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Guatemala

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Kosovo

Views on NATO action vary widely

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Books

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Death p enalty:

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Reflections on Columbine High

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by Tom Burke Remembered fondly... Florence Borba , a lifelong mem-

ber and de facto caretaker of St. Dunstan Parish , Millbrae has died. Holy Ghost Father Finnbarr Horrigan, pastor, remembered the woman known as Altai' Curator as a "most devoted and uni que parishioner." Friend and fellow parishioner Faye Dawdy said "everyone knew who Florence was" and that anytime you saw her walking on the street you knew she was "going to or coming from church." Florence was also a devoted member of the assembl y at first Satu rday Masses at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma where she often led the rosary and where she now rests.

Florence, who lived into her 90s, "enjoyed everyone else 's happ iness because if you were happy " she was too, Faye said.

Parish goin 's on...Blood Florence Borba drive May 2 at St. Kevin 's in Bernal Heights from 9 a.m. to noon. Follow-up your donation with a fillin ' pancake and sausage breakfast for just $3.50...

Great stewardship at St. Paul of the Shipwreck where the SHARE program lets families receive $30 worth of groceries for $15 p lus some limited volunteering...Mothers ' Day concert tonight at St. Anthony of Padua Parish, Menlo Park at 8 p.m.. Music from Mexico's cathedrals and countryside by 20 singers and instrumentalists. Tickets at door, $10. Sounds like a bargain to me...Once a month, parishioners from Old St. Mary 's prepare and serve a meal at the City 's Martin de Porres Dining Room. Volunteers mid donations are always welcome. Call Robert Spear at (415) 776-6345... Amy Fitzgerald of St. Luke 's, Foster City is currently with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Nicaragua. A recent JVC newsletter called her "a light penetrating the shadows in a neighborhood plagued by gang violence."... Parishioners at Sausalito ' s St. Mary Star of the Sea are praying for peace. They gather as they can on Friday evenings for prayer and silent time. Thank you...St. Patrick's, Larkspur has installed a committee to administer the parish scholarshi p fund. Sue Murray is chair with committee members Dick Austin , Bob Flahive , Bob Goodwin , Rita Kincaide....St. Peter's, Pacifica will bid adieu to parishioner Adriana Scolini who is moving over the hill to Millbrae. St. Peter 's called Adriana a "longtime treasure to the parish." ... St. Isabella's, San Rafael has started a Grief Support Group . Heading this broadening ministry at St. Isabella 's are Pat Sack and Sheri Belloni. Information (415) 479-1560. . .Golf and sightsee your way through Ireland and Scotland this Jul y with parishioners and priests from Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame. Call Claudette Main at (650) 697-0230...Salesian Father Thomas Juarez who becomes pastor of Corpus Christi Parish this summer visits

the parish on May 8. Salesian Father Ben Dabbene, pastor at Coipus Christi since 1993 was recently named Vicar for Parishes by Archbishop William J. Levada, a post he assumes full-time on July I ...We join St. Dominic's in congratulating Alberta and Jim Hurley who recently celebrated their 50'" wedding anniversary.

Speech , speech and add 'em up, too...Thanks to faculty members Christine Buell , Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory ; Gail Chastain, Mercy High School, San Francisco; and Simon Chiu, St. Ignatius Preparatory for die annual speech tournaments they put together at each of their hi gh schools. The day s are filled with orators a ' plenty competing in half-a-dozen categories. Congrat 's to Kate Denning, 7"1grade teacher at St. Thomas the Apostle Elementary, and the school's speech team which competed in the matches. First place finishers are Jan Bautista, Kristina Berman, Pearl Chan, Colin Gunn-Graffy, Felix Huynh, Catherine Lee and Miya Magie. Hats off to other partici pating schools including Holy Name, Notre Dame des Victoires, St. Stephen, St. Gabriel , St. Thomas More, St. Vincent de Paul , St. Finnbarr.... On the numbers side at St. Tom's, Victoria Tang is one of 77 students in the country who achieved a perfect score on the American Junior High School Mathematics Exam.

Not far behind were Kenneth Lock, Jennifer Dea, Philli p Jiang, Theresa Jue. Almost a quarter of a million students took the test. In the California Mathematics League Contesl , 7'"-grader Andrea Romano was number two in the state and classmate Elayna Ng was 151 " as was the 7* grade as a group.

