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JournalistEvelyn Zapp ia f ilesthefirst of two personal rep orts on her recent j ourneyto the rural area of the country with CRS pe rsonnel.

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by Tom Burke Twilight years... The School of Pastoral Leadership has hit a home run with its upcoming "Spirituality of Aging" retreat on May 8. Joni Gallagher, SPL assistant director, says 300 peop le are expected to take part in the day that includes presentations , prayer and dialogue about growing older and ministering to those doing the same.

Archbishop William J. Levada has written a letter of welcome to those attending saying he is encouraged by the many faithful "interested in learning more about issues relating to the dignity of every human being ." SF Mayor Willie Brown has also tipped his hat to the undertaking in a friendl y missive where he sends his "warmest greetings" to those taking part for their "dedicated efforts on behalf of senior citizens." May, by the way, has been named month of older persons and 1999 is the International Year of folks over '???. Don't ask me what birthday starts our older years.

I've met too many people older than I who I thought were younger than I. If you 're interested in learning more about the retreat , call Joni at (415) 242-9087.

Thank you, Fathers...Father Clement A. Davenport, retiring pastor of Nativity Parish in Menlo Park, will be honored for his 50 years as a priest with a special Mass and dinner at the parish on May 15. Father Davenport has been pastor at Nativity since 1976. He served as a front line chaplain in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.. .Father John J. Reilly, former pastor of St. Bruno Parish, San Bruno and now associate director of the Archives, celebrate d his half centu ry ordained at Nativity with a special evening a few months ago... Prayer, hot dogs, hamburgers and a big dollop of love marked a birthday surprise party for Msgr.

Peter G. Armstrong, pastor, St. Pius Parish, Redwood City, at the parish school on April 16...Those ingredien ts and some "miss you alread y" tears will mark the farewell to Capuchin Father Michael Ronayne, parochial vicar at Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame at a Mass and reception on April 25. Father Mike begins ministry at the Capuchins North Mexico mission on May 1.

Attention essayists...AH entries for the annual Respect Essay Contest must be postmarked by May 9. For more information , call Mary Ann Schwab or Alice Asturias of the Respect Life Office at (415) 565-3672.

Talking about good things...Sept. 19 has been named Catechetical Sunday, a time to pray with and give thanks for the professional religious education personnel of the Archdiocese and the hundreds of volunteers who teach in after-school and weekend RE programs here. Like growing older, living our faith is something we can do side by side.

Prayerful thanks and hip, hi p hoorays to all involved in helping the young know Christ.

Suddenly there is music.. .High schoolers are hitting the board s at Archbishop Riordan and Mercy High schools, San Francisco. Riordan's "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opens April 30. Mercy 's "Cinderella" opens tonight. Many schools are represented in the cast including "Cinderella" players Amanda Chung, Rosy Svazlian, Stephanie Washington, Mercy , David Moggia, Vincent Peterson, Sacred Heart Cathedral; Jim Bonner, John Cogliandro, St. Ignatius; Jonathan Touye, Evan Tamayo, Archbishop Riordan. Among the "How to Succeed... " players are Riordan's Dominic Sahagun, Sam Lofberg ; Immaculate Conception Academy's Jackie Curran; Notre Dame, Belmont's Amarissa Kuhl; Mercy, Burlingame's Charissa Narag; Convent of the Sacred Heart's Julia Brown. "How to Succeed ... " was the first show I was ever in. I played the "book voice," an offstage role handled at Riordan by '61 alum, Ron Isola, —

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One of "Cinderella 's" songs is the lyrical "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful ," a popular audition piece for aspiring Broadway musical actors about 25 years ago.

Though I've only heard it through audition hall doors and never more than 12 bars — that 's all you ever were allowed to sing — I can assure you that it and the rest of the score are just right for a night out. (See Datebook for details) And the winner j's...Star of the Sea fifth-grader Mariane Escalona won Savings Bonds worth $1,500 in a recent Asian-American writing contest. Mariane placed second among 1,800 entries with her piece titled "A Dream to be Clara." Leading the way in the school's annual "Spellathon " with $400 in sponsorshi ps was firs t-grader Melissa Nishihama who was also last year's winner.

Second p lace winner Michelle Tusher raised $312 and third place winner Courtney Williams raised $240. A Student Council sponsored "Bingo" raised $400 for the missions. Officers are Marti n Kamau, president; Amaran Dan, vice-president; Jessica Nguyen, secretary; Stevie Jo Bien, school spirit. St. Joseph Sister Rosemarie Carroll is princi pal. Msgr. Charles Durkin is pastor.

Getting a jump on it... This Wednesday, Archbishop William J. Levada will host a lunch for pastors and leadership teams of the five parishes starting early on the educational endowment campai gn , "Today's Students Tomorrow's Leaders." Parishes are SF's St. Gabriel, Father John Ryan, pastor; Our Lady of Lourdes, Father Kirk Ullery, pastor; Epiphany, Father Bruce Dreier, pastor and St. Francis of Assisi, East Palo Alto, Father Joseph Gordon, pastor; Holy Angels, Colma, Father John Cloherty, pastor. Auxiliary Bishop John Wester; Dominican Sister Glenn Anne McPhee , Superintendent of Catholic Schools and Paul Bergez , associate superintendent for planning and development will also be there . The campai gn goal of $30 million , in conjunction with already existing scholarshi ps programs , will ultimatel y unleash more than $2 million annuall y for student aid. By the campai gn 's end thousands of parishioners will have helped on the drive as volunteers . Leading the volunteer aspect at each of the parishes are Sean Spiers, St. Gabe 's; Gus Tangan, Holy Angels; Jeanette Howard and Terry Oertel , Our Lady of Lourdes; Maryann Rouse, St. Francis of Assisi; Steve Balestrieri , Kathy Parish-Reese, Shirley Simpliciano , Dante Tayag, Maria Espinosa, Jose Lara, Epiphany. The campaign takes off in all parishes after Labor Day. They did... Lillian and Ross O'Leno recentl y celebrated their 60lh wedding anniversary with a renewal of vows at Our Lady of Mt. Cariel Parish in Mill Valley.

Father Jo seph O'Connell , himself just a few years from his 50th anniversary as a pries},, presided. .««. The t«™ Ross and Lillian O'Leno couple met when Ross was a manager of a Sunset Strip drugstore in Los Angeles and Lillian was in charge of candy. Ross retired in 1982 as CEO of his own advertising and PR firm "with offices in 16 cities." The O'Leno 's daughter, Patty Russell, with her husband , Ian, and their son, Ryan , are members of St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon. Their daughter Judy Caetano and her husband , Bill, belong to St. Mary, Star of the Sea Parish in Sausalito. The O'Leno 's older grandson , Kevin, is a Navy lieutenant and pilot recentl y named a "Top Gun ," Ross said. Ross and Lillian 's son, Lawrence, is perh aps better known as singer Larry O'Leno of the band by the same name.

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Msgr. John Pernia (second from left,top row, in photo at left), pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Daly City, distributed eggs to his parishioners Easter Sunday after the 10 a.m. Mass. In photo at right, Father Pernia is surrounded by the adult mem-

bers of the Legion of Mary who helped with the event. William Tabajonda (first row, fifth from left) with his religious education classmates helped prepare some 1,500 eggs for an Easter egg hunt on the grounds of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, Daly City.

J oy of Easter : I' believe J es us is alive in me

(Twelve-year-old William Tabajonda of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, Daly City, submitted the following Easter reflection. He is a participant in the parish religious education program where his teacher, Lucy de Luna, encouraged and helped him with his article.)

At about 11:30, my mother (Juliet) who is the cochairman of the Easter Egg Project , picked me up. We went to the social hall of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish where I joined the other children and parents who are also members of the Legion of Mary. They were working on the eggs received earlier. I could see that everyone was having fun while decorating the boiled eggs with wax crayons.

By William Tabaj onda Some of the designs we made were flowers , stars , bunnies I am proud that I was born Catholic. One of the holy days and circles. We also wrote "Happy Easter" on them. in my religion that I enjoy celebrating is Easter. This is one When all the drawings were made, we slowly dipped the occasion when I can do something for the little children. I do eggs into cups with colored water in them. We had red, not need to spend money. What I give is the time and make use green, blue, orange and yellow colors. We used circled , of the cooking lesson my mother taught me. This work that 1 wires with handles that looked like spoons so that the eggs enjoy doing is boiling eggs for our parish's Easter Egg Project. would not break. After about a minute , we took out the Last Good Friday before I went to bed I put the first eggs. Like magic, the eggs turned colorful. We also had pack of eggs on the big pot. Then I poure d some cold water plastic eggs. We put Easter candies and jell y beans in them. into the pot. On Holy Saturday I woke up early to continue The total number of eggs we worked on was around my work. It took me about 20 minutes to finish cooking 1,500. There were more eggs than egg hunters! one pack of eggs. Once the eggs are cooked, I placed them More eggs were given when we finished. Some were on a big basin . Then I poured cold water on them so that it cooked and decorated. Some were uncooked. This was why was easier to take off the shell when they were ready to eat. Mrs. Luna and my mother brought them and continued the I repeated this until all the 620 eggs were cooked. work at home.

World War II atrocities to be topic of Dominican College conference Dominican College will host a conference titled "Forgotten Holocaust" tomorrow (April 24) from 2-5 p.m. at Angelico Hall on the school's San Rafael campus, according to a spokesperson for the school.

The conference will examine atrocities against China, Korea and Southeast Asia during World War II. Participants will explore the infamous Rape of Nanking, germ warfare, and the forced slavery of "comfort women."

The conference format will include lectures providing historical backdrop, exploration of policy issues, student presentations, a theater production , poetry reading and a photographic exhibit.

Speakers will include California educators Professor Eugene Wei, Dr. Clifford Uyeda, and Professor Chungmoo Choi. _^.

The conference sponsors include Dominican College's James Irvin Multicultural Committee; the Rape of Nanking Redress Committee; the Asian Alliance of Marin; and the Japanese American Citizens League, Marin Chapter.

The photography exhibit, sponsored by the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia , will be open for viewing 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 24 through May 1 in Angelico Hall, one block from Grand Ave. at Acadia and Olive avenues.

Catholic Business Network hopes to establish Bay Area chapter

The first meeting of the Catholic Business Network in the Archdiocese will take place on April 30. CBN was fou nded in Maryland seven years ago to help Catholic business people become " actively engaged in serving others and sharing faith and values in the marketp lace."

Paul G. Zurkowski, CBN founder, will be the featured speaker.

Father Labib Kopti, chaplain to the Arab Catholic community in the Archdiocese, investigated the group, even traveling to Washington, D.C. to meet with Zurkowski.

"The Catholic Business Network can be a

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great thing for us here," Father Kopti said from St. Anne of the Sunset Parish where he is in residence and where the first meeting will be held. Father Kobti said the effort to establish the group in the Archdiocese will be "very worthwhile" as it will bring a new "support system" for Catholics trying to live their faith in all dimensions of their lives.

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During our opening and closing prayers, Mrs. Luna repeated the meaning of the Easter egg. She said: "The egg is a symbol of life. For a chick to come out , the shell has to be broken.This is the same as the case of Jesus . Jesus has to die in order to redeem us. Then on the third day, he rose from the dead ."

On Easter Sunday, our pastor Msgr. John R. Pernia distributed some Easter eggs after the 10:00 Mass. I noticed the joy on the face of my pastor when he handed the Easter eggs while say ing "Happy Easter" to the children. 1 also observed the happy faces of the child ren as they walked toward him. After the 11:30 Mass there was the Easter egg hunting in the church grounds. The children were running in all directions. Some children had to duck in order to reach the hidden eggs. Some had to ask their parents to hold the eggs they got while they continued their hunt.

I was once a little boy and I saw myself in these children. 1 am 12 years old and J do not hunt eggs anymore.

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Next year I will again work with the Legionnaires. In doing this, I believe that Jesus is alive in me. I know thai Jesus is happy with what I do.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) — Charges were dropped April 12 against the seven people arrested 10 days earlier at the International Monetary Fund for breaking the law in a prayerful Good Friday protest against Third World debt.

"We showed up at court for the arraignment , and they said, "You can go, the charges have been dropped ,'" said Scott Wright , a member of St. Aloysius Parish in Washington and a former lay missioner in El Salvador.

"Everybody was pleased," said Susan Starrs Thompson , associate director of the Columban Fathers Justice and Peace Office, another arrestee.

Had the IMF pressed charges, the seven could have faced fines and up to a year in jail.

an ambivalent way they easil y could be interpreted as being in direct contrast with Church teaching," the cardinal wrote.

He took issue point for point with the suggestions published at the end of a "Dialogue for Austria " assembly held last October in Salzburg, Austria. Roughly 300 participants came from throughout the country and included a number of bishops and members of lay groups , as well as priests and religious. The bishops did not vote on the measures.

During the Dialogue , nearly 200 delegates urged Austria 's bishops "energeticall y to engage themselves in favor " of married priests.

In a separate vote, more than 260 people supported allowing local churches and parish councils more voice in appointment of bishops.

