santa Fe and left.

A few hours later the Cedar fire destroyed 350 homes in the community,

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including those of 55 parishioners. The parish buildings escaped major damage.

After hosting an Oct. 28 town hall meeting, the parish canceled all faith-formation

events in the parish hall and transformed it into a center for victims. “This is a greater lesson in faith and what faith can do than any catechism class could ever teach,” said Father James Poulsen, pastor.

Father Poulsen was on vacation when the fire started. He came home Oct. 30 to find the community devastated by fire but alive with generosity. Looking at hundreds of people on the parish grounds distributing and receiving aid, he said, “This is what the Church should be about. When people are hurt, we had better be there. Generosity inspires generosity; compassion inspires compassion. We always believe that, but here we see it in action.”

The parish has received more than $200,000 in cash, checks and emergency supplies.

One burned-out parishioner told Father Poulsen he was thankful his family’s lives had been spared. “We’ll invite you over to dinner when the house is rebuilt,” he said.

“I’ll be there to bless the new home,” Father Poulsen responded. “I’ll have a lot of new houses to bless.”

As the Cedar fire approached the hilltop community of Crest on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 26, Father Robert Irwin, pastor of St. Louise de Marillac Parish, had only 15 minutes to escape. He took the Blessed Sacrament and the parish’s sacramental records and fled with a convoy of parishioners.

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November 7, 2003

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WASHINGTON — In an effort to overcome centuries of division, the North American Orthodox-Catholic Consultation has called for “uniform practice” with regard to the ancient Nicene Creed. This means Catholics would use translations only of the original text, dropping the subsequently added “filioque” (“and the Son”) clause, when reciting the Creed at Mass or using it for catechetics. The dialogue group also called on each side not to describe the other as heretical and said a 13th-century Western council condemnation aimed at the Orthodox should be declared “no longer applicable.” It urged new joint study and indepth Catholic-Orthodox dialogue “on the theology of the Holy Spirit, based on the Scriptures and on the whole tradition of Christian theology.” It said this study and dialogue should “distinguish, as far as possible, the theological issues of the origin of the Holy Spirit from the ecclesiological issues of primacy and doctrinal authority in the church.”

African bishops ask U.S. Church attention to continent’s needs NEW YORK — A delegation of African bishops in the United States to attend the meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington Nov. 10-13 will appeal to American bishops to increase their attention to the continent, a delegation member said in a New York interview.

Bishop Nicolas Djomo Lola of Tshumbe, Congo, said he and his fellow prelates will ask the conference to establish an Africa desk and institute an annual collection like the one it has for the church in Latin America. Among other tasks, they would like the desk to coordinate diocese-todiocese partnerships to link the U.S. church more closely with the African church, he said. They also will urge the U.S. bishops to use whatever influence they have with the Bush administration to put more pressure on African political leaders to settle their conflicts without war, he said.

“The American government is now the only superpower in the world, and it can make a difference,” he said.

Catholic position on living wills sometimes misunderstood WASHINGTON — In the case of Terri Schindler Schiavo, there is very little on which the Florida Catholic bishops and “right-to-die” attorney George J. Felos would agree. But both have said the case of the comatose Florida woman who has been at the center of a major legal battle over whether she should remain on the feeding tube that keeps her alive points up the need for every person — young and old, healthy or ill — to talk to their relatives and health care providers about the kind of care they would want at the end of their lives. Among Catholics, there is a common perception that living wills are frowned upon or prohibited by the church, said Father Michael Gutgsell, moderator of the curia for the Archdiocese of Omaha, Neb., and pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish in Fort Calhoun. “That is not true,” he told The Catholic Voice, Omaha archdiocesan newspaper. “There are two critical considerations. We are obliged ... to take those necessary steps to preserve life or to protect life.

We are not obliged to take heroic steps ... (and) care and pain

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Catholic-Orthodox statement urges ‘uniform practice’ on Nicene Creed

New members of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas attend Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Oct. 18. More than 1,000 women from across the country celebrated the 100th anniversary of the organization. The laywomen's group has raised funds for construction projects at the shrine and educational grants at The Catholic University of America.

management may never be ceased.” A living will addresses treatment options a person wants omitted or performed on his or her behalf. But because unexpected circumstances may arise that are not specifically addressed in the living will, Catholics can also designate someone to exercise durable power of attorney for health care decisions.

Bishops to vote on revised rites for worship without priest WASHINGTON — U.S. bishops will be asked to approve a revised version of the liturgical book, Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest: Leaders Edition, when they meet in Washington Nov. 10-13. One of the main changes in the proposed new text is the shift of the act of thanksgiving in such services to after Communion if the service includes a Communion rite. In current practice, when there is a Communion rite the act of thanksgiving precedes it. Because the act of thanksgiving follows Communion, the revised version eliminates the current prayers after Communion that change each week. Another major change involves permission, when the rite of morning prayer or evening prayer is used, to omit the second reading of the Liturgy of the Word.

The revised document includes an expanded introduction, with detailed treatment of the liturgical year, the importance of singing and the participation of the assembly.

Speakers see no contradiction between dialogue, evangelization WASHINGTON — There is no contradiction between evangelization and ecumenical or interreligious dialogue, a leading theologian and a top Vatican official said in Washington Oct. 25. U.S. Cardinal Avery Dulles and Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, were featured speakers at a symposium at Trinity College marking the 25th anniversary of EPS — Education, Parish, Service — a lay ministry training program for adults that is affiliated with the college. The symposium topic was “Evangelization,

Ecumenism, Interreligious Relations.” Speaking on evangelization and ecumenism, Cardinal Dulles said the two are intimately related because, in the words of the Second Vatican Council, discord among Christians “openly contradicts the will of Christ, provides a stumbling block to the world and inflicts damage on the most holy cause of proclaiming the good news to every creature.” Cardinal Dulles, an internationally known Jesuit theologian, said, “The ecumenical movement, if it succeeded fully in its task, would greatly contribute to the work of missionary evangelization.”

Pope offers reflections on meaning of death, life VATICAN CITY — Making two brief appearances on the feasts of All Saints and All Souls, Pope John Paul II offered reflections on the meaning of death and eternal life.

The pope sounded tired and out of breath as he read the talks Nov. 1 and 2 from his apartment window above St. Peter’s Square. Unlike previous years, this year he did not descend to the crypt in St. Peter’s Basilica to pray at the tombs of deceased pontiffs. Marking All Saints Day, the pope said those in heaven remind people that “it is above all prayer that helps us to never lose sight of our eternal destiny.” As he has done often in recent months, he recommended praying the rosary as “a simple path to holiness, accessible to all,” and reminded his listeners that attaining holiness is the vocation of every Christian. October marked the end of a special year dedicated to the rosary. On All Souls Day, when all the dead are remembered, the pope emphasized the importance of praying for those who have died. “It is important and proper to pray for the dead, because even if they died in God’s grace and friendship, they may still need a final purification to enter into the joy of heaven,” he said.

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rather than the hostility some higher-profile foreign agencies have found, said a CRS official who recently visited Iraq. “Our ability to work over these last several months has been helped because we are not so high-profile and have a low number of expats,” said Christine Tucker, CRS regional director for the Middle East and North Africa. She said CRS, the U.S. bishops’ international relief and development agency, deliberately hired a primarily Iraqi staff in order to give the Iraqis a sense of empowerment of their own abilities to reconstruct their country. CRS has received a “great deal of support” from their Iraqi partners and local residents, she said. “The face of our work in Iraq is an Iraqi face, and that has helped mitigate what may otherwise have been a hostile reaction under other circumstances,” Tucker said in a phone interview. Tucker and Deputy Regional Director Kate Moynihan returned to Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 2 from a weeklong assessment visit to the Iraqi city of Basra.

Pope says Christian majority’s religious symbols deserve respect VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II said the religious symbols of the Christian majority in Europe deserve respect, even as the continent’s population is shifting because of immigration. The pope’s words Oct. 31 to a meeting of European interior ministers came as Italy was debating a judge’s order to remove a crucifix from a classroom wall after complaints from a Muslim activist. Without mentioning the crucifix issue explicitly, the pope argued that religious symbols in a Christian country simply cannot be canceled from public life in the name of interreligious tolerance. “Europe, born of the encounter of various cultures with the Christian message, is seeing the growth in its midst of a number of cultural and religious traditions, caused by immigration,” the pope said in his prepared text. That demographic change requires an attitude of cooperation and dialogue, he said. At the same time, he said, there should be legislative recognition of the religious traditions in which European countries find their roots and their identity.

Biblical figures surround the marble statue of Moses, Michelangelo's masterpiece at the Church of St. Peter in Chains in Rome. The famous sculpture, originally planned as part of Pope Julius II's tomb inside St. Peter's Basilica, was completed in 1545 at the church. The monument was reopened Oct. 28 after a three-year restoration project.

Father Adriano Garuti, “primacy is not a problem to be overcome, but a gift to be accepted,” Father Bux told the conference.

Father Garuti’s book, “Essays on Ecumenism,” was introduced at Rome’s Lateran University.

among his Vatican advisers, the pope pushed forward a program of “purification of memory” during the jubilee year 2000, with critical examinations of Christian actions during the Crusades, the Inquisition and World War II.

Pope says historical wrongs must Priest says China opens markets Theologian says Eastern Catholic be recognized for reconciliation but tightens control over religion VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II said it was important ROME — As China opens its markets to the world, it churches key to Orthodox unity for the church to acknowledge mistakes and shortcomings in its clutches onto control over the religious lives of its people with ROME — Orthodox Church leaders are right to see the existence and faith of the Eastern Catholic churches as the “crucial knot” preventing progress toward Catholic-Orthodox unity, an Italian theologian said. However, for the Catholic theologian, the answer is not to do away with the Eastern Catholic churches but to hold them up as models of communities that have maintained their Eastern rites while accepting the primacy of the pope as an essential element of being church. Father Nicola Bux, vice president of the Ecumenical Institute of Bari, Italy, and a consultant to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, spoke at an Oct. 30 conference marking the release of a colleague’s book. For the author of the new book, Franciscan

2,000-year history, and he encouraged others around the world to do the same. Behind many modern conflicts are historical wrongs that need to be recognized objectively before true reconciliation can occur, the pope said in a message to a conference of church scholars. The experts were meeting at the Vatican Oct. 30-31 to commemorate the pontificate of Pope Leo XIII, who died 100 years ago. Pope John Paul said he found Pope Leo an inspiring figure, especially in his openness to the historical sciences. “Like Leo XIII, I, too, am personally convinced that it helps the church to bring to light, as much as possible through the instruments of science, the full truth about its 2,000 years of history,” the pope said. Against some resistance

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Father Bernardo Cervellera, who lived in Hong Kong for years before teaching in Beijing from 1995 to 1997, said there is a growing desire for religion among the Chinese and a huge interest in Christianity. Yet, he said at an Oct. 30 press conference, as the government opens economically to the West, it has launched new campaigns of repression against religion.

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Catholic Healthcare West hospitals join in recycling effort “Once you open up something in a hospital, you can’t use it again. These still-good throwaways can work Visit any Catholic Healthcare West hospital and elsewhere.”