The school's 8* grade placed 2"" as a group with exceptional performances from Sherman Tom and Gordon Wong.

Almost 200 schools participated.

Same fleet , new ship . . . Occupying a new office but continuing his dedication to religious studies is Lars Lund, new assistant superintendent of schools for faith formation and reli gion curriculum. Lars has been a part of the Religious Studies Department at Junipero Serra High School for 16 years including 11 years as chair and three years as assistant campus minister. Lars, his wife, Mary, daughters Theresa and Kathleen and son, Kevin are active members of St. Timothy Parish where Theresa and Kathleen attend the parish elementary school and Kevin enters kindergarten in the fall.

Thank you , Sisters...Sisters of the Holy Names, who have given nine half-centuries of service to the people of God , prayed with famil y, friends , former students and members of their reli g ious community at special jubilee rites last month. They are Sisters Frances Bernard Allen , music teacher; Laurencie Marie Revel , special education expert; Maura O'Connor, teacher and chap lain; Francesca Cabrini Weber, longtime faculty member at the community ' s Holy Names College in Oakland; Patricia Kenny, teacher and principal; Joan Frances

Ortega , foreign language teacher; Frances Franey, teacher and RCIA minister; Josephine Louise Paleveda and Marian Jude Townley. The total impact these women have had on us as Church and society can onl y be imagined but I'd bet the farm their 450 years of selfless service have touched each of us someway, somehow.

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Littleton, Colo, tragedy

St. Ignatius students share thoug hts on Columbine issues

By Addle Spence , student corresp ondent April 20s shooting spree at Columbine Hi gh School left 14 students and one teacher dead — and thousands of others across the country wondering if similar events could take place in their schools.

Adults often look at hi gh school as a haven for their children , but often adolescent society can be cruel and can lead to violent outbursts. Cli ques , bull ying, racism , and casual meanness are commonp lace in America 's schools.

These realities mi ght have contributed to the bloodshed that Tuesday morning in Littleton , Colo., but was it the sole reason Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 13 peop le?

What else may have led to this deplorable crime?

There are many questions our whole society should be asking in the wake of this tragedy. Did permissive gun laws increase the magnitude of the slaug hter? Did the breakdown of communication between the gunmen and their parents permit the killing? Does our culture of violence and godlessness lead to acts such as this?

Also see editorial , page 12, and commentaries on page 16.

Public schools in America encourage students to treat others as they would wish to be treated , but, because of the separation of church and state guaranteed in the First Amendment, teachers must assume the difficult task of teaching morality without referring to God as an authoritative source. Catholic schools are different in this regard .

How may this explicit value-centered education lessen Ihe chances of such an event occurring at a Catholic school?

Part of what it is to be Catholic is to belong to a community. Would a Catholic school' s spirit of community stop a similar killing ?

Seniors at St. Ignatius College Preparatory in the city's Sunset District have had much to say about the Littleton shootings.

Meg McCarthy, for example, worries that despite a Catholic school's connection to the broader Church , a similar event could occur at any Catholic school. "Hatred can feel bigger than love. The message that everybody loves

you can be harclei to accept than the feeling that everybody hates you."

She agrees with classmate Diana Wang, however, that St. Ignatius ' sense of community revolves around Catholicism. "SI reall y focuses on community building. That 's why we have things like retreats , Friday morning liturg ies Addie Spence and teachers who try to incorporate Catholic values into their classes. Si's sense of community does stem from its Catholic roots."

The young killers used assault rifles that a San Francisco jud ge ruled "were designed for mass killing and had no legitimate hunting purpose." Does America's toleration of these kinds of weapons suggest a hole in the moral fabric of our society? Is it ethical to own such weapons?

Most students, including McCarthy, support both die Second Amendment and stricter gun control laws. "I don 't think kids should have guns. Period. Why would a kid need a gun? It is one tiling if a family owns rifles for hunting. I don 't think that 's immoral. I think it's immoral for a gun designed for mass killing to be in the hands of civilians , though."

Investigators found a shotgun barrel and bomb-making materials on a dresser in one of the killer's rooms. Where were their parents? Were they in touch? Did they know the extent of their children 's hate ? Are they partl y responsible for the violence? Who else did not step in to help? The school? The police?