Jubilee day for women described

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Dioceses and parishes across the nation should plan events to mark the international Jubilee Day for Women, scheduled for March 25, 2000, urged the U.S. bishops ' Committee on Women in Society and in the Church. The bishops have called for U.S. celebrations and chose as the day's theme "Women Saying Yes to God," a reference to the feast of the Annunc iation , observed that day.

Bishops endorse joint document

PERTH, Australia (CNS) — Australia 's bishops endorsed a document signed by representatives of Australian bishops and Vatican officials that spoke of a "crisis of faith" in the Catholic Church. The bishops said it was time for Catholics in Australia to engage in "prayer, reflection , discernment, responsibility and action to which the pope calls us." At their April 5-15 meeting in Sydney, the bishops also released a pastoral letter accepting Pope John Paul IPs "personal" directive that use of the Third Rite of Reconciliation , or general absolution, in Australia be kept strictly "within the conditions laid down by Church law."

Cardinal Hume has cancer

LONDON (CNS) — Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster said he is "calm and at peace" after discovering he is suffering from inoperable cancer.

A spokesman for the cardinal said the nature of the cancer had not been made public.

In a Setter to his fellow bishops in England and Wales and to priests in the Archdiocese of Westminster, the cardinal wrote: "You may have heard that I have recently been in (the) hospital for tests. The result: 1 have cancer, and it is not in its early stages.

"I have received two wonderful graces. First, I have been given time to prepare for a new future. Secondly, I find myself — uncharacteristically — calm and at peace."

Austrian p rop osals nixed

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican's leading doctrinal authority has opposed many of the recommendations from a recent discussion between' Catholics in Austria and Church officials.

The views of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, came to light when a fetter he wrote to the Austrian bishops' conference was leaked to the Vienna-based news magazine Prof il, which published it in late March .

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CAPE TOWN , South Africa (CNS) — About 25 black South African priests have called on the bishops to admit that racism still exists in the Church and to eradicate it. "We are a divided clergy, primaril y along racial lines," the African Catholic Priests Solidari ty Movement said in a "call to action " letter to the Southern African Catholic Bishops ' Conference. Bishops plan to discuss the letter at a meeting next month .

Missionary in Sierra Leone freed

ROME (CNS) — Xavierian Father Vittorio Mosele, an Italian missionary in Sierra Leone, has been released after being held for almost two months by rebel soldiers. "In 37 years of priesthood and 28 years in Sierra Leone, I never prayed so much ," the 63-year-old priest has said. The priest was kidnapped Feb. 11 from the Catholic mission at Kambi a, Sierra Leone. He spoke to reporters in Rome April 12 from the Vatican nunciature in Conakry, Guinea, which he was able to reach three days after his April 6 release.

Rap ed need support says Vatican

ROME (CNS) — Women in the Balkans pregnant through rape should be given material, emotional and spiritual support , not drugs to induce abortions , a Vatican official said. Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said in dealing with such situations, "one must distinguish between the act of violence suffered and the reality of new human beings whose lives have begun." In New York, a U.N. Population Fund spokeswoman said postrape kits distributed to refugee women were meant to give them a choice by providing drugs which induce abortion.

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Rwandan bishop 's arrest criticized

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A Rwandan bishop's arrest on suspicion of genocide has hurt the Catholic Church and disturbed Rwanda 's diplomatic ties with the Holy See, the Vatican said. "The arrest of a bishop is an act of extreme gravity which injures not only the Church in Rwanda, but the entire Catholic Church ," Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Vails said in a statement April 15, the day after Bishop Augustin Misago of Gikongoro-was taken into "preventative detention " in the Rwandan cap ital of Kigali and held for trial. The 56-year-old bishop was said to have participated in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of more than 500,000 members of the country's Tutsi minority and moderates from the Hutu majority.

Urges bishops to admi t racism

Commuters in Pompano Beach, Fla., may have a valid reason for thinking gridlock has reached biblical proportions, if they believe a light-hearted billboard. Other area signs read "What part of Thou shalt not...' didn't you understand? — God" and "Think it's hot here? — God"

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican expressed concern over plans to build a mosque in front of the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth , Israel, saying the project was proposed by outsiders and is seen by many as a "provocation." The Vatican also called on Israel to take measures to curb violence at the site , where clashes between Muslims and Christians broke out on Easter. The Vatican said the papal nuncio to Israel, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, had expressed the Holy See's concerns to the Israeli government April 14. It denied reports Pope John Paul II had written Israeli authorities about the mosque plans.

Counsel: heed lost tax status story

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The chief legal counsel of the U.S. bishops said Catholic parishes should take note of how a Protestant church ran afoul of the Internal Revenue Service and lost its tax-exempt status. "The IRS takes the enforcement of the tax code seriously," said Mark Chopko, head of the bishops ' Office of General Counsel in Washington. In the tax case, the Church at Pierce Creek near Binghamton, N.Y., had its tax-exempt status revoked for running newspaper advertisements against Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign in 1992. The ads, which ran in USA Today and The Washington Times, warned, "Christians Beware," adding, "Bill Clinton is promoting policies that are in rebellion to God's laws." The ads also sought donations to help pay their cost.

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WASHINGTON (CNS)—After 30 years of decline, new figures indicate U.S. Catholic seminary enrollments have stabilized and could be on an upward trend. The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, an independent Catholic research agency based at Georgetown University, reported there were 3,386 post-college seminarians and 1,556 college-level seminarians at the start of the 1998-99 school year.

The college figure was 40 seminarians higher than the previous year. The post-college figure was 228 higher.

I Jacinta and Francisco Mario are pictured with their cousin Lucia dos Santos (right) in a file photo ta ken around the time of the 1917 apparitions of Mary at Fatima, Portugal. The beatification process for the Martos has cleared a major hurdle , said a priest involved in the process. The Marto children died young. Lucia , a Carmelite nun, is still living.

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O RDINARY T IME Challenge of megalopolis discussed in Bogota the first time in several days the sun came out in For Bogota , where I had been invited to partici pate in a meeting of bishops to reflect on the new challenges posed by the phenomenon of "megapolis" — or as we say in English, the "megalopolis," which is defined in my Webster's dictionary as "a very large city," or "a thickl y populated region centering in a metropolis or embracing several metropolises."

From the colonial part of old Bogota, built in a valley at about 8,300 feet between two ranges of the Andes mountains in Colombia, we ascended the mountain range which provides the backdrop of the nation 's capital to the shrine of Monserate . The Archdiocese there owns both the shrine and the means to get there: a "telefe'rico" (suspended cable cars much favored in ski resorts), which we took on our ascent, and a funicular (cable) railway, which brought us back.

We celebrated Mass in the shrine of Cristo Cafdo, the Fallen Christ, a figure familiar to us from our devotion of the Stations of the Cross. The shrine church also contains a replica of the black Madonnna of Monserrat , a Catalan Benedictine monastery near Barcelona , whose access is guaranteed by a similar "teleferico." From this vantage point at about 10,000 feet, one can view almost the entire valley, now occupied by Bogota 's 7 million people in a typical recentl y created "megapolis" whose expansion almost defies civil administration to keep up with the services and traffic, and which represents a significant new challenge for bishops who are called to give pastoral oversight to the vast crowds of people who daily flock to these cities, mainly for economic reasons.

The Archbishop of Bogota, Pedro Rubiano Saenz, showed great insight in providing us with such a dramatic site for the concluding Mass and luncheon of our conference on the problems and needs of the megalopolis. About 25 bishops had been invited to join a few experts to reflect together on this question. The invitees included Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, of Newark, N.J., and myself from the U.S., plus bishops from Paris and Madrid in Europe; Nairobi in Africa; Bombay in India; and from many cities

in Latin America: Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo in Brazil; La Paz, Bolivia; Caracas, Venezuela; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Medellin , Colombia; together with officials of CELAM (Consejo Episcopal Latino America), a coordinating body of the bishops ' conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean area.

With experts offering position papers, we were able to focus our attention on data about this new phenomenon from various perspectives: sociology, religious activity, and diocesan pastoral organization. It is true that each participant reflected from a unique perspective; yet we had much in common, thanks to the common thread of "globalization " which provided much th at each one of us could recognize applied in our situation as well as the others.

Loneliness, alienation, rootlessness — these are common phenomena in the great urban metropolises no matter what the continent.

How to conceive parish structures in the service of the "megapolis": CELAM had had a successive recommendation in the meetings which united all the bishops of Latin America after the Second Vatican Council. Medellin (1968) called for a "renewed parish" structure; Puebla (1978) called for super-parochial structures to confront the needs of the urban Church; Santo Domingo (1992) suggested the Church needed to see parishes as a "community of communities". Now, I gathered, there was less unanimity about the pastoral strategy th an before.

Within the context of increasing globalization , what to do about the growing multicultural phenomenon of the megalopolis, and how to serve the people of so many different edinic, racial and linguistic backgrounds. Surely this will call for a more sweeping sense of our common purpose and shared resources throughout America, indeed throughout the world. This new sense was one of the principal reasons for the various continental Synods of Bishops called

by Pope John Paul II in preparation for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000.

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preparation for the new and third millennium of Christianity? Is our primary task that of evangelization in the new cities, or also evangelization of the new cities? And how do we marshal our resources for either or both of these tasks?

Furthermore, how do we become agents of change in helping to create the new urban structures which are needed to overcome the growing separation of the rich and the poor, the elements of behavior produced by the drug culture, by the cult of individual freedom at the expense of solidarity, by the challenge of attending to the spiritual side of our human nature when so much energy has to be expanded on surv ival for the vast majority, on "getting ahead" for the lucky few?

Before answers can be found , we must first make sure we know the questions. This CELAM conference was a blessing for all of us who partici pated insofar as it ,posed many of the questions which now can lead us on a search for answers, to help us be better pastors for the cities of the 21st century, at the beginning of the third millennium of Christianity .

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Catholic 'presence' en route to Sacramento May 1

By Tom Burke Catholics from around the state including a contingent from the Archdiocese of San Francisco will take part in Lobby Day on May 11 in Sacramento.

"Lobby Day is getting as many Catholics as possible from all the dioceses in California to Sacramento to lobby legislators about issues important to Catholics," said George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese. "It can show our unity as a Church, our presence and our concern about public policy affecting the poor and the marginalized. It also serves as a way for our people to become more educated and more aware about the political process and what effect they can have."

Wesolek said the day will include instruction on how to lobby, an update on issues sensitive to Catholics and prearranged visits with legislators for the new lobbyists.

"It means a lot to a legislator when members of his or her constituency come forward and let their views be known," he said.

Wesolek said the "short session on how to lobby" will include tips on what to say and not say. "Don't call the per-

son a name when you first walk in," Wesolek laughed, adding that it's important to "make a relationship."

Continuing the process is also important , he noted.

"Ask the legislator something specific at the end and let him or her know that you will be following up with a letter. Then keep your connection with the legislator so he or she knows your concern and that you 're watching and that they 're accountable ."

Wesolek said the day is for any Catholic who wants to participate. "We'll have at least one bus going from the Archdiocese and hopefull y more," he said. "We want to make it as easy as possible for peop le to experience the day and return to their parishes energ ized to educate more people about the issues and get more peop le in the process."

"On May 11 legislators will be hearing from Catholics as Catholics," Wesolek pointed out. Catholics are everywhere "in great numbers," he said "but not as an institution or people of God who want to say something about public policy."

Another hope for Lobby Day is that it will expand the Legislative Network instituted here by Wesolek's office.

The system is used to spread information about pending

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"We want the network to grow and this is a way to do that," Wesolek said. "When people meet face to face with somebody it 's a whole new experience and they realize they've made a difference and that they reall y can do something to change the law or help the poor. Lobby Day helps all around. It energizes people, educates them and spreads the word to neighbors, friends and fellow parishioners."

"We're inviting Catholics of California to come out and lobby," said Ned Dolejsi, executive directo r of the California Catholic Conference which is sponsoring this year's Lobby Day. This is the first statewide event like this in recent times, Dolejsi said, and all social just ice, family life, respect life, ethnic ministries, Catholic schools, Catholic Charities and campus ministry entities in the state 's 10 dioceses and two archdioceses have been encouraged to send delegations.

"We want to enter the Church's continuous ethic of life and its lived experience among people who are poor, suffering and otherwise in need into the debate about public policy and budgets," Dolejsi said.

"We want Lobby Day to be an empowering experience for Catholics," Dolejsi added.

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Bishop Carlson to address symposium Melkite-Greek bishop schedules Sioux Falls, S.D. Bishop Robert Carlson, former chair of the U.S. bishops ' Committee for Vocations, will liturgy, talks at St. Mary Cathedral be keynote speaker at a day-long, regional symposium on religious vocations tomorrow at St. Mary's Cathedral and the campus of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.

Hosted by Archbishop William J. Levada and the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the event is designed primaril y for persons in vocations ministry, priests, deacons, persons in religious formation , according to Father Craig Forner, director of the archdiocesan Office for Vocations who is coordinating the day. Information is available through the vocations office, (415) 565-3618.

Other scheduled speakers are Mercy Sister Lenore Greene who will address the topic of women religious, and Marianist Brother Thomas Redmond who will speak on men 's religious vocations.

A $10 fee will include box lunch.

