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Tubilee Year 2000 Special reconciliation services announced As part of the events and activities linked to Jubilee Year 2000 , the U.S. bishops have invited dioceses

throughout the United States to participate in a special day of reconciliation and healing to be cele• brated on April 8. . ¦ In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, plans call for the celebration of the Rite of Reconciliation of Several Penitents with Individual Confession at St. Mary 's Cathedral and in each of the deaneries of the Archdiocese.

Archbishop William]. Levada will preside at the reconciliation prayer service that will begin at 10 a.m. on April 8, at St. Mary 's Cathedral in San Francisco.

"Appropriately situated in the middle of the season of Lent, this act of atonement for sin and of reparation for past faults forms part of a broader movement of the universal Church , led by our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II , in his prayer for pardon for the sins committed in the name of the Church through these past two millennia of Christianity," noted Archbishop Levada.

Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester, in a letter to the heads of thell deaneries in the Archdiocese, said, "The biblical dimensions of Jubilee and the season of Lent call us to

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About tile cover: Top right , Holocaust survivor Glori a Lyon -with concentration camp tattoo visible on forearm; see page 5. Center: Mission District procession in honor of slain Archbishop Oscar Romero begins; see page 11. Bottom: Pope John Paul II visits the Church of Primacy of St. Peter in Tabgha, Israel , March 24; see page 20.

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Nadine Pfirter, was recentl y named winner of SVDP' s first "Bob Baldocchi Award", named for the late longtime president of St. Anne of the Sunset's SVDP conference.

SVDP' s Vincentian Help Desk , which assists almost 900 individuals and families each month , is constantl y in need J • v_ of everyday supp lies like toothbrushes , tooth paste, shampoo and food . If you can hel p or would like to coordinate a supp lies-gathering event at your parish , call Steve Maraccini at (415) 977-127 0, ext. 3003.

The Broadway long-ago "Godspell" will be presented in

by Tom Burke April by the St. Pius Young People's Theatre Group. The show, which I have seen more than a lot of times, has always been a favorite of mine. 1 think it captures (he tenor of the time Christ lived , as well as its peop le, with music that can be moving and fun. Notre Dame High School senior, Laura Kellems, plays Peggy. In addition to her high school responsibilities , we are lucky to have Laura as a part-timer at our nei ghborhood Albertson 's where she always has a smile and a sincere "How ya ' doin "?". As someone whose poor pantry management skill puts him in the store almost dail y, let me say "thanks ". See Datebook for curtain times....

Easels raised for Lauren Stechbart , a Mercy High School, Burlingame, junior, and Nikki Lucas, a 1998 grad of the Peninsula school , who both won top prizes in a recent art contest. Lauren 's winning entries included her painted "Bugs Chair" and a watercolor. Nikki , now a sophomore at Dominican Father Xavier Lavagetto and Marshall Dill San Jose State, won for a print of a piece she drew while at Had the opportunity to chat with Earth Day founder Mercy, "St. Theresa in the Rose Garden".. ..SF's St. Ignatius John McConnell who even in his 85th year continues his Preparatory holds its annual "International Food Fair" advocacy for "earth care." John was in the City for first day tomorrow from 4 - 8 p.m. at the Sunset District school. Coof spri ng festivities on March 19 at the Shrine of St. Francis chairs are Renee Formosa of the City 's St. Brendan Parish of Assisi where he and famed- 'Friscan , Angela Alioto, rang and Lorraine Canton of Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. a bell for peace. Angela 's dad , the late Mayor Joe, was The event features eight booths hawking food from virtuall y instrumental in getting the first Earth Day off the ground in all traditions including Middle Eastern , Hispanic , Irish and 1970. John says asking people to treat "everyday as Earth African American. Lorraine and Renee say, "It's not to be missed." See Datebook Day " would trivialize the for details. campaign he 's devoted Wings raised for new his life to, but he does Eagle Scouts Matthew encourage "everyone to Ryan and Martin find a group they can Corpos of San Carlos ' belong to whether it has St. Charles Parish. Both to do with ethical investare members of the ing or planting trees." parish youth group, This son of a "preacher Charlie 's Angels , and man" says he never finhave been part of its ished college but has annual trek to Mexico to been glad to include acabuild homes for the poor. demic heavywei ghts , Thanks to Mart 's mom, such as late anthropoloGinny, for stringing us gist Margaret Mead , From left. Holy Name Elementary 1st graders the story with a call to among his friends and Christopher Relampagos , Joyce Weavet , Clare McAnelly, everyone who's sittin ' on allies. The Earth Day Christian Koriganowitz , Carolyn Mack , Gerald Lynch, good copy and not Web site address is Shelby Rodelas , Geoffrey Yep, Yitian Zhang. sendin ' it this column 's www.eartlisite.org.... way. Whatta ' ya' think I Betty and Joe Smith of Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, celebrated their 54th make this stuff up?...I was especially touched by a piece wedding anniversary on March 16. The two celebrate 50 called "Believe in Them Totally," an exhortation recently years as Peninsulans in May. Betty 's a native San Franciscan offered by Junipero Serra High School's guidance, department in the school 's "Spotlight" newsletter. "Even when and Joe's a Seton Haller with roots in the Garden State....

The stops were out at the 50th anniversary celebration of your teenager's behavior is less than desirable " or, he or she South San Francisco's All Souls Elementary School in "does something foolish, uses poor jud gement, or completeSeptember. Classrooms commemorated each of the decades ly messes up," remember "to believe in " and "never give up to accommodate mini-reunions. Superintendent of schools, on him or her," it points out , a lesson this hard headed parent Dominican Sister Glenn Anne McPhee, presented princi pal , has lost sight of too many times.

Eileen Gorman, and the school with a special plaque; and current pastor, Father William Justice, welcomed former pastors, Father Michael Healy and Msgr. Charles Durkin to concelebrate the day 's special anniversary Mass....Tall Hats off to Holy Name Elementary's 1st graders who celebrated Dr. Seuss ' birthday on March 2 apparentl y minus Grinches of any kind... .Father Joe Walsh, pastor, St. Stephen Parish , asked me to pass on that Hol y Ghost Father Sean Corcoran will be "glad to know all his many friends are pray ing for him." Father Sean, a parochial vicar at the nearStonestown community for almost a decade, is not well....

San Francisco 's St. Dominic Parish honored longtime lector, Marshall Dill , Ph.D., at its 11:30 a.m. Mass on March 12, presenting the retired-college prof with a "proclamation illuminating his exemp lary legacy as minister of the Word." Marshall, a St. Dom's member for 50 Eagle Scouts Martin Corpos (left) and Matt Ryan years and a reader for 40, is also a founding member of the parish capital campai gn that has rehabilitated the hallowed worshi p space seismicall y and now is restoring its prized Woodberry organ. "He has instructed us well on the singular importance of commitment to one's faith community," said development director , Toni Doyle... .Thanks to Sue Armstrong for lettin ' us know the St.* Patrick' s dinner Catholic Charities ' dance at the Excelsior District 's Epi phany Parish flowed f CAR DONATION PROGRAM like the Shannon. Stan Cortes emceed the evening.

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St. Veronica Parish dedicates new center Archbishop William J. Levada j oined the community of South San Francisco 's St. Veronica Parish for dedication ceremonies of its new parish center on Marc h 19. The rites began at the 12:15 p.m. Mass with the Archbisho p presiding and pastor , Father Wilton Smith; parochial vicar, Father Lawrence Finegan; and retired resident , Father Edward Geary, concelebrating.

Assisting were parish Deacons Roger Beaudry and Joe Le Blanc.

The dedication continued at the new building with a ribbon cutting by Father Smith and a blessing of all the facility 's rooms by Archbishop Levada. The Star Spang led Banner sung by St. Veronica ei ghth grader , Pamela Sevilla , entertainment by the parish cheerleading squad , and a li ght lunch for the 700 parishioners in attendance were also part of the day.

At groundbreaking-ceremonies last spring, Father Smith called the 4,800 square foot cente r "a welcome and long-awaited addition to outparish. " Youth of the parish later took advantage of the sports capability of the $1.4 million edifice with basketball and volleyball games. The parish school has since held a talent show and speech contest there.

Fundraising for the center began in earnest in 1 997 , and construction was launched last June.

Contractor was John Plane Construction of Burlingame. Architect was William Starr of Marshall/Lee of San Francisco.

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St. Veronica cheerleaders —from left, Brian IMerney, Molly Soracco , Randy Dilag — took part in dedication ceremony for parish center at right.

Loaves and Fishes honors 'exemplary'; $450,000 is raised Archbishop William J. Levada 's annual Loaves and Fishes Dinner and awards program took p lace March 18 at San Francisco 's Merchant 's Exchange building.

More than 350 peop le attended the spring black-tie event , raising more than $450,000 for Catholic Charities ' programs.

The event was founded three years ago, according to Catholic Charities , as an opportunity to honor "exemplary individuals and organization s."

This year's honorees included entrepreneur Robert Batinovich , for his "support of causes ranging from education to women's athletics to services for children "; the E. Mack Miller famil y "for their consistent and generous support of human services organizations " and "families in crisis "; the

From left: Morris and Nancy Offit, Bob Theleen, Frank Hudson, Jenny Theleen.

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New auxiliary bishop in Orange

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Porj e John Paul II has named Msgr. Jaime Soto, ep iscopal vicar for the Hispanic community of Orange, Calif., as auxiliary bishop of Orange. Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo , apostolic nuncio to the United States, announced the appointment March 23. Bishop-desi gnate Soto, also episcopal vicar for Catholic Charities in the Orange Diocese, will be the 22nd Hispanic bishop currently active in the United States and the youngest U.S. bishop at age 44.

Calls disp utes 'scandalous '

JERUSALEM (CNS) — While Christianity 's divisions go against God's will , the Churches ' quarrels over contro l of Christian site s in the Holy Land are "scandalous," Pope John Paul II said. The evening before he was scheduled to celebrate Mass at the most disputed site — the Church of the Holy Sepulcher — he met with the leaders of the city 's major Christian communities at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate. "Let us ask the Lord to inspire a new spirit of harmony and solidarity among the Churches in facing the practical difficulties which beset the Christian community in Jerusalem and the Holy Land ," the Pope said at the Marc h 25 meeting.

Urges pa rtial-birth abortion ban

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Cardinal William H. Keeler .. of Baltimore sent a letter to members of the House of j Representatives March 20 urging them to support the Partial; D j Birth Abortion Ban Act. The cardinal is chairm an of the U.S. ; S"¦ on the i s bishops ' Committee for Pro-Life Activities. A vote "This is a is expected in earl April. , H.R. 3660, y le: legislation • procedure more akin to infanticide than abortion , wherein an x ; (^: infant is killed after being forcibly partiall y delivered outside t Zj his or her mother 's body," Cardinal Keeler wrote. : Q.

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A mural in Londonderry depicts the faces of the 14 Catholics gunned down by British troops during a 1972 march in Northern Ireland now known as "Bloody Sunday. " Northern Ireland opened a new inquiry into the killings March 27.

JERUSALEM (CNS) — Israelis called Pope John Paul II's visit to the Hol y Land a "tremendous and uni que contribution to reconciliation " between Christians and Jews as the pontiff' s pilgrimage came to its conclusion. "The visit of the Pope to the Holy Land was the peak of activity which has lasted for 22 years and has broug ht us to an historic reconciliation ," Cabinet Minister Haim Ramon told a group of journalists March 26. "I believe this visit has brought to an end an era of conflict , war and bloodshed between Christians and Jews. We are in a new millennium of reconciliation and peace," he said.

Other denominations apologize

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Following Pope John Paul IPs public apology for sins of the Church , leaders of other denominations in the United States have also expressed apologies for past wrongs. Official s of the United Methodist Church said they "humbly join in confessing our sins of commission and omission in our common heritage as well as in the present." And a Pentecostal scholar asked Catholics to forgive those Pentecostals who have condemned the Catholic Church for "spiritual harlotry and idolatry." The two apolog ies were praised by Catholic bishops involved in ecumenical relations.

Bishops challenge def ense budget

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Thirty-four U.S. Catholic bishops have called for reductions in the U.S. military budget and for redirecting the funds to health care, education and tax relief for the nation 's poorest citizens. The bishops and members of several Catholic organizations launched "Bread Not Stones: A National Catholic Campaign to Redirect Military Spending" at a March 23 news conference in Washington/Represented by Bishop Walter F. Sullivan of Richmond , Va., and Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit, the 34 bishops urged the nation 's 64 million Catholics to take an active part in the campaign.

Former p riest to surrender

SANTA ROSA — A former Santa Rosa priest, Don Kimball , 56, will reportedl y turn himself into authorities this week to "face rape and other sex charges involving two girls more than 20 years ago," reported the March 27 Press Democrat. The newspaper quoted his attorney, Chris Reynolds , as saying the former nationall y known youth ministry figure would "vigorously defend himself against the allegations. A story two days earlier by reporter Bob Klose said th at Kimball was "charged with rape and committing lewd acts against minors in a felony complaint that alleges he abused as many as 11 young women and men over several decades."