SI senior Dan Davitt believes that "it starts with the family." Kevin Aparicio agrees. "I know there must be something wrong if these kids collected firearms and built exp losives for a year and their parents did not step-in. But parents can 't bear full responsibility for their children 's actions."

Sam Stafford agrees. "1 don 't think it 's right to pin everything a child does on his parents. There is such a thing as personal responsibility. However, the parents do bear a large share of the blame. To be fair, these parents were probabl y no worse than many. I know that I have some friends with parents who tend to look the other way.

Something influenced these kids , but without knowing just what it was, I' m not going to condemn parents , schools , police , or society."

Other recent shootings involving American schools in Spring field , Ore ., Fayetteville , Tenn., Edinboro , Pa., Jonesboro , Ark., West Paducah , Ky., and Pearl , Miss., have one thing in common: All of the perpetrators of the shootings have been boys.

From what McCarthy has seen , "girls len d to take thei r pain and turn it on themselves. They'll become depressed , get involved in abusive or destructive relationshi ps, or kill themselves. Boys tend to punish others for their pain."

Stafford sees two sources of male aggression . "One is that society conditions males to be aggressive and violent.

The other is that males tend toward this behavior natu rall y, due to testosterone , ancestral instincts and the like. Neither is valid as an excuse, only as a possible explanation."

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver opened the memorial services for those who died at Columbine Hi gh School with this prayer: "Surely the past week is about as much suffering as any community can bear . . . Love is stronger than death . I believe that. Perhaps beyond all this suffering, something good can be achieved."

Can something good emerge from something so evil?

The killers in Littleton left suicide note s claiming they killed for "revenge." Perhaps now we can reach a deeper understanding of vengeance as the most barbaric of human emotions and find it in our hearts both to condemn the killers ' actions and also to forgive them.

Addie Spence is a 17-year-old senior at St. I gnatius College Preparatory and serves as the assistant editor for the school newspaper, Inside SI. She enjoys writing poetiy and p lans to major in Eng lish in the fall at Fordham University 's Lincoln Center campus.

Crisis Response Manual' helps guide response in wake of killings

By Sharon Abercrombie When news of the Littleton , Colo, shooting massacre at Columbine High School broke the early afternoon of April 20, personnel in San Francisco Catholic high schools moved quickly to help their own communities deal with the shock, grief and horror prompted by the deaths of 14students and a math teacher.

Columbine seniors Dylan Klebold , 17, and Eric Harris, 18, also wounded two dozen before ending the spree by killing themselves.

Bay Area principals, faculty and counselors were able to act with dispatch based on a plan that has been in place in the Archdiocese for about a year, according to archdiocesan school officials.

Work on the 250-page Crisis Response Manual was begun almost two years ago, largely in response to two local tragedies — the deaths of two high school students , one from suicide, the other from a car accident, said Dominican Sister Glenn Anne McPhee, superintendent.

The cross-cultural manual offers age-appropriate activities and procedures to help youngsters from pre-kindergarten throug h high school process emotions around violence, rape, murder, suicide, terminal illness and natural disasters in a healthy constructive way, she explained.

Activities are tied into specific school subjects, such as religion, English and government. They include letter and poetry writing, memory days, tree plantings, prayer services, creating drama and, in the case of natural disasters, writing letters to government officials commending their rescue efforts, or, as the case might be, asking for better ones.

A compendium of what to do and how to do it, the manual includes a resource guide, listing agencies to which teachers can refer students and their families in event of mental health problems.

The National Catholic Educational Association recently published a report on the local manual , calling it to the attention of other Catholic school districts across the country, said Sister McPhee.

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McPhee said she wished the horrendous incident in Littleton which forced taking the manual off the shelf had never happened.

"I'm just heartbroken ," said the superintendent. "The lives of all these children will be touched b y this for the rest of th eir lives."

In addition to the Crisis Manual, the administrator noted , two years ago her department joined forces with the University of San Francisco, Catholic Charities and St. Mary's Medical Center to, create and field a mobile "Care Van" for schools.

Staffed by physicians and mental health specialists , the Care Van serves both elementary and hi gh schools.

In addition to offering physical health care, the Care Van staff can help identify "kids in crisis" and attempt to provide help before problems escalate said the superintendent.

Such efforts "allow kids to talk things throug h and dissipate emotional energy," said Barbara Elordi , who chaired the Crisis Response Manual committee two years ago.