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Monterey Bishop Sylvester D. Ryan will be keynote speaker at the California Association of Natu ral Family Planning Conference in Salinas on May 8. Also speaking will be NFP author and advocate Janet Smith, Ph.D. For more information , call Gloria Gillogley at (650) 345-9076.

"Natural Family Planning information is available in the Archdiocese ," Gillogley said. Contacts are Susan McConneloug at (415) 457-8394 and Ann Green at (650) 638-1567.

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Bishop Nicholas Samra, auxiliary of the Melkite-Greek Catholic Eparch y of Newton will deliver two talks and be a celebrant of a Byzantine Catholic liturgy May 1 at St. Mary's Cathedral.

At 12:45 p.m. in the Cathedral Conference Center he will speak on Stewardship in Eastern Christian Tradition.

At 145 p.m. Bishop Samra is scheduled to talk on the initiative to restore communion between the Greek Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

"Here is an opportunity for Roman Catholics to understand and appreciate the history of the Byzantine Catholic tradition , which originated in the Holy Land and Middle East, and is one of several Eastern Christian traditions that contribute to the universality of the Church ," said Father James Graham, pastor of St. Elias the Prophet Mission in Los Gatos, the Melkite Catholic community in the South Bay. Bishop Samra , an international ly-known lecturer on ecumenical topics, parish leadership, and stewardship, will visit the Bay Area "in response to our invitation co-sponsored by the Society of St John Chrysostom — a group dedicated to fostering better relations between Eastern and Western Christians — along with us, St. Elias Melkite Mission, the Orientale Lumen Foundation , and Our Lady of Fatima Byzantine Catholic Church ," according to Father Graham. ¦¦

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Jesuit Father Steven Armstrong, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Byzantine Catholic Church , the only Byzantine Catholic parish of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, will briefly introduce and explain the liturgy of the Byzantine Church.

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St. Step hen Parish continues its education 'j ourney'

The April 18 groundbreaking ceremony at St. Stephen Parish to formall y launch construction of a 7,900-square-foot onestory addition to the parish school '"is a continuation of our community 's journey that started in 1952," Father Joseph Walsh , pastor, told those in attendance.

In the crowd was Mercy Sister Mary Georgina , founding princi pal of St. Stephen Elementary who said she remembers the early days well. "I started Sept. 22, 1952. In those days, the area was not developed like it is today. The sisters lived at Merc y Hi gh School and we had to walk up a steep hill to go home. Our dail y slogan was , 'Mount the slope joyfully'," she said.

Present princi pal , Mercy Sister Paulina Simms, lauded parishioners and pastor. "In an extraordinary short period of time ," she said, "our capital campaign raised $1.5 million. We staited in September 1998 and reached our goal Dec. 8. Without the support and hard work of Father Walsh , this project would not be."

Parochial vicar, Father Paul Warren, born and raised in San Francisco's St. Cecilia Parish , admits to being impressed with the community after being with St. Stephen's for only a few months. "Education is an important part of the life of this parish. The many young families who worship here

At left, St. Stephen pastor , Father Joseph Walsh , addresses parishioners and guests at last Sunday 's ground breaking.

In photo at right, doing their best to actually break ground are , from left, sixth-grader Brian Holl, firstgrader Brett Lynch, principal Sister Paulina Simms helping second-grader Janie Bruno , and eighth-grader Ong-Dee Liu.

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A Vatican-based group to promote Islamic-Cath olic understanding also decried violence in the Balkans and called on spiritual and political leaders to help restore peace to the regi'on.

In an April 10 statement released at the Vatican and in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , the Islamic-Catholic Liaison VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After more than three Committee said it strongly condemns the harm weeks of air strikes and ethnic cleansing in done" in the Kosovo conflict "to innocent civilians, Yugoslavia, Pope J ohn Pau l II prayed that dialogue particularl y women, children and the elderly, and be given a new chance to resolve the conflict. all violati ons of human dignity and human rights. " Speaking at the end of a canonization Mass in The committee also urged "all people who St. Peter 's Square April 18, the pope said he was believe in the one God and particular religious deeply wonied about continuing bloodshed in leaders to use their influence to bring about a perYugoslavia, which he described as "a suffering and manent and just solution to the underlying probmartyred land. " lems, encourage urgent humanitarian aid, and so "May the strength of peaceful coexistence and restore peace for all the inhabitants of the region." dialogue prevail over ethnic abuse and the violence In Ottawa, Canadian church leaders used their of weapons!" he declared. first meeting with the prime minister in 16 years The pope's remarks came a day after a.Jesuit to call for a moratorium on the NATO bombing magazine, La Civilta Cattolica , outlined a possible campaign. cease-fire plan based on an immediate halt to ethnic The closed meeting with Prime Minister Jean cleansing and NATO bombing. The plan was Chretien and Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd believed to reflect Vatican thinking, because the Axworthy A pril 15 followed an appeal from the magazine 's articles receive prior review by the Canadian Council of Churches to the pri me minVatican's Secretariat of State. ister asking for renewed diplomatic efforts for a The main points of the plan were: negotiated solution to the conflict.

• An immediate halt to military operations by the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle of Yugoslav army and the Serb police against the Belgrade, Yugoslavia, used his Easter message to as Kosovo population. ippeal for an end to NATO attacks. Orthodox • The suspension of air strikes by NATO to open the :hurches celebrated Easter Apri l 11. way for negotiations to provide Kosovo with a prop o "NATO has caused terrible suffering and er degree of autonomy.

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• A peace conference that would involve neighborAn elderly ethnic Albanian woman peers through a barbed wire The message said Kosovo is a part of the ing states. fence at the Brazda refugee camp in Macedonia. Some family Serbian fatherland , "which, up until World War • Creation of an international peace force to maintain members have been separated in their flight from Kosovo.

II , rightfully carried the title 'Old Serbia,' which order in Kosovo. represents today and for all time will continue to • Reinsertion of the United Nations into the peace for Kosovar refugees and to pray for an end to the "ethnic- represent the cradle of Serbia and the spiritual center of all process. of Orthodox Serbdom." hatred that has plagued central Europe for centuries. " • A key role for the Organization for Security and The patriarch said a solution must be found by which The cardinal said , "The cleansing that we need is not Cooperation in Europe , which has valuable experiethnic cleansing but a purification of our human hearts the Serbian people can live in Kosovo and Metohija "in ence in the area. from every trace of racial and ethnic prejudice. " peace and freedom, together with the Albanians and all Meanwhile, the Vatican newspaper, VOsservatore He criticized NATO 's bombing of Serbia , saying it was other peoples, all equall y sharing the same rights."

Romano, which has criticized (he escalation of the not the answer to the crisis and only "seems to have solid- Metohija is a region in Kosovo. conflict, condemned what it called the "atrocious ified support for (Serbian President Slobodan) Milosevic "Instead of a criminal war of conquest and death , we practice" of ethnic cleansing against the ethnic and hastened his plan to drive out the Kosovars."

Orthodox Christians above all must act according to and Albanian population of Kosovo.

After three weeks of the U.S.-led NATO air strikes must offer to the process our experience of the cross and against Yugoslavia, some theologians and ethicists viewed resurrection ," said Patriarch Pavle. the crisis as meeti ng the just-war criteria more than when the bombing first began, "It's a different issue now than it was three , weeks ago," said William French , associate professor of theology at Loyola University in Chicago and a co-founder of the school's Peace Studies Program.

Servite Father John Pawlikowski , professor of ethics at Chicago's Catholic Theological Union, believes the NATO action "barely qualifies" as a just war. He said he has "a strong proclivity for peace ," but believes "something has to be done to permanently end the ethnic cleansing."

Meanwhile, in Tokyo, the Japanese Committee of the World Conference on Religion and Peace appealed for an end to the NATO air strikes.

Throug h its president , Cardinal Peter Seiichi Shirayanagi of Tokyo, the committee urged the leaders of NATO governments to "refrain from military action in the future" and instead to use "dialogue and other diplomatic means" to end the crisis.

The committee said it valued "the efforts in the cause of peace and the security of the world by the NATO member nations." However, it said it opposed the use of violence to resolve international disputes "since it victimizes precious human lives."

The statement also called on the government of Yugoslavia "to regain the trust and respect of the people of Kosovo" and the region by putting the "highest priority on the lives of its citizens."

In Rome, the Vatican's foreign minister said the chief diplomatic concern in the Balkans is to persuade both sides to recognize the consequences of their actions and end the suffering of innocent civilians.

Findi ng a balance between combating evil and "the consequences of the therapy applied is always delicate," said Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, the Vatican's chief diplomat .

A young Kosovo refugee rests on his grandmother 's knee after crossing the mountainous region between "No state can violate human rights hiding behind the Yugoslavia and Albania. screen of national sovereignty," Archbishop Tauran said.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Theolog ians differed whether the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia constitutes a "just war," but religious leaders around the world pleaded for negotiation to replace the military assault.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II will beatify Padre Pio da Pietrelcina May 2, advancing the sainthood cause of a Capuchin friar known to millions worldwide for his holiness as a confessor and his mystical experience of the faith.

One of the most popular Church figures of the 20th century, Padre Pio was controversial in the eyes of the Vatican, which investi gated his activities , temporarily sus-

and almost immediately began informing small hospital next to the monastery in his superiors that he was experiencing spir- 1925 — the forerunner to a much largeritual and physical signs, along with a num- health complex he had built in the 1950s. ber of health problems. ____ After years of minBeginning in 1918, istering to long fines of at the age of 30, the penitents , and after priest reported bleedsuffering several more ing from his hands , bouts with illness , feet and side — the Padre Pio died in 1968. "stigmata" wounds of Pope John Paul had Christ 's crucifixion. a personal role in the Also see Vatican Letter, page 13 The wounds were said friar's story. As a young pended him from most of his priestly min- to have lasted 50 years, priest in 1947, die pope istries and kept him under a watchful eye in until his death. confessed to Padre Pio. the 1930s and '40s.

According to biograThen in 1962, as bishIn recent years, Church authorities have phers, Padre Pio was op of Krakow, Poland , reviewed the accusations, which involved uneasy about such he wrote to Padre Pio alleged corruption and immorality, and found phenomena, declaring, and asked prayers for a no evidence of wrongdoing. On the contrary, "I only want to be a friend who was diagthey said, these trials only highlighted Padre friar who prays." nosed with throat canPio's deep obedience to the Church.

Padre Pio's alleged cer. Only 11 days later, "We can say he was an authentic saint, signs and special powthe cancer inexplicably Padre Pio da Pietrelcina whom the devil tried to cover with mud," ers soon helped attract disappeared. said Italian Bishop Andrea Erba, who helped massive crowds to his southern Italian The pope has praised Padre Pio for his prepare a report on Padre Pio in 1997. monastery in San Giovanni Rotondo. His dedication to the sacraments and his personBorn Francesco Forgione in 1887 to a Capuchin superiors tried to limit his public al holiness. Many others who made pilgrimpoor family near Italy 's Adriatic coast, he appearances and planned to transfer the ages to San Giovanni Rotondo and waited entered the local Capuchin nov itiate at the priest , but they backed down after popular days to confess to Padre Pio said- they were age of 15. He was ordained a priest in 1910 outcry. Wi th donations , Padre Pio opened a impressed most by his deep sense of faith ,

his humility, and his simple yet profound manner of awakening their spiritual thirst.

Those who knew him well said the priest 's occasional bluntness was balanced by a gentle manner with sinners.

He often spent 10-12 hours per day in the confessional. Much of the rest of the day he spent 'in prayer in a bare monasti c cell , or saying long Masses for the faithful who packed the monastery's church. One Italian priest described Padre Pio as "a saint not of action but of the Passion."

Padre Pio's popularity has grown in the years since his death. The huge crowds expected for the beatification Mass in Rome have created an unprecedented logistical problem. City officials reached agreement with the Vatican on limiting attendance in St. Peter 's Square to 150,000. The rest — which some estimate at an additional 200,000 — will watch the Mass on giantscreen TV at a larger square in front of the Basilica of St. John Lateran , where the pope will deliver a blessing afterward.

Fears of traffic gridlock were so great Rome's mayor encouraged city residents to leave town for the weekend. School has been canceled the day before the beatification to make that possible.

St. Mary's College, Merrill Lynch plan symposium to explore 'digital ethics'

The School of Economics and Business Administration (SEBA) at St. Mary 's College in Moraga, with funding from the Merrill Lynch Foundation , will bring together senior corporate executives , employee and consumer rights advocates, business educators , religious leaders , and governmental policy makers April 27 to discuss and debate digital age privacy issues and their ethical and public policy implications , according to the college.

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"Hopefull y," said Edwin M. Epstein, dean of the college's SEBA, "insights and perspectives will emerge from these sessions that will be helpful in shaping public policy around the new information technologies."

As the popularity of the Internet grows — and specifically the popularity of electronic commerce — the potential for abuse of the technology also grows. As government and business find new ways to access information , private individuals feel more

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disaster of Mitch," said Gay, noting that the storm s brutal power had affected 750,000 people.

Also, help had come quickly from the Archdiocese of San Francisco , according to Kerry Hodges at CRS head quarters in Baltimore, Md. "We received $182, 151 directly from San Francisco and it was sent immediately to assist the victims, " she said. In addition , CRS received two significant gifts directly from individuals in the Archdiocese — one for $100,000, another for $25,000.