Vatican negotiator requested

MANILA , Phili ppines (CNS) — A Muslim group that seized dozens of children , school personnel and a priest in the southern Phili ppines wants the Vatican to name a representative to negotiate the hostages ' release, the chancellor of Isabela Prelature said. Father Martin Jumoad told UCA News, an Asian Church news agency, March 23 that the children 's parents have asked government and Church leaders to respond quickly and decisively. He said the parents gathered after he met with a man called Abu who identified himself as the spokesman of the group that took the hostages from schools March 20.

Wants to raise standards

HONG KONG (CNS) — The new governmentapproved bishop of Cangzhou , a diocese in Hebei province with many Catholics and vocations , said he wants to raise t the standards of clergy and nuns in the diocese. Bishop Li o E .ILingui , ordained March 20, set as a goal upgrading training w i: Church leaching and social and cultural education. The in fc for clergy and nuns should be improved not onl y o standards s through overseas studies but also throug h formation cours|t l e es in China and formal training in secular universities to x na meet the needs of the time , he told UCA News.

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NEW YORK (CNS) — The expanded global role exerccised by the papacy in recent times has been necessary to meet the conditions of the modern world, according to Jesuit Father Avery Dulles. Although Catholics who advocate a return to the more limited papal activity in the medieval and patristic periods call themselves progressives, actually they are "nostalgic and anachronistic," he said in a lecture on "The Papacy

Clinton visit given mixed review

NEW DELHI, India (CNS) — U.S. President Bill Clinton 's visit to India drew mixed reactions from Church people. While an official from the Catholic Bishops ' Conference of India said the U.S. president should be "warmly welcomed," the Jesuitrun Indian Social Institute said it joined the protest against the visit , reported UCA News. Father Donald D'Souza, bishops ' conference deputy secretary-general, said India should welcome Clinton, although there are areas in which the Church and other groups might disagree with the United States. Jesuit Father Ambrose Pinto, director of the Indian Social Institute, said it was "very shameful" for a government that supports self-reliance and indigenous people to welcome "the symbol of multinational s and capitalism."

'Society sacrificed in Africa'

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) — African conflicts are sacrificing people at the altar of economic interest, a World Council of Churches president said at a Nairobi conference. Conflict is ensuring that more resources are spent on procuring arms, is turning the continent into a patchwork of war zones and is destroying its economies, said the Agnes Aboum , a Nairobi Anglican and one of eight presidents of the World Council of Churches. In a speech Marc h 21 , Aboum said African states had spent many years bickering while their people continued to suffer and die.

Texas executes killer

HOUSTON (CNS)— Houston-area Christians gathered with death-penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean in a vi gil for a convicted killer who was executed March 15 as they prayed. Sister Prejean , author of Dead Man Walking, a book about her experiences with death row inmates in Louisiana, joined Texans at Houston 's Sacred Heart Cathedral in the vigil for Timothy Lane Gribble. During the vigil Sister Prejean said, "Anybody who is not standing up against the execution and not working against it ... is involved in the killing that happened tonight." Gribble was the 21 1th death row inmate executed by Texas since 1982 and the 12th executed this year. (See related stories on page 6.)

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Father Daniel P. Coughlin, vicar for priests in the Chicago Archdiocese , was appointed chaplain to the U.S. House of Representatives March 23. The appointment was made by Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-lll.

The Rev. Charles Wright, a Presbyterian minister and the primary candidate for House chaplain , reportedly offered to withdraw his name March 21.

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Auschwitz , where she actually came face-to-fac e with the nef arious Josef Mengele. She survived day-to-day on "two Gloria Lyon , who survived incarceration and inhumane to three slices of bread" and "what could hard l y be called treatment at seven different Nazi concentration camps dur- food." She recalled one dinner of contraband "burnt potaing World War II, recounted her experience at San Mateo 's toes " as a "feast. " The Nazis cut off her braids , shaved her Juni pero Serra High School on March head , forced her to wear a rag-like 22. Not a cough or whisper inte rruptuniform , and "burned" the number ed the 90-minute presentation which A6374 into her left arm. took the nearl y 1,000 students and Camp life was marked b y dail y faculty from a "fateful Passover " in "selections " which desi gnated 1944 to a blessed awakening in 1945. inmates for death or one more day of Lyon, now 70, was 14 when taken life, Lyon said. In the barbaric process into custod y with her parents and four all inmates had to "stand naked" siblings from their seven-room home receiving clothing again onl y if choin Czechoslovakia in 1944. The sp irit sen to live. of that young girl —who beat death At random , "large groups of peoduring nearl y two years of imprisonple were sliced off and taken to the ment — remains a real dimension of gas chambers ," Lyon remembered , the woman who stood th rough all of say ing the air was constantl y full of her talk rarely resting for a deep the "stench of death. " "When anyone was taken away we breath or drink of water. never expected to see them again," She spoke boldly about life "havshe said. "One never felt safe anying no value " in "the camps". Calling Gloria Lyon the Holocaust "a crime without paralwhere." " lel in human history , the survivor said it will "haunt She Sh< told the story of a woman who escaped the camp but not the consequent search. When returned to Auschwitz humanity for years to come."

Although members of other ethnic groups and sects also she was hanged with inmates "being forced to watch. That fell victim to the Nazis, "Jews were marked for utter and memory will never leave me," Lyon said.

Lyon herself was naked on a "death truck" leaving complete destruction - that you must know," she told the audience. In 1990, approximately six million people lived Auschwitz. She jumped off" the moving vehicle and into a in the Bay Area, Lyon said, a number comparable to the culvert w here she hid for more than 36 hours before circling back and into the camp. She gathered a coat and clothing number of Jewish people who died in the Holocaust.

She and others in her Czech community knew little of from a fellow inmate who later replaced her clothes with the atrocities the Nazis had undertaken against the Jews, those from a nearby dead body, a sad but regular resource, Lyon said. She remembered one Jewish man who had Lyon said. The bitter temperatures are not what Lyon escaped a massacre. He had been mistaken for dead . He remembers but rather "jubilance " at escaping death . made it his mission to go from town to town alerting the Lyon was later transferred to other concentration camps where she was a slave laborer but less likely to be killed citizens. "No one would heed his warning," she recalled.

As the war drew clos- ___________________________________ because the new site s lacked gas chambers. er, families like the Her final memory of capHollanders - Lyon 's birth tivity is on a "boxcar " to name - began to put stock an unknown camp where in earlier warnings, hidshe was savagely beaten ing valuables and money by a guard and left for so they would have dead only surviving "something to start with " through the kindness of when they came home, that dream never came true . with them. fellow prisoners who carried her Lyon said. For most, ' knock on the door 56 15-year-old' The now s eyes opened on "a real passenger When Lyon describes the soldiers ' " "They forced 1945 which took her to Denmark and frees hearing it again. train in May years ago, one can tell she down the dom with a later two-year stay in Sweden before joining and took us to a brick factory us all into a truck ' separated. members of her mother y in the United States. families were immediately s famil road ," she said. The ' into new groups Lyon s parents David and Helen , , survived the war, as Men , women , and children were forced for trips to Michael and Sandor. Her boxcars did her sister, and later into Anna, and brothers , based on their strength , for goodNazi soldiers three "Families brother, Viktor, was beaten to death by had no time undisclosed destinations. husband days before the war ended .

Lyon , David, and her byes," she said. " a word she conbegan to bring her famil y to the United States beginning "boxcars , Lyon said her first tri p in the tinually revisits in her talk , took four days. "We slept stand- with her dad in 1966. Lyon 's wish to see her mother again, ing up leaning on one another." Even if there had been food a hope she said "kept her alive" at Auschwitz and the other facilities , was not to be. Her mother died shortly after on the train , it could not have been distributed , she said. death camp, returning to the Ukrai ne afte r the war.

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The Holocaust was "racism in its most horrible form and unless we are constantl y on guard , it could happen again ," Lyon said in closing remarks. "Treat others with di gnity, respect , and compassion. The price of anything else is too hi gh."

Lyon, who with her husband lives in San Francisco , began making her presentations in 1977. She has since spoken at 630 locations includin g two appearances at Serra , the first of which took place five years ago. She is on the board of directors of the Holocaust Center of Northern California in San Francisco , (415) 751-6040; and the focus of the documentary film , "When 1 Was 14: A Survivor Remembers ," now available from the University of California at (510) 642-0460.

In a prayer opening the assembl y, Serra president Father Stephen Howell recalled the Church' s shared t radition with the Jewish people. The day 's opening school prayer led by princi pal , Michae l Peterson , spoke of the horrors of the Holocaust with the hope "that it never happens again. "

Museum planned

The Jewish Museum San Francisco (JMSF) has unveiled plans for the proposed preservation and expansion of the Jessie Street Power Substation.

The historic building, designed by Willis Polk in 1907, is locate d near St. Patrick Church and has been vacant for nearly 30 years. An architect 's drawing above shows a concept for the nqw $60 million facility. It will include a multipurpose , 275seattheater designed for lectures , film, concerts and performing arts, a 12,000-square-foot exhibition area , a store and cafe. Groundbreaking is scheduled late this year with comp letion projected for late 2002. The 15-year-old museum will continue to host exhibits at its current location at 121 Steuatt St. A new exhibition, "To the Rescue: Eight Artists in an A rchive," is now on view through June 8. Visiting hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday through Wed nesday; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday.

For further information, call (415) 788-9990; or go to the Web site: www.jewishmuseumsf.org

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The University of San Francisco is sponsoring three free public events in Apri l that focus on aspects of the death penalty. They are: — An April 3 to 23 exhibit, "The Table of Voices," by noted artist and anti-death penalty activist Richard Kamler at the USF Thacher Gallery.

A reception for the artist will be from 4 to 6 p.m. on April 5 at the Gallery; — "A Dialogue About the Death Penalty" between exconvicts and victims from 6 to 8 p.m. on April 5 at the USF Faculty Lounge; — A lecture, "The National Perspective on the Death

their victims , a USF press release said. The focal point is a long "visiting room" table of gold leaf and lead, bisected by a thick safety glass. Opposing rows of phones connect listeners to the participants ' stories of grief and rage — and to their stories of reconciliation and forgiveness.

The exhibit and dialogue are sponsored by the USF Fine and Performing Arts Program, the School of Law and University Ministry in memory of Keta Taylor Colb y, a 1987 honors law graduate who represented a death row inmate before she died at 42 in a 1990 automobile accident.

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Penalty," at noon on Apri l 6 in Kendrick Hall , Room 104. The speaker will be Elizabeth Semel, director of the American Bar Association 's Death Penalty Representation Project in Washington, D.C. The Thacher Gallery is in USF's Gleeson Library/Geschke Center. The Faculty Lounge is in USF's University Center. Both are on the university 's main campus on Golden Gate Avenue between Parker and Masonic neatGolden Gate Park. Kendrick Hall is in the School of Law at the corner of Fulton and Shrader Streets.

Kamler 's exhibit is an art installation that seeks to create a common ground for communication between criminals and

Oregon parishes back ending death penalty

Archbishop issues statement regarding execution of Darrell 'Young Elk' Rich Following is the text of the statement issued March 15 following the execution of Darrell "Young Elk " | Rich (Also see Archbishop 's commentary on page 13.)

This morning 's execution of Darrell "Young Elk" Rich at San Quenti n provides our community with a chance to reflect on the violence in the midst of which we all live. Rich , a convicted killer of three women and one young girl , was indeed a man who had __; committed a serious evil. We offer "^ our sincere prayers to the families of the victims, that they may be consoled in their grief.

However, by executing Darrell Rich, the State of California reinforces our society 's distorted vision that violence is a viable solution to our problems. We affirm

PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) — Parish volunteers around Oregon are circulating petitions to abolish the death penalty in the state.

Hundreds of volunteers are gathering signatures on petitions distributed by the Oregon Catholic Conference asking for a statewide vote in November on a proposed "Life for a Life" initiative. The initiative would replace the death penalty as a maximum punishment with the sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole.

"We are for all life or else it's all up for grabs," said Mary Anderson of St. Andrew Parish in Portland. "If you start saying, 'in this case this life is not sacred,' everything is relative then. I think the same about abortion and capital punishment and war and all of it."

Anderson 's son-in-law was murdered 20 years ago. The convicted killer committed suicide in prison.

"The killer is gone, but 20 years later the ache is still there ," she said. "(Capital punishment) is not to ease the pain on the part of the victim. It is vengeance. And vengeance is up to God, not us."