For instance, nine-volt batteries you’ll find a common scene: offices from heart monitors are just fine for and departments are dotted with colwind-up toys; blue plastic wraps which ored recycling bins and bags — which once held sterilized surgical instrurarely are empty. Hospital employees ments make hand drop clothes for faithfully fill them with plastic trays, kindergarten finger-painting; saline saline solution bottles, clean plastic solution plastic liter bottles can be wrap and non-contaminated hospital filled with ice water for backpacking waste. All this stuff used to go to local trips and plastic food trays can become landfills. planters and pet dishes.

But not anymore. Since 1995, In 1996, CHW took a deeper step CHW, a system of 41 acute care hosinto environmental commitment: it pitals in California, Arizona and signed on to the Coalition for Nevada — sponsored by eight Environmentally Responsible women’s religious congregations, has Economies (CERES). Formed in 1989 been seriously committed to caring right after the Exxon Valdez Oil spill, for the environment.

CERES supports changing and mini“It is absolutely vital for us to be mizing our impact on the environment. doing this,” pointed out Burlingame Sister Mary Ellen refers to the Mercy Sister Susan Vickers, director Dominican Sister Mary Ellen CERES principals as “the house rules of advocacy. “There is a clear link Leciejwski, CHW’s Ecology of the planet.” They include protecting between healing and promoting health Program Coordinator. the biosphere, using natural resources for our people, and operating to help wisely, minimizing risk to employees maintain the heath and safety of our and community, reducing environmental damage, proplanet.”

For Dominican Sister Mary Ellen Leciejwski, CHW’s Ecology Program Coordinator, recycling is about spirituality. “To me, ecology is a deeply spiritual issue. It invites us to an exquisite awareness of the interconnection of all things. If one thing moves, it all moves,” said Sister Mary Ellen.

“Spirituality has to do with how we think about the world; not just in touchy feely ways, but in ways that practically affect how we work in the world, how we provide health care, the kinds of carpeting, thermometers and IV bags we buy, how we dispose of our waste and how that affects the environment,” she added.

Since the mid-1990s, Sister Mary Ellen has been the passionate driving force behind CHW recycling efforts.

Her community’s Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, a CHW member, was a pioneer, in fact.

“The way we care for Earth and one another is the way we are spiritual,” said the Adrian Dominican nun.

In 1995, Sister Mary Ellen started “DominAgain,” an on-site recycling store open to the public a few days every month. The store gave things away or charged a small fee. Why would anyone want hospital items?

“Because they are highly useable,” she explained.

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viding safe products and services. Organizations which have signed on to CERES have an annual audit which measures how much water and energy they are using, how much solid and medical waste we have going out the back door, how much we’re recycling.” The bottom line question is “are we getting better?” They are.

CHW today has a mercury elimination policy. So none of CHW hospital use thermometers or blood pressure cuffs containing mercury. It is deadly, said Sister Mary Ellen, “Only one gram, the sized of a plain M&M candy, can contaminate a 20-acre lake.”

As an institution CHW also is keenly aware of the worldwide scarcity of clean water and is doing its part to help safeguard “the most precious source of life on our planet,” said Sister Mary Ellen. CHW is installing 300 water savers in their facilities. The device, which is attached to a wet film processor, reduces the consumption of water needed to develop a quality x-ray. The hospitals will save 140 million gallons of water each year throughout the system.

Its other projects include; developing a sustainable building mission statement with “green” energy-saving guidelines, working with manufacturers to reduce the amount of packaging coming in the front door and toxic substances going into their products; and collaborating with such groups as the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, CHW RECYCLE, page 7

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CHW recycle . . .

■ Continued from page 6 Kaiser Permanente, and the Center of Environmental Health to make sure that computers are being responsibly recycled so that their poisonous materials are not polluting the soil and water.

In San Francisco, at St. Mary’s Medical Center, and Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, and Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, new “green projects” are flourishing.

Last Earth Day, St. Mary’s opened “Drop and Shop,” its local version of “DominAgain.” Every Wednesday, the store is open to accept and give away recyclable items. In July, the Hospital inaugurated a pilot project for recycling blue wrap.

Blue wrap, used to wrap surgical instruments, represents at least 20 percent of all the waste created in the surgical arena. “If we could recover a lot of this material it would reduce the volume of solid waste generated by the hospital,” said Sister Mary Ellen. Last year, at Dominican, “we captured 16,000 pounds of it.”

St. Mary’s is in the process of capturing its blue wrap, with the help of a new state of the art baler. So far, it’s the only one of its kind in use and the hospital got it for free, as part of the pilot project. Employees “smush down the plastic as much as they can, and a 7,000 pound weight

A CHW operating room nurse puts recyclable material into recycling bin.

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does the rest,” explained Debi Simon, environmental coordinator for the three hospitals. The compacted plastic is then sent to Boise-Cascade in Washington State to be recycled into tough, resilient, exterior siding for houses. “It lasts much longer that wood,” she said.

The baler has come to the attention of the California Department of Health Services, and it is endorsing the hospital project. Last July the agency produced a video and is showing it at other facilities around the state as an example of how blue wrap recycling can work, said Simon.

Food services have gotten in on the green scene, too.

The Food and Nutrition staff is now recycling all its battles, jars and aluminum cans. “When you recall how large those institutional sized cans are, this is really a big deal,” said Simon.

At the end of each day, the hospital cafeteria donates its leftover good food to a local homeless feeding program.

And across the City at Saint Francis Hospital, the food services staff has inaugurated a composting project, making it the first private hospital to recycle cuttings from raw veggies and fruit.

Sequoia is recycling all its paper, and printer cartridges. According to a recent report, the hospital is now at a 20 percent recycle level as compared to its overall waste stream. Its goal is 50 percent.

Popular Catholic singer, songwriter in free local concerts Renowned Catholic singer, songwriter and storyteller, Michael John Poirier, will perform locally at St. Gregory parish in San Mateo and Saint Dominic parish in San Francisco on a tour through the Bay Area. The free event, open to all, is sponsored by the two parishes and the Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Marriage and Family Life.

The concert titled “Peace in your heart; in your family; in your world,” will be “an opportunity for deep prayer and reflection as well as a chance to put your heart, your family, and the world, into perspective,” according to Chris Lyford, director of the Office of Marriage and Family Life.

Mr Poirier, one of twelve children, began performing publicly at age 14. He has sung in bus staMichael John tions to comfort lonely, weary travelers, on street corners to calm the hurried, in hospitals to relieve the Poirier suffering and in soup kitchens to fill the hungry, Mr. Lyford said. He now travels the country with his family performing at popular parish missions and prayer concerts. Mr. Lyford said, “Michael’s music speaks of forgiveness, peace, and love from the perspective of someone who knows what it takes to forgive, and the blessings forgiveness brings.”

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Father Frank Pavone leads retreat for respect life coordinators

By Jayme George Commemorating Respect Life Month, Holy Name Church in San Francisco and the Archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns hosted the San Francisco Archdiocesan Respect Life Retreat on Saturday October 18.

In past years, Respect Life Month has been honored with an annual conference that attracts over 600 participants for the sharing of news, programs, and challenges that face the pro-life movement of the Catholic Church today. This year, the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns restructured the event in order to focus on the members of the church who are deeply involved in the fight to end abortion.

A smaller, retreat version of the annual conference was organized for those at the heart of the ministry to receive a spiritual rejuvenation, said Melanie Piendak, one of the event’s coordinators. “These people have a frustrating job in a society that is so staunchly anti-life,” said Piendak. “This oneday retreat was an opportunity for everyone to reflect on their own ministries and restore their faith.”

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of Priests for Life, led the Bay Area Respect Life Retreat. Priests for Life seeks to help priests around the world spread the Gospel of Life. The organization’s mission is to unite and encourage all clergy to give special emphasis to the life issues in their ministry. It also seeks to help them take a more vocal and active role in the pro-life movement, with predominant emphasis on the issues of abortion and euthanasia.

Father Pavone presented a clear, compassionate and dynamic message to a group of more than 50 pro-life coordinators from around the Bay Area. The retreat offered participants the opportunity to network within the pro-life community and learn more about organizations such as Project Rachel, a group that offers hope to women suffering the aftermath of an abortion. The daylong retreat also included time for prayer, reception of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, recitation of the rosary and concluded with celebration of the Eucharist.

According to Melanie Piandak, Respect Life Coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the Respect Life conference format will be reinstated next year. However, the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns will plan a retreat every few years, she said.

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Todos Los Santos – All Saints’ Day Hundreds join to honor the saints and pray for their dead at Holy Cross dra” or bishop’s chair of San Francisco’s first Archbishop, Joseph Sadoc Alemany.

In his homily, Archbishop Levada relayed his recent participation in the ceremony declaring Mother Teresa of Calcutta a Blessed at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

Archbishop Levada said “we think of Mother Teresa as woman who epitomizes what it means to be a saint because she drew close to Jesus . . . and brought Him with her into every part of her life reaching out to the needs of the poor, the sick and the dying.” Archbishop Levada thought to himself at the beatification, “I’m no mother Teresa,” and wondered, “Is there any hope for me?” The Archbishop answered, “of course there is, and there is hope for all of you and all of us as we take daily our steps through our lives seeking to meditate on the beatitudes.” The beatitudes speak about an ideal person, and “that person is Jesus Christ,” he said.

“Sainthood means letting Jesus Christ into our lives; letting him take over our lives by His grace, transform us day by day, step by step. It doesn’t happen all at once,” he said. Archbishop Levada said we must let Jesus change us “through the sacraments, through our conversion and repentance for sin, through the Eucharist; when He comes into communion with us again and again.” God is preparing us “through our pilgrim journey to know Jesus and to let ourselves become one with Jesus,” so that then marked with the blood of the “Lamb of Sacrifice,” we will be marked as those “Saints who are one with Jesus,” he said.

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More than 1000 people attended an All Saints’ Day – Todos Los Santos Mass celebrated by Archbishop William J. Levada at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma last Saturday. The day also served as an All Souls’ celebration, with those attending the Mass and many others taking the opportunity to visit and decorate the graves of their loved ones throughout the cemetery.

The venue and setting for this year’s All Saint’s Day Mass vividly incorporated the celebration of the Archdiocese’ 150th anniversary. Mass was celebrated on the altar in the center of Holy Cross mausoleum. To the left and right behind the altar are the crypts of the former Archbishops of San Francisco and in front are those of former auxiliary Bishops. Worshiper’s spread out in the halls of crypts radiating from the altar.

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Above: Archbishop William J. Levada preaches at All Saint’s Day Mass. Left: Seventh Archbishop of San Francisco, William J. Levada seated in the “cathedra” or bishop’s chair of the First Archbishop of San Francisco, Joseph Sadoc Alemany

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By Terry Blaine Carl Huneke (1898-1972) is hardly a household name, but he is responsible for the stained glass windows for over 80 churches in the Bay Area. His story begins with St. Vincent de Paul parish in San Francisco.