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Celebrates Tridentine Mass

ROME (CNS) — The Vatican 's top doctrinal official celebrated a Tridentine Mass with about 350 faithful in eastern Germany.

German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , celebrated the old Latin-language Mass April 18 in Weimar.

The Tridentine Mass , which was used from the 16th century until 1969, was rep laced by the order of the Mass celebrated in the vernacular worldwide.

Church permisCardinal Ratzinger sion is required to celebrate the older Mass. The occasion for Cardinal Ratzinger ' s celebration was a gathering of the Lay Association for the Classical Roman Rite in the Catholic Church.

The group, based in western Germany, "has been holding meetings all over the East for the last few years," said Carsten Kiesswetter, spokesman for the Diocese of Erfu rt , Germany, which includes Weimar.

The European Union has desi gnated Weimar a cultural center for 1999, making it the site of a series of events celebrating European history.

The lay group requested the local bishop 's permission "more than a year ago to have their meeting in Weimar for the Year of Culture , and then they later asked about the Tridentine Mass," Kiesswetter said in a telephone interview. "And he did not say 'no.'"

Kiesswetter noted many people in eastern Germany "recall fondl y the traditions of the Church" as they were and thai many of the practices introduced with the Second Vatican Council "did not penetrate East Germany."

The principal condition tor allowing a Tridentine Mass , according to a 1 984 letter from the Congregation for Divine Worship, is that "there must be unequivocal , even public , evidence that the priest and peop le petitioning have no ties with those who impugn the lawfulness and doctrinal soundness of the Roman Missal promulgated in 1970 by Pope Paul VI." Pope Paul's "General Instruction on the Roman Missal" revised the order of the Mass and related prayers. It banned the old rite, with some exceptions , after a transition period.

Cardinal Ratzinger said in a 1997 autobiograp hy Pope Paul' s Mass reforms provoked "extremel y serious damage" and marked "a break in the history of the liturgy, the consequences of which could onl y be tragic."

In April 1993 Cardinal Ratzinger told an Italian magazine he agreed with theological arguments for returning the altar to its pre-Second Vatican Council position , in which the priest celebrated Mass with his back to the congregation.

Oakland deacon honored

OAKLAND (CNS) — Thorn McGowan, a permanent deacon who is ecumenical officer for the Oakland Diocese, has been name d 1999 reci pient of the James Fitzgerald Award for Ecumenism. McGowan is to receive the highest

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Court orders crucifix remo\ed

BONN , Germany (CNS) — A federal court in Germany has ordered a state-run , Bavarian school to remove a crucifix from a classroom after a couple successfull y argued the presence of the "male torture stake" had degraded their 10year-old daughter and violate d her ri ghts. But the Federa l Administrative Court in Berlin also ruled April 21 that a 1995 Bavarian state law requiring that the reli gious symbol be disp layed in classrooms is constitutional. Under the law, a crucifix can onl y be removed if a parent objects "with serious and reasonable grounds based on faith or ideology. "

Pope p resses Guatemala

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II and other top Vatican officials met Guatemalan President Alvaro Arzu Iri goyen and pressed for clarification of the 1998 murder of a Guatemala bishop, the Vatican said. After a 20minute private audience with the pontiff April 22, Arzu held talks with the Vatican secretary of state , Cardinal Angelo Sodano, and his assistant , Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran. "The conversations reviewed the ongoing process of reconciliation in the country and relations between Church and state, particularly in view of the reiterated necessity to shed light as soon as possible on the painfu l case of the killing of Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerard i of Guatemala ," a Vatican statement said.

Bishop to cancel debts

ST. PETERSBURG , Fla. (CNS) — Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St. Petersburg plans to absolve parish debt, gather the faithfu l for a diocese-wide communal Mass, and promote personal and sacramental reconciliation as ways to usher in jubilee year 2000. Bishop Lynch said he wants "a year of forgiveness, as a year of favor from the Lord." Recalling the practice in ancient Israel of absolving all debt in a ju bilee year, which was every 50 years, the bishop said he wants to see that made manifest in 2000 by a forgiveness of the debt of some of the less endowed parishes and institutions.