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During the evening, TIME will honor 11 clergy who served as founders of the organization , said Tom King, director. They are: Msgr. John O'Connor , rector of the Cathedral; Father Thomas McElli gott , in residence at St. Joseph the Worker Church , Berkeley; Salesian Father Harold Danielson , pastor of Our Lady Hel p of Christians in Watsonville , and vice director of the Salesian Community ; Father Thomas Seagrave , pastor , Church of the Visitacion; Msgr. Edward McTaggart, retired pastor, St. Brendan Church; Franciscan Father Gug lielmo Lauriola , pastor emeritus and now a parochial vicar for Immaculate Conception Chapel;

Father Mario Parana, pastor of St. Paul Parish; Father Thomas Parenti , pastor of St. Brendan Parish; Franciscan Father Michael Weldon , now study ing at Chicago Theolog ical Union; Father Daniel Carter, pastor of St. James Parish; and Father John Sullivan , pastor, Star of the Sea Parish in Honolulu.

Since 1987, TIME has provided $1.3 million to hel p families send their children to the 11 member schools. During the 1998-99 school year , the organization raised $171 ,000, which went directl y to tuition and extended care assistance , King said , adding that each school received $21 ,375 last year.

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Tickets to the fundraiser are $50 per person. The event will include door prizes and a silent auction. All proceeds , King said , go to benefit students. For fu rther information , call (415) 334-4334.

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It was a litany of apology to victims of clergy sexual abuse. As Church leaders read, "We had eyes but did not see, we had ears but we did not hear, we pray for God's mercy and forgiveness," a middle-aged man put his hands to his ' face. His shoulders shook as he sobbed.

Across the room , a woman wept. A husband reached over and squeezed his wife 's hand reassuringly.

Pain , anger, and healing surged throug h Leona Lodge in Oakland on March 25 as Bishop John Cummins and other leaders of the Oakland Diocese publicly apologized to victims of clergy sexual abuse. OveT 130 people, including survivors , their families and friends , attended the service, the first ever held in California.

To the men and women who were sexually abused by Church personnel when they were children , teen-agers or adults, Bishop Cummins said , "For our lack of facing the truth regarding abuse by clergy and others, for our tendency to retreat into denial and self-protection in the face of such abuse, for our response of fear and avoidance rather than of care for the survivors of clergy sexual abuse, we ask pardon and forgiveness."

The service, nearly a year in the planning, was, in part, a response to Pope John Paul II's call for the Church to reach out during Jubilee Year 2000 and ask forgiveness to those il has harmed.

During the service, Bishop Cummins and others acknowledge d the failure of the Church to confront clergy sexual abuse headon, to inform themselves of the deeper issues involved in such abuse, and to remove priest abusers and other offending employees from active ministry.

This "has been one of the most distressing aspects of the Church's recent history," acknowledged the bishop.

"Many dioceses in the United States took no decisive action, but rather counseled priests and placed them in new assignments elsewhere in the diocese or religious community, where acting-out may have continued unabated. In times past, the ignorance about the subject of sexual abuse—an ignorance that was culpable on the part of many people living in denial - was almost total in society as a whole, even among healing professionals. Unfortunatel y, the Church was part of that ignorance," he said in a written statement at the beginning of the service.

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Two survivors said they could not shake hands with any of the more than a dozen priests in attendance, so deep remains their anger and pain.

Sonia Rubino, part of the nine-member committee that planned the service, said she was abused by her parish priest in El Salvador for eight years, beginning at age eight when her parents sent her to prepare for first Communion.

"He said it was God's will , and that my mother wouldn 't believe me if 1 told her what was happening " said Rubino. When as an adult , Rubino gathered the courage to report the abuse, she was told she would have to take the case back to EI Salvador.

"I was devastated . Isn 't this the universal Church? Why couldn 't they help?"

The San Francisco woman said she is grateful for the welcome she has received from the Oakland Diocese. "It is a very nice feeling to be here," said Rubino. Saturday's event has helped further her healing process, she said, adding that maybe now "my family will come to terms with what happened and see me in a different light."

Marliss Marolt-Sender of Orinda, another planning committee member, said she was abused by a priest-counselor after she went to see him during a particularl y bad time in her life. He used his counseling role to convince her to have sex with him. She acquiesced, she said, out of neediness and fear of abandonment.

As she struggles to heal from the painful encounter, Marolt- Sender now has a new issue to deal with. Friends have told her the priest is still working in a diocese in a southern state.

A man who identified himself as Bob told of being sexually abused by a religious Brother at his hi gh school when he was 14.

Even though he was a star athlete and was named religious student of the year when he was a senior, Bob secretly felt worthless and full of shame.

When he received some money to hel p with therapy, it turned out to be an empty moment, he said. "Somewhere in my fantasy

Archbishop calls priests to prayer service for 'the sins of those ... called to serve' Archbishop William J. Levada has called priests of the Archdiocese to join him for a holy hour of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament and in the sacrament of penance and reconciliation at the National Shrine to St. Francis on April 6.

The prayer service by clergy for the sins committed by priests in the past will center on contrition and reparation, the Archbishop he noted in his March 24 column in Catholic San Francisco.

"There we can ask pardon for the sins of those who have been called to serve God 's people as priests, and there we can hope to hear, in the midst of our acts of atonement and reparation, God's healing words of mercy, forgiveness, and gracious love," stated Archbishop Levada.

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A man from a Protestant church told how his congregation fell apart after the pastor raped a volunteer staffer and parishioners were not given opportunities to process what had happened. Althoug h the church has a new pastor, people there are still struggling with the incident. Abuse doesn 't just affect one person , he said.

Stephen Roberts, a San Francisco resident , was abused by a priest when he was 10 years old , and again when he was a college student. He said working on the planning committee has helped him to heal.

Saturday 's service opened the path for more healing, he said.

The committee was comprised of Sister Barbara Flannery, Oakland's chancellor; Father Dan Danielson , pastor of the Catholic Community of Pleasanton; and seven members of the West Coast Survivors Network of

who had brought shame and embarrassment on the Church...now we have come to the Church ...and we ask you commit yourselves to some specific action and prayer for the healing of all who have been abused by priests , reli g ious or other Church leaders. . .what we are doing here today will be, at best, the beginning of a process of healing and reconciliation not its culmination ," the survivors said.

"We protected our colleagues , fellow Church leaders, who had stolen people's innocence and murdered their souls while maintaining an illusion of faithfulness and productivity," read the Church leaders . "We pray for God's mercy and forg iveness and ask for the courage to amend our lives."

Terri Light , local director of SNAP and the moving force behind the ongoing dialogue between her organization and the diocese, said she was "overwhelmed" by the power of the service. "On Saturday I was in a state of shock. But the more time I have, the more I realize, 'Wow, this reall y happened ,'" she said on Monday. A priest of the Oakland Diocese abused her when she was a small child, Light said.

Father Danielson said he was gratified by how many people attended. "We expected 40 people and got 130." He was also pleased that "people other th an Catholics are reaching out to the healing the Church is providing around this issue."

Episcopal Deacon Judith Ain from Watsonville, a SNAP member and part of the

Step hen Roberts was . abused by a p riest when he was 10 and again as a college student.

Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) They met for the past year to plan the service. Bishop Cummins attended some of the meetings.

One part of the service had a responsorial reading with survivors describing the horror of their abuse and Church leaders admitting the institution 's transgressions, "We came back to the Church seeking healing and we were hurt again. We were told that we were liars. We were told that we were whores. We were told that we were hysterical. We were treated as if we were the ones

Reconciliation. .. ¦ Continued from page 1 repentance and conversion." He urged deans and pastors of each deanery to collaborate in the preparation of communal celebrations of the sacrament of penance with individual confessions.

Here is a partial schedule of Jubilee reconciliation services on April 8: San Francisco • St. Mary 's Cathedral , Gough St. at Geary Blvd., 10 a.m.

•St. Cecilia Church, 2555 17th Ave., 10 a.m.

• Church of the Visitacion , 655 Sunnydale Ave., 10 a.m.

planning committee, said she hopes other dioceses and denominations would follow Oakland 's example.

Sister Flannery emphasized that the apology service was an "important first step" but that much more needs to be done "because there is so much pain around this issue."

She expressed special appreciation for the priests "who had the courage to come to the service, especially in clerical collars."

Since the service other priests have phoned her "saying how grateful they were that the diocese has done this," she said. She noted that the diocesan Presbyteral Council "was totally behind this. No one tried to derail this process," Terri Light said 'several survivors added their names to a list of those wanting to continue dialogue on the healing process. "It is their call , and we will respond," she said.

Light can be contacted at (510) 583-1295.

• St. Charles Church , 713 So. Van Ness Ave., 7 p.m. , April 7 (Spanish) • St. John the Evangelist , 19 St. Mary 's Ave., 10:30 a.m.

San Mateo County • Good Shep herd Church , 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica , 11 a.m.

• St. Matthew Church, El Camino at 9th Ave., San Mateo, 3p.m.

•Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Fulton and James Sts., Redwood City, 10 a.m.

Marin County • St. Sebastian Church, 373 Bon Air Rd., Kentfield-Greenbrae, 10 a.m.

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Church must continue Romero's work , thousands told

By Mike Lanchin SAN SALVADOR (CNS) — Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles reaffirmed Archbishop Oscar A. Romero 's legacy of a Church committed to "the poor and the struggle for social justice " here in El Salvador 's capital while thousands of others did the same around the world including San Francisco.

Archbishop Romero "would agree thai we would be betray ing the Church if we did not continue working for the poor and for the legitimate struggle to get a more just society," Cardinal Mahony told nearly 30,000 worshippers gathered for Mass March 24 in San Salvador 's cathedral for the 20th anniversary of Archbishop Romero's murder.

"He was a prophet, a martyr and a true pastor of the Church , teaching us how to live the Good News," he said to applause'.

"We must not allow the seed that he sowed to become just a memory," Cardinal Mahony added.

Religious leaders and bishops from across Latin America, the United States and Canada — including a contingent from the Archdiocese of San Francisco — were present at the earl y evening Mass , the third of four memorial services to mark the 20th anniversary of Archbishop Romero 's murder on March 24, 1980.

Against a dramatic background of a banner bearing Archbishop Romero 's

held. An estimated 400 persons took part, Bill Cuneo, a parishioner of Marin 's St. Rita Parish , was one of the Archdiocese 's 15-person delegation to attend the San Salvador commemorations as well as visit Guatemala.

"Overwhelming ," Cuneo said, was his overall impression of the journey and experiences , his first in Central America.

President of St. Rita 's parish council and a retired slock broker, Cuneo said he has returned with a commitment to "try to | create more understanding and awareness £i among our young people and parishioners o z.j i about the reasons" large numbers of < 2I Central Americans emigrate to the U.S. o Both he and George Wesolek, director yJ | of the archdiocesan Office of Public ' Policy and Social Concerns, tol d Catholic altar of Mission Dolores Basilica , March 24. San Francisco they hope the tyip will build additional interest in connecting the proArchdiocese to a specific Central began a 10-block worshippers as they American area through programs such as where the , cession to the main cathedral "sister parishes". archbishop is buried.

Wesolek said the San Salvador comThe commemorative activities began early in the morning wilh the traditional pro- memoration of Archbishop Romero's cession to the cathedral from the hospital death "helps keep alive the memories of where Archbishop Romero was gunned the tremendous sacrifice th at these martyrs made on behalf of justice." down while saying Mass.

The archdiocesan official said he was At midday, worshippers crowded into the church for a Mass presided over by Archbishop impressed by the large number of young people "not even alive when Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle of San Salvador.

Among San Francisco Bay Area events Romero died" who are "still quite moved marking the assassination anniversary was a by his memory and what he did."

He described how many of them March 24 procession in the Mission District along 16th Street that culminated at Mission would touch the slain prelate's tomb in Dolores Basilica where a memorial service was reverence and prayer while crying.

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People carried smaller placards with black-and-white photographs of different religious and lay preachers who had been killed during El Salvador 's 12-year civil war.

"Romero will always be in our hearts. He was our martyr and bishop," Gladis de Jovel told Catholic News Service.

She and her neighbors from the San Antonio parish of Soyapango, on the outskirts of San Salvador, came carrying photographs of Tomas Flores, a sacristan murdered by the army during the war.

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More than 30,000 persons took part in the evening ecumenical memorial service for Archbishop Osca r Romero March 24 in the square adjoining the San Salvador cathedral (from which Catholic San Francisco photographer Luis Gris took this photo ) and the Salvadoran government palace.

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Harv est of the p ilgrimage Of great significance is the new era of Jewish-Catholic relations si gnaled by the recent Hol y Land pilgrimage of Pope John Paul II. That the Jewish and Catholic faith communities are on a threshold of a new relationshi p is the result of many years of dedicated work on the part of many people , most notabl y the current Pope. Ri ghtfully, a broad range of secular and reli g ious commentators has noted this extrao rdinary moment in history.

The remarkable progress in Jewish-Catholic relations will be a topic of comment for some time to come.

But it would be unfortunate if this milestone was to overshadow in the near-term the Holy Father 's insi ghtful comments on other important concerns.

In his first words in the Holy Land, the Pope spoke of peace and justice. "In this area of the world there are grave and urgent issues, of justice , of the ri g hts of peoples and nations, which have to be resolved for the good of all concerned and as a condition for lasting peace. No matter how difficult , no matter how long, the process of seeking peace must continue.