Saint Vincent de Paul Church was completed in 1913, just twelve years after the parish was founded, and just seven years after the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The architects, Frank T. Shea and John D. Lofquist, designed a structure with campanile, using brick and California redwood, with the opportunity for art glass effects.

Although described as “modified Gothic,” the church would be very much at home in an alpine village. Its steep roof, deep overhangs, and prominent bell tower provide a unique, pleasing contrast to the Victorian and early 20th century buildings in the neighborhood.

The art glass effects envisioned by the architects would take a long time to complete, but they would be worth the wait. More than thirty years, and two World Wars after the church was dedicated, work on the stained glass windows began. Father James H. Long, the pastor of Saint Vincent de Paul, had a clear idea of the theme for the windows. The designer/craftsman selected to create the windows was an unknown San Franciscan, Carl Huneke. Mr. Huneke was born in Achim bei Bremen, Germany in 1898. He started his stained glass career as a 13-year-old apprentice in Bremen, Germany. He was a bright student who had been offered a scholarship to continue his academic studies. But, he had to contribute to his family’s income, since his mother was a widow with nine children. He loved art and eagerly applied himself to stained glass. In 1925, he immigrated to San Francisco, and was employed by Edward La Potka at Church Art Glass Studio. For the next several years, Mr. Huneke studied English and oil painting at night school.

Window from Saint He prospered in his occupation until the Depression, and then there was no work in stained glass for several years.

To survive the Depression, Mr. Huneke and his wife, Lee, started a small neighborhood grocery store.

The one brief bright spot during the Depression years occurred in 1931. Charles Connick, the renowned Boston stained glass artist, created stained glass windows for Grace Cathedral. By chance, he hired Carl Huneke from the union hall to assist in the installation of those windows. From that incidental contact, the two men developed great respect for each other.

In the late 1930’s, stained glass work revived and Mr. Huneke was called back to work at Church Art Glass. He soon became principal artist for that firm. During creation of windows for Saint Mary of the Annunciation Church in Stockton (now Cathedral of the Annunciation), the imperious Monsignor William E. McGough fired the firm, but insisted that Carl Huneke stay on to complete the windows in

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the church. Reluctantly, Carl Huneke acquiesced, and the Century Stained Glass Studio was born. The stained glass windows created by Mr. Huneke for the new Saint Mary’s were a great success, partly because the charming young principal of the grammar school, Sister Maurice Powers, O. P., mediated between the demanding monsignor and the quiet, humble artist who spoke with an accent. Sister Maurice became a life long mentor and confidante to Mr. Huneke and his family.

Work on Saint Mary of the Annunciation was not quite complete when Mr. Huneke accepted the task of putting Father Long’s visions for Saint Vincent de Paul into glass, paint and lead. It was Charles Connick who had recommended Carl Huneke for the job. The contract for the first window was signed in November 1944. Father Long liked the Gothic Revival windows proposed by Mr. Huneke. They agreed that the color tones should be dominantly blue. Mr. Huneke experimented with 8 x 10 black and white photos of existing stained glass windows. Using a fine tipped camel hair brush, he applied enamel paint to each individual segment of glass in the photo to achieve the balance of blue, with red, yellow and green accents.

Several of those experimental miniatures still exist.

Century Stained Glass Studio was located in a tiny space at 374 Fillmore Street. That space was sufficient for a workshop large enough to lay out individual sections of the large windows at St. Mary of the Annunciation and Saint Vincent de Paul, but was not large enough for an entire window. The same was true for the glass easel, which stood upright in the shop. Each piece of glass was waxed onto that easel, was painted or stained, then was removed for firing in a kiln to fuse the stain permanently into the glass. Great care was taken to match the continuity of the panels in geometry, color and intensity without ever seeing them together until the final installation in the church. The shop was too small for the kiln. It was Rita church, Fairfax. located in the back room of their grocery store at the corner of Page and Lyon Streets. Mr. Huneke had built the kiln himself with advice from Charles Connick and assistance from an engineer at P. G. and E. Through ingenuity and diligence, Mr. Huneke surmounted the challenges of starting a new stained glass business during the war years. He found lead and solder for the windows when metal was scarce. He arranged gasoline for transportation when it was rationed. He got shipments of glass from the East Coast when rail and highway shipping space had military priorities. All new stencils for borders and backgrounds for the windows were cut square inch by square inch. He completed research into the accoutrements, symbols, icons, colors, and representations traditionally presented with each saint or event depicted.

Mr. Huneke bought a second hand projector. Each night at home, he projected his small pencil sketches or pictures gleaned from reference sources onto the wall of their rented flat in the Haight-Ashbury.

Central window of Crucifixion triptych at Saint Vincent de Paul church, San Francisco.

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f Carl Huneke The image, projected onto a large sheet of blank butcher paper tacked to the wall, was resketched full window size for the cartoon. The cartoon became the plan for cutting the glass and assembling the window.

The first window installed at St. Vincent de Paul was the Christ the King window in the choir loft at the rear (south wall) of the church. It was a triptych – three panels in each opening with borders, accents, and a rosette at the apex. The panels include both Old Testament and New Testament events relating to The King of Kings. The central figure is Christ, garbed in red, with arms extended overhead. This window is one of only a dozen or so signed windows.

The Nativity window in the west transept and the Crucifixion window in the east transept followed. Like the Christ the King window, the Nativity and the Crucifixion are triptychs, consisting of nine panels. Old Testament prophesies of the event are on the left, and New Testament fulfillments of the event are on the right.

The center panel of the Nativity window is a lovely scene of Mary and Joseph in the stable with the Christ Child resting, comfortable and secure in the manger. Mary’s expression is serene and adoring. Joseph is relieved, protective and watchful. These figures exhibit the trademarks of Carl Huneke’s artistry: soft angelic faces, graceful hands, and flowing folds in garb.

In the Crucifixion window, the central panel shows a dying Christ on the cross. His spirit, about to leave his body radiates outward to heaven and earth. Beneath the cross, his stricken mother is comforted in her grief, and the Apostle, John, implores compassion.

Each of these three windows, Christ the King, The Nativity, and The Crucifixion, is larger than an average living room. The overall dimensions are approximately 20 feet wide by 25 feet high. They each contain more than 3000 individual pieces of glass carefully held in place by H bars of lead, soldered securely to the surrounding pieces. Many of the individual pieces of glass have been painted with stain or black to produce the intricate patterns or shading through which the artist develops the scene. The scale of these three windows is equal to windows in the great cathedrals of Europe. The artistry and the message of each of these three windows at Saint Vincent de Paul, fulfills the concept of those thousand year old windows in Europe.

Thirty-nine stained glass windows were completed by 1948, and the intent of the architects’ had been fulfilled. But the work continued. Two more windows were added in the bell tower between 1958 and 1960.

In 1961, the final touch was the addition of 36 leaded panels in the front doors. These small panels are exquisite graphic art as well as a tantalizing treat for the eye. The bold cames of lead form the letters A, M, and V for Ave Maria, Virgin Mary and Vincent. Each panel, less than two and one half square feet, contains more than 300 individual pieces of glass. This masterpiece of architectural glass may be unsurpassed in any church in the world. Upon entry to the church, the radiant beauty of these panels is reflected in the clear glass screen separating the vestibule from the nave. They are also the last vision upon leaving the church.

This was only the second church in which Mr. Huneke designed and installed windows. During the 30-year existence of Century Stained Glass Studio, he went on to create about 1200 windows in 80 churches. Most of those were Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, including St. Rita, Fairfax; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame; St. Timothy, San Mateo; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae; St. Anthony of Padua, Menlo Park and the Carmelite Monastery of Cristo Rey in San Francisco.

One of Mr. Huneke’s most interesting achievements was the windows at St. Stephen’s church in San Francisco, in which he experimented with a new type of stained glass. In Europe, innovative French artists had added a new dimension to stained glass by using thick slabs of glass for modern creations. The glass, called dalle-de-verre, is one inch thick. The sheets of glass used for traditional stained glass are little more

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Saint Patrick window at Our Lady of Angels church, Burlingame.

Carl Huneke at his workshop. than 1/8th inch thick. When chipped on the edges, the thick glass produces conchoidal fractures, which refract the light to produce a brilliant gem-like depth, much like those legendary stones of the ancients.

Dalle-de-verre windows in America were introduced in the mid 1950’s by French designers. By 1959, Carl Huneke, began experimenting with dalle-de-verre creations. He had worked in baroque, German style, and Gothic revival stained glass windows for more than forty years, and was eager to try this new medium. By 1962, he began installing faceted dalle-de-verre windows at Saint Stephen Church on Eucalyptus Drive in the Lakeside Park district of San Francisco. The theme of the windows included the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries, and saints selected by the pastor, and the many donors of individual windows. The effect of entering Saint Stephen Church is like stepping into a jewel box.

Mr. Huneke’s family were parishioners of Saint Stephen since the parish was founded in 1950. A new church was built in 1962. Architect Fred Houweling designed the Spanish mission style church with dallede-verre windows in mind. Father Joseph A. Donworth, Pastor, admired Mr. Huneke’s traditional stained glass windows, but liked the concept of the modern dalle-de-verre samples which Mr. Huneke showed him.

Mr. Huneke’s first experiments with dalle-de verre glass were disappointing. The glass pieces were crude because the glass was difficult to cut. Mr. Huneke purchased a tile saw with diamond blades. The pieces of glass could then be accurately cut to small sizes for intricate artistic designs.

Working with a new medium, Mr. Huneke could not rely on his skill with traditional stained glass windows to satisfy his own artistic vision. First, he made miniature pencil sketches of each window in proportions which could be expanded to the full size of the window. Several copies of each allowed him to experiment with combinations until the right proportions of light and dark, color and contrast, and pleasing composition of the scene had been achieved. Full size copies of the miniature sketches for the Nativity window at Saint Stephen’s are shown.

Next a full size cartoon, the plan for the window was drawn. If the window was very large, the cartoon was cut to size of one or two panels within a window. Each piece of glass was shown in the cartoon, which served as the cutting guide for the glass. Sometimes a touch of watercolor was brushed onto the cartoon to indicate the color selection for an individual piece of glass. Next, the cartoon was laid out on a work table. A transparent sheet was taped over the cartoon then a 1 inch frame of wood exactly the size and shape of the finished panel was nailed down, holding the cartoon and transparent sheet in place. A dalle of the proper color was selected, and a piece of glass was cut to shape by diamond saw or glass cutter. Then facets were created by striking the edge or top face of the glass with a small hammer. After all the pieces within a panel were cut, they were arranged precisely on the cartoon. One by one, each piece was lifted out, liquid latex was applied to the bottom and the piece was glued onto the transparent sheet in the place indicated by the cartoon beneath.

When several Saint Stephen’s windows had been completed, Mr. Huneke evaluated the results.

He searched further for techniques to perfect the most difficult part of any window – the faces. He felt that his artistry was limited by the straight cuts of the diamond saw. He suddenly realized that by using the flat face of the saw blade, along with the edge, he could produce curved concave cuts in small pieces of glass. His first success with that technique is shown in the mesmerizing eyes of Saint John Vianney, in a small window next to the pews on the right in Saint Stephen’s. Mr. Huneke’s mastery of the modern medium, faceted dalle-de-verre was now complete.