Story and photos by Evel yn Zapp ia Evelyn Zappia, Catholic San Francisco featuiv editor, took a whirlwind journey to rural Guatemala April 6-9 as the working guest of Catholic Relief Services. The overseas relief agency of U.S. Catholics, CRS has been at the forefront of the massive relief effort that continues in Central America following last November 's devastating Hurricane Mitch. Following is the first of two personal report/reflections.

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The site of the cows made me uneasy for I was on my way to a Catholic Relie f Services foud distribution gathering for the victims most affected by the hurricane.

I didn 't know what to expect . I onl y knew the recipients had lost everything.

It was a day for bittersweet celebration. After months of waiting, CRS had received the fust complete shipment of food from the United States, 460 tons worth.

It had been sitting in Guatemala City for months.

Why ? "No one reall y knows," sighed Barbara Gay, emergency response coordinator for CRS in Guatemala.

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Hurricane Mitch created two classes of poor, CRS officials in Guatemala said, the extreme poor and the very extreme poor. A seemingly impossible statement to understand , yet it is the criteria CRS follows to assign assistance.

The extreme poor are those who needed help before the hurricane. The very extreme poor are those who harvested the land to survive and the floods destroyed their capacity to feed themselves. Also, because the hurricane wiped out as much as 90 percent of the fruit plantations, plantation workers have been classified as the very extreme poor.

Hundreds, mostly women and children waiting in a field protected from the sun by almond trees, watched the CRS truck filled with supplies drive up. Most of these families had registered for assistance months ago.

For a crowd filled with children, it seemed somber. Children held onto parents and the parents waited quietly for their names to be called.

A woman in the crowd holding a baby boy told me, "He is my hurricane baby." The infant was born shortly before Mitch struck. Irma Gonzales recalled the happiness of bearing a child and then the feeling of desperation trying to keep him alive as the raging waters rose to her shoulders. She watched her house and belongings drift away. The family sought refuge at the local Franciscan parish at I Santa Cruz.

I approached another woman and asked about the hurricane that hit her village. "I do not want to remember that day," she told me.

Somewhere in the crowd, a man announced, "We have journalists from America who will tell their country of the great need here in Guatemala." The people clapped. I felt self-conscious and unworth y.

While p iles of beans, rice, corn-soy blend, and cooking oil were being unloaded from the truck a woman with a child in her arms approached Gay. "My family

is sick and hungry.

We did not register, is there any food for us?" she asked.

Gay answered , "You'll have to wait and see if there is anything left after all the family names are called."

Gay turned away, obviousl y shaken. "I don 't want to give her too much hope. 1 don ' t really have an answer," she confided softlv.

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I wandered away from the crowd and was astonished to see a man many years beyond the 55 year life expectan-

"What is your secre t lo a long life?"

I asked. Me answered * hiGod blesses me and. milks on earth i i ?*w?, M cy of most indigenous Guatemalan s standing in front of his house made of sticks. Earlier, Gay had told me the life expectancy of the indigenous peop les is 55. I wanted to learn more about this man who had far exceded that expectation.

At 93, Juan Perone has outlived his entire family. Lack of medical attention has left him blind. The cataracts in his eyes are so severe that his pupils are barely visible.

Until last year, he cut and carried wood for survival.

"Now," he said, "the sun hurts my eyes. I can no longer work."

Perone relies on the kindness of his nei ghbor, Amalia Barrientos de Grajeda , a young mother of two.

I asked Perone if he had any health secrets I could bring back to America for my dad . He giggled. "1 know he won 't do this but, tell him to drink turtle blood." We laughed together.

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On my return to the food distribution site, there was good news. Twelve families had not needed the CRS assistance. The men had found jobs. It meant extra food — enough for the mother and others who had requested it. Since CRS bases donation amounts on eight members per family (the average number of children is 6.7), the "extra" food helped nearly 100 people.

For a famil y of eight a three.ittionth ration distributed by Catholic Relief Services includes 24 lbs. of beans, 24 lbs. of corn-soy blend, 48 lbs. of rice, and 3 liters of cooking oil.

CRS had arranged for our group to have lunch with a Guatemalan family. Maria and Mario Martinez Frederico have three boys and one girl. Their house consists of one room about 10' x 12' in size. The cooking and eating areas are outside , shaded by almond trees they planted three years ago. On the outside of the tiny structure they had religious pictures, including an image Pope John Paul II. Sitting at the outdoor table, I looked down to discover chickens surrounded me. Their scrawny bodies showed visible signs of hunger, just like the cows. Yet, somehow Me was going on for them as well because behind them 12 baby chicks were marching and chirping away.

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The coupons would be used to reunite the youngsters with their parents who were forced to flee Guatemala following death threats and an assassination attempt on the father, explained Judy Liteky, the parishioner heading up the local effort.

Last year, Jacquelyn Newman, an immigration attorney and a St. John of God parishioner, represented the Guatemalan couple before the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in their application for political asylum. The father had been one of the roughly 400 "animators of reconciliation ," persons who helped gather information for the "Remembering Our History Project " spearheaded by Guatemala City 's Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi.

The "Remembering " project documented thousands of accounts from people who suffered human rights violations during the country 's 36-year civil war.

Bishop Gerardi was found bludgeoned to death last April 26, two days after he had made the official presentation of the human rights report. The report singled out the military and those closely associated with it as largely responsible for the violence and oppression.

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To support CRS efforts in Guatemala, persons can send checks to Catholic Relief Services and mark them "Guatemala Disaster ". Call them to the attention of Kerry Hodges, P.O. Box 17090, Baltimore Md , 21203-7090.

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After only minutes at the table, the heat caught up to me. I became dizzy and my face turned bright red. The famil y 's concern for me was overwhelming. As I stood in the kitchen area with buckets of water dousing me, I p leaded with Gay to tell me the water was not the family 's rations. "Don 't worry," she said. "This is their contaminated well water."

The floods of hurricane Mitch filled latrines and washed away good topsoil. Human and animal feces spilled into the wells, contaminating water for thousands.

The clean-up is a major CRS project. Hundreds of parishioners from local Catholic churches are being taught the well water clean-up process. CRS estimates the cost to complete the project will approach $J .2 million.

I went back to the hotel that night feeling proud to be a Catholic, and grateful for the Catholic heritage my have parents given me. I thought about my Church and its generous members who, through Catholic Relief Services , are helping the people of Guatemala through one of Central America' s worst natural disasters.

And CRS was here before the disaster and will remain well after it is only a dramatic memory.

A few days in Guatemala and 1,000 kilometers in a Jeep does not create an expert. But I didn 't have to be one to see the tremendous work CRS is doing , and the great need for it.

CRS profile...

Catholic Relief Services was established in 1943 by the U.S. bishops, largely to reach out to those in need in Europe following World War EI. Today it provides assistance to millions of persons in more than 80 countries.

CRS of Guatemala was formed in 1964. When Hurricane Mitch struck last Nov. 1, CRS personnel responded immediately — distributing food , potable water, medicines, hygiene items, bedding, shelter materials and other aid. The agency reached an estimated 120,000 during the weeks immediately after the storm.

The annual special collection for Latin America is scheduled in parishes of the Archdiocese as well as much of the country this weekend. According to the U.S. bishops ' Secretariat for Latin America, funds in excess of the average $4.5 million collection rate will be earmarked for hurricane affected areas of the Caribbean and Central America.

Information on CRS activities is available through its Internet website: www.catholicreIief.org

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The eldest of the children was able to fly to San Francisco last week, thanks to a Frequent Flyer donation the parish had received. Six children remain.

Over the past 13 years St. John of God parishioners have assisted 12 families to be reunited with members who have won political asylum here. It has also arranged for the transportation of three children — two Russian and one Chinese — so they could be adopted here, said Sheni Maurin, Frequent Flyer coordinator.

"Unfortunately," Maurin said, "the 35,000-mile blocks must come from one individual in a unit. We used to have a program where we could accept donations of any amount and accrue the miles to make a ticket, but United has discontinued that program."

Individuals interested in donating Frequent Flyer coupons to the parish can fax Maurin at (415) 826-3551; or e-mail her at smaurin@aol.com A memorial Mass for Bishop Gerardi will be celebrated this Sunday at St. John of God at 9:30 a.m. to mark the one-year anniversary of the prelate 's slaying, according to Maurin.

There will also be a memorial Mass in his honor the same day at 1 p.m. at St. Mary 's Cathedral, organized b y the Guatemalan community living in the Bay Area.

Tolerance not issue

Remembering Bishop Gerardi of Guatemala

One year ago on April 24 Guatemala City Auxiliary Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi Conedera publicly presented a human rights report on Guatemala 's 36-year civil war. The 1400-page document had been carefull y prepared by the Archdiocesan Human Rights Office , which Bishop Gerard i headed.

Titled "Guatemala: Never Again ," the report documented extensive violations of human rights and international law during the long civil war, in which some 200,000 Guatemalans , mostly indigenous Mayan s, had been killed. The report attributed responsibility for the great majority of human rights violations to the Guatemalan army, paramilitary groups and other official forces.

Two days after releasing the report , Bishop Gerardi was brutally murdered in his home in Guatemala City. Bishop Gerardi had long been Guatemala 's most prominent human rig hts advocate.

In the year since the murder, the conduct of the investigation by Guatemalan officials has been characterized by bizarre actions and unsubstantiated claims, including the arrest of a disabled man, the imprisonment of a priest and charges against his dog. Conversely, the police have completely ignored substantiated inform ation pointing to the involvement of state agents in the killing .

Meanwhile, the Guatemalan courts involved in the case have been in chaos, marked by the withdrawal of two judges, the resignation of a prosecutor and actions by government officials designed to obscure or deny clear evidence implicating the military.

Last month, the United Nations Mission to Guatemala issued a scathing condemnation of the government 's handling of the Gerardi investigation.

Even now, members of the Archdiocesan Human Rights Office there continue to receive death threats and face intimidation. Only a week ago. armed men raided the house of the current director of the Archdiocesan Human Rights Office while he was away. The men tied up the housekeeper, threatened the director's 4-year-old son and the housekeeper with a pistol and searched the premises. After going through the director 's personal effects, the gang left a box containing a rock and a piece of concrete, similar to the material used last year to club Bishop Gerard i to death.

The anniversary of Bishop Garardi's murder, and the absence of justice in the case, are sad reminders of the entrenched position that the forces of evil may attain and hold. It also is a grim reminder of what some have called a staggering instance of genocide in the Western Hemisphere. A reminder that comes in the midst of ongoing ethnic violence in Yugoslavia, daily reports of continued ethnic killing in East Timor, and in the recent memory of ethnic hatred and killing in Rwanda. Indeed, the list of ethnic atrocities perpetrated b y humankind in this century weighs heavy on the human spirit.

Yet, to give in to the temptation of despair and hopelessness would betray the sacrifices made by those, like Bishop Gerardi, who believe that God's power—working through us — will prevail over hatred and violence.

A memorial Mass for Bishop Gerardi will take place at St. Mary 's Cathedral at 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 25. The Spanish-language Mass is organized by the Guatemalan community, and a reception will follow the Mass.

Earlier on Sunday, a memorial Mass will be celebrated at St. John of God Church at 9:30 a.m. to mark the one-year anniversary of Bishop Gerardi's death.

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available to develop Third World economies is to link them to the wealth of the Msgr. John J. O'Connor 's expressed First World: wealth is increased by being (in his April 9 letter to the editor) his supshared. And the most obvious hindrance to port for a "tolerant , classicall y liberal city." this at present is trade barriers , most He explained that "leadership" is needed to notably, but not exclusively, the European "foster tolerance" toward sexual and moral Union 's restrictions on banana imports. deviancy as an acceptable and beneficial Trade restrictions steal from the best proelement in the community of San ducers , who are often the poorest.

Francisco. Jesus Christ did not preach a Secondly, debt forgiveness is handled by gospel of tolerance or liberality. On the ban kruptcy procedures. Several countries contrary, he spoke very directl y about sin have gone bankrupt over the years, and our and its consequences. The mission of his precarious world state has developed techChurch is to lead souls to God. Msgr. niques for this act of mercy. But bankruptcy O'Connor seems to have forgotten that must impose obligations on the person or moral correction is a supreme act of charicommunity forgiven. And that is why the IMF, ty. It appears he replaced moral correction Paris Club, etc. cannot forgive all Thud World with tolerance (as being the supreme act of debt in one act. They are in fact working to charity). The Church needs to exercise her alleviate the effects of previous government responsibility to move sinners to , profligacy, and several bankruptcy repentance, whether they are found agreements have been made; it was in the civil or private arenas . wrong of Dr. Weare to ignore this fact.

Tolerance to sin does not Thirdly, the dominance of debt strengthen the Body of Christ, but financing is itself a problem. Dt rather serves only to weaken and 23:19 says it is wrong to lend money destroy it. God the Father did not tolat interest. The proper mode of erate his people's actions in the days of financing economic development is Noah. He did not tolerate the actions equity investment . It is because govof the people in the cities of Sodom ernments (Third World ones) have and Gomorra. He did not tolerate the insisted on debt financing rather action of his chosen people, the than equity investment that today 's Israelites, when at many times in their big debt problem has arisen. Julius history, they strayed from his laws.