"Without peace, there can be no authentic development for this region , no better life for its peoples, no brighter futu re for its children ."

At a ceremony welcoming him to the Palestinian autonomous territories, the Pope noted , "We must all continue to work and pray for the success of every genuine effort to bring peace to this land. Only with a just and lasting peace - not imposed but secured through negotiation will legitimate Palestinian asp irations be fulfilled. Only then will the Holy Land see the possibility of a bri ght new future , no longer dissipated by rivalry and conflict , but firmly based on understanding and cooperation for the good of all.

"The outcome depend s greatly on the courageous readiness of those responsible for the destiny of this part of the world to move to new attitudes of compromise and compliance with the demands of justice. " Speaking to Palestinians at Dheisheh Refugee Camp, the Holy Father said , "I greet each of you , and I hope and pray my visit will bring some comfort in your difficult situation. Please God it will hel p to draw attention to your continuing pli ght. You have been deprived of many things, which represent basic needs of the human person: proper housing, health care, education and work, "Above all you bear the sad memory of what you were forced to leave behind , not just material possessions, but your freedom , the closeness of relatives, and the familiar surroundings and cultural traditions which nourished your personal and family life."

He stated , "In a particular way, my prayers are with those Palestinians - Muslim and Christian - who are still without a home of their own, their proper place in society and the possibility of a normal working life. My hope is that my visit to the Dheisheh Refugee Camp will serve to remind the international community that decisive action is needed to improve the situation of the Palestinian people."

The Pope appealed for greater international solidarity and the political will to meet this challenge. "I p lead with all who are sincerel y working for justice and peace not to lose heart . I appeal to political leaders to implement agreements already arrived at, and to go forward toward the peace for which all reasonable men and woman yearn, to the justice to which they have an inalienable right."

The pil grimage of Pope Paul II to the Holy Land fulfilled his longheld desire to walk in the steps of Jesus in celebration of the Great Jubilee Year. For the Pope , the pilgrimage was both a personal and public event.

At Yad Vashem Museum, dedicated to the victims of Holocaust , the Pope returned to the themes of peace and justice - referring to his personal memories of Nazi-occupied Poland and using the preeminent example of humankind 's inhumanity.

"I have come to Yad Vashem to pay homage to the millions of Jewish people who, stripped of everything, especially of their human dignity, were murdered in the Holocaust. More than hal f a century has passed, but the memories remain.

"Here , as at Auschwitz and many other places in Europe , we are overcome by the echo of the heart-rending laments of so many. Men, women and children cry out to us from the depth s of the horror that they knew . How can we fail to heed their cry? No one can forget or ignore what happened. No one can diminish its scale.

"Jews and Christians share an immense spiritual patrimony, flowing from God' s self-revelation. Our reli gious teachings and our spiritual experience demand we overcome evil with good. We remember, but not with any desire for vengeance or as an incentive to hatred. For us, to remember is to pray for peace and justice , and to commit ourselves to their cause . Only a world at peace, with justice for all , can avoid repeating the mistakes and terrible crimes of the past."

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the poor hel p themselves to create better lives and stronger communities.

I've been in a state of astonished gratOver the past 30 years, throug h your itude to the Pope for his Marc h 12 "confes- generous support , the Campai gn has consion ". This statement , like Nelson sistently strengthened its efforts to "help Mandela 's Truth and Reconciliation com- peop le hel p themselves. " CCHD-funded mission , manifests Teilhard de Chardin 's groups up hold the sacredness of human life evolving noosp here. It is the sp iritual and dignity by encourag ing self-sufficiency antithesis of the H-bomb , but it is equally and by alerting all citizens to the root caushuman and important. It is a log ical devel- es of poverty and other injustices in our opment in the great encyclicals on social communities. Among the accomplishments justice, the declarations of Vatican II on the reported by CCHD-funded groups during individual conscience , and now this the past year were: acknowled g ing of institutional evil—and • Families moved into their first homes the responsibility for sinfu l choices. in newly constructed affordable housing.

In Jungian psychology, the first phase • Young peop le persuaded their city in develop ing consciousness is the encounter council to demolish dilap idated buildings with one 's personal darkness. It occurs in that provide haven for drug dealers. severa l steps. There is no dissonance in self• Coal-mining families worked satisfied righteousness (the Palestinians v. together to prevent and clean up environthe Jews, the Irish v. the Anglo-Irish , both mental damage. sides in the Balkans , "me" v. "you " ¦ • Six hundred peop le from who have offended me in such an diverse backgrounds in a northeast city unforg ivable way). All "wrongness " met with the mayor and chief of police is projected onto the "other." The next J_ to improve community relations. step is uneasiness. It may be a long In his World Day of Peace while before the third step comes Message for the Year 2000, Pope John because it seems to cany heavy costs: Paul II called on all of us to build I can see the ways in which 1 have peace "day by day with [God 's] hel p, done wrong. This is the "feeling through works of justice and love." small and ugly" phase. Finall y underAt the beg inning of a new censtanding grows of our joint grapp ling tury, the one issue which most with choice. Small ego goals, power challenges consciences is the games ("sinful choices"), and the poverty of countless millions of "greater good" are glimpsed. men and women ... Let us look at To track this Pope 's preoccupaM the poor not as a problem , but as tion with this basic understanding of I peop le who can become the princithe necessity to acknowled ge wrongpal builders of a new and more doing and forg iveness is fascinating. human future for everyone.

It has been a fast track from his The people of San Francisco prison visit to the man who tried to have joined in solidarity with the assassinate him to this modeling of a poor of our country with their gifts process that takes on the institutionto the Catholic Campai gn for al level of sin. He links it to our Human Development. We are grateresponsibility in the context of our ful for your leadershi p and for the individual lives that such things as invaluable cooperation of your the Holocaust will not happen again. diocesan director , George Wesolek, Some peop le are asking, "Is he whose partnershi p with us makes the going to put actions to his words? Is he CCHD's mission a reality. going to allow women to be ordained?

Father Robert J. Vitillo " They say, "He did not mention this CCHD Executive Director sufficientl y;he-did not mention that."

The steps we take to gain individual consciousness in anal ysis or in any examined life , go one by one. There will be enorIn the March 17 article "Holocaust: mous changes—and they will take p lace to 'huge gouge ' stays in Jewish psyche ", it is the extent our partiall y waking selves can stated as follows: "Although the Nazi 'final move. We "RCs" consider ourselves one solution ' was created specificall y for the body in our Christian faith , and our slowJews, the Nazis also put to death homosexumoving, resistant corporate human reality als arid the mentall y ill and physically handihas been gifted by a tremendous catalyst. capped and targeted Jehovah 's Wimesses and Some people , some institutional units, Gypsies. In addition the Nazis put to death won ' t change, perhaps most; but the patpriests and 100,000 Catholic Polish citizens." terns in the macrocosm are moving and are This number "100,000", if it were true , seen to match those in the microcosm that would convey an impression that Poland's offer the greatest hope for survival in the losses during WWII were insignificant in third millennium . It will be fascinating to comparison with the Holocaust. Let me quote see what we do with this great statement. the British historian Norman Davies {God's Margaret Keyes Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. II): San Francisco "The brute statistics speak for themselves. In six years of the war, the population of the former Polish Republic was reduced The following letter was addressed to by 6,028,000. Of these, some 2.9 million Archbishop William J. Levada and forwardwere Polish Jews. Some 664,000 Polish citied to Catholic San Francisco to he shared zens lost their lives as the direct result of war with readers. operations. A total of 5,384,000 citizens On behalf of the Catholic Campai gn were killed in executions, in pacifications , for Human Development , I am writing to and above all in the camps." thank you and all of the faithful of the W.A. Winkler Archdiocese of San Francisco for your very San Francisco generous contribution of $81 ,258.75. This

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Harm involved?

Thank you for publishi ng Father Gerald D. Coleman 's article on California Proposition 22. 1 am glad to see Father Coleman recognizes that while a redefinition of marriage is something our state does not need , giving some form of recognition to committed homosexual unions is a matte r of justice and a promotion of the common good.

However , writer Dominic Colvert (Marc h 17) believes that this would be a LETTERS, page 12

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Reflections from death row From the real estate perspective , there is hardl y a nicer view of the death penalty. They know the alternative is life view property than San Quentin , especiall y on a warm , clear imprisonment. They have adapted , the ones I met, pretty well spring day. The "apartments", however, are not designed to the confining circumstances of San Quentin , as far as I with the view in mind. Last week I spent a long-antici pated could tell. They are sorry for what they did. They know it day on "death row," visiting about 30 of the 546 condemned was wrong, and they wish it hadn 't happened and caused men who had indicated a desire for a visit to Father Dennis such pain and anguish to victims and their families.

McManus , San Quentin 's Catholic chaplain.

What I learned from my visit in particular was how These men are the ones much they care about being who cannot come to the hated by the rest of us for Archbishop William J. Levada Catholic chapel for Mass on what they did. Many, I hope the occasions 1 have been most, have made their peace there . They can receive visiwith God. They know His , forgiveness and love. They tors and some of them who 2) Rethink society 's position on the death penalty, and are far from famil y and pray. They read the Bible. maybe your own. Reflect on the importance of conversion friends , or estranged from Some are regulars at Father in every bod y 's life , and on the need to app ly the petition of , McManus 's monthl y Mass the Lord's Prayer also to these men on death row: "Forgive them very much miss not having visitors. Except for , (it rotates fro m cell block to us our trespasses , as we forg ive those who have trespassed o against us." Even those who have committed sins against an hour or so a day out in 5- cell block weekly), a.: "the yard ," they live a What had not occurred to life — the life of their nei ghbor — are childre n of God , O crowded existence in cells ~ me before my conversations whose lives have dignity in His sight. Can we not better I< fronted by steel mesh 22 with some of them was how honor the di gnity of every human life by using the alternathrough which a handshake 3 much they care that society, tives available to the death penalty ?

U 2 : the rest of us , cannot or will 3) Thank God for our chap lain Father Dennis is reduced to the touch of the " not forgive. That 's what sus- McManus , a true pastor to the men on death row, to all the end of a sing le finger. taining the death penalty 6,000 prisoners at San Quentin , and to the administrators They are well informed.

Archbishop Levada speaks to inmates at seems to come down to from and staff who stand guard in our name. We are blessed in Many of them have televiSan Quentin State Prison chapel last year. the view "inside the walls ." the Archdiocese of San Francisco to have his faithful serv sion in their tiny, dark cells; 's It just the perspective that we find in Jesus ' story of the ice to San Quentin for this past decade and a half. And as others have newspapers; a few take Catholic San Francisco! Most of the men I talked with are activel y pur- Prodi gal Son. The loving father of the story tries to con- he reaches out to our Catholic community for hel p in minvince his older son about the need for forgiveness : he says, istering to these prisoners, let us voluntee r our time as best suing appeals of their cases throug h the judicial system.

1 was, but probabl y shouldn 't have been , surprised by "your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was we can to give him — and them — a hel p ing hand. how many asked me about how our Catholic people feel lost and has been found" (Luke 15: 32).

C^AS ^ These men , despite their crimes and the just punishment about capital punishment. They read the polls; they know that Catholics , like the majority of Americans , are said to they are receiving for them (those who are not innocent and be resolute ly in favor of the death penalty. In view of the wrongly convicted), are our brothers. If we follow Jesus , strong teaching of Pope John Paul in his encyclical The must we not forgive them? Can we trul y wish them dead?

Most Rev. William J. Levada If you had been able to accompany me, I think you Gospel of Life , they wonder wh y this is so.

Archbishop of San Francisco 't One man hinted that perhaps we bishops weren active would join me in these resolutions: Apostolic Administrator, Diocese of Santa Rosa 1) Pray for the prisoners of San Quentin , especiall y enough in try ing to teach and persuade our peop le that (Ed. note: Persons wishing to learn more about today, as the Catechism says, "The cases in which the exe- those on death row. Pray that they may continue their ongoprison ministry may contact Ray McKeon , director 'are very ing conversion to be faithfu l disci ples of Jesus; that they cution of the offender is an absolute necessity of the archdiocesan Office of Detention Ministry, at rare , if practically non-existent '." may do God's will each day in this pilgrimage of life; that ' (415) 844-4718.)

These men are, of course , realists. They know society s they may not lose hope in eternal life.

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Welfare reform: What is happening?

By Rick Mockler v_/ ver the last three years, we have seen a dramatic , 50 percent decline in the number of people on welfare.

Many politician s have touted this as evidence of the success of changes in the welfare laws. In our work with families affected by welfare changes, however, we at Catholic Charities have observed something different .

An exceptional economy with millions of new jobs deserves much of the credit for the drop in caseloads. The actual impact of the welfare laws themselves has been mixed.

We've witnessed inspiring successes, but also many more families joining the ranks of the working poor — highly vulnerable and lacking even remnants of a safety net. Others still on welfare are struggling to find any work at all and are facing the eventual time-limit imposed termination of their aid.