Each of the 36 windows at Saint Stephen’s is compelling. From the moment you enter the church, your eyes are immediately drawn to these radiant creations. On the way out, take time to look at the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary window located in the choir. Even though each element of the window is bold, the faces and garments draw the composition together gracefully. Father Donworth’s favorite window was Saint Patrick, donated by his family. It is located in the southeast stairwell to the choir.

Mr. Huneke went on to create faceted dalle-de-verre windows in eleven other churches or chapels in the Bay Area.

Terry Blaine, is a businessman in Menlo Park. He occasionally assisted his father-in-law, Carl Huneke at Century Stained Glass Studio, and in installations of windows. Over the past 12 years, as time permitted, he researched and photographed Mr. Huneke’s stained glass windows.

This is one in a year-long series of articles marking the 150th anniversary of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Jeffrey Burns, archdiocesan archivist and author of a history of the Archdiocese, is coordinating the series.

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Remembering Sharan Falotico Two weeks ago, a woman named Sharan Falotico died at the University of California at San Francisco hospital after a lengthy illness.

She is remembered by those who knew her as a brave and intelligent woman who exhibited great strength in dealing with the burdens of her debilitating illness and difficult life. She earned everyone’s respect by her integrity, sensitivity and compassion. She also had a very clear and very strong sense of righteousness. Sharan Falotico was a victim-survivor of clergy sexual abuse.

Describing the “Circle of Healing-Apology Ceremony,” which was planned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the No More Secrets group of victim-survivors, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Elizabeth Fernanadez wrote in June: “For about three hours, survivors — men and women — one by one told their stories, profoundly painful accounts of innocence lost, faith shredded, power abused. They said they carried a lifetime of trauma instilled by their perpetrators and sharpened by church officials who ignored them or refused to believe them.

“Sharan Falotico described being repeatedly raped by a priest, her Latin instructor, when she was 13 and living in a small town in Ohio.

She said she later learned that church officials had knowingly transferred the assailant to her town after he’d raped another young girl.

When she later confronted one of the officials, he had the audacity and arrogance to (say) ‘It’s my understanding that you seduced him.’”

Sharan Falotico said that although those events took place 53 years ago, she was still dealing with the fallout. The sexual abuse that Sharan suffered as a child had marked her life and remained a cause of great pain.

In describing her ordeal, she said, “God must weep as he watches what his representatives do in his name.”

Yet Sharan was not willing to be a victim forever. She became a survivor with a passion to tell her story so that other girls — other children — would not suffer, as had she and other abuse survivors.

Sharan was a member of the No More Secrets group of abuse survivors, which has provided extraordinary insight into the pain and long-lasting trauma of clergy sexual abuse. She went to tremendous efforts to come to the No More Secrets meetings at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center. She brought with her an unselfish concern for her fellow abuse victim-survivors.

Sharan had a righteous anger. Her anger was not that something had happened to her, but that this was allowed to happen to untold children.

In a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle four months before she died, Sharan wrote: “How did sexual abuse become a Catholic story? … What about schools, hospitals, the Boy Scouts? …difficult questions to answer?

No. Pedophiles in schools, hospitals and the Boy Scouts do not present themselves as representatives of God on Earth. All pedophilia is horrific. But the Catholic religion teaches Catholics that priests are in a special elite class, representing God on Earth. Catholic children are taught to revere, trust and obey priests above all others. The face of God is painted on the priest perpetrators. Using the face of God, the priest betrays the child’s trust and sexually invades the home of the child’s soul. The overwhelming devastation to the child’s body and mind pales in comparison to the devastation to the child’s spirit. That is why sexual abuse of children is a Catholic story.”

The memory of Sharan Falotico should not pass from our minds. As the Catholic Church in America implements the comprehensive steps of the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” which was approved last year by U.S. Bishops, a woman named Sharan Falotico stands sentinel to these actions. Her testimony of abuse by a priest and dismissal by Church officials should not be allowed to weaken in our memories.

Sharan Falotico and all of the victims of child sexual abuse — committed by clergy, Church employees or anyone else – ask us to work tirelessly to bring an end to the scourge of abuse.

MEH

Wealth of memories What a wealth of memories came flooding to mind when I read on October 10th about St. Thomas the Apostle Parish celebrating 80 years of serving God and Community. I was six weeks old when dad bought our family home on 39th Avenue. We had moved from St. Monica’s parish where I was Baptized.

My sister, Sister Patricia Anne Gilligan, CSJ, received Baptism at St. Thomas and two other Sacraments before she entered the order. Incidentally, she recently celebrated her 75th birthday. She works at Carondelet High School.. My late brother John Gilligan was buried at St. Thomas, as was my youngest son, Terry Sean Dolan on Oct. 7, 2003 (Feast of the Rosary).

Many thanks to Father Dan Maguire, pastor. Fathers Joe and Bill O’Connell are relatives. They also grew up on 39th Avenue in the Big House. All Healy Sisters (Presentation Order) were family friends and many others too numerable to name. Ah, fond memories indeed.

I will visit St. Thomas in December, once again.

I’m not quite as old as St. Thomas Apostle Parish.

Eleanor Gilligan Dolan Concord

Unjustified attack

L E T T E R S

In the Oct. 24 issue of Catholic San Francisco, you carried a piece by Mr. Douglas W. Kmiec of Catholic News Service. Mr. Kmiec asked the question, “Was the Iraq war justified?” May I venture that it was not?

For weeks before the United States attacked Iraq our administration portrayed Saddam as an imminent threat to Iraq’s neighbors and to the U.S. None of the “evidence” presented to us and the United Nations Security Council was found to have any basis in fact; no weapons of mass destruction, no Al Qaeda terrorist connection, no aluminum tubes for nuclear purposes, no mobile biological weapons labs. So why attack Iraq without provocation and in violation of international law?

Incidentally, it appears that since 1997, Iraq was contained and deterred from any provocative action against anyone.

John McAuliffe San Francisco

Moderate and reasonable I wish to write in support of Catholic San Francisco’s editorial concerning the exclusion of mayoral candidate Tony Ribera from a debate on homelessness held recently at the University of San Francisco. CSF is accused by Mr. Leo McCarthy of having “personally attacked” him for his public position on abortion. Yet a rereading of the editorial shows this charge to be without foundation. All the editorial does is to cite a Los Angeles Times article which asserts that Mr. McCarthy did indeed support public positions which can only be described as prochoice. His claim that “I was not interviewed for...the article” strikes one as a bit lame.

Later in the same letter Mr. McCarthy cites with approbation Mario Cuomo’s

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“elegantly stated” explanation of his position, which he gave in a speech at the University of Notre Dame. This is a speech which many Catholics remember as a disingenuous rationale for allowing Catholic politicians to do nothing substantive in their public careers to defend pre-born babies.

CSF acknowledged in its editorial of October 4 that Cardinal O’Connor had challenged this position, a position which has the practical effect of permitting Catholic political figures to ignore a core conviction of the Holy Faith – not to mention the natural law - which in the matter of abortion is binding upon all human beings, not just Catholics.

No one knows how many unborn babies have perished because many Catholic public leaders have offered ambiguous responses to the question as to where they stand on the abortion issue. I applaud Mr. McCarthy’s affirming his support of the Church’s teaching on this matter to his children. But he has no reason to complain that CSF’s statements are a “personal attack” when he himself seems to have been guilty of disingenuousness in his 1992 campaign against Barbara Boxer for U.S. Senator. It is characteristic of Catholic figures to respond with self-righteous indignation when caught in this morally questionable posture.

Perhaps Mr. McCarthy’s conscience is troubling him more than he might care to consider. In any event, the original editorial in my opinion was moderate, reasonable, based on known public facts, totally devoid of any ad hominem elements. CSF is richly deserving of the gratitude of all sincerely pro-life Catholics for honestly airing an issue that is absolutely central to the Christian world view.

Dr. Richard Sonnenshein San Francisco

Life is nonnegotiable

As one who works a great deal in the pro-life arena, I was struck by one of the comments in Leo McCarthy’s letter in your October 24 issue. He adopts a position articulated by former New York Governor Cuomo and other Catholic politicians, who, although claiming to personally accept the Church’s teaching on abortion, refuse “to impose their religious convictions on all citizens in our pluralistic society.”

While this line of reasoning may have been accepted in the past (which is somewhat doubtful because of the scandal and confusion that it inherently causes), it can no longer be advanced after November 21, 2002. On that date Pope John Paul II approved the publication of Doctrinal Note on the Participation of Catholics in Political Life. This document should be required reading for all Catholic politicians. It eloquently states that it is “the lay Catholic’s duty to be morally coherent…there cannot be two parallel lives in their existence: on the one hand the so-called spiritual life…and on the other, the so-called secular life…Those who are directly involved in lawmaking bodies have a grave and clear obligation to oppose any law that attacks human life.”

Abortion is the preeminent social justice issue of our time. Saying that we oppose abortion personally but are loathe to take “privacy” rights away from others, is akin to our forefathers saying that they opposed slavery personally but would not infringe on the property rights of others. At some point there must be non-negotiable ethical principles upon which a just society can exist.

Vicki Evans Larkspur

Effectively the same In former Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy’s October 24 letter, he insists that he accepts the teaching of the Catholic Church regarding abortion, but writes that as a political office-holder, “I did not seek to compel non-Catholics to conform to my religious convictions on abortion and other subjects.”

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The Catholic Difference Rome in mid-October was awash with rumor-mongering and media speculation, what with the Pope’s silver jubilee, an extraordinary meeting of the College of Cardinals to review the pontificate’s accomplishments, and the creation of thirty new cardinals on October 21. The exemplary personal witness of a courageous, suffering John Paul II, touchingly manifest at Mother Teresa’s beatification blunted some of this. But the Italian media being what it is, and people being what they are, the urge to speculate about the future proved, for some, an itch that was impossible not to scratch.

Anyone who tells you they have a good idea who the next pope will be is, by reason of saying that, not to be trusted. Still, some features of the next papal conclave are coming into focus, not least because of the recent expansion of the College of Cardinals.

It seems likely that the next conclave will be the most open and complex in modern history. That means it may also be one of the longer conclaves in recent decades. Why? John Paul II has changed the Church’s expectations – and the world’s expectations – of what popes are for. The next pope may travel less extensively than John Paul. The next pope may take a more direct hand in the structure, staffing, and functioning of the Church’s central administrative apparatus in Rome.

But will the next pope return to the managerial model of the papacy that shaped expectations during the twentieth century conclaves? It seems very unlikely. John Paul II has retrieved and

renewed a more biblical image of the Office of Peter as primarily evangelical and pastoral rather than administrative; that has dramatically changed expectations of the papacy. And those changed expectations will help create an open conclave in which questions of nationality and race will matter little.

Several other factors suggest that the next conclave will be a complex one. As some cardinal-electors acknowledge privately, there is no leading candidate or small group of candidates at this juncture. That doesn’t mean that some cardinals don’t imagine themselves in white; it does mean that their imaginings are not broadly shared within the electorate.