Nyerere of Tanzania provides a Jesus Christ did not tolerate the gross example of what happens actions of the woman found in adulwhen government organizes productery. In fact he commanded her to tion so as to make equity investment "go and sin no more." He did not tolimpossible. And Nyerere was erate the people of any city when he repeatedly democraticall y elected, instructed his discip les to "shake the so we can blame the people of dust (of the town) from their feet as Tanzania, just as we can blame the a testimony to their unrepentence." people of California for all the debt Christ did not espouse Msgr. with which this state and its subordiO'Connor's views of tolerance . In nate entities are burdened. fact he became man so as to end What cannot be paid for by equiman 's tolerance to sin. If tolerance is ty investment should be paid for by all that is required , then Christ would taxes (either of the beneficiary state or not have needed to suffer and die for of donor states). When an equity sin! If we do not identify ourselves | investment fails, (he investor has lost with Christ and Christ crucified , then part of his investment; when a debt-financed we are not worthy of him! enterprise fails, interest and capital must still Divine love is hard. Sometimes, it can cost be paid to the investor. Of course, an equity us our families, friends and even our beloved investor is generally more careful than a debt city ! Msgr. O'Connor, we need to look no furprovider: another reason for God' s prohibition ther for leadership than to Christ the King ! of interest.

Joseph Hathorn No doubt Dr. Weare ignores the disFoster City tinction of kinds of financing because that has direct consequences for many of us. If, for instance, my 401k plan is in bonds, I am Kenneth Weare's (April 9) article on contributing to the debt problem.

Third World debt was full of points I might John A. Wills pick on as demonstrating incompetence and San Francisco shallow thinking, but I would rather focus on things he did not mention.

Firstly, San Francisco recovers from I am writing, as a woman with homoearthquakes better than Nicaragua does sexual tendencies , in support of Archbishop from hurricanes. This is because SF has a Levada's opposition to gay "marriage". The better developed economy, one more able Archbishop must speak as the leader of an to right itself after disaster. The best way authenticall y Catholic church. Matrimony

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is a sacrament designed to provide a stable environment for the couple and any children the partnershi p produces. The fact that many people today abuse marriages does not negate the fact that marriages (and sexual activity) are sacred.

I believe that , if we work hard enough , we can make civil laws that acknowledge the choice of any couple or group of people (regardless of their sexual orientations or genders) to pool their finances and so take care of each other without pretending that these relationshi ps are a "marriage".

Maggie Cockrell San Francisco

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Padre Pio Mass 'rehearsal' for 2000

John Thavis JLn what ' s being billed as a dress rehearsal for Holy Year 2000, several hundred thousand pilgrims are expected to descend on Rome May 2 for the beatification of Padre Pio da Pietrelcina.

For the worldwide following of Padre Pio, a famed Capuchin confessor from southern Italy, it ' s a great day.

But Rome officials and many of the city 's residents are predicting a logistical disaster — and a taste of what 's ahead in the year 2000.

Fed up with jubilee construction projects that have snarled ttaffic and choked the air with dust, hemmed in by tour buses double-parked around the Vatican , and generally Also see "Crush of pilgrims," page 9 annoyed at the prospect of sharing the Eternal City with some 30 million Hol y Year pilgrims , Romans are demanding authorities sharply limit the crowds expected for megaevents during the jubilee year.

"When these visitors unload , we can 't even walk on the sidewalks. The buses keep then motors on and we can 't

breathe. We 're tired of being poisoned ," said Rossana become the watchword, and pilgrims who don ' t make Milone, a Rome pharmacist who has helped organize reservations could end up watching major papal liturgies protest demonstrations around the Vatican in recent weeks. and meetings on a TV screen in a Roman p iazza ... or at Padre Pio 's beatification, which some say could draw their hotel. the biggest crowd to date for a liturgical event in Rome, has Romans say what 's put them in a iess-then-welcomRoman grumblers with a worst-case scenario.

Even ing mood is the disruption to their daily lives during the provided Mayor Francesco Rutelli , envisioning city-wide gridlock, countdown to the year 2000. City transportation routes has encouraged residents to leave town for the weekend. have been revised almost daily, causing massive traffic Perhaps to allay those fears , the Vatican made an jams. Neighborhoods have suffered throug h months of important concession in early March when it announced construction noise and dust. And residents have found that only 150,000 people would be allowed into St. that their favorite monuments, museums and churches Peter 's Square for Pope John Paul IPs beatification Mass. — including St. Peter 's Basilica — have been either The overflow will be detoured to a larger open area closed or covered in scaffolding.

The monuments will be unveiled at the end of thi s in front of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on the other side of the city, where they will watch the proceedings year. But it now appears that many of the jubilee construction projects will not be completed in time. on huge-screen TV. One project that will apparentl y meet the deadline is It 's not quite like being there, but the Vatican threw in a bonus: The pope will ride over to the Lateran basilica a huge underground parking lot for buses and cars that rests on a Vatican-owned hillside just next to St. Peter 's. after the liturgy to personall y bless the spillover crowd.

The Vatican decision was unprecedented and left some The Vatican chipped in half the funding for the five-story Catholics wondering why St. Peter 's Square, which has structure , perhaps to show that it was not insensitive to accommodated up to 300,000 people in the past, was being local residents ' complaints about bus parking.

But environmentalists are now saying the steady turned into a privileged reserved seating area. The not-sosubtle message to pilgrims without tickets was to steer clear flow of tour buses up to the parking lot ' s entrance will of the Vatican, and Rome police said only specially desig- create a virtual gas chamber in the nei ghborhood below. nated buses would be allowed anywhere near Vatican City. And reported p lans for a rooftop lunch area and a souPadre Pio 's confrere s bemoaned Rome 's bunker venir shop inside the facility have provoked loud lamenmentality. tation from nearby restaurant and shop owners.

"When the Australian groups arrive from the airThe complaining probably never reaches Pope John port , are th ey going to turn their buses back and send Paul's ears. He has placed Holy Year logistics in the hands them home? Many have said that if that 's the case, of his aides so he can concentrate on a goal that seemed they 'll walk into the city. Are they going to block them? all but lost in the recent debate: spiritual conversion.

Do they want war?" Capuchin Father Gerardo Di Flumere, vice postulator of Padre Pio 's sainthood cause, told a Rome newspaper.

John Thavis is chief of Catholic News Service 's For the jubilee year, too, "book ahead" has already Rome bureau.

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Media tone deaf to faith

George Weigel J. he "Newseum" in Arlington , Va., recently asked journalists and historians to name the "top 100 stories " of the 20th century. The list they devised, from #1 (the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to #100 (the 1964 surgeon general's warning about the health risks of smoking), was a detailed reminder of what a terrible, wonderful , sad, bloody, heroic, noble , dreadful , incredible century is drawing to a close. The list also illustrates, inadvertently, j ust how narrow "the news" is, to those whose business is to define, report , and interpret it.

Religious convictions formed in the 20th century will be major factors shap ing the 2f , with Catholicism , evangelical Protestantism , and Islam among the world's most potent cultural forces. Yet there is not a single event having to do with religion in the Newseum 's "Top 100 20th-century News Stories." Not one. The closest religion gets is as a subtext to Top Story #99, the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Dayton , Tenn.

Watergate gets two entries on the list (President Nixon 's resignation is #14 , and the scandal itself is #67), but the Second Vatican Council doesn 't make the cut.

The discovery of penicillin (#11), FDA approval of the contraceptive pill (#20), Salk polio vaccine (#21), and the identification of AIDS (#25) are duly noted; Pope John Paul IPs epic nine days in Poland in June 1979, which set in motion the process that brought down European communism (#27), is missing.

The first Ford Model-T assembly line (#17), FDR's New Deal (#34), and the Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion-on-demand (#38) are above-the-fold, so to speak ; Mehmel Ali Agca 's attempt to assassinate John ¦ .

Paul is notable by its absence.

The Bolshevik victory in the Russian revolution (#16), the dissolution of the USSR (#13), Mao 's triumph in the Chinese civil war (#29), and Israel 's statehood (#45) all make the pantheon; the Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Iran and the emergence of militant Islam as a major factor in world politics are ignored.

There are many items on the "Newseum " list that no one could possibly argue against. The discovery of the structure of DNA (#12), for example, was a monumental intellectual achievement that will profoundly influence science, daily life, and moral judgments in the 21st century. But was FDR's 1932 victory over Herbert Hoover (#76) really of more consequence than the unlisted 1910 Edinburgh Missionary Conference , which launched the modern ecumenical movement?

No doubt the publication of Rachel Carson s Silent Spring (#57) looms as a landmark in environmentalism.

But will it shape the future as profoundl y as the explosion of evangelical and pentecostalist Protestantism in Latin America, Africa , and Asia, which is unrecorded in the "Newseum " Top 100? Was television 's debut at the

1939 New York World's Fair (#28) of more historic consequence than Vatican IPs condemnation of antiSemitism as contrary to the Gospel ?

The American Heritage Dictionary defines "news" as "information about recent events or happenings , especially as reported by newspapers , periodicals , radio, or television." It ' s a marvelously circular definition: "the news" is what those responsible for defining "the news" say it is.

But the inherent circularity of the whole exercise doesn 't quite explain the tone-deafness of the "Newseum" survey to religion. After all , Vatican II , the papal pilgrimage to Poland in June 1979 , Khomeini and Iran, and Agca 's assassination attempt were all widelycovered stories.

The problem, I think, is that the vast majority of those responsible for defining "the news" imp licitl y (or explicitly) operate on the assumption that politics and economics are what reall y count in history. The idea that culture drives history, and that at the heart of culture is cult, or religion , is simply not taken seriously.

But as Christopher Dawson once wrote , when St. Paul arrived in Philippi in 49 A.D., he did more to change the course of history than most of what the great historians of anti quity regarded and recorded as "history." You won 't find St. Paul' s crossing over into Europe in Tacitus or Suetonius, onl y in Acts 16:10. Similarl y, histori ans of the future may well look into newspapers like this one, rather than into the New York Times or Washington Post , to find out what was reall y shap ing the 21st century at the end of the 20th.

George Weigel is a seniorfellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Wash ington, D .C.

On Being Catholic-

Father Milton T. Walsh J. he crowds awaiting entrance into St. Peter 's Basilica under leaden skies one April Sunday two years ago were different: they were Italian. The occasion drawing them was more Urbi than Orbi, since they were coming to take part in the ordination of priests for the Diocese of Rome. For a change, we pilgrims from around the world found ourselves in the minority. This was a celebration of the local Church. Romans in their Sunday best chatted amiably as they threaded their way to various sections of the vast shrine; excited, not simply to see the Pope, but to be there when a son, a friend, a parishioner was ordained a priest.

Ordinations , like weddings, are family affairs, and the atmosphere in St. Peter 's had a familial flavor to it.

These were not earnest pilgrims, awed by the magnificence of the most famous church in the world. This was their home. For Romans , the colorful Swiss Guards, the bronze rhapsody of Bernini ' s baldacch ino and the immense gesticulating baroque statues are simply part of the background of their lives. And the pope? He is their bishop, with them now for many years.

It 's always a treat to see him, but the real excitement is that Giovanni , or Marco, or Alberto is becoming a priest! With his knowledge of human nature. I am sure the Holy Father would not take it amiss that during the ceremony the subject of running commentary from the two Italian priests sitting next to me was not the pontiff, but their friend Claudio.

Not knowing Claudio, my own attention was of course on the pope. At a little past 9 a.m. applause from . the back of St. Peter 's signaled his arrival . The processional cross made slow, steady progress down the nave, its cadence set not so much by Roman gravitas as by the shuffling pace of the elderly man at the end of the procession. As I watched the stooped figure making his way to

Old hands tremble, but heart sings the altar, I thought that one of the indignities of growing old is that the aches and pains cannot be concealed. The pope made his way around the altar, supporting himself on it with his right hand , while with his left he leaned on his pastoral staff. 1 recalled a sunny morning in St. Peter 's square in 1978 when the youthful Polish pope boldl y held aloft this same staff, on which hangs the caicified Lord. Now, the cross holds him up.

My view of the pope 's chair was blocked by one of Bernini' s columns, so I could hear but not see the Holy Father when he began the Mass. His voice was vigorous , confident and clear. It was hard for me to connect it with the frail figure I had seen. And he sang much of the liturgy, beginning with the greeting of the risen Christ, "Peace be with you!" If in body John Paul feels the cross, in his heart it is Easter. An old man , singing — a beautiful image for the paschal season.

My location provided an interesting vantage point for the ordination itself. As the chanting of the Taize "Veni, Sancte Sp iritus " rumbled through St. Peter 's, I could see each of the candidates approach his bishop. I could not see the pope himself — except for his hands , as they were ' '"™ placed on the head of each ordinand. This simple gesture formed the basis for my reflections. Succeeding centuries have surrounded ordination with many beautiful ceremonies, just as the ages have built orn ate houses of worship over the tomb of St. Peter. But at this moment, all I could see were the ordinands and those two hands being placed on their heads.