Catholic Charities agencies work closely with parents and families on welfare. We assist peop le in obtaining employment and we offer subsistence food , clothing and

shelter to people who just aren 't making it. We seive over a Health and Human Services, has said this evidence calls for million people a year in California and know their plight a "midcourse correction" in welfare policy.

One of the most frusfi ating aspects of the new welfare well. Although we believed the old welfare system was broken and needed to be fixed and we're committed to making policies is that they discourage education and training. The the best of the new laws, we 're alarmed by the problems "work first " approach pushes recipients to get a job, to the we 've observed. exclusion of everything else. In some cases, women have ' Congress welfare overhaul in 1996 eliminated the enti- been pulled out of school by their county caseworkers. tlement of needy families to aid and created financial incen- Where people are permitted to ' continue their community tives for states and counties to move people off welfare. In college or vocational school program, they are also typicalpractice, this means the more families a state or county ly required to work so many additional hours mat the load is moves off welfare, the greater the state 's reward. The reward overwhelming.

Perhaps the biggest challenge to the new welfare law is for reducing caseloads, not for reducing poverty or ensuring well being. is from individuals with serious , obstacles to employWelfare recipients are served by overburdened county ment. The Urban Institute has identified several common workers who do not have ihe time to explain the new rules, let obstacles: poor health , no recent work experience , low alone to offer personalized job search assistance. The more education level, caring for an infant or disabled child and qualified individuals land work , but at poverty-level wages. English language limitations. Researchers found 44 perAlthough the fact of their poverty continues to qualify them cent of the current welfare caseload has two or more of for food stamp and Medi-Cal coverage, counties often fail to these obstacles. These obstacles are not acknowledged , continue this assistance when people move off welfare. however, in the taw 's imposition of arbitrary time limits In California, we have seen a major , 35 percent decline for welfare eli gibility. in food stamp participation and an increased level of hunger.

We don 't propose going back to the old system. But About two-thirds of the people leaving the food stamp pro- as the U.S. Catholic bishops have said, welfare policy gram appear to still be eligible for it. but don 't know they must reflect our nation 's best values and a commitment are. Many of these people report having to cut meal size or to the "least among us." The Church 's values of protectskipping meals. We have had a significant increase in peo- ing human dignity, stren gthening families , encouraging and rewarding work, and preserving a safety net for the ple coming to our agencies for food assistance.

Those most hurt by these welfare changes are children, vulnerable , would serve us well as we evaluate the curone in four of whom live in poverty in California. Despite rent welfare system. an explosive growth of wealth and incomes in recent years, the average income for the poorest 20 percent of femaleheaded families in our country has actually fallen. Wendell Rick Mockler is executive director of Catholic Primus, a former official in the federal Department of Charities of Californ ia , based in Sacramento .

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The prodigal daughter

Kamille Maher J. am the prodiga l daughter.

I recently returned home, ending a 10-year, selfimposed exile. My story is different from the biblical son 's in fundamental ways, but the lesson and outcome parallel the heart of Jesus ' message.

My experience is different because I enjoyed a positive and sp iritually successful exile. I didn 't end up hungrily feeding pigs. In addition , I had originally broken from my family to heal past hurts , not to cash in an early inheritance.

Importantly, I came to this decision from a wellspring of strength and good mental health. During the 10 years, 1 had sought out various forms of therapy, self-help programs, and even self-defense classes. I had married , given birth to a child , boug ht a house. Essential ly I grew up.

In a crucial way, I had found great wisdom in my Churc h , which increasing ly endowed me with the strength and the grace I would need to undertake the present change. So as the 1990s (my decade of exile) came to a close , I pondered how my homecoming might take place , and what God's will might be in this situation.

In October 1999, talk of the Great Jubilee Year focused on themes of reconciliation and forg iveness of debt.

Some of my friends had contact with their own family members with whom they had great misunderstandings. They had learned how to reap the benefits of a relationshi p and feel the satisfaction of living a life with family, in spite of past difficulties.

The parable of the prodigal son held promise for me, not so much from the son 's point of view, but from the father 's. The more I meditated on Jesus ' teaching, the more I considered the joy both my dad and I might feel if we could reach some sort of understanding.

I kept thinking about the father 's big party upon the son's return , the no-questions-asked (for now?) policy,

and the notion that one mig ht actuall y be able to move unfettered into the future after real forg iveness.

So that was reconciliation. Next question: forgiveness. Could 1 forg ive my father? He hadn 't asked for my forgiveness, which seemed essential. If asked , he would probably say that while he might have made some mistakes he certainly didn 't need "forgiveness" from his daughter.

I continued to listen to God in prayer, and continued to ask forgiveness for my sins throug h the sacrament".. I came to understand forg iveness did not have to take the form of "transaction ," with equalized ledger accounts. It could take the form of "closing the books," as some debt relief activists are petitioning wealthy countries to do for poor ones.

Just forgive the debt , any and all debt.

When 1 looked at the situation in this light, I noticed dad and I did not have to agree beforehand about who my owed whom which debts. I could simp ly close my books.

I did.

Soon after, I returned to Phoenix with my husband and child. For his part , my father actuall y invited neighbors over for a homemade-ice-cream-and-Texas-sheetcake party. One of my brothers attended but I don 't think he resented the warm reception , as the biblical brother did. In October, this brother had commented about CATHOLIC ON PURPOSE, page 15

The CatholicDiff erence.

Trafficking in stereotypes

George Weigel in the weeks between the South Carolina Republican primary and Super Tuesday, a casual reader of the daily press could be forgiven for thinking the turbo-charged engine of anti-Catholicism in America was Bob Jones University in the Palmetto State. But as Peter Steinfels pointed out in a New York Times column on March 4, "Until campaign workers for Sen. John McCain began alerting Michigan 's Roman Catholics three weeks ago, it is questionable whether there were enough Roman Catholics upset by anything emanating from Bob Jones University to fill an old-fashioned confessional."

Indeed, as Steinfels went on to note , "opposing antiCatholicism in America by denouncing Bob Jones University is about as relevant to today 's reality as combating medical errors by condemning leeches and snake oil." Run throug h your cable television provider 's cornucopia of prime-time offerings , and you 'll find more antiCatholicism in 48 hours than you 're likely to get in a semester at Bob Jones University.

Doesn't that suggest where the media and the politicians who now find themselves in high dudgeon over anti-Catholicism should really focus their attention?

I haven 't done a scientific survey of the matter, but I'm willing to risk a modest wager that more than a few of the folks who find Bob Jones University so unspeakabl y offensive defended the Brooklyn Museum of Art 's display of a dung-covered Madonna last year. Why? Because as Peter Steinfels writes, the sources and justifications of anti-Catholicism in America have changed : "Anti-Catholic animus rooted in the theological polemics of the 16th-century Reformation still exists in the United States [as at Bob Jones University]. But the anti-Catholic animus rooted in the political polemics of the 18th-century Enlightenment and the cultural polemics of 19th-century American nativism have long since overtaken all the traditional themes. The Church is an authoritarian monolith ; its doctrines are hopelessly pre-modern; its rites are colorful but mindless; its sexual standards are unnatural , repressive, and hypocritical; its congregations are anti-Semitic and racist; its priests

are harsh and predatory; its grip on the minds of believers is numbing.

"These themes still ring in some fundamentalist pulpits. But they are far more apt to be interjected into the more adult sitcoms and late-night comedies, and to be reflected in films , editorials , art , fiction and memoirs considered enli ghtened and liberating. " To put it another way: the entertainment industry and elite culture in America cannot recognize their own antiCatholicism because to recognize that would be to admit the inadmissible â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that Hollywood, the press, and upmarket educational institutions traffic in stereotypes and prejudices every bit as much as (indeed, perhaps more than) fever-swamp fundamentalists. To their credit , fundamentalists think doctrine is worth arguing about. Many of the hi gh-minded souls flailing Bob Jones University think the very idea of doctrfne is an absurdity.

A new tactic for disguising anti-Catholic attitudes , Steinfels observes, is to distinguish between "Catholics" and "thinking Catholics." The code was not difficult to decrypt: "thinking Catholics" are those who disagree with the Church' s sexual ethic, its concept of the priesthood, the role of authoritative teaching, etc.

But 'thinking Catholics," Peter Steinfels concludes , evidentl y do not include "those who have read and listened to conflicting opinions, strugg led with pros and cons, and finally concluded that Church teaching on ... these neuralgic topics is right." . CATHOLIC DIFFERENCE , page 15

What about removal of saint's name from feasts ' calendar?

Q.My question stems from our Holy Father's recent visit Paul II, for instance, will find their way onto the list of celto Mount Sinai and the monastery of St. Catherine of ebrations for the universal Church.

Alexandria . Our religious community formerl y They may well be honored more in their own localobserved her feast on Nov. 25 with much celeity where their lives and v irtues bration. Since around 1970, herfeast has been / ~ *\ are better known. The Pope himeliminated from the breviary and the I self seems to hint at that by often Sacramentary. With the interest newly shown ^^ canonizing Koreans in Korea, in her life , why is her name still removed? Such Poles in Poland and so on. an attractive personality could draw numerous reliAnother criterion is the L S **^ T I ^v ÂŚ gious elements together, including Greek and African authenticity of information fr/can Father John Dietzen1 about that saint 's life. St. Christians. (Illinois) ~ A. As has happene d at other times in the his= Catherine, for example, has been tory of the Church, names of some saints, which had accu- honored as a saint for hundreds of years, in the East and later mulated over the years, were eliminated from the annual on in the West. Churches were named in her honor. Hers was calendar of feasts in the revision of the missal around 1970. one of the heavenly voices St. Joan of Arc claimed to hear.

One criterion used in the process was the general releYet, the fact is we know absolutely nothing for sure vance of a particular saint to the whole Christian world . about her. Descriptions of her exploits and martyrdom are Very few of the numerous saints canonized by Pope John known to be historicall y unreliable.

QUESTION r CORNER

This is not to clai m she never existed. The widespread devotion and honor given to her by Christians for hundreds of years, and apparent evidences of the influence of her prayers, are always significant for the Church in matters like this.

When it comes to saints celebrated each year by the universal Church , however, effort is made to focus on those about whom there is sufficient knowled ge to make them hel pful models and signs of God' s presence to the rest of us.

Because of her purported conversions of many pagan Romans with her learned Christian teachings (about 310 A.D.), St. Catherine is the patron of philosophers , teachers and women students , among others.

Her body is said to repose in the monastery at Mt. Sinai. Her feast is still Nov. 25.

(Questions may be sent to Father Dietzen at Box 325, Peoria , IL 61651 ; or e-mail jjdietze n@aol.com.)

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SCRIPTURE & LITURGY 'Not as human beings see does God see... ' Our first reading reminds us of the naked truth embarrassingly present in our lives: "Not as human beings see does God see, because human beings see the appearance, but the Lord looks into the heart." Thus, Samuel would have happily anointed Jesse's eldest son, Eliab, because of "his appearance" and "lofty stature." But the good man 's horn of oil remained unpoured as Jesse presented six more sons of his as candidates for king. When the youngest, however, "who is tending the sheep," is sent for as an afterthought and appears, God shows Samuel how God sees: "There—anoint him, for this is the one.' Then Samuel , with the horn of oil in hand, anointed David...and from that day on, die spirit of the Lord rushed upon David."

How we need to see as God does, to realize what we are about during our Church's annual celebration of the meaning of the death and resurrection of Jesus for us, the people on this planet, and all of creation. With longing and hope, we respond to the first reading with Psalm 23; we trust that God will shepherd us through Christ to "see" what the "restful waters," the anointing of the head "with oil," and the table "spread before me" mean for our elect and for us.

As a partial answer to our prayer, we learn that our "illumination" (ancient name for baptism) continues to open our eyes as we live out our relationship with Jesus in the world.

Notice that in John the words and gestures of Jesus, who proclaims Himself "the light of the world" (v.5), are repeated or referred to three times (vs. 7, 11, 15) so that we connect the Word with the water bath in the Pool of Siloam and think of our baptismal experience so eloquently described by Ephesians: "Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her, that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present the Church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish." (5:25-27)

Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A / Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Psalm 23; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-4 1 See finally that Jesus seeks out this cured person who has suffered for Him and asks, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" (v.35) only to elicit the profound reply from the "illuminated" man, "T do believe, Lord,' and he worshipped him." (v.38) (This title, "Son of Man," has a special meaning in this Gospel: Jesus is "lifted up" on the cross and into glory as Son of Man to gather God's scattered children into unity by revealing God's deathless love for them.)