Then there’s the fact that the electors really don’t know each other that well and will likely take some time to measure each other’s capacities. That thirty new cardinals have now been added to the pre-conclave discussion, and that the electorate is likely to be the largest ever, are two more factors pointing to a process that’s longer rather than shorter, at least by modern papal election standards. The weight of responsibility that the electors will feel also bears on this. Whatever Hans Kung thinks, the men responsible for electing John Paul II’s successor know very well that they are charged with finding an apt heir to the legacy of a gigantic figure in Christian history. They won’t rush to judgment.

The fact that the electors will be comfortable rather than miserable while “immured” in the conclave also suggests that they’ll take their time. Previous cardinal-electors lived in Spartan cubicles cut out of offices in the Apostolic Palace; the

cubicles were furnished with iron beds and chamber pots. The electors in the next conclave will live in three-room suites in the new Vatican guest house, St. Martha’s House, built

by John Paul II. George Weigel Discomfort created pressures to get the job done quickly in conclaves past.

Of course, the Holy Spirit could have an entirely different scenario in mind. One or even several of the cardinals could make such a strong impression during the pre-conclave discussions that a short list of serious candidates emerges quickly.

Those are imponderables, however. Looking at the process in purely human terms, the expectations weighing on the electors, their diversity, their relative unfamiliarity with each other, and the more humane circumstances in which they will live all suggest an open, complex, and probably lengthy process.

Pre-conclave prognostications are notoriously dangerous for the prognosticator’s reputation. But this is how it looked to me – and to some cardinal-electors – in Rome last month.

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

Family Life

Anytime’s a good time for God “Looks like I won’t get a walk in today.” I stared out the window. Winter had arrived. Just two days ago it was sunny and warm. Now rain hammered the rooftops, trees swayed back and forth, water raced along streets and driveways. This wasn’t a typical Seattle drizzle. This was a fullblown winter storm, the kind that knocks out power and litters yards with pine cones and branches.

“It’s a great time for a walk!” said 9-year-old Gabe.

I glanced over to see if he was joking. He wasn’t. “I’ll come with you, Mom,” he said. “I love to walk in the rain.”

“We’d get soaked.”

“Who cares? We can dry off.”

He had a point. We had plenty of dry clothes in the house. “OK. You’re on.”

Gabe zipped up his jacket and put on his boots. I grabbed the umbrellas. We headed down the street.

Raindrops bounced off roofs and slid off branches. Water ran along the sides of the streets, backing up into huge puddles where fir-needle dams blocked the storm drains. Gabe threw his head back and tried to catch the rain in his mouth.

He bent down and examined a storm drain. “You shouldn’t put stuff down here,” he said. “It’s bad for the salmon.”

“That’s right,” I said. “Anything that goes down

this drain goes right into the streams.”

A car drove by, its headlights casting beams of light through the pelting raindrops. A light flashed overhead.

“Did you see that?” I asked.

“What?”

“That flash. I think it was lightening.”

A distant rumble confirmed my ID. “There’s the thunder.”

“You can tell how far away it is by counting between the lightening and the thunder,” Gabe said.

“That one was a long ways away.”

“We learned about tornadoes last year,” he added. “They can pick up a car. But we don’t have many tornadoes here.”

“That’s good.”

“I think it would be neat to see a tornado.”

Gabe was the quieter and more mysterious of my two sons. I treasured times like these when I got a glimpse of what was on his mind.

We splashed up the street. It was early October, but some houses were already decorated with pumpkins and scarecrows. “Look at that Jack-o-lantern!” I pointed across the street. “It’s got a light inside it instead of a candle. Of course, it’s not a real pumpkin.”

“I like to do it the traditional way,” said Gabe.

We’d been walking for almost an hour. The rain was seeping through our clothes and the air began to feel chill.

“Want to head back?” I asked. He nodded and put his hand in mine.

Back home, we slipped out of our drip- Christine Dubois ping jackets and changed into dry clothes. Gabe’s cheeks were flushed from the chill but his eyes glowed.

Children have a way of inviting us into new areas of grace.

Our rainy walk reminded me that God’s grace is pouring down around us in every season of our lives. If I had stayed inside, waiting for a “better” time, I would have missed the blessing of the winter rains and this special time with my son.

I hugged Gabe. “You were right,” I said. “It was a great time for a walk!” \

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

Spirituality

The Invitation to a Deeper Virtue Perhaps the most misunderstood text in all of Scripture is the one where Jesus says to us: “Unless your virtue goes deeper than that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

We generally misunderstand that because we wrongly think that Jesus is referring to the vices of the scribes and Pharisees, rather than to their virtue. We look at the hypocrisy, jealousy, double standard and rigid legalism of the scribes and Pharisees and easily distance ourselves from that. But it wasn’t their vices that Jesus was referring to; it was their virtues.

What was the virtue of the scribes and Pharisees? In fact, they had a pretty high standard. The Ten Commandments, strict justice in all things, compassion for the poor, and the practice of hospitality constituted their ideal for virtuous living. What’s wrong with that? What’s required beyond these?

In Jesus’ view, what’s wrong is that, in the end, it’s still too easy. Any good person does these things, simply on the basis of decency. What’s wrong is that ultimately we still give back in kind, an eye for an eye — goodness for goodness, kindness for kindness, hatred for hatred, murder for murder. Nothing is ever really transformed, redeemed, transcended, forgiven.

Simply put, if I’m living the virtue of the scribes and Pharisees, I react this way: If you come to me and say, “I like you! You’re a wonderful person,” my response naturally will be in kind: “I like you, too!” What I’m doing is simply feeding your own good energy back to you. But that has a nasty underside. If you come to me and say, “I hate you! You’re a charlatan and a hypocrite,” my response will also be in kind:

“I hate you, too!” This is ultimately what “an eye for an eye” morality comes down to. We end up feeding back the other’s energy, good or bad, and replicating the other’s virtue, good or bad. That’s the natural way, but it’s not the Christian way.

It’s precisely here where Jesus’ invites us “beyond,” beyond natural reaction, beyond instinct, beyond giving back in kind, beyond legal rights, beyond strict justice, beyond even the Ten Commandments, beyond the virtue of the scribes and Pharisees.

Indeed, the litmus test for Christian orthodoxy is not the creed, but this particular challenge from Jesus: Can you love an enemy? Can you not give back in kind? Can you move beyond your natural reactions and transform the energy that enters you from others, so as not to give back bitterness for bitterness, curse for curse, hatred for hatred, murder for murder?

Can you rise above your sense of being wronged? Can you move beyond the itch to always have what’s due you?

Can you forgive, even when every feeling inside of you rebels at its unfairness? Can you take in curses, hatred, and murder itself, and give back blessing, love and forgiveness?

That’s the root invitation inside of Christianity.

Admittedly, this isn’t easy. Much inside of contemporary spirituality and pop psychology will object to the very theory of it, pointing out that carrying tension isn’t healthy for us, telling us that we have a duty not to enable abusive behavior, and challenging us not to be doormats and victims, but mature persons who claim the legitimate space that’s needed in order to be free, giving persons, responsible to God and others.

All of these objections are right, of course, though none

of them negate Jesus’ challenge. His invitation, cleansed from overly simplistic interpretation, remains: Don’t be a victim or a doormat or an enabler of abusive behavior, but do consider, willingly and Father without resentment, layRon Rolheiser ing down your life for others by living this more sublime challenge.

And it’s exactly on this point, to do this willingly and without resentment, that its practice grows difficult. More commonly, we carry others’ crosses — but end up being bitter about it and sending them the bill. The scribes and Pharisees had this down to a fine art. That, too, was part of their virtue. Growing resentful or manipulative while serving others is a perennial danger, though, as Goethe says: “The dangers of life are many and safety is one of them.”

And so the invitation of Jesus to what’s higher, more sublime, more noble, remains - as does the gentle, understanding, faithful, non-threatening, but persistent and uncompromising, presence of God. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.

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November 7, 2003

Of ‘boo-boos’ and baby pictures: Medical advances aid pro-life work

By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service

(CNS PHOTOS BY DAVE HRBACEK, THE CATHOLIC SPIRIT)

WASHINGTON (CNS) — “They fixed my boo-boo.”

With those words in a U.S. Senate hearing room, Samuel Armas, nearly 4, put into simplest terms the medical advances that are helping to convince even the most hardhearted about the humanity of unborn children and the need to protect them in the womb.

In-utero surgery — like that Samuel underwent on Aug. 19, 1999, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. — and three-dimensional ultrasound technology both offer new ways of looking at unborn children as patients and as unique people in their own right.

Samuel’s surgery came just 21 weeks after his conception. When he was diagnosed with spina bifida early in the pregnancy, his parents chose a relatively new procedure aimed at reducing the condition’s effects.

Although dozens of such operations had been performed, what made Samuel’s operation unique was the presence of freelance photographer Michael Clancy, who had been hired by USA Today to photograph surgical procedures being performed on fetuses.

(Above) Jessica Kasel of Woodbury, Minn., catches sight of an ultrasound image of her daughter, Emma, on a monitor (out of view) at Grand View Ultrasound in St. Paul. Sonographer Ronda Rosenthal operates the machine, which provides highly detailed images of babies in the womb.

(Left) This three-dimensional ultrasound image shows baby Emma Kasel at 23 weeks' gestation.

Emma's mother, Jessica Kasel, said the more advanced ultrasound at Grand View Ultrasound in St. Paul, Minn., allowed her to see "the form and fat cheeks and the features" of her new daughter.

Clancy captured the image of Samuel reaching a hand out of his mother’s womb and grasping the finger of Dr. Joseph P. Bruner, who was performing the surgery. A nurse in the operating room told Clancy that the unborn babies undergoing surgery “do that all the time.”

The now-famous “Fetal Hand Grasp” photograph is featured on Web sites and on billboards, posters and on Clancy’s own Web page, www.michaelclancy.com.

Samuel, born Dec. 2, 1999, in Atlanta, is famous now, too. He responded with the “boo-boo” remark when Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., showed him Clancy’s picture during a Sept. 25 hearing before a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and asked, “Have you seen this picture of you?”

Julie Armas, Samuel’s mother, told the subcommittee that her son is now “an active, walking 3-year-old who attends preschool and is age-appropriate developmentally.”

Despite the risks involved in the surgery, she said, she and her husband chose it because, even at 21 weeks’ gestation, “Samuel was not a hypothetical, he was already a member of our family, our son, and deserved our best efforts to improve his life.”

Samuel’s father, Alex Armas, said increased awareness

Surgery . . .

■ Continued from cover The photo is graphic. It displays a surgery, and surgeries aren’t pretty. There is blood. There is flesh. But the photo is graphic in another sense. It shows the living hand of a living unborn child, reaching out to one of the (born) people trying to help him. This, I suspect, is why the mainstream media rejected it. A media engrossed with graphic images of war does not fear blood and flesh. It fears to show unborn children as people.

Letters . . .