To counter anti-Christian campaig n

NEW DELHI, India (CNS) — The Indian Catholic bishops ' standing committee chalked out an action plan to counter a nationwide anti-Christian campaign. The bishops suggested strengthening spirituality, promoting inlerreli gious dialogue, improving communication , increasing social involvement , and a "more effective, accurate and speedy communications network."

Brazilian says he'll speak out

SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNS) — The newl y elected head of the Brazilian bishops ' conference , Bishop Jayme Chemello of Pelotas , said he will continue to voice his opinion about the government 's economic policies. "We are not an opposition party, but when we detect that one 's human di gnity is being threatened , we will speak out ," Bishop Chemello said. His remarks came after Brazilian President Fernando Henri que Cardoso criticized him for remarks about the country 's economic policies.

Embryo research: grossly immoraV

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CNS) — Proposed experiments that would require the destruction of live human embryos were labeled "grossl y immoral" and "clearly contrary to the will of congress" in testimony delivered by an official of the U.S. bishops ' pro-life office. Richard M. Doerflinger, associate director for policy development in the bishops ' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities , testified that "any policy based on a distinction between 'spare' and 'research' embryos is both morally incoherent and practically unworkable." He was referring to a Clinton administration proposal in 1994 to make a distinction between the two on the grounds that destroying spare embryos may be less immoral than destroy ing embryos specificall y created for research.

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Phili pp ine ouster p rotested

MANILA, Phili pp ines (CNS) — Catholic leaders in the Phili ppines protested the removal of a religious brother from a Cabinet post following his testimony in a bribery probe involving a relative of the president. President Josep h Estrada announced April 14 the "promotion " of De la Salle Brother Andrew Gonzalez , who was head of the Phili pp ine Department of Education , Culture and Sports. Estrada said he would appoint Brother Gonzalez as chairman of the Commission on Hi gher Education.

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Assisted-suicid e bill heads to Approp riations Committee

By Julie Sly Despite the opposition of Californi a's Catholic bishops and the state 's Catholic hospitals , an Assembly committee April 21 narrowly approved for the first time legislation that would legalize physician-assisted suicide in California.

Assembl ywoman Dion Aroner 's (DBerkeley) measure, which passed the Assembly Judiciary Committee by one vote, is patterned after the 1997 Oregon law which allows physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminall y ill patients.

Under the proposal , patients 18 or older could be prescribed a fatal , $35 combination of barbiturates only if they have a terminal disease that two doctors "reasonabl y determine " will cause death within six months; if they make at least two oral and two written requests for the prescription; if they pass a mental competency exam if requested by the physician; and if they can self-administer the medication.

Aroner and other proponents of the bill , AB 1592, claim it is fortified with safeguards to ensure that only the patient can request and decide on taking the life-ending medication. Critics of the measureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including the Catholic Church, medical professionals, medical ethicists and disability advocatesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;contend the law has too few safeguards to protect against tragic, irrevocable abuses.

"In an era that fails to grant a universal right to access to health care, it is foolish to create a right to be killed by a physician," said Dr. H. Rex Greene, a Los Angeles oncologist and a member of the California Medical Association 's Council on Ethical Affairs.

"When managed care has devised perverse incentives to avoid caring for costly, complicated patients, it is unwise to create the final solution , a definite cost-control tool, and put it in the hands of those who would be rewarded for its use," he said.

Oregon 's physician-assisted suicide law, which went into effect last year and led to 15 such deaths there in 1998, "has confirmed my personal observation that this is a very small problem that requires no change in public policy," Greene added.

"Patients who are seeking euthanasia and assisted suicide are not suffering desperately at the end of the line. Rather they are fearful of what might comeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;dependency, helplessness and uncontrolled pain."

Two of four Bay Area members of the Judiciary Committee voted against passing proposed physician-assisted suicide legislation out of committee April 21, Democrats Kevin Shelley (San Francisco) and Ellen Corbett (Hayward ) voted to stop the bill. Elizabeth Audie Bock of Alameda, a member of die Green Party, became the "swing vote" when she changed her original position against AB1592 after reportedly heavy lobbying by its supporters on the Judiciary Committee.

Bock said she voted for the bill after she "received assurance from the author that the bill would be amended

as necessary to increase protections especially in regard to the potential of HMOs to abuse provisions of the act."