For us, the elect and the initiated, something grace-filled and light-giving is occurring; as our second reading from Ephesians tells us, "You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord." We verify the ancient baptismal hymn this letter cites, "Awake, 0 sleeper, and rise from the dead, and We see even more. This initiation experience continues to Christ will give you light." Our "illumination" will continue play itself out in our lives, with our own and the elects ' the more we are involved with our Church and stand up for progress charted by the Gospel. See how the man cured of Jesus in this world. The community of which we are a part will his blindness becomes more profoundl y and progressively form , challenge, comfort, heal, forgive, include, and mission related to Jesus. See at first how he responds to his neigh- us, if we allow it to, and as we respond, the Lord Jesus will bor 's questions about his newly found sight by referring to become more visible, real, and personal to us.

Jesus as "the man." (v.ll) See that when he is next asked We then approach the holy table on this Lord's Day, rejoicabout his sight by the Pharisees, who claim , "this man is not ing that we see the way God sees, love the way God loves; from God, because He does not keep the sabbath" (v. 16), he knowing that God 's choice of us is still a pure gift; giving becomes much more aware of Jesus ' action upon him and thanks that the elect still want to join us. niey must see someexclaims, "He is a prophet." (v. 17) See the man go even fur- thing there! ther: he begins to defend Jesus, to describe His ori gin , and finall y to suffer expulsion from the synagogue for saying, "If this man were not from God , He would not be able to do Father David Pettingill directs the archdiocesan anything." (v.33).

Office of Parish Life.

Father David M. Pettingill

'I am the vine and you are the branches' What a wonderfully consoling passage we find in the 15th chapter of St. John 's Gospel, and how appropriate is our reflection on it as we celebrate the season of Lent.

How true it is as we continue our Lenten journey that the Father prunes the disciple as a vine grower prunes a vine, so that in communion the vine and the branch may bear much more fruit. This is a painful process and we sure feel it! It causes us discomfort but we accept the pain of the pruning because in the process God moves us from bareness to abundance and our end is a happy one. In the process we move from gluttony to caring for people with no food , and we move from lust to respect for the human person.

How poignant this is for us as we gather on our Lenten Sundays during the Jubilee year. We hear the importance of repentance and reconciliation , of having our sinful behaviors pruned away and of remaining in the love of the Lord as we obey God's command. The love of God finds expression in a new way as we consciously pray, fast and care for the needy.

We find new life in self-denial , and risk that pain to come from the Divine One who removes from us that which hinders the growth of good fruit in our lives. Typically, in our Lenten journey we come face to face with our sinfulness and weaknesses. It is importan t for us to acknowledge them, find healing in the sacraments and sing of our new life.

"So,Jive , oh live in me and you shall have new life," is the text from this passage of John 's Gospel, used in the final phrase of Liam Lawton 's "I WillBe the Vine." This new song

Catholic On Purp ose. . .

I Continued from page 14 someone doing his best in a very difficult circumstance.

I realized that if my dad had done his best, then I could choose to accept it.

We don 't know what happened after the scriptural son 's party, but I have a happy report about my experience. Mostly, I feel I have done right by God, which is an amazingl y freeing notion. Except for leaving my precious daughter and spouse behind, I feel I could die tomorrow a completely free woman.

I have contacted people I might have harmed in the past and forg iven peop le who harmed me. I cannot

Father James L. McKearney for liturgy is available from GIA publications in Chicago. It is available in printed format for choir, cantor, assembly and instruments, and it is available on compact disc or cassette tape.

Rooted in John 15, Lawton 's new piece underscores the importance of following the command of the Lord to find new life. How do we find new life? We find it by remaining connected in intimacy to the Lord through sacrificial love. describe the weight lifted from my soul, and I have g limpsed Jesus ' compassion for each of us.

The new relationship feels strange at times. It would be glib to say all is forgotten. Only through God's grace and Mary 's help have I undertaken this. I continuall y pray about how forgiveness comes from God, and reconciliation comes through grace. I also try to imagine what past therapists would advise.

Still, I would like to send a postcard to the prodigal son to ask how it 's going. The prodigal daughter has p lanned another trip to Phoenix, and continues to enjoy p hone calls and notes several times per week.

Kamille Maher is a staff writer for Catholic San Francisco.

What happens if we fail in this endeavor? What if we resist the pruning of the Divine One? "I will offer many chances," is the sung response of the Lord, calling our attention to His eternal love and healing presence. In the song we also see God's refusal to revoke the ongoing command for all people to be people of love. This is the fruit of remaining on the Divine Vine.

Why does God offer such love and forgiveness the song implicitly asks? "Because there is no greater love than to lay down your life for your friends," and "we are his friends" if we do what he "commands."

This new piece draws forth new meaning from the text as it joined to a wonderfully crafted , simple melody and harmonic structure. The text and music form an integrity that trul y communicates the intimacy of the moment of encounter with God. Therefore, the piece works well when we seek the Lord Jesus in holy Communion, in reconciliation , and in prayer. Although wonderful for Lenten celebrations of Eucharist and reconciliation , the song can be a wonderful way to bridge the seasons of Lent and Easter with a theme that speaks of the entire paschal mystery — the dying and rising of the Lord Jesus and along with Him those members joined to Him as branches on the Vine.

Father McKearney is a Sulp ician candidate from the Archdiocese of Hartford , Conn., and director of music for St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.

Catholic Diffe rence... ¦ Continued from page 14 The gravest damage that elite anti-Catholicism — and its implicit understanding of the moral life — does is to the body politic as a whole. When the most prestigious, culture-forming institutions in our country consider a sixmonth-old fetus of no more moral or legal consequence than an appendix, they are eroding the foundations of the American house of freedom . Elite culture's debonair nihilism, not the antediluvian theology on tap at Bob Jones University, is the real and present danger to our democracy. ' George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington , D.C.

School of Pastoral Leadership For registration materials and additional information, call Joni Gallagher at (415) 242-9087.

Pre-registration is necessary lor many ol these programs.

April 2: "Reconciliation" evenings of prayer and discussion about "Personal Reconciliation" with Father John Talesfore; "Family Reconciliation" with Peg and Ed Gleason; and "Community Reconciliation" with Father David Pettingill, 7:30-9 p.m.at St. Vincent de Paul Church, 2320 Green St. at Steiner, SF. May 13: "2nd annual Spiritualty ol Aging Retreat" with Sister M. Timothy Prokes, author of "Toward a Theology of the Body," speaking on "Aging: The Challenge of Bringing Life to Fullness," 9 a.m.-3:15 p'.m. at St. Mary's Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF with Mass at 12:10 p.m. $20 fee includes lunch and program materials.

Retreats/Days of Recollection VALL0MBR0SA CENTER 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees, times and other offerings call (650) 325-5614.

Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, Program Director.

April 1: "Gardens for the New Millennium" with marriage and family counselor Carol Kaplan.

April 4, 11, 18, 25: "Come Away and Rest Awhile," Tuesdays spent listening to God's promptings in the recesses of our hearts using Scripture, nature, and life experience. Please bring a bible.

Facilitated by Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto .

April 7-9: "Best Friends Forever," a retreat for married couples with Jesuit Father Charles Hoffman and Mercy Sister Ann Rooney.

April 9: "Living the Beatitudes" continues with Dominican Father Michaei Carey speaking on "the meek."

MERCY CENTER 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. For fees, times and other offerings call (650) 340-7474.

April 3, 10, 17, 25; May 8, 15: "The Quest for Meaning: Finding Ourselves in the Second Half of Life," a dialogue oriented series providing an opportunity for people in the 2nd half of life to explore and clarify values, identity, beliefs reality, self-affirmation with Ann Berens and Sandi Peters. ^ April 16-23: "Holy Week Retreat" where retreatants may take part in one or many days.

Spiritual directors will be available as well as celebration of the Triduum liturgies.

April 16: Father Thomas Keating, a contemorpary and well-known promoter of Centering Prayer, invites experienced meditators to this day of preparation for taking the time-honored mode to the incarcerated.

May 5-7; July 7-9: Centering Prayer Retreat weekends following First Friday Taize Prayer. Facilitated by Vicky Bote and Mercy Sister Marguerite Buchanan.

Centering Prayer Days with Vicky and Sister Marguerite will take place on April 8 and June 3.

SANTA SABINA CENTER 25 Magnolia Ave., San Rafael. For fees, times and other offerings, call (415) 457-7727.

April 19-23: "Holy Week Retreat" beginning with a Seder meal and continuing with reflections on the Paschal mysteries of life, death and new life.

April 8-13: Parish Mission St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Alvd., Greenbrae, with Mercy Father David Wilton. Mission opens with Mass at 5.30 p.m. on April 8, continuingat 7, 9, 11 a.m. April 9; 9 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. for rest of week Call (415) 461-0704.

April 10, 11, 12: "Dangerous Stories for a Jubilee Year. A Parish Lenten Retreat" with Father David Pettingill at Our Lady of Mercy Church, 5 Elmwood Dr., Daly City. Mass and Father Dave's presentation at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Call (650) 755-1059.

Silver Penny Farm offers retreat facilities near the wine country, 5215 Old Lakeville Rd., Petaluma, 94954. All quarters have bedroom and sitting room with fireplace. Call Father Ray Smith for a brochure at (707) 762-1498.

Social Justice/Advocacy May 2: "Lobby Day 2000," a hands-on political immersion in Sacramento including speakers on the lobbying process and one-on-one meetings with legislators. Call Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns at (415) 565-3673.

Consolation Ministry Drop-in Bereavement Sessions at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF on 2nd and 4th Wed., 2:30 - 4 p.m. Sponsored by Catholic Charities and Mid-Peninsula Hospice. Call Sister ' Esther at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

Ongoing Sessions: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish at the Parish Center, Fulton and James St., Redwood City, Thurs., 6-7:30 p.m. Call (650) 3663802. 1st Mon. at 7:30 p.m. and 1st Thurs. at 9:30 a.m., Our Lady of Angels St. Francis Room/Upper Hall, 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame. Call Consolation Minister Sarah DiMare at (650) 697-7582. St. Gabriel Parish, 40th Ave. and Ulloa, SF; 1st & 3rd Tues., 7-9 p.m. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. St. Hilary Parish, 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon; 1st & 3rd Wed., 34:30 p.m. Call Sister Colette at (415) 435-7659.

Structured 8-week Session: Our Lady of Loretto, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, evenings or afternoons available. Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171. St. Isabella Parish, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, evenings. Call Pat Sack at (415) 479-1560.

For Parents Who Have Lost a Child: Our Lady of Angels Parish, 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame, 2nd Mon. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

Children/Teen Groups: Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

Datsebooki "Compassionate Friends," a non-profit organization offering friendship and support to families who have experienced the death of a child, meet on 2nd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, 850 Judah St. at Funston, SF. Call Marianne Lino at (415) 892-7969.

Young Adults You may contact the Young Adult Ministry office of the Archdiocese by phone at (415) 565-3629; by e-mail at miansen@stvam.org or christineop@sfyam.org; or visit the ministry's website at www.sfyam.org. Unless other wise noted contact the Young Adult Office for additional information about the following activities.

April 2: "At Peace with Our World" with Father David Pettingill, 7:30 - 9 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul Church , Steiner and Green St., SF 7:30-9 p.m.

April 6: "Developing Your Friendship with Christ" with Carmelite Father Christopher LaRocca at St. Dominic Church , Bush and Steiner St., SF 7:30 - 9 p.m.

The date for Fall Fest 2000, the largest Young Adult confe rence in the region, is Oct. 14. Volunteer opportunities available.

Young Adult communities have been established at the following parishes. Please call the numbers listed for more information. St. Dominic, SF, (415) 567-7824; St. Gabriel, SF, (415) 731-0650; St. Vincent de Paul, SF, (415) 922-1010; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, (650) 343-5809; St. Andrew, Daly City, (650) 756-3223.

At the Cemetery 1st Sat. of the month Mass in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel. All liturgies begin at 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma. For more information, call (650) 756-2060.

Jubilee Mass 2000 Oct. 29: "Extraordinary Jubilee Year Mass and Catholic Community Celebration" at San Francisco's PacBell Park with Archbishop William J. Levada presiding. Will include prelude "Call to Worship" featuring more than 450 singers and 200 multi-cultural dancers from throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco. For information, call Kathleen Buckley at (415) 565-3672.

Family Life/Respect Life Catholic Charities Foster Care and Adoption and Foster Care Program is looking for prospective adopting families for children. Attend a free information meeting on the first Thurs. of every month at 7 p.m. af 814 Mission St., 5th floor, SF or on the second Tuesday at 36 37th Ave., San Mateo. Call (415) 844-4781.

Introductory sessions of Seton Medical Center's Natural Family Planning program will be held through this fall.. The office also offers educational programs for youth on topics including the changes that occur during puberty and the responsibility of relationships. Health educators are also available to speak about NFP, infertility, adolescent sexuality, preparing for pregnancy, perinatal loss and drug abuse in pregnancy. Call (650) 301-8896.

Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages, has upcoming weekends. Separated or near divorced couples are encouraged to attend. Call Lolette or Tony Campos at (415) 893-1005.

Single, Divorced, Separated Catholic Adult Singles Assoc, of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 897-0639.