■ Continued from page 12 Is that really a fair description of efforts to provide legal protection for unborn children? It is certainly the language used by those who are ardently pro-abortion. Does it tell us anything that Mr. McCarthy speaks the same way?

Is it unreasonable to ask how Mr. McCarthy’s support for the teaching of the Church regarding abortion benefits unborn children? In practical terms affecting unborn children, is his position any different from that of someone who is staunchly pro-abortion? Isn’t the effect the same?

What were the other issues on which Mr. McCarthy would have been unwilling to impose his views on those who do not share them? Are not all laws impositions on those who

and support of advances in fetal surgery are critical to families and their unborn children.

“Progress in this field is not only improving lives, but is also saving lives by representing an option, an alternative, a hope for parents who may otherwise choose to end their pregnancy,” he said. “Having options in fetal surgery can turn a family’s initial perception of hopelessness into an outlook of hope and a life where little victories are celebrated and cherished. We have seen living proof of this in our son.”

Also testifying before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, chaired by Brownback, was Dr. Jim Thorp, a professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Florida in Pensacola and a specialist in maternal fetal medicine who has performed more than 250 fetal surgeries.

Thorp quoted from Sir Albert William Liley, who is credited with performing the first fetal surgery in 1963: “From my clinical experience I am convinced that unborn children are individuals and human beings who are capable of receiving and responding to medical care and who should have legal protection.”

“It is extremely difficult not to see the fetus as a child before birth with the same value as a child after birth, especially after one sees her smiling, grimacing, moving, sleeping, yawning, stretching, sucking a thumb, as well as responding to pain from needle sticks,” Thorp testified.

Even when their unborn children do not require surgery, some parents are getting a similar view from the detailed color images provided by three-dimensional ultrasound machines, sometimes called 4-D.

Expectant mother Jessica Kasel of Woodbury, Minn., herself a sonographer at Fairview-University Medical Center in Minneapolis, went to Grand View Ultrasound in St. Paul for images of her unborn daughter, Emma.

“With 2-D, you just get skeletal images,” she told The Catholic Spirit, newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. “But with 4-D, you can see the form and the fat cheeks and the features. And you kind of get her personality, too. She was striking a pose for us.”

Patty McGinnity and Jane Sieckert, sisters and co-owners of Grand View Ultrasound, said they would like to partner with crisis pregnancy centers.

“At 20 weeks, sometimes women don’t really feel pregnant,” said McGinnity, a parishioner at St. Gregory the Great in St. Paul. “But to see the baby just makes it so real.

If they saw their baby, it would be very difficult for them to abort that child.”

“There is little debate about whether the child in utero is alive, but (there is debate) about whether it is a life worthy of protecting,” Brownback said at the Senate hearing. “That is a debate we will continue to have and will have another day.”

But the focus that day was on Samuel Armas and children like him.

“The ability to treat and cure diseases for the benefit of the young child who is yet to be born is an amazing advance that will help alleviate the suffering of many young children, and in fact, is already doing so,” Brownback said.

“These are advances that all people, regardless of their political views, can embrace as a positive step.”

We live in a culture that wants to view these children as nothings. At the stage when Samuel underwent surgery (21 weeks), about 13,000 unborn children are aborted every year, thousands by partial-birth abortions.

But as science and technology progress, it will become increasingly difficult to label unborn children as nothings.

Dr. Thorp testified, “It is extremely difficult not to see the fetus as a child before birth with the same value as a child after birth.” Dr. Thorp, who performs fetal blood transfusions on children as young as 19 weeks, said that the unborn child reacts to the pain of a needle just as any born child does. He says the treatment possibilities are limited

only by practical considerations. For example, most needles are too large for younger unborn children. However, he noted, unborn children are having hernias repaired and tumors removed and even having balloon angioplasty on their little hearts.

Unborn children are undeniably alive and human.

The question, then, that has to be at the center of the abortion debate is: Are these human lives worthy of the protections of the law?

disagree with them? Should there be no laws which are not unanimously supported? Are there any issues to which Mr. McCarthy would have applied that doctrine, aside from one for which it provided an excuse for him to not take a stand that would have been suicidal in the Democratic Party?

It is perhaps illuminating that Mr. McCarthy cites Mario Cuomo’s 1984 speech at Notre Dame. That speech was widely perceived as an attack on those who favor legal protection for the unborn. The Nazareth Life Center of Garrison, New York, to which Cuomo tried to donate his fee for the speech turned down the donation because those who ran the facility did not want to give the impression that they agreed with Cuomo. Cuomo never seemed uncomfortable accepting the support of those who ardently favored unrestricted abortion. They never seemed uncomfortable supporting him, nor ever acted as though his personal opposi-

tion to abortion meant anything. Did everyone but Mr. McCarthy misunderstand where Cuomo stood on abortion?

Mr. McCarthy also cites the position taken by John Kennedy. But abortion was not an issue during Kennedy’s career. Would Mr. McCarthy really have us believe that the author of “Profiles in Courage” would have silently accepted the loss of one million unborn children a year without trying to stop it? It would be a curious thing if an admirer of Kennedy would try to argue that he would have.

None of these questions should be taken as a denial that, as other October 24 letter-writers insisted, Mr. McCarthy is a very good man. But perhaps it is always a good thing to remember the words of Edmund Burke: “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

Albert Alioto San Francisco

Contributing to this story was Julie Carroll in St. Paul.

Maureen Kramlich is a public policy analyst with the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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Vatican urges U.N. to use ‘road map’ to move toward Middle East peace UNITED NATIONS (CNS) — A Vatican statement to the United Nations Nov. 3 called for use of the “road map” as a way to move toward an Israeli-Palestinian settlement.

Msgr. Francis Chullikatt, an official of the Vatican’s U.N. mission, said “the present conflict in the Middle East will find a lasting solution only when there are two independent and sovereign states living side by side in peace and security.”

“It is incumbent upon both parties, assisted by the international community, to endorse the road map as a tool of negotiation and confidence building,” he said.

The “road map” is the plan designed to produce the twostate solution proposed by President Bush in his speech to the United Nations last year.

Speaking at U.N. headquarters in New York, Msgr.

Chullikatt said all parties to the Middle East conflict should realize that “the occupation of the territories of the West Bank and Gaza and the terrorist attacks are triggering the unending spiral of acts of violence and retaliation which afflict both the Palestinians and the Israelis.”

“An integral part of the current road map to peace clearly calls for the two-state solution,” he said.

The Vatican representative made his comments in a statement to a committee of the U.N. General Assembly reviewing activities of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, known as UNRWA. Msgr. Chullikatt offered the Vatican’s “praise and appreciation for the work of the agency during a time of crises

Partial-birth . . .

■ Continued from cover puncturing a hole in the baby’s skull and removing brain tissue.

“Partial-birth abortion is performed at 20 weeks’ gestational age and beyond, and neurological evidence has confirmed that it is a ‘dreadfully painful’ experience for the unborn child,” according to Cathleen Cleaver of the U.S. Bishop’s Secretariat for Prolife Activities. “What’s more, it presents a threat to the health of women who mistakenly believe it is a good choice,” she said.

Congress twice before has passed a partial-birth abortion ban, but each time the legislation was vetoed by then President William Clinton. He said the law did not contain an exception for the health of the mother. “The health exception is the quintessential exception that swallows the rule — so broad that you could drive a truck, or a fullyformed unborn baby, right through it,” Ms Cleaver said.

In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Nebraska law banning partial birth abortion by a 5-4 margin. The Court majority ruled that the law was unconstitutional because it did not contain sufficient exception protecting the health of the mother and that its language was “too vague,” potentially undermining a woman’s right to abort a non-viable fetus.

Cathleen Cleaver believes language in the new federal legislation crafted by Rep Steve Chabot (R-OH) and Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) should satisfy the concerns of the Court. In addition, she said the Court’s ruling was based on faulty findings by a lower court asserting the “Big Lie,” that the procedure is sometimes medically necessary. According to Ms. Cleaver, “The new ban on partial-birth abortion that has now passed both houses of Congress and is on its way to the president’s desk for signature is replete with findings of fact that expose the Big Lie.” Over the course of congressional hearings, hundreds of obstetricians and maternal health experts joined with former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in testifying that partial birth abortion is “never medically necessary to protect a mother’s health.”

The American Medical Association has declared the procedure “not good medicine” and “not medically indicated” in any situation. Even late term abortionist, Warren Hern, author of a widely used textbook on abortion procedures said he “would dispute that [partial-birth abortion] is the safest method to use.”

“Despite numerous setbacks, the pro-life community never wavered in its commitment to protect women and their unborn children from this heinous form of abortion,” Mr. Wesolek said.

(CNS PHOTO BY DEBBIE HILL)

By Tracy Early Catholic News Service

Mother Gerarda Sironi, superior of the Comboni Sisters in Bethany, West Bank, Oct. 23 crosses a cement blockade that will become part of the "separation fence," the Israeli-constructed security wall built to discourage suicide bombings. Palestinians maintain the wall is cutting citizens off from jobs and family. The nuns, along with the neighboring Passionist Fathers, protest the proposed construction which will cut through their property and create a nine-mile detour to Jerusalem.

and challenges.” And he expressed sympathy for the deaths during the fiscal year ending June 30 of six of its employees who were killed while serving Palestinian refugees.

Other speakers also commended the U.N. agency and its commissioner-general, Peter Hansen, but the Israeli representative, Arye Mekel, offered a sharp critique.

He charged that its leaders had shown “blatant political bias” and said Hansen had made statements that “could be construed as lending legitimacy to the use of terrorism for the promotion of the political aims of the Palestinians.”

Mekel also said terrorists had “exploited UNRWA facilities and employees” and some of the U.N. relief agency’s workers “have been personally implicated in terrorist operations.”

And he complained that the agency had devoted “excessive time and resources” to the Palestinian refugees, giving them a priority not given to other refugees and failing to “transition these individuals out of refugee status.”

Hansen denied that he had said anything about “lending legitimacy to terrorism,” and said there were reports of Israel implicating only a half-dozen or fewer of the agency’s 12,000 employees, though no information about them had been given to the agency.

Msgr. Chullikatt told the U.N. committee that the Pontifical Mission for Palestine and other Catholic agencies working in the region had “found it increasingly difficult to carry out their mission” over the past three years.

But he said continued assistance was imperative, and the pontifical mission continued its efforts to “ameliorate the suffering of many in the occupied territories.”

Background notes on partial-birth abortion ban Significance. The enactment of this law is historic - it is the first federal law since Roe v. Wade in 1973 to forbid an abortion procedure. The law bans partial-birth abortion unless it is deemed necessary to save a mother’s life.

The Procedure. The abortionist pulls a living baby feet-first out of the womb and into the birth canal, except for the head, which is left just inside the cervix. The abortionist punctures the base of the baby’s skull with a surgical instrument, such as Metzenbaum scissors, then inserts a catheter into the hole and removed the baby’s brain with a powerful suction machine. This causes the skull to collapse, after which the abortionist completes the delivery of the now-dead baby. Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, estimated in 1997 that the method was used 3,000 to 5,000 times annually, and he said, “in the vast majority of cases, the procedure is performed on a healthy mother with a healthy fetus.” It is usually done at 20 weeks’ gestation or beyond, when the child is extremely sensitive to pain.