The theatrical glories of St. Peter 's, the panoply of papal ritual all vanished. That strai ghtforward, biblical gesture, taking place above the tomb of St. Peter — how moving in its simplicity ! For almost two thousand years now, the bishops of this city have done this.

The sthin hands of ascetics, the perfumed hands of princes have stretched out and, by this act, ordained pastors for Christ's flock. In the midst of Renaissance glory, or in a starving city under siege, bishops of Rome — like bishops everywhere — have provided for the ongoing life of their community.

As 1 watched this old man's hands come down on the heads of his ordinands, I thought of St. Peter himself.

Not far from where I stood, he had stretched out his

. . . the youthful Polish pop e boldly held aloft this same

staff, on which hangs the crucified Lord , Now, the cross holds him up.

Letters

¦ Continued from page 12 riage is threatened b y same-sex weddings. I cannot recall the Church ever getting upset some 30 years ago, when it became trendy for young heterosexual couples to live together and even go so far as having children before marriage. Nowadays, once the , couple has slept together, lived together, and perhaps having brought new life into the world , they then decide -to marry. The Wedding is purely cultural . The bride, no longer a virgin , still wears white at the Mass.

Everyone they know is invited. What was once a holy sacrament and celebration has been reduced to nothing more than a huge party after a Mass. In today 's American culture, this is totally acceptable behavior.

Why is the Church so silent? It seems to me if the Church needed to place blame as to why the sacrament of marriage is no longer seen as sacred , she only need look at the countless numbers of Catholic hetero-

sexual couples who have engaged in premarital sex, lived together "in sin" (without benefit of clergy) and have even had children out-of-wedlock. Wh y is the Church concerned that same-sex coup les are asking the state to acknowledge and honor their committed relationships? Nobod y is asking the Church to marry same-sex couples. If the Church really honored our nation's separation of Church and state, there would be no need for the Church to get involved in a state issue. However, it would be justified if the state were to impose same-sex marriages on the Church; this is, however, not the case.

On another note, I smiled as I read in "News in Brief about Bishop William Lori of Washington expressing disrespect by the Good Friday ball game taking place at 2 p.m. Aren 't we Catholics getting a bit too touchy about what others do on Good Friday or Easter Sunday ?

Jim Lenartz San Francisco

hands — not to ordain , but to be led to his death , as we read at the end of John 's Gospel. He who had been the vi gorous fisherman now found himself , with the aches and pains of old age, shuffling into Nero 's circus.

Doubtless those hands , soon to be nailed to a cross , had .—igj^j sp, imparled lo others the burden Peter had received from the Master Himself — to feed his lambs and tend his sheep. During the centuries of persecution , Roman bishops with a price on their heads must have brought their co-workers fu rtivel y here , to draw strength from Peter. And today, it still goes on. Human creativity has surrounded this place and this event with rich and beautifu l imagery, yet the basic reality is unchanged from New Testament times.

But this ceremony is not simply a legacy fro m the past , it is a gift from the future , for it is the Holy Sp iri t who is involved. An old man 's hands, trembling, bear witness to the waning of earthl y vitality. An old man 's heart , singing, proclaims that in the grace of the Hol y Spirit we are growing younger, not older. Ordination is not accomplishment , but initiation. It is an act of faith in the future . Today 's can-— didates do not know what paths their discipleship will take, any more than Karol Wojtyla could ever have imagined 50 years ago where his pastoral service would lead him. For that matter, the rough-hewn fisherman from Galilee could never have dreamed when he left his nets that he would find himself dining with Gentiles in pagan Caesarea and dying in a Roman circus.

The ceremonies ended, Italian families fanned out from St. Peter 's to enjoy festive meals, celebrating the love which had drawn these new priests to commit themselves to a future unknown to them. Their zeal must have found an echo in the heart of the old man who had just ordained them, must have reminded him of that All Saints' Day 50 years before when an old man 's hands had rested on his young head, and he had begun his priestly ministry. On this same spot , almos t two thousand years ago, the first Roman Christians reverentl y buried an old man who in his youth had left all to follow Christ. What would the future hold? Those early disciples were sad, yet confident. They remembered that , although the hands the old man had stretched out were trembling, he went to the cross singing.

Father Milton T. Walsh is dean of students and an assistant professo r of systematic theology at St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.

Better late than never

Even though the March 26 issue of Catholic San Francisco did not arrive until after Easter, I found Archbishop Levada 's examination of conscience very profound.

Equally profound is Father Milton Walsh's article "On Being Catholic" in the same issue. Yet it was only after a second reading (his article's always deserve a second reading) that I understood the significance of placing a blessed palm over the crucifix.

Virginia Magrath San Francisco

Tomales and the Irish

Regarding Father John Rogers and the Church of the Assumption in Tomales (March 26 "Parish Profile"): My grandparents, James and Catherine McDonnell, and many other Irish settled in Tomales and Valley Ford in the 1860s, the time of the potato famine back home . Grandfather came across the plains in a wagon, and grand-

mother came "around the horn" and walked across the Isthmus of Panama to California.

These Irish immigrants said the Tomales area reminded them of the Irish countryside, with the rolling hills and the ocean front, and their main crop was potatoes.

The stone church was bu ilt before 1900, but was destroyed in the 1906 earth quake. The wooden church was reactivated.

Some of the original vestments and altar items were found in back of the old altar and are still in use today.

Father Rogers was the pastor for many years before he was transferred to St. Patrick in San Francisco, where be established St. Patrick's shelter for down and out men. He talked with my mother one time and told her many of the men who visited the shelter were lawyers, business men. etc. and after a bath and a good meal and fresh clothes and a talk with Father Rogers left with the hope of a turn around in their lives.

Yvonne L. Dubonnet San Fyrancisco

Family Lif e=

OK, OK, I am not St. Francis! died when we went away for the weekend and failed to leave it enough bugs to eat. "See," I thought to myself , "this was a mistake." But it was a personal triump h when we released the second one in Golden Gate Park. I felt that I had , in some small way, made reparation for the bucket of spring peepers that had expired on my parents' patio many years ago.

This spring , we ordered five butterfly larva from a lab in San Diego that provided not only their food but also detailed care instructions. "It never ceases to amaze me how some people make their living," was all my husband had to say when I sent in the caterpillar payment.

But he was as enchanted as the rest of us when those critters tri p led their size, entered the mysterious chrysalide stage, and then emerged as gorgeous butterflies with delicate wings and iridescent colors. For weeks they were our family 's after-dinner entertainment , and then they flew away.

I am not entirely sure which creature, if any, to host next. My children, of course, want the cat , but I prefer something that can be let loose after a few weeks. .

x~Vt Eastertime my five-year-old daughter asked for a real bunny. A week later, she and her brothers began feeding a "stray cat " and begging to let it into the house.

My children 's perennial desire for a pet seems to have sprung with the spring.

I have been resisting pets for years. Many times I have told the children my hands are full taking good care of them. I cannot look after an animal , too. Of course their comeback is that they themselves will care for their pet.

But 1 remain unmoved, for I know from my own childhood animal s need more than the kids are likely to give.

I grew up in a menagerie where the dogs, for examle, were not properl y trained by my brothers and me. As p a result , the firs t one was "sent to the farm" after mining the carpets and biting the nei ghbors . The second one, after running away one too many times , was leashed in the backyard.

The cats required less maintenance, but their independence translated into many disturbing disappearances.

Perhaps they wandered off to a better home. Perhaps they made pests of themselves and came to a bad end.

As for fish , birds , amphibians, rabbits , rodents, and reptiles , we buried dozens of them when I was a kid.

They died for all kinds of reasons — exotic illnesses, wily predators , climate changes, you name it. Some even died trying daring escapes. I will never forget the mummified salamander I discovered while vacuuming under a heavy piece of furniture .

I admit it. I am no St. Francis. I want nothing to do with animal s, apart from visits to the aquarium and zoo.

Nevertheless, for the children 's sake I have made a couple of compromises.

Last spring, we caught two tadpoles and watched them morph into frogs. Sadly, the first one to sprout legs

Catholic presence

What do the 'us' and 'our ' in creation story mean?

Vivian W. Dudro

¦ Continued from page 5 "If you can 't attend , phone your legislators that day and please keep them and us in your prayers ," Dolejsi said, adding he hoped the number of Catholics in Sacramento on May 11 "would be an onslaught."

Several states including New York, Wisconsin and Maryland have inaugurated Lobby Days according to Dolejsi. California 's 22 residential and auxiliary bishops lead 7.5 million Catholics in the state, 3.5 million of whom live in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and another roughly 425,000 in the San Francisco Archdiocese.

Rick Barnes , legislative counsel to the New York State Catholic Conference, said a lobby day has been pair of Catholic life there for 15 years, annuall y drawing from 800 to 1,000 people from around the state.

"Lobby Day has become a real opportunity for people to meet with their legislators and executive agency personnel," Barnes said from Albany, NY, last week. The eight hours in the capital usuall y takes place in February or March "when budget p lanning heats up," Barnes said.

"People can interact with legislators , executive agencies and the governor all in one day."

According to Barnes, "most major advocacy groups" in New York also sponsor lobby days with AIDS, mental health , renters and landlords among them.

Barnes said all of New York's 25 residential and auxiliary bishops "like to attend Lobby Day" and it includes their participation in several events including Mass and a press conference and meeting with the governor.

Barnes said the "ebb and flow" of legislators , caused by their holding office for as few as two years, make it difficult to have continuing personal relationships with many of them but that Lobby Day is nonetheless an important way "to maintain" the Church' s relationshi p with the state's executive agencies and lawmakers.

New York's 7.3 million Catholics account for almost half of the state 's total popu lati on .

Persons interested in being part of Lobby Day or joining the Legislative Network may call Tara Carr, Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, at (415) 565-3621.

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involve some allusion , however remote and primitive, that God's own being contains a kind of plurality, an intimation of the Trinity. Little, if any, foundation for that -» theory is available from the Bible , "^ however.

In other words , no one knows for sure what was in the mind of the author who wrote those fasci- i nating words.

(Questions may be sent to Father Dietzen at Box 325, Peoria, III. 61651.)

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A. Several possibilities have been offered. It could ' simply be an example of what is called the majestic plural. Kings and other high officialsIs still sometimes refer to themselves as "we."

The Old Testament indicates Hebrew reli gious thoug hl was accustomed to the notion of some heavenly assembly (angels?) with whom God consulted before making decisions on important actions. -See, for example, Isaiah 6:8; 1 Kings 22:19; and Genesis 3:22, among others. That could be another explanation.

A few commentators have suggested the passage may

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Sister Maryann Skindell, OSF

Franciscan Sister Maryann Skindell died on April 9 at Mt. Alverno Convent in Redwood City. Two sisters, Toby Helmbrecht and loan Leeds Patrick both of Havre. Mont., and several nieces and nephews survive her.

Sister Maryann- was born in Havre on Dec. 6, 1925, and entered the Sisters of St Francis at Sierra Madre, Cal., in January 1947 . Sister Maryann had completed 50 years as a Franciscan Sister at the time of her death .

Sister Maryann received her bachelor 's degree from Holy Names College, Oakland; a masters of education from Fort Wright College, Spokane, and doctor of ministry from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.

From 1987 to 1991 , Sister Maryann headed the Sisters of St. Francis retirement home in Santa Maria, Cal. Her last ministry was assistant director of St. Francis Center in Joseph J. Marchetti

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Baptism: Water and the Holy Spirit

The Great 50 Days of celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ begins in the deepest darkness of the Easter Vigil. The glory of the Alleluia! li ghts up the night as that exuberant word is chanted , hymned , acclaimed , and welcomed back into the midst of our parish communities. The Great 50 Days of the Easter/Pentecost Season begin that holy ni ght and encompass the realities of Christ 's resurrection and beyond: the mysteries of Christ's appearances to his disciples, his ascension, his sending of the Holy Spirit, his glorification at the right hand of the Father.

For 50 days, the Alleluia ! does not cease to resound in our midst; we enter into the Wedding Feast of the Lamb with hearts and lives more converted to the life of the Crucified and Risen One in us as communities and in us as individuals. The Great 50 Days are rooted in the historical fact of Christ's resurrection from the dead 2000 years ago but the 50 Days go on to celebrate the exUaordinary truth of our faith that the Crucified and Risen Christ is truly in our midst now. The Good Shepherd is alive and present, permanently present, bringing us life, life to the full. Such abundant good news, such life-saving, life-changing good news is the stuff of our 50 days of the Easter/Pentecost celebration.

Alleluia! The Crucified and Risen Lord stands in our midst and says to each of us, "Peace be with you."

A great joy of this holy season is the presence of the newly-baptized (the neophytes) in our midst along with those already baptized Christians who were received into the full communion of the Catholic Church. For them the Great 50 Days are also the time of mystagogy: a time of delving deeply into the meaning of the sacraments they received at the Easter Vigil.

What did it mean to descend into those waters of death and re-birthT To die with Christ, to rise with Christ through those water? What did it mean to be to be «"««'«« anointed with sealed in Holy lu uc v Spirit, ^ """ the ""= ™ Sister Sharon McMillan, SND ac,ucu "' the ^"^ sweet-smelling chrism, to become an anointed one like Christ? What did it mean to come to the altar table? To consume the true Body and Blood of the Risen Lord? To receive and to become the Body of Christ? To say "Amen" to what we are together: Christ's own Body. The time of mystagogy allows the neophytes to pray over these sacramental realities they experienced, to reflect on and to share the meaning of the mysteries they celebrated during that night of the Easter Vigil.