At the same time, she added, "I have great concerns that AB1592 can be properl y implemented as long as we have physicians whose ethics may be compromised by profitmotivated HMOs. Universal health care is my goal and this issue is made all the more difficult when people living or dying are at the mercy of a corporate health care mentality."

In addition , the Mayor's Disability Council of San Francisco attempted to have a statement against AB 1592 entered into the record , but was told the effort was too late.

On April 26 the San Francisco Chronicle editorialized against the measure.

Calling end-of-life issues one of "the most wrenching ethical questions facing American society," the newspaper stated: "With a right-to-die law on the books, it is not difficult to imagine the pressure diat could be broug ht to bear on die sick, elderly, disabled or merely inconvenient to commit suicide rather than spend the family inheritance on medical or hospice care."

After listing several arguments against "The Death with Dignity Act," the San Francisco Mayor 's Disability Council wrote in a resolution, "We find that this bill will create dangers to the lives and health of people with disabilities."

The Council's statement apparently caught bill supporters off guard. Aroner said she was confident Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco was a firm supporter of her legislation.

In an April 19 letter of opposition to the Assembly ludiciary Committee, Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, the state bishops ' public policy arm, contended Aroner's measure is bad public policy.

Threatened suicide, no matter the age or physical condition of the individual , is "a cry for help which must be heeded, not silenced," he said. "Medication for depression, coun-

'We find that this bill will create

dangers to the lives and health of peop le with disabilities. '

seling, adequate comfort care and a compassionate presence will usually meet the needs of the terminally ill person ."

The word "compassion ," which means to "suffer with ," is a call for the human community to embrace the dying, not dispatch them, Dolejsi added.

Dolejsi said health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other insurance providers stand to benefit from the assisted suicide option . "Paying for one prescription of lethal drugs is far less expensive than paying for extended hospice or other palliative care for the dy ing. Might they not be encouraged to promote this 'solution '?"

Bud Lee, president of the California Association of Catholic Hospitals, in a letter opposing AB 1592, said it would expand physician-assisted suicide to "vulnerable populations where it becomes not a choice but a duty to die."

Citing a report from the Oregon State Health Division with information about physician-assisted suicides there last year, the motivating factor for requests related to "autonomy and personal control," Lee said.

"We believe it is under this 'guise' that physicianassisted suicide will expand to other categories of 'eli gible ' patients such as the disabled, die elderly frail , seriously and chronically ill. At last count, at least six million Californians are uninsured and countless others underinsured. How does 'choice' extend to a population that does not have access to basic health care, insurance coverage and certainl y not hospice care?"

Lee said Catholic health care providers are committed to "providing appropriate , supportive care to patients and their families in a way that alleviates patients ' pain and addresses their suffering regardless of die stage of their illness."

The April 21 committee debate came as a Field Poll was released indicating widespread support among Californians for allowing terminally ill patients to end their own lives, letting their families end life support or allowing physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs.

Among Roman Catholics, the poll claimed, 68 percent favored physician-assisted suicide, in contradiction to Church teaching, and 81 percent backed allowing families to end life support .

"In earlier measurements, while majorities of Catholics supported these euthanasia procedures, their support was not at the same high level as people of other religions," Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "However, now Catholic support for each active and passive euthanasia step is closer to the feelings expressed by peop le of other religions."

Carol Hogan, spokeswoman for the California Catholic Conference, said poll numbers can be influenced by the language used to question those surveyed.

"Who wouldn 't be in favor of a physician assisting them in dying?," she said. "Dying is a process. Death is an event.

Proponents of legalizing assisted suicide have confused the public by trotting out phrases such as 'aid in dying,' 'release' and 'autonomy'. Most people want their physician to aid them throughout their 'dying process,' but do not necessarily want that to include prescribing lethal pharmaceuticals."

AB 1592 is scheduled to be heard before the Assembly's Appropriations Committee during May. Julie Sly is editor of The Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Sacramento Diocese.

California bishops' spokesman asks clemency for Babbitt More than 200 persons packed the April 26 clemency hearing in Sacramento for convicted killer Manuel Pina Babbitt. The 49-year-old Vietnam hero has been on San Quentin 's Death Row awaiting execution for the 1980 vicious beating and robbery of 78-year-old Leah Schendel who died pf a heart attack as a result of the assault.

The six-person Board of Prison Terms heard testimony pleading for both Babbitt 's execution as well as conversion of his deadi sentence to