Not Medically Necessary. American Medical Association Executive Vice President P. John Seward, M.D. has said the procedure “is not good medicine.”

According to the AMA, there is no evidence of a situation in which partial-birth abortion is “the only appropriate procedure.”

Health Risks to Women. Partial-birth abortion poses serious health risks to women, including damage to the cervix (a leading causes of future miscarriages and premature deliveries), infection (the main cause of subsequent infertility), tearing of the uterus, severe hemorrhage and other complications which could require hysterectomy. Many women suffer emotionally and psychologically from abortion, and women who have abortions for fetal abnormalities suffer a disproportionate number of psychological complications.

He noted “the leadership shown by U.S. Catholic bishops in the effort” and “the faithful witness of so many in the Catholic community.”

Before the law was signed, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and its local affiliate Planned

Role of the Church. Banning partial-birth abortion has been a major legislative priority for the Catholic Church in the United States. Two highly successful postcard campaigns in favor of the ban in 1996 and 1998 flooded congressional offices with messages from millions of Catholics across the country. Catholics have been at the forefront of this battle for almost a decade.

Legal History of Abortion. Roe v. Wade crafted a constitutional right to abortion that appeared to have limits, but Doe v. Bolton (issued the same day) effectively erased those limits. Doe required states to permit abortion any time in pregnancy for reasons of “health,” defined as “all factors” - physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age - relevant to the well-being of the patient. Thus, abortions can take place legally throughout all nine months of pregnancy. Since Roe v.

Wade the Supreme Court has allowed regulation of abortion only at the margins, such as parental notification and waiting periods. State laws against partial-birth abortion were the first to approach the heart of the matter, but their enforceability was called into question when the Supreme Court struck down Nebraska’s law in Stenberg v Carhart (2000). The new federal law was drafted to address the alleged constitutional defects of the Nebraska law.

Future. Abortion advocates are expected to file suit immediately upon enactment, so it is possible that the ban will not go into effect right away. What can be expected from the courts is, of course, impossible to predict with any certainty. Whatever the final disposition of such a case, the enactment of the ban will itself be a significant moment in history - it will be an enduring, unambiguous record of the struggle of the American people and their elected representatives to end this barbaric practice.

Secretariat for Pro-Life Activites, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Parenthood Golden Gate filed suit in federal court Oct. 31 seeking an injunction against enforcement of the law.

Eve Gartner, attorney for PPFA said she believes the law is unconstitutional and is seeking a restraining order against implementation of the legislation pending resolution of the case.

Three Branches: A commentary on judicial activism

By Fr. Frank Pavone If you take a tour of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, you eventually reach a relatively small room in the basement.

It is the old Supreme Court. Prior to getting its own building across the street, the Supreme Court used to be housed under the building in which our federal lawmakers gather, deliberate, and vote. The symbolic significance of this, of course, is that we govern ourselves. Our elected representatives, who are accountable to us, pass laws. Judges don’t. They simply judge whether an existing law has been violated in a particular case, by particular parties.

Or at least that’s what they’re supposed to do.

We live in an age of judicial activism, or as some have called it, judicial tyranny. Judges are striking down laws and writing new ones left and right, without precedent and without reason. For example, the Supreme Court decision Engel v. Vitale in 1962 attacked the longstanding tradition of school

prayer, declaring that a voluntary, non-denominational prayer in a public school was unconstitutional. The Court failed to cite a single precedent to justify its prohibition. “For 170 years following the ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, no Court had ever struck down any prayer, in any form, in any location” (Barton, Original Intent, p. 159).

Things went downhill from there, in many different decisions. In 1973, the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions unleashed the abortion holocaust. In his dissent, Justice Byron White issued the famous assertion that the Court delivered “an exercise of raw judicial power...an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review.”

Now the Courts are tampering with the very nature of marriage as a union between man and woman.

The Founding Fathers knew the dangers of a Court system that would try to take control of the rest of the government.

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “[T]he germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal

Judiciary;...working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped” (Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. XV, pp. 331-332).

The Founders established three distinct branches of government — the legislative, executive, and judicial — and made it clear that “each of the three departments has equally the right to decide for itself what is its duty under the Constitution, without any regard to what the others may have decided for themselves under a similar question” (Thomas Jefferson, ibid., p.215). In other words, the President and members of Congress pledge to uphold the Constitution, not the Court’s opinion of the Constitution.

Little by little, Americans are waking up to judicial tyranny, and are calling for a change.

Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life

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Datebook

Nov. 8: Christmas Boutique benefiting Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose at Immaculate Conception Academy, 24th and Guerrero St., SF, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sponsored by the Dominican Guild.

“Do your Christmas shopping early,” said Marian R. Weber, guild secretary.

Nov. 8: Evening of Dinner and Entertainment sponsored by St. Philip’s Young at Heart. Club in new parish hall, 725 Diamond St., SF, beginning at 6 p.m. A choir and folk dancer extravaganza from 7 – 9 p.m. Tickets $20 per person. Call Jess Centeno at (415) 239-1729.

Nov. 8: Recital and book signing by popular composer, Jesuit Father Bob Fabing at the Del Santo Reading Room, 2nd Floor of USF’s Lone Mtn Campus, 2800 Turk Blvd. between Masonic and Parker, SF. Father Fabing’s songs have recently been translated for use by Chinese congregations.

Hs Cds and books will be on sale with proceeds benefiting the Father Edward Malatesta Scholarship Endowment. Call (415) 422-6401.

Nov. 9: Pancake Breakfast and Talent Show benefiting St. Finn Barr Elementary School in Goode Hall, Hearst and Edna St., SF from 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Tickets $5/$4.50/$4/$2.50. Call (415) 3331800.

Nov. 15: Potluck dinner and presentation of Marin County Respect Life Program featuring Wesley J. Smith, internationally known author, attorney who advises The International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. “The event is designed to educate the community about the realities of the of the Mercy Parents Guild. “Families encourCulture of Death as it relates to end of life issues, aged to attend.” Breakfast served 8:30 – 11 a.m. for $5. Call Hazel Beck at (415) 334-0525, ext. care of the disabled, the assault on medical ethics and more,” said Vicki Evans, coordinator. Call (415) 210.

945-0180. Takes place at St. Sebastian parish, 373 Nov. 22, 23: Mount Carmel Shop’s Noel Notions, Bon Air Rd. at Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Greenbrae at a Christmas Bazaar benefiting Our Lady of Mt. 6 p.m.

Carmel Parish, Mill Valley. Sat. 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.; Sun: Nov. 15: Crab Bash and Family Dinner benefiting 9 a.m. – noon. Bake booth, toy booth, gift items, collectibles, antiques plus raffle. Lunch available on Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School in the parish’s Ryan Hall at 40th Ave. and Lawton St., SF Saturday.

Tickets $28/$200 for table of eight. $10 for kids 12 Nov. 23: Maryknoll Alumnae Association gathers and under. Begins at 5:30 p.m. Menu includes all- for Mass in Chinese at St. Matthew Church, El you-can-eat cracked crab, pasta and more. Call Camino Real at 9th Ave., San Mateo at 4 p.m. SF (415) 664-8590.

Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang will preside. Dinner Nov. 15. 16: Holiday Boutique at St. Andrew and hot cider reception follows with ballroom dancing at Hyatt Regency at SF Airport. Tickets $55 per Church, Southgate and Sullivan, Daly City. Sat. 9 person. Call Gail Chan at (415) 392-0645. a.m. – 6 p.m.; Sun. 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Features handcrafted gifts and gently used household items. Call (650) 756-3223.

Nov. 16: Heart of the City, a fashion show benefitAdmission free unless otherwise noted. ing Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School Nov. 7: From the Heart, a Concert by beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the school’s new Student Life Center. Tickets $50 per person. Fashions by guitarist/vocalist Rob Grant benefiting St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. at Academy of Art College, Gingiss Formals, Jessica Brotherhood Way, SF. McClintock. Call (415) 775Suggested donation is $15.

6626, ext. 765.

St. Vincent de Paul Society of Call (415) 452-9634.

Nov. 20: The St. Thomas San Francisco desperately needs Nov. 7, 8, 14, 15: Roaring More Society, an organization men’s clothes for its Vincentian Twenties, a modern day soof Catholics serving in the legal Desk that serves more than 800 to-say setting of the Bard’s A profession, hosts its annual people a month most of whom are Comedy of Errors at Mercy Pastors’ Lunch.

Jeanne men. Items most needed are High School, 3250 19th Ave., Woodford, warden of San pants, shirts but not tee shirts, SF. Features talent from Quentin State Prison is feacoats, sweaters, sweat shirts, Mercy and other nearby tured speaker. Call Stacy shoes, belts, underwear and schools. Curtain all dates at Stecher at (415) 433-1400 for socks. Drop off station is 425 4th 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 tix at $15 reservations. Dec. 8: Annual St at Harrison, SF weekdays from 9 includes post show buffet.

Christmas Mass and a.m. – 5 p.m. Call (415) 202-9955.

Tickets for other dates $8.

Luncheon. Winners of essay Call (415) 334-0525. contest announced. New officers/executive committee Nov. 23, 24: Peace in your heart, family, world, a members elected. concert by acclaimed singer, storyteller, Michael Nov. 21, 22: Holiday Boutique at Marian Center, John Poirier, 7 p.m. at St. Gregory Church, 2715 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame, featuring “beautiful Hacienda St., San Mateo on the 23rd; and at St. handmade items including great gift baskets and Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF on the 24th. Call (415) 614-5680 for ticket information. crocheted blankets made by the Sisters.” Benefits the Mercy Sisters. Call Debbie Halleran at (650) Sponsored by St. Gregory, St. Dominic, and the Office of Marriage and Family Life.

340-7426.

Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine Nov. 22: Annual Holiday Boutique fundraiser benof St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. efiting San Francisco’s Immaculate Conception Academy, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., in the school’s auditorium Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to 24th and Guerrero St. “Enjoy a day of holiday shop- the public. Nov. 9: Music for Bassoon and Organ ping, refreshments including homemade baked with Jolene and William Davis from the University of Georgia; Nov. 16: Organ recital by Douglas Franks, goods, raffles and a visit with Santa,” said Liz Avila, of the ICA advisory board. Sponsored by the ICA First Presbyterian Church, Burlingame; Nov. 23: Music for Flute and Organ with Harry Bernstien and Parents’ Guild.

Brian Swager; Nov. 22: Mercy High School, San Francisco’s Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral at annual Holiday Boutique, 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. in 3:30 p.m. Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) the school’s McAuley Pavilion, 3250 19th Ave., 567-2020 ext. 213. Concerts are open to the pubacross from Stonestown Galleria. “Enjoy refreshlic. ments, gift baskets, and a raffle,” said Anne Riley,

Performance/Auditions

Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester, here with Handicapables founder, Nadine Calligiuri, presided at the group’s October Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Also on the altar were chaplain and Our Lady of Lourdes pastor ,Father Kirk Ullery and Deacon Andrew Johnson.