Last week, I shared with you some reflections on the meaning of the baptismal font and of baptism by immersion in plenty of water, hi this column let us turn our attention together with the neophytes to the mystery of the anointing of chrism in Confirmation.

It was still a surprise for some to see the pastor of our parish confirm the newly-baptized at the Easter Vigil. Isn't that the bishop 's role? Following the ancient tradition of the Roman Church, adults (and children aged 7 and above) are now baptized and confirmed immediately by the priest who baptized them. And then they come with joy to the celebration of the Eucharist at that same liturgy: praying the general intercessions, bringing up the gifts , joining the community in the Eucharistic Prayer, offering the Lord's Prayer with us, exchanging the sign of peace, receiving the Body and Blood of Christ: each of these for the first time. Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist in that sequence and in one celebration is the norm now for those aged 7 - 107.

Between the waters of baptism and the celebration of the Eucharist, what is this anointing with chrism called confirmation? The model the Church follows in this sequence is that of Christ himself in Mark's Gospel: Jesus is baptized b y John in the Jordan and upon coming up out of the water, the Spirit descends upon him. Incorporation into the Body of Christ is by water and the Holy Spirit. Coming up out of the waters of rebirth, we are filled with Christ 's own Spirit: made temples of God's glory, radiant with the goodness of divine life, anointed to remain forever a member of Christ who is Priest, Prophet , and King.

How did some neophytes experience this profound reality at the Easter Vigil? At our parish, the newly-baptized returned to the font from which they were reborn, but now dried off, dressed in their Easter best, and wearing shining, white baptismal garments, each holding a large candle prepared for them by their godparents and lit with the Easter fire. The pastor 's words invoke a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit for which we fervently pray.

Christ's own Spirit will fill these new members of his Body as at the first Pentecost.

The pastor takes up the large glass container of chrism blessed only a few days earlier

by Archbishop Levada at the Chrism Mass. Already the sweet-smelling fragrance permeates the air. The pastor begins to pour it out on the top of Alberto's head — and then keeps on pouring ! He gently but confidendy anoints Alberto's forehead with a large sign of the cross and then rubs in the consecrated chrism over Alberto's eyes, nose, mouth, his entire head. No small dab of chrism here. We in the community can't miss the point. The Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ penetrates Alberto to the bone; he is truly sealed in the Holy Spirit.

As the weeks of mystagogy continue, the neophytes will share with one another and with the catechumenate team what that experience meant: the feel of the oil, its powerful , inviting fragrance, the pastor 's blessing, the way the fragrance permeated everything they touched for days and days, reminding them of the permanent presence of Christ's Spirit now within them.

I offer the neophytes a favorite quote of mine from Cyril of Jerusalem who preached marvelous homilies to his neophytes in the fourth century to help them during their mystagogy.

He proclaimed: "The holy chrism after the invocation is no longer ordinary ointment but Christ's grace, which through the presence of the Holy Spirit instills his divinity into us."

Let all of us in the Archdiocese of San Francisco pray in gratitude for the gift of the neophytes in our parishes. We offer you a whole-hearted welcome! You are a priceless icon for us of the Risen Christ and of the Holy Spirit in our midst.

Notre Dame Sister Sharon McMillan is an assistant professor of sacramental theology and liturgy at St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park

'I came so they might have life and have it more abundantly '

People have heard wonderful things from our parish communities; the neoActs 2:14a, 36-41; Psalm 23; p hytes ("newly illumined ," the recently I Peter 2:20b-25; John 10:1-10 initiated at the Easter Vigil) have heard rhffrft fhfi voice nf the Good SheDherd calling them ; they have responded and found themselves led "beside restful waters " (Ps 23), their heads anointed "with oil" (Ps 23), "a table spread" before them (Ps 23), and during the Great 50 Ddays of Easter "only goodness and kindness " following them "all the days" of their lives (Ps 23). How can this be?

Only through Jesus, our good shepherd, do we have access to one another in redeeming fashion. There are, of course, other approaches, which are revealed to be self-centered, controlling, manipulative, and abusive. These are the ways of "strangers;" "the sheep will not follow a stranger; they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers." These are the ways of the "thief." "A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy."

By way of stark contrast , Jesus proclaims , "I am the gate for the sheep...Whoever enters throu gh me will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture." It is through this Jesus and only through this Jesus that we can approach each other in a way his own sheep can recognize. "Whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice, and the shepherd calls his own by name and leads them out. When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice."

Given the opportunity, our neophytes would gladly say they have good shepherd m a a heard the voice VU1 of the gu U1™ 3 '"r0" in Father David M. Pettingill our parish communities. From our own Sunday assemblies where we are nourished by Word and Eucharist, we have learned to translate the words and deeds of Jesus into an idiom and gestures that make eminently good sense, that call people "by name," that respect, invite, and ultimately include them within the flock.

This "success" story must necessari ly include a lot of Sunday celebrations rubbing off on us or else we could not be so self-donating, so outreaching. As the baptismal instruction we hear as our second reading from 1 Peter proclaim: "When he was insulted, he returned no insult: when he suffered , he did not threaten; instead he handed himself over to the one who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body upon the cross, so that free from sin, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you had gone astray like sheep, but you have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls." It seems, then, the "restful waters," the "anointing with oil," and the nourishment of the "table" have worked wonders upon us and enabled us to approach potential sisters and brothers with the self-donation of the good shepherd.

That explanation suggests a reason wh y we can enjoy the first reading from Acts. After Peter's Pentecost proclamation of the message, the hearers "repent ," are "baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forg iveness of . . . sins," and "receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." As a result Acts states, "About three thousand persons were added that day." Notice the use of the passive voice, "were added" It is God who does the "adding" through the ministry of the Church. It is God who does the "adding" in our parish communities when we initiate and form new members. It is God who does the "adding" because people hear in us the voice of the good shepherd and become convinced that in our communities his words ring true, "I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly."

For RENEW small community groups who are still meeting, here are some questions: 1. Who made the voice of the good shepherd real for you? Who invited you and formed you into Church? Into this RENEW community ?

2. How does this RENEW community support the newly initiated? Have they been invited to join one of your groups? Were you there to celebrate their initiation?

3. How can you be part of the Church's effort to invite new members? How can you be part of the Church's effort to reconcile lapsed or disenchanted Catholics?

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Father David Pettingill is director of the archdiocesan Office of Worship.

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Retreats/Days of Recollection May 7: "Assisted Suicide: The Issues" with Mercy Sister M. Brian Kelber, noon - 1 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame, call (650) 340-7474.

May 8; 'The Spirituality of Aging," retreat, St. Stephen Parish Donworth Hall, 601 Eucalyptus Dr., SF, 9 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. Care givers to the elderly and anyone wishing to know more about growing older are invited. Sponsored by the School of Pastoral Leadership. $10. Call (415) 242-9089.

May 19-20: "The Elders of the Body of Christ: Overnight Retreat for Grandparents," a chance for reflection and prayer to occasion forgiveness and reconciliation in the immediate and extended family.

Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Discussion led by well-known family advocates and grandparents, Peg and Ed Gleason.

Prayer led by Father Tom Madden, Vallombrosa director. $70. Call (650) 325-5614.

May 26 - June 6: "10-Day Centering Prayer Retreat ," Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. Call Brian Anderson at (650) 340-7454.

Cancer Prayer Group meets Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. Call (650) 755-3364.

f a k e Prayer Around the Cross Second Friday of the month at 8 p.m. at Presentation Sisters Motherhouse Chapel, Turk and Masonic, SF. For information, call Sister Monica Miller, PBVM at (415) 751-0406.

Second Friday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at St. Luke Parish, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, For information, call (650) 345-6660.

Third Thursday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For information, call Sister Toni Longo, ASC at (650) 325-5614.

First Friday of the month at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. For information, call Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan at (650) 340-7452.

Reunions Are you an alumna/us of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Elementary School in Redwood City but not on the current mailing list? Especially looking for members of classes 1948-49 Call JuliaTollafield at (650) 366-8817.

f ood & Fun Second Saturdays: Handicapables gather for Mass and lunch at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary, SF, at noon. Volunteer drivers always needed. Call (415) 584-5823.

April 23, 24, 25: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Spring Festival, 301 Grand St., Redwood City. Carnival rides, games, food and, of course, fun. Ride ticket books, usually $20, can be bought for $10 on several dates before festival begins. Call (650) 3666127 for hours and other information.

April 25: Hanna Boys Center's 49m Spring Open House, 1 - 4 p.m., 17000 Arnold Dr., Sonoma.

Music, refreshments , tours. Call (707) 996-6767.

April 27". Holy Family Day Home's "Mission into the Millennium" dinner. Evening takes place in different parts of San Francisco's historic Mission Dolores and benefits Sisters of the Holy Names' facility that has helped San Francisco families for 86 years. $99 per person. Begins with cocktails at 6 p.m., call (415) 565-0504.

April 28: Annual St. Anthony Foundation Farm lunch, 11205 Valley Ford Rd., Petaluma. $15, reserve by April 20. Call Kathleen Patterson at (707) 765-9017 or Rose Forni at (707) 539-2716.

May 1:"Simply the Best," an evening of dining, dancing and more at the Burlingame Hyatt Regency at 6 p.m. Sponsored by the Mothers' Club of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame. Proceeds benefit parish and school activities. $85 per person, black tie optional. Call (650) 697-5745.

May 1: The St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Sebastian Parish announces availability of space for their "Whale of a Sale" 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Rent an 8

July 1 - 4: Golden Jubilee of the Christian Family Movement, University of Notre Dame, Ind.; , call (219) 631-6691.

Introductory sessions of Seton Medical Center's Natural Family Planning program will be held through this fall. Cal! (650) 301-8896 for dates and times as well as to register.

foot space for $25. Join the fun as vendor or shopper. Call Joyce Massucco at (415) 461-3395.

Volunteer Opportunities

May 1: Good Shepherd Guild's annual Spring Luncheon/Fashion Show, Green Hills Country Club, Millbrae, benefits Sisters of the Good Shepherd "Gracenter." $35 per person. Call Janet Kelly at (650) 756-4818.

Catholic Charities' St. Joseph Village can use donations of clothing, shoes, accessories , kitchen supplies, diapers, linens etc. To volunteer to assist in this program that helps homeless families become self-sufficient , call Krislen Rauda at (415) 575-4920 , ext. 223.

May 8: "Victorian Treasures" fashion show at The Palace Hotel, SF. Sponsored by Catholic Charities' auxiliary, Little Children Aid Juniors. Adults $45; children $35. Call Debbie McGrath at (415) 664-7993.

May 17 - 18: "Reno Fun Trip," Adults only for this overnight jaunt that costs only $50 not including cash and food coupons at casinos. Reservations must be made by May 2. Call Nancy Manion at (415) 333-2798 or Patricia Mairena at (650) 756-9525.

Arranged by St. Thomas More Church community.

May 21, 22, 23: "Farewell Nineties," three-day festival at St. Kevin Parish, 704 Cortland Ave., SF. Food, fun, games for all ages. Call (415) 648-5751 for tickets or more information.

Knights of Columbus of the Archdiocese meet regularly and invite new membership. For information about Council 615, call Tony Blaiotta at (415) 551-0726; Dante Council, call Vito Corcia at (415) 564-4449.

Young Adults April 27: "An Evening of Faith Sharing: The Catholic and Jewish Young Adult Experience ," wine and cheese reception at 7 p.m., discussion at 7:30 p.m. Congregation Sherith Israel, 2266 California St. at Webster , SF. Call Mary Jansen at (415) 563-6503.

April 25 & May 23: "Jesus Christ - Lord , God & Messiah" at St. Mary Cathedral Conference Center, Hall A , Gough and Geary, SF. Refreshments at 6:45 p.m., talks at 7 p.m. $5 admission.

Call (415) 436-0359.

San Francisco's St. Anthony Foundation needs volunteers for its many outreach programs to the poor: (415) 241.2600.

Birthright needs people to work with women faced with unplanned pregnancies. For more information, call Mary Alba at (415) 664-9909.

Laguna Honda Hospital, SF, is in need of volunteers to serve as eucharistic ministers, lectors and chapel escorts at Tuesday and Sunday morning Masses. Call Sister Miriam at (415) 664-1580, ext.

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Most Holy Redeemer AIDS Support Group is looking for volunteers to provide practical and emotional support to people living with AIDS. For information, call Milton Headings at (415) 863-1581.

St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Mary Cathedral invites you to join them in service to the poor: (415) 563-0863.

Bernal Heights Neighborhood Elders Support Team helps seniors remain at home with rides, food delivery and companionship. Interested volunteers should call Lisa Lopez Coffey at (415) 206-9177.

Project Linus, a group supplying special blankets for seriously ill and traumatized children, needs "blanketeers" to knit , crochet and quilt. Call (650) 589-6767.