For information about additional ministries available to divorced and separated persons in the Archdiocese, call (415) 273-5521.

New Wings at St. Thomas More Church meets on 3rd Thursdays. Call Claudia Devaux at (415) 334-9088 or e-mail stmchurch@hotmail.com.

Classes/Discussions/Exhibits April 4: 1st Annual Flannery-Hyatt Institute for Interfaith Understanding, a part of the Swig Judaic Studies Program at the University of San Francisco at 7 p.m. Featuring the Vatican's Cardinal Edward Cassidy and Rabbi Norman Solomon. $10 pre-registration necessary. Call (415) 422-6302.

April 4, 11, 18: "Jubilee Presentations" with Jesuit Father Joe Eagan at St. Raymond Church, 1100 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park at 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Topics include understanding Vatican II; Vatican II spirituality; and the Church in the new millennium. Call (650) 324-8310.

April 6: "One Man's Vow to Change the World ," with Marist Father Michael Mahoney, who has been working with the poor of Brazil for more than 10 years, 6:30 p.m., St. Brendan Parish hall, 200 Ulloa St. off Portola at Laguna Honda, SF. Refreshments at 6:30 p.m., lecture and slides at 7 p.m. Call (415) 9771270, ext. 3020. Limited seating. Please call ahead.

April 8: "In the Service of Life," with author Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, and her "Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal," blessings we give and receive through service to others, at Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave., SF 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Call Hospice by the Bay at (415) 626-5900.

April 18: "Asia: No Longer a Monolith," a series of public "armchair" briefings hosted by journalist, Marsha Vande Berg with guests. For locations and times, call (415) 422-6357.

Thursday morning Lectionary-based Bible study with Father Jose Corral at St. Anthony Church, 3500 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park. 9 - 10:30 a.m. Child care for children 3 years and above is available. Call (650) 366-4692.

Food Si Fun Parish Soccer League invites new teams. Games played on Saturday mornings at 9 and 11 o'clock on Peninsula from Feb. - June. Men and women invited.

Call Otto Sterba, commissioner at (650) 968-6708.

April 1: Annual St. Ignatius College Preparatory International Food fair, 2001 37th Ave., SF, 4-8 p.m.

Continuous entertainment and food from virtually all traditions. $12-adults/$7 students Call (650) 5790836.

April 1: Annual United for Life Fundraiser Dinner at the United Irish Cultural Center, 2700 Sloat Blvd. at 45th Ave. 6 p.m. no host bar with dinner at 7 p.m.

Tickets $35. Guest speaker is Archbishop William J. Levada. Call (415) 567-2293.

April 1: "Tropical Enchantment," the annual fashion show and luncheon of Junipero Serra High School Mothers' Auxiliary at Crown Plaza Hotel, Foster City beginning at 11 a.m. Tickets $45.

Reserve early. Call Lily Golding af (650) 591-2472 or Diane Kardas at (650) 593-3428. Proceeds benefit the group's work for the young men of the school.

April 1: "The Barbary Coast Express Casino and Silent Auction" at Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave., SF, 6 p.m. - midnight. Reservation deadline is March 10, no tickets at door. Call (415) 586-9190.Sponsored by the school Parent Guild with proceeds benefiting the school.

April 1: "Millennium Magic," annual Auction/Dinner Dance benefiting Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Belmont at the Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City. Many unique and exciting items for bid. Call (650) 593-6157.

April 1: "Rock Around the Clock Fashion Shows" featuring student and teacher models .at Marin Catholic High School , Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Kentfield, luncheon show, $40, begins at 11 a.m., evening show, $75, begins at 6 p.m.

Proceeds benefit school programs. Sponsored by Marin Catholic Parents'Association. Call (415) 721MCWC. April 6,7: "Rummage Sale" sponsored by Mothers' Club of Visitacion Parish in the parish hall, 701 Sunnydale Ave. at Rutland St., SF, 9 a.m.- 6 p.m. Benefits scholarship fund. Call (415) 467-7338.

April 7: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club meets for 7 a.m. Mass, breakfast and dialogue at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd., Greenbrae. Speaker is Father Miles O'Brien Riley. May 5 speaker is Peter Breen of Centerforce.

Members $5/non-members $8. Call (415) 4610704. Reservations a must.

April 8: "Fiesta," the LCA Juniors' annual fashion show and luncheon with proceeds benefiting Catholic Charities' children's programs. Tickets $50.

Call Debbie McGrath at (415) 664-7993.

April 8: Bingo Luncheon, Alberian Institute #93, Young Ladies Institute, at Corpus Christi Parish Hall, Alemany Blvd. and Santa Rosa Ave., SF, $12 includes lunch and one game card. Call Connie Pisciotta at (415) 334-6429.

April 8: "HealthWalk 2000" benefiting Visitacion Elementary School at Candlestick Point. A 2-mile sponsored walk followed by music and a picnin/BBQ. Come and join the fun. Call (415) 2397840 between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.

April 14: 5th annual "St. Stephen's Men's Club Golf Tournament," Lincoln Park Golf Course, 1 p.m. starting time, banquet to follow. Call Patrick at (650) 593-9170.

April 15: Annual "Plant and Garden Sale" at the Mt. Carmel Shop. 45 Lovell Ave., Mill Valley, 9 a.m.

- 4 p.m. featuring several varieties of tomato plants.

Proceeds benefit Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish.

Call (415) 388-4332.

April 15: "Spring Carriage House Sale" at St. Anne's Home, 300 Lake St., SF 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Choose from gently used clothing, furniture , books, jewelry, housewares, linens, toys, luggage, art and much more. Refreshments available. Benefits St. Anne's Home. Call (415) 751-6510.

April 29: Gala celebration of Archbishop Riordan High School's 50th year. Archbishop William J. Levada will preside at a special Jubilee Mass. Call (415) 586-9190.

May 6: "Whale ot a Sale" at St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sponsored by parish St. Vincent de Paul conference. Space available for those wishing to sell items at the meet which has been a huge success in past years. For table reservations , call Kathie Meier at (415) 461-1933.

June 3: St. Thomas More Community's 1st annual Golf Tournament. Register now with Lito Mendoza at (650) 355-4063 or Gil Palencia at (650) 992-4009.

3rd Fri.: Open house and pot luck dinner and bingo at Catholic Kolping Society, 440 Taraval St., SF. No-host bar 6 p.m.; dinner 7 p.m.; bingo 8 pm ' Call Bill Taylor at (415) 731-1177.

Knights of Columbus of the Archdiocese meet regularly and invite new membership. For information about Council 615, call Tony Blaiotta at (415) 661-0726; Dante Council , call Vito Corcia at (415) 564-4449; Mission Council, call Paul Jobe af (415) 333-6197; Golden Gate Council , call Mike Stilman at (415) 752-3641.

3rd Sat.: Handicapables gather for Mass and lunch at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, at noon. Volunteer drivers always needed. Call (415) 584-5823.

Reunions June 7, 11: Events to remember and a Mass are planned for alumnae of the class of '50 from St. Rose Academy. Call Diane Daube Sperisen at (650) 366-9767.

SF's St. Cecilia Elementary School's class of 1950 celebrates its 50th year on April 15th at the Irish Cultural Center. Class members should call Doris Grimley at (415) 664-2247.

"Milestone Class Reunions" for Notre Dame High School, Belmont , classes 1939 through 1994, are being planned now. For information , call Donna Westwood , '64, alumnae relations director, at (650) 595-1913 , ext. 351 or e-mail alumnae@ndhs.pvt.k12.ca.us.

Attention Alumni and former students of Good Shepherd Elementary School, Pacifica.

The school is developing an alumni newsletter.

Please leave your name and address with the development office at (650) 738-4593 or fax to (650) 359-4558.

Our Lady of Angels Elementary School, Burlingame: Attention alumni/former students, parents, grandparents. OLA is developing an alumni newsletter. Please leave your name, address and phone number with the development office at (650) 343-9200 or fax to (650) 343-5620, attn: Susan Baker.

About Health April 8: 2nd annual "Back to School for Your Health Symposium" at Notre Dame High School, Belmont. .Open to women of all ages, this is a day of discovery about your mind and body. 7:30 a.m. 2 p.m. Tickets $40 adults/$10 students. Call (650) 595-1913, ext. 351.

Save a Life! Donate Blood Now! Blood Centers of the Pacific has announced a critical blood shortage in the Bay Area. To schedule an appointment at a location near you, call (888) 393-GIVE (4483).

Children's Health Service at St. Mary's Medical Center Pediatric Clinic, 2235 Hayes St. at Shrader, SF. Medical services for your child's total healthcare. Clinic accepts Medi-Cal, Healthy Families, other insurance plans. Sliding scale.

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Mondays in March, 5-6 p.m.: Free foot exams for diabetics and anyone with foot problems at Seton Medical Center, Daly City and SF Wound Center. Diabetes risk tests also available. March is "Sound the Alert" month dedicated to diabetes screening. Call (415) 882-1400.

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April 12: "The Gospel of Mark ," a spectacular and dramatic presentation with Michael Reardon and Patrick Lane at St. Robert Church, 1380 Crystal Springs Rd., San Bruno, at 7 p.m. Call (650) 5892800.

April 28, 29 30: The musical "Godspell" at St. Pius Parish Fitzsimon Center, 1100 Woodside Rd. at Valota, Redwood City. Fri. and Sat. at 8 p.m.; Sun. at 1 p.m. Produced by St. Pius Young People Theatre Group, Karen Elmore, director. Tickets at door, $6 adults/$4 seniors, students, or reserved seating in advance, $10 adults/$8 students, seniors, by calling Margie Lawson at (650) 366-6080.

April 30: The SF Lyric Chorus presents "English Masterpieces " under the direction of Robert Gurney at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1668 Bush St. at Gough, SF at 5 p.m. Reception follows .

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April 30: Richard Aden Davis, organist, St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St. at Funston, SF, will present a concert of Easter organ music at 4 p.m.

Sundays in April: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral featuring various artists 3:30 p.m. Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213.

Sundays in April: Concerts at St. Francis of Assisi Shrine by various artists at 4 p.m. following sung vespers at 3 p.m., Columbus and Vallejo, SF. Call (415) 983-0405.

Volunteer Opportunities Be a guardian at St. Mary's Cathedral, Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call the cathedral at (415) 567-2020.

Docent opportunities to lead student and adult tours are available at Mission Dolores, SF. Share the rich California mission history with some of Mission Dolores' thousands of visitors. Call Paula Zimmerman at (415) 621-8203.

The Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns offers volunteer opportunities in social justice , respect life, advocacy and other areas. Call (415) 565-3673.

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By Father Gerard O'Rourke Eternal Echoes is a book for our times of rap id change and distracting speed which often threatens our sense of "Belonging." This book assists us to restore and renew our power tb recapture all those "longings of our hearts to belong" that may have been shattered by the "unrehearsed and disorienting challenges " of our lives. It is trul y a spiritual book that re-anchors us in our world as we try to cope with our often tenuous hold on reality.

The author draws on his spirituality and learning to guide us along the many faceted avenues of belonging. In well-chosen chapters he touches on and shares with us many insi ghts on his subject. His method of giving us many themes within each chapter is satisfying and useful. It allows us to read meditatively. It also allows us to go back again and again to those themes that hit a chord within us. This structure can be useful in moments of need or during spiritual seasons like Lent when we may want to commit ourselves to deeper reflection.

Repeatedly in the book , Father O'Donohue can startle the reader with his insights or his deft use of a quotation from a poet, a philosopher or a prophet.

Letters... ¦ Continued from page 12 "recognition of overt , harmful behaviors." What , exactly, is the harm involved?

Mr. Colvert claims homosexual genital activity could have "terrible consequences here and hereafter." It is unclear whether or not the latter is an oblique reference to damnation, but the first seems to be a clear reference to

The chapter on "presence" enriches our sense of being Absence as Sisters." The word absence in its roots sughere and being ready and open for the vast array of presences gests to be elsewhere. So, it still holds for us the that life offers us. In his chapter on the "prisons" we choose echo of fractured intimacy, suggesting a real to live in , he shows how we can cut off presence ggE§S|8ft P resence - I" moments of grief that encompass <^sm and life.We can separate ourselves gfe the loss experienced in death , it is consoling .«*5g$S§i§fS§i from open spirituality, freedom and ^jjl||| 6k to read words that allow us to courageously pp**S§|||i cope with the desolation and confusion of In his chapter on "Suffering as the W Dark Valley of Broken Belonging," he n i?\0^ In our age, which too often cringes and gently guides us throug h the thickets of BKR* ' withdraws from the reality of death , this suffering all of us have to face in our lives. iB |SL \~'T\*^ final chapter is a blessing.