Handicapables gather 3rd Saturdays at noon for prayer and lunch at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF. Volunteer drivers always needed.

Call (415) 584-5823.

Lady of Loretto, Novato. Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171. St. Gabriel, SF. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. St. Finn Barr, SF in English and Spanish. Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823; St. Cecilia, SF. Call Peggy Abdo at (415) 564-7882 ext. 3; Epiphany, SF in Spanish. Call Kathryn Keenan at (415) 5647882.

Ministry for parents who have lost a child is available from Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

Young Widow/Widower group meets at St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

Information about children’s and teen groups is available from Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

Returning Catholics

Nov. 8: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur offer Saturday Morning Prayer 9:30 – 11:30 each 2nd Sat. of the month at their Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave. across from Ralston Hall on their university campus. Today, Grieving Our Losses with Notre Dame Sister Kathryn Keenan. Dec. 13: Giving Birth to a Peaceful Earth with Notre Dame Sister Sharon Joyer and Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Pat Nagle.

Nov. 11: Veteran’s Day Memorial Prayer Service in Star of the Sea Section of Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma at 11 a.m. Call (650) 756-2060.

Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: St. Philip the Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call the parish office at (415) 282-0141; St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, parish office at (415) 453-2342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani at (415) 461-7060; Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, SF, Michael Adams at (415) 695-2707; St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus, SF, Dennis Rivera at (415) 664-8590; St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336, Elaine Yastishock at (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Dorothy Heinrichs or Maria Cianci at (650) 347-7768; St. Dunstan, Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Chris Booker at (650) 738-1398; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea or Diane Claire at (415) 3884190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco at (415) 331-7949.

Retreats/Days of Recollection

Taize Prayer

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

Nov. 30: An Evening with Ron Rolheiser, an Oblate of Mary priest and syndicated faith columnist whose work appears in Catholic San Francisco.

7 - 9 p.m. $15 per person.

3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in their Province Center Chapel, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont across from Ralston on the college campus. Call (650) 593-2045, ext.

350 or www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org.

1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 3223013.

2nd Fri. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica. Call Deacon Peter Solan at (650) 359-6313.

2nd Fri. at 7:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., SF. Call Laura McClung at (415) 3621075 3rd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley. Call Dean Miller at (650) 631-2882 1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Catherine Rondainaro at (415) 713-0225

Vocations/PrayerOpportunities

Single, Divorced, Separated Nov. 15: San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester will preside at a Mass of Thanksgiving at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Mill Valley at 1 p.m.

Pot luck reception follows. Call Pat Harder at (415) 492-3331.

Separated and Divorced support groups meet 3rd Sat. at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, call Pat at (415) 492-3331; and 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452.

Catholic Adult Singles Assoc. of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 8970639 for information.

Consolation Ministry Groups meet at the following parishes.

Please call numbers shown for more information.

St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame. Call Elaine Yastishock at (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Louise Nelson at (650) 343-8457 or Barbara Arena at (650) 3443579. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City.

Call (650) 366-3802; Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 3552593; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call (650) 5892800. Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont.

Call Ann Ponty at (650) 598-0658 or Mary Wagner at (650) 591-3850. St. Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at (415) 472-5732. Our

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By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Maybe my mom was right after all.

Her rules, which she never articulated but always made me obey, went like this: After school, you could do what you wanted, but once the street lights came on, you had to come indoors. And you had to finish your homework after dinner before turning on the TV. As a kid whose parents bought his clothes for him from the Sears and Robert Hall “husky” aisle, I didn’t venture outside after school every day, not when I was going to be the last one picked for games and when I had an alternative in shows like “The Little Rascals,” “The Three Stooges” and “Kimba the White Lion.” But watching prime-time TV was a good enough incentive not to dawdle with homework.

Well, surprise, surprise, Sergeant Carter. Those days are gone — not just for me, but for today’s children. And

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now it’s not just anecdotal evidence about kids doing their homework with the TV, stereo and computer on.

According to a study issued in late October by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the youngest children — from ages 6 months to 6 years — spend virtually as much time in front of a screen as they do playing outdoors. If you want the exact numbers, it’s 2 hours, 1 minute outdoors compared to 1:58 in front of a screen, and most of that is a TV, with only a smidgen spent in front of a computer or a video game.

Music gets 59 minutes of a young child’s average day. And reading, or being read to, gets just 39 minutes.

But what surprised the researchers most was that 36 percent of kids age 6 and under had a TV in their rooms — and, of those, three-fourths had their own VCR and/or DVD player. “You have to wonder how much parental mediation is going on” in those cases, said Kaiser vice president Vicky Rideout, one of three study authors.

Another surprise was that, with the saturation of media in the family home, “children are still reading, still playing,” said Alvin Poussaint, a Harvard psychiatry professor who served as a consultant for “The Cosby Show.”

The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that children under 2 not watch TV. According to Dr. Michael Rich, the director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital in Boston, the brain is the only organ in the human body that is still in an “embryonic” stage at birth and not just a miniature version of a fully formed adult organ. It takes two years, Rich said, for the brain to determine how it will receive and transmit messages, so the sensory stimulation of TV could prove problematic to brain development.

Rich added that the pediatricians’ group hasn’t spread the word on its recommendation very well. On a

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Parental attitudes about TV may also be shifting. In this study, which conducted 1,065 telephone interviews and has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percent, 43 percent of the parents surveyed said TV “mostly helps” as opposed to 27 percent who said it “mostly hurts.”

Another 21 percent said TV didn’t have much effect either way on their tykes, while 9 percent said they didn’t know. But 81 percent of the parents said their kids have imitated behavior they saw on TV, and 78 percent said positive behavior was mimicked.

Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a Washington-based think tank on infant and toddler issues, noted “television’s ubiquitousness” and how this generation of parents may feel more comfortable with TV having grown up with cable TV a reality. Their parents had over-the-air TV but not cable, their grandparents had radio but not TV, and their great-grandparents might have had a Victrola gramophone to play 78 rpm records. Prior to that, everyone had to either entertain themselves or actively seek out some form of amusement.

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Two days later, with the roads still closed to cars, Father Irwin walked several miles uphill from El Cajon to the church. The fire had destroyed dozens of homes, including some across the street from the parish. The church was still standing but stained glass windows were broken, the roof charred, and the interior damaged by smoke.

As residents came back to town, the parish served hundreds of hot meals and distributed clothing, canned goods, bottled water, and other supplies, provided by Catholic Charities, local businesses and other members of the community. Robert Mosher, deputy director of Catholic Charities of San Diego, was in Crest with about 10 staff members each day to provide counseling.

One week after the fire swept through, Father Irwin celebrated Mass with the community in the parish parking lot.

“The flame of faith of St. Louise burns far brighter than any flame of fire,” Father Irwin said in his homily. “We are a people of faith. God loves us, and yes, God is with us.”

To the north, in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles, Father Amaro Saumell first heard of what was to become known as the Old Fire in the morning of Oct. 25. The blaze was small and far away. “Someone said there was a fire at the bottom of the mountain, about the size of two cars,” he recalls nine days later, after driving past the ruins of homes burned out by the fire.

On the first day of the fire, Father Saumell watched flames climb relentlessly through trees killed by bark beetles and others dried out by drought. It was moving toward the mountain top community of Crestline and his parish of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. By evening he learned that Crestline was to be evacuated, Father Saumell said, “So I got out the parish registry and called everyone on it. I told them what was happening and I asked them to call their friends. The evacuation was remarkable. It went so smoothly. The people up here know everyone, if not by name by sight.”

Father Saumell makes it clear that Crestline is not a community of expensive homes with great views. His people live on the mountain not because of the scenery but the economics. Housing is cheaper here. Retired people live in simple cabins. Young families come with their children. “Forty percent of the people get government aid, that includes Social Security, but there are many welfare recipients,” he says.

“Crestline itself fared pretty well,” he said, “but Cedar Pines Park lost many homes. One couple lost who their home are in their 90s. I don’t know how they’re going to manage, psychologically, at that age.” The people of Cedar Pines live in simple cabins that they have converted to affordable homes.

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Father Robert Irwin, pastor of St. Louise de Marillac Parish in Crest, a community near El Cajon, Calif., celebrates Mass in the church parking lot Nov. 2. The church was damaged by the wildfires that swept Southern California from north of Los Angeles to the Mexican border.

The fire came to the edge of his parish’s property but caused no damage. Father Saumell returned to the parish Sunday night to find the electricity off, snow falling and temperatures freezing. He bundled up before the fireplace and spent the night. He hopes to return permanently this week.

In a radio address Oct. 28, Bishop Gerald Barnes of San Bernardino called for prayers and good works to ease the suffering. “Let us be present to those most in need; let us listen to them and be there for them. Let those of us who are able open our homes in hospitality to those who have been displaced, offer food and a place of rest and sleep. Let those of us who are able financially, support the relief efforts of the Red Cross, Catholic Charities and other charitable agencies.”

“Whatever our religious affiliation may be, let us all raise our voices together in prayer to our God who stands with us, and who is for us a sign of hope and strength in this terrible time of tragedy.”

Bishop Barnes hosted a “Community United in Faith” interfaith prayer service for fire victims and firefighters at Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral Oct. 30.

The fire caused the diocese to cancel a 25th Anniversary Celebration. The celebration was to have taken place Nov. 2 at California State University, San Bernardino. “This decision reflects the need to respect the people who have lost their homes in the Cal State area and in recognition of the need for the Church to be present to those who have been displaced, as well as those who are continuing to battle the fires,” a diocesan statement said.

In his radio address, Bishop Barnes offered the prayers of the people of the diocese for victims in the area east of Los Angeles. “I call on all of us, who call the Inland Empire home, to stand in prayer and solidarity with those who have been so terribly affected by this disaster,” he said. “ To all those who have lost family members or homes and possessions we want you to know that your community stands with you.”

The descriptions of the San Diego County fire were drawn from stories written by Vincent Gragnani and Ann Aubrey Hanson of the Southern Cross, the newspaper of the Diocese of San Diego.

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HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA Invites you to join us for

VETERANS’ DAY(NoMMass) EMORIAL SERVICE Tuesday, November 11, 2003 Veterans’ Section Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery – 11:00 a.m.

Military Chaplains from the Archdiocese of San Francisco in uniform will conduct the Memorial Ceremony along with the Travis Air Force Base Military Guard with taps.

Dear Veterans, There is a beautiful area of Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery dedicated to our courageous men and women in uniform. Flags from all branches of military service stand in honor at the entrance to the Star of the Sea Section. Our Veterans’ Day Memorial Service is held in front of these beautiful flags.

In this current world situation, it is especially important that we gather to remember and honor our military personnel and their families. You are cordially invited to join us in prayer on this special day.

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Please join us in remembrance of our Veterans and to pray for world peace.

Sincerely, Holy Cross Cemetery Staff Please mark your calendars and also share with us: 1st Saturday Mass Saturday, December 6, 2003 Fr. Stephen Howell– Celebrant Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish All Saints Mausoleum – 11:00 a.m.

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