Prayer/Devotions May 5: All Hallows #182, Young Ladies Institute, 18th annual May Crowning and Living Rosary, 7:30 p.m., All Hallows Chapel, Newhall and Patau, SF. Call Sue Elvander at (415) 584-1593.

Older Adults WK^t ^mCentering Prayer: Mondays, 7 p.m.- 8:15 p.m.,

April 22: First meeting of St. Stephen 50+ Club, 12:30 p.m. in Donworth Hall 601 Eucalyptus Dr., SF. Men and women invited to join. $40 annual dues.

50+ Club will continue to meet every Thursday at 12:30 p.m. Call Helga D'arcy at (415) 731- 8211.

Performance April 30; May 1,2,7,8: Archbishop Riordan High School, SF, presents Frank Loesser's "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," a musical comedy romp up the corporate ladder with J. Pierpont Finch and those he meets on the way. Cast features talent from Riordan, Immaculate Conception Academy and other high schools.

Tickets $10, students/seniors $7. Performances at Riordan's Lindland Theatre begin at 7:30 p.m. except May 2 & 8 when they begin at 2:30 p.m. Call (415) 587-5866.

April 23, 24, 30; May 1: Mercy High School, SF, presents Rogers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella."

Fairytale musical features talent from Mercy and other schools. Tickets $7 in advance, $8 at door. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. at Mercy High School Theater, 3250 19,h Ave., SF. Call (415) 3340525, ext. 235.

Pilgrimages August 1999: To the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC with Archbishop William J. Levada. For information , call the Office of Ethnic Ministries of the Archdiocese at (415) 565-3622.

September 1999: 45th National Rosary Pilgrimage to Lourdes, call (301) 530-8963.

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Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St., SF. Call Sister Cathy Cahur at (415) 553-8776; Tuesdays, 7:30- 8:30 p.m., Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd., SF. Call Chuck Cannon at (415) 752-8439; Saturdays, 10 a.m. - 12 noon, St. Cecilia Church, 2555 17lh Ave., SF. Call Coralis Salvador at (415) 753-1920.

Mass in American Sign Language is celebrated each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Benedict Parish, 1801 Octavia (between Pine and California) in SF.A sign language Mass is celebrated at St. Anthony Parish, 3500 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park on the third Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m. and later that day at 4 p.m. in the chapel of Marin Catholic High School, 675 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. (at Bon Air Rd.), Kentfield. For information, call St. Benedict at (415) 567-9855 (voice) or (415) 567-0438 (TDD)

Blessed Sacrament Exposition Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, 24 hours everyday, (650) 322-3013. St. Sebastian Church, corner of Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae , M - F 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Adoration Chapel, (415) 461-0704. St. Agnes. Church, 1025 Masonic (near Page) SF, Friday, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., (415) 487-8560. Our Lady of Angels Church , 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame, M- F after 8 a.m. Mass until 7 p.m. St. John the Evangelist Church, 98 Bosworth St., SF, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. M -F. in Parish Center Chapel, (415) 3344646. St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, Fridays, 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Our Lady of Loretto Church, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, Fridays 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., 1st Fridays 9:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Saturday.

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Religious Education May 16: Religious education class for special needs children begin at St. Veronica Parish, 434 Alida Way, SSF. Preparation for the sacraments of reconciliation and Eucharist will be provided where appropriate as well as on-going catechetical formation. Classes will be held two Sundays a month from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Children need to be registered prior to attending. For registration forms , a schedule of classes or to volunteer to help, call Lynn Zupan, Office ol Religious Education, (415) 565-3669 .

Divorced, Separated April 30 - May 2 & June 11-13: Retrovaille weekends, a program for troubled marriages. Call Lolette and Tony Campos at (415) 893-1005.

May 4: "Annulments: Myths and Misconceptions" at St. Raphael Elementary School, Kennedy Room, 1100 Fifth Ave., San Rafael, 7:30 p.m. Presenters are Canon Lawyers, Providence Sister Nancy Reynolds and Ursuline Sister Lynn Jarrell. Evening includes question and answer period and refreshments. Call Peter Bohan at (415) 897-4634 or Margaret Ryan at (415) 892-3302.

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

Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin meets for support and activities. For information, call Don at (415) 883-5031; Peter at (415) 897-4634.

For information about Beginning Experience, a group assisting those experiencing loss to move on to the future with hope, call (415) 616-6547.

April 24: Phil Coulter, Ireland's Ambassador of Music, performs in concert with special guests at St. Paul Church, 29"" and Church St., SF at 8 p.m. $20.

Proceeds benefit St. Paul Church Preservation Fund. Call (415) 648-7538 April 30: Philippine Boys Choir performs at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF at 7:30 p.m. $15, adults; $7 children. Call (415) 584- 8297.

May 1: Spring Concert featuring music of George Gershwin and Cole Porter by Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School Chorus. Call (415) 775-6626, ext. 715 for tickets and information.

Social Justice/Advocacy April 26: Women Against Rape with SF State's Women 's Studies Department announce a free screening of "Father, Son and Holy War," a film examining violence and women's resistance in India. Takes place at Jack Adams Hall on SF State campus.

Discussion follows. Call (415) 861-2024, ext. 304.

April 24: Conference on "Forgotten Holocaust," 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Dominican College, San Rafael.

Looks at war atrocities against China, Korea and Southeast Asia during WWII. Afternoon includes presentations and dialogue. Call Melanie Hahn at (415) 257-1347 or Jan Van Stavern at (415) 458-3276.

May 22: "Restoring Justice: A Response to the Death Penalty and Prison System" featuring Sister Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking," 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m., St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1640 Addison St. at Jefferson, Berkeley, $12 in advance, $15 at door includes lunch/drinks. No one turned away for lack of funds. Call Faye Butler at (510) 7918136 or Bay Area Pax Christi at (510) 832-3776.

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June 5: "Spirituality at Work ," a support of business people, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., St. Gregory Nyssen Church, 500 De Haro St., SF. Call Mark Lodico at (415) 252-1667.

Now through May 11: Free one-hour computer science lectures Thursdays at 11 a.m. University of San Francisco, Golden Gate Ave. between Parker and Masonic, SF.Call (415) 422-6235.

Through April 30: Photographer Gita Dedek's images of Israel and Central Europe at The Gallery of Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. For information, call Elizabeth Dossa at (650) 340-7480.

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By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — The story of St. Joan of Arc comes to the small screen in May in the CBS miniseries "Joan of Arc." Starring is 16-year-old Leelee Sobieski, who will be the first on-screen Joan to be "age-appropriate " in the words of miniseries executive producer Ed Gernon.

"We knew from the beginning we wanted a Joan who was age-appropriate ," Gernon said in a conference call with reporters. "And, not to put it indelicatel y, we wanted somebody who could be virginal. . . . The list was very, very short, and Leelee was right at the top of the list."

Also partici pating in the conference call , Sobieski said she focused much of her research on how to play St. Joan on biographies by French authors and Mark Twain, the play

by George Bernard Shaw, and two TV documentaries.

She said she made it a point not to dwell too much on the movie versions that starred Jean Seberg and Ingrid Bergman.

One suiprise Sobieski found in her research was that when Joan was burned at the stake, "her heart didn ' t burn — which I thought was really cool."

Gernon , who is Catholic , said "Joan of Arc," which airs Sunday and Tuesday, May 16 and 18, would show the life of the young woman and not turn a blind eye to events that made her both a saint and a military hero. "We're going to show her having visions ," he said.

"She was divinel y inspired , and she strugg led with it, and you can see that strugg le," Sobieski said.

"Joan was an amazing woman who was daring to do good things, and doing a lot of good," she said, adding that regardless of whether others believed then , or now, that her visions were from God , "she believed . . . " The TV movie shows th at when Joan started feeling "full of herself for being able to converse with God, the visions stopped , she said. And when she was ready to humble herself again , Sobieski said, "she got 'back to herself and her (own) voice came back."

Sobieski said she didn't want to draw any parallels between her own life and that of a declared saint. She did say that while battle scenes were being filmed with her "on a horse, wearing all this armor and having all of those men behind you, you get a feeling of power," but after the director says "cut," she noted , "those men aren 't following you any more."

Sobieski's father is a French Catholic painter and her mother is an American writer she described as a "pantheist." While "it's good to believe," the teen said, she has yet to choose any one belief system for herself. .

Her previous roles include supporting roles in the current movie "Never Been Kissed" and last year's film hits "Deep Impact" and "Jungle 2 Jungle." She also won plaudits for her acting in little-seen "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries."

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By Sharon Abercrombie Every 20 minutes, somewhere in the world, a land mine goes off. Many victims are women and children trying to cultivate food on the land. That reality propelled Jody Williams into actions that earned her the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. Her campaign to ban the weapons continues as she tries to insp ire ordinary citizens to work for a ban on the production , sale, stockpiling and use of land mines.

Americans, believes Williams, ¦"have a responsibility to do so." Americans through an assortment of wars over the past 50 years have planted their share of the dangerous weapons across Europe and Asia, she charged.

Now is the time for the U.S. to join 71 other nations that have signed a treaty banning the weapons, said Williams who was in San Francisco recently to help dedicate the University of San Francisco's School of Law's Center for Law and Global Justice.

A Vermont resident, Williams said the treaty grew from a 1996 initiative by the Canadian government and was finalized in December 1997 at ceremonies in Ottawa.

Some countries have even gone the extra mile, she said. Italy, which once supplied 9 million land mines to Iraq, has discontinued production. China slopped producing land mines for export in 1994 and has contributed $100,000 to a United Nations trust fund for land mine removal, she said.

Asked why the U.S. has refused to sign the Ottawa Treaty, Williams said the military fears countries which do away with

'Jesus was executed, too,' death' penalty foes tell students NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) — The sign of the cross and the crucifix commemorate an execution, Sister Helen Prejean reminded juniors and seniors gathered at a Father Ryan High School assembly in Nashville.

Just like the death-row inmates she has counseled, Jesus too was executed by the state, she told them.

Sister Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille well known for her opposition to capital punishment, brought her message opposing the death penalty to Nashville as part of the "Journey of Hope — From Violence to Healing" program.

'Dead Man Walking' author at local event

A day-long event focusing on (lie death penalty and penal system — and featuring the woman religious who authored Dead Man Walking — is scheduled May 22 at St Joseph The Worker Parish, Berkeley, according to Bay Area Pax Christi.

The 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. event will include several panel discussions and workshops, planners said. Bay Area Pax Christi is affiliated with Pax Christi USA and Pax Christi International "which was formed in the waning days of World War II in Europe to reconcile French and German Catholics," noted Tom Webb, Bay Area Pax Christi chairperson .

Keynote speaker will be St. Joseph Sister Helen Prejean who wrote Dead Man Walking, m account of her relationship with a man on death row and the families of the persons he murdered.

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land mines will turn to other families repatriated to types of weapons systems.

Cambodia under a peace Sen. Patrick Leahy of accord. Each famil y was to Vermont is introducing new receive sufficient land to grow rice. However, there legislation that would move the U.S. closer to treaty were so many land mines compliance even if it does in the area , onl y 1,200 not si gn the treaty. The families were able to be Land Mines Obsolescence resettled. "The rest got $50 and a year ' s supp ly of Act, co-sponsored by Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb), rice," she said! would bring U.S. policies She said she is not surJody Williams and practices into conforprised the Serbs are plantiinky with the Ottawa agreement by 2003 by ng land mines to control refugee movement cutting off funding at diat time for U.S. in the Balkans conflict because "Slobodan Milosevic is a war criminal." activities inconsistent with the treaty.

His bill has received the support of the Raised Catholic , Williams was an U. S. Catholic Conference. Archbishop activist against the Vietnam War. Afterward , Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark, NJ, Williams said , she floated "from one chairman of the bishops ' International Policy Committee, held a joint press conference on March 1 with Senator Leahy. He called the bill "an important step toward a more peaceful and humane world."

During an April 12 interview at USF, Williams stressed the terrible legacy land mines leave. They can maim and kill 50 years after they are installed.

Locating them is tedious, maddening, expensive work , Williams pointed out.

Military personnel often did not leave maps of the location of land mine plantings. "If they did draw maps, they become outdated," said Williams, explaining "the landscape changes over the years. The tree that was there 15 years ago is gone now."

Williams described the pli ght of 85,000

insignificant j ob" to another. A leaflet thrust in her face in a subway station changed her life. It said , "El Salvador — Another Vietnam." If it hadn 't said Vietnam , "I would have moved on ," she said.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner spent the next few years working against U.S. intervention in Central America. In 1992, Medical International of Germany and the Vietnam Veterans Foundation asked her to bring together a coalition of non-governmental organizations to lobby countries to ban land mines. In its first five years, the group grew to 1,400 NGO's in 90 countries.

Williams travels much of her time, helping NGO's organize around this issue. But she is "still a staff of one. When I' m home in Vermont, I work out of my basement and my dog keeps me company."

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The nun told students she was pulled into the movement against the death penalty slowly. She strugm . k gled with her own anger over murders.

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She has accompanied five inmates to the death chamber. The first was Patrick Sonnier, to whom she began to write letters at someone else's request. That's when she became involved in the death penalty issue, recounted in her best-selling book Dead Man Walking, and the Oscar-winning movie that followed.

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