1 le creates for us openings to transfigure f§ra» VA ^ John O'Donohue is an author who s ^i this often dark side of our lives. generously shares his spirituality and Warn "CfA Flowing from his insights on suffering is U 3& wisdom in words that arouse and waken his chapter on "Prayer: A Bridge Between aw sm. the spirit within us. His words engenLonging and Belonging". It is an enriching dis- w ak der in us a longing for the divine , for cussion of many facets and methods of prayer, s la the God who longs for us and who For us busy, distracted people, this is inspired ' S| gave us the imagination to long for W&^ the embrace of the Holy Spirit writing for our often forgotten or neglected souls.

This chapter is full of wonder, mystery, spiritual although now "mostly concealed." "^ space and an invitation "to create your own prayer w^ * book provides great Lenten reading that that speaks your soul." can also nourish us spiritual ly at Easter, Pentecost, The final chapter , "Absence: Where Longing Still Advent , Christmas or just old Ordinary Time.

Lingers," was particularl y rewarding for me as I recentl y mourned-the loss of my beloved brother. Here the author Father O'R ourke directs the archdiocesan Office of beautifull y weaves together concepts like "Presence and Ecumenica l and Interreligious Affairs. the AIDS crisis. This is not only in poor taste but reveals ignorance: in his mind , male homosexual promiscuity is synonymous with all homosexual behavior. Saying we must not recognize gay unions because of the rate of promiscuity in the gay community is like saying we must not uphold traditional marriage because of the number of childre n born out of wedlock. If nothing else, recognition of homosexual partnershi ps will help to discourage promiscuity and strengthen those partnershi ps that already exist.

The dichotomy between civil and religious morals is not at all false : Catholics not only must respect the fact others disagree with them on the issue of homosexuality, but must realize that recognition of all committed unions, whether homosexual or heterosexual, is a matter of the common good.

Unless abstract speculation on punishments in the afterlife has a place in civil legislature, there is no reason to refrain from supporting homosexual partnerships in our state.

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By Annette Lust Play ing at the Ross Valley Players ' "Barn " in the Marin Art and Garden Center , Henrik Ibsen 's 1879 classic about a Victorian heroine freeing herself from the conventional imag e of a married woman still offe rs a moral challenge in Ihis lime of advanced female emanci pation.

In Ibsen 's episodic "Dollhouse ", Nora is treated like a dollhouse toy by her hushand , Torvald (recentl y promoted to bank manager), until a secret about her is revealed throug h the blackmailing of a bank clerk , Krogstad .

The latter has lent money to Nora to pay for a tri p for her husband ' s health; in the transaction , she needed to forge her father 's signature as a guara ntee. When Torvald discovers how she acquire d the money from Krogstad , whom he is about to fire , he reprimands Nora. At this point his Lrue colors show; Nora now understands his concern for social presti ge and bank position take priority over her.

The revelation turns Nora from a friv olous , spoiled house pet into a mature , rebellious woman about to make a major decision concerning her husband and children.Ibsen 's controversial p lay that forced him to leave Norway for a period of time provokes a moral challenge more than a century later. While his play depicting a woman who needs to be treated as an equal was a scandal in the late

house to the grown-up heroine facing the reality of her role in Torvald 's household.

Michae l Zebulon creates a subtl y dominating male bread winner. Doug las Van Leuven 's Dr. Rank is a convincing characterization of an eccentric , elderl y famil y friend who is one of Nora 's admirers.

Mary Ann Biewener creates a convincing portrait of Nora 's friend , the disenchanted and devoted Christine. Virg inia Handler ' s Nanny is vividly interpreted.

Rachel Rehmet plays the obli ging maid , Helene. Brian Frank Carter p lays the shad y Krogstad to a tee. Henry and Sarah Guilbault are Nora 's adorable children who steal Ihe show whenever they appear.

Victorian sets , beautifull y crafted by X s set desi gner, construction , and production d manager Ken Rowland , along with stun< ning period costumes are elegant.

The Ross Valley Players , a 20-minute drive from San Francisco , is among the Meghan Marx is "Nora " and Douglas Van Leuven is "Dr. Rank" in the current oldest Bay Area theaters. It ori g inated in production of "A Doll's House " at Ross Valley Players.

1930 in the so-called "Barn " on the Kittle 19th century, the work can be viewed by famil y is a hi gh price to pay for personal Estate in Ross, which later became the growth. And is Nora trul y emancipated if Marin Art and Garden Center. Today the most as relevant today.

However, one could find moral incon- she does not take into consideration the Players present six productions each seasistencies in the naive Nora 's sudden consequences of her action on her famil y son which include Broadway hits , classiabandonment of her children and husband as well as herself? The questions render cal theate r, popular plays , works by wellfor the sake of independence and personal the play all the more emotionall y vital and known playwri ghts , and musicals.

"Dollhouse " will play throug h Apri l 15. growth. Some today, both male and morall y stimulating.

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By Father Basil DePinto The old axiom that life is brief but art endures was stirring ly exemplified by the recent appearance at Davies Symphony Hall of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Ashkenazy. The rise and fall of empires, hot and cold wars, invasion and liberation : it has all gone by, and the Philharmonic is still making great music.

The Orchestra played its first concert in 1896 under Anlonin Dvorak himself , whose Seventh Symphony was I he featured work at this concert. The current chief conductor is one of the greatest pianists alive. While it is a source of pain to lose his magnificent playing on his solo instrument, there is no doubt that Mr. Ashkenazy has found in the orchestra still another instrumen t upon which to lavish his abundant talent.

The orchestra has the orotund , mellow sound typical of central European ensembles.

The arrangement of the strings — all the violins to the left of the conductor, the lower sound to his ri ght — must have something to do with it. The brass is rich although not so warm as the sound of the Berlin and Vienna orchestras. The woodwinds provide a nearperfect balance.

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those qualities were extremel y amiable much in evidence in rapport with the playthis piece. ers. It is a happy It is a musical aspect of the univerresponse to a group sality of music that of p ictures by the the expatriate Russian 15th century painter could lead a Czech _ whose work Martinu orchestra in their saw in Arezzo in music with perfect 1955. They are not ease. It is also a tribprogram music in the ute to the breadth of sense of reproducing the conductor 's vision the content of the that he was so much paintings in music; at home in this idiom, rather the meaning The all-Czech proof the p ictures gram was a superb evokes musical ideas exhibition of the subwhich the composer stantial content of a translates into sound . once great musical Vladimir Ashkenazy The performance center of Western ait.

In the Austrian empire Prague was second was stunning in its lyrical flow and concenonly to Vienna as the goal of musical aspira- tration of color. It is a piece that rewards fretion . "Don Giovanni" had its premiere there, quent hearing. There is a fine recording on and in later times its National Theater was the Supraphon label by the Prague Radio Symphony under Charles Mackerras, a great one .of the great houses of Europe.

The program opened with Bohuslav champion of this music.

The Suite arranged by Vaclav Talich of Martinu 's "Frescoes of Piero della Francesca ". Martinu is a composer grossly music from Janacek's opera "The Cunning and unjustl y neglected in these parts. His Little Vixen " was a tantalizing reminder of music is full of rich lyricism and color, and how infrequentl y this marvelous work is

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staged. The tale of a clever vixen and her cubs is a fable about life, set to music by one of the great 20th century masters. The New York City Opera has done it, but it is unknown here. Why? It was good to have al least this brief set of excerpts.

After intermission there was a performance of the Seventh Symphony of Dvorak , which is certainl y and thankfull y well known.

It is hard to believe that before the Second World War onl y Dvorak 's "New World" symphony was familiar to the general public (and it was erroneously listed as No. 5).

The Seventh , while missing some of the grandeur of the Eighth , is a wonderful work , overflowing with melodic richness and worked out with abundant technical skill.

The orchestra was plainl y in its element and Mr. Ashkenazy drew out every ounce of its wealth.

As an encore they played the "Slavonic Dance No. 2" in E minor. For this orchestra it was the equivalent of the Viennese play ing a waltz by Johann Strauss, and they did it to a turn. A splendid close to an evening of glorious music making.

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Holy Land

Pope creates new pilgrim's path with interfaith journey

By John Thavis JERUSALEM (CNS)

Walking at last amid the ancient stones where Jesus lived and died, Pope John Paul II created a new pilgrim 's path by reaching out to other religions and to the divided peoples of the Holy Land.

His March 20-26 visit to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories will be remembered as an interfaith journey that , despite some notes of dissonance, struck a spiritu al chord among those who watched and listened, In sharing prayer and emotions with Christians, Muslims and Jews at laces of deep religious significance , the Pope was clearly trying to set an p example of hanrtony in a land beset by political conflict and religious turfguarding.

"Our gaze directed to Jerusalem, let us lift up our prayer to almighty God for all the peoples living in the lands of the promise. ... They share the same place of blessing, where the history of salvation has left an indelible trace," he said at the start of his long-awaited p ilgrimage.

He also spoke with realism, telling interfaith leaders in Jerusalem: "Not everything has been or will be easy in this coexistence."

At the heart of the Pope 's message was the conviction that the Holy Land can and must be a homeland for all its faiths and for all its peoples.

His path of prayer took him from Moses ' mountain in Jordan to the river where St. John performed the fi rst baptisms; to Jesus ' birth p lace in Bethlehem; to Nazareth , where Maiy received the annunciation and where Jesus grew up; lo Galilee, where Christ preached; and to Je rusalem , where he was crucified.

For the Church, this is the historical homeland , and the Pope did his best to encourage the dwindling Christian population to remain in the region where so many chapters of the Old and New Testaments were written.

He made a strong connection with the mostly Muslim Palestinian population when, preaching the justice of the Gospel, he endorsed their right to a political homeland and said their suffering as a displaced and desperate people had "gone on too long."

And, in a gesture that made one of the deepest impressions of the trip, he prayed at Judaism 's holiest place, the Western Wall, the stone remnant of the temple that for many Israeli Jews symbolizes the religious homeland they once lost and have now regained.

Like the daily reality of the Holy Land, the Pope's trip was a blend of the spiritual and the political. Jarring notes were heard on the few occasions when politics gained the upper hand.

From Israeli and Palestinian leaders came repeated claims that Jerusalem was each side's "eternal capital." The Pope ignored these assertions, and alter awhile they seemed petty and out of place ,

A prayer that begins "God of our Fathers ..." was left in a crevice of Jerusalem's Western Wall by PopeJohn Paul II March 26.

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PopeJohn Paul II makes the sign of the cross after placing a prayer in a crevice of the Western Wall March26 in Jerusalem. He was thefirst Catholic pontiff to visit Judaism 's most sacred site.

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Interreligious dialogue went off-key during a meeting presided over by the Pope in Jerusalem. Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Israel Meir Lau started it when he erroneously claimed the Pope had accepted Israel's territorial claim over Jerusalem. A Muslim cleric responded with a righteous harangue against Israeli occupation and discrimination against Palestinians.

"It's a photograp h of the reality here, " shrugged Vatican spokesman Jo aquin NavarroValls. Better that the Pope see it and hear it than "walk on the clouds," he added, But the squabbles paled next to the beautiful form the pil grimage assumed, as the Pope moved from p laces of the Old Testament to the New Testament, from the Old Law of the Ten Commandments to the New Law of the Beatitudes, and along the path of suffering and salvation walked by Jesus, from the manger in Bethlehem to the tomb in Jerusalem.

Althoug h each of his audiences viewed the Pope throu gh a different lens , they all appeared to appreciate that this man was truly on a religious pilgrimage and seemed to receive new energy from each stop. The Pope who knelt for long.periods at the holy places , hunched over in silent prayer, became more fascinating as the trip went on.

He1 made connections even where they were problematic.

In Bethlehem, a Muslim call to prayer interrupted the papal Mass. The Pope waited patiently — the picture of religious tolerance — and had his aides point out that the muezzin 's call had been abbreviated out of respect for the pontiff.

Speaking to ecumenical leaders in Jerusalem, the Pope spoke so movingly that his host, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Diodoros, added a spontaneous message th anking the Pope "from the bottom of our hearts " at the end of the ceremony.

At Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Holocaust memorial where spiraling smoke from an eternal flame hauntingly evokes the deaths of Jews in the extermination camps , the Pope met with Polish survivors, including one woman who said that in 1945 the future pontiff had personally carried her out of a prison camp and given her food and drink.

The story, which the Pope says is "possible" but which he does not specifically recall, was discussed at length on Israeli TV and seemed to introduce a significant new side of the pontiff to Israeli Jews.

At the Western Wall, the Pope amazed Jews by leaving his own written prayer in a crack of the stones, like Jews have done for centuries. It prompted one rabbi to remark, "He touched the wall and the wall touched him. " In the end, the Pope managed to bring a week of good will and good news to a region sorely in need of both. On the plane carrying him back to Rome, his spokesman, NavarroValls, was asked how the Pope managed to navigate the Holy Land's political minefields without any major explosions.

"The key thing, I think, was that the Pope told the truth to everyone, but without humiliating anyone. He spoke in charity ... and people respected that," Navarro-Valls said.

That was no small accomplishment in today's Holy Land.

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PopeJohn Paul II rides in his popemobile through the streets of Nazareth after celebratingMass March 25 at the Basilica of the Annunciation, seen in back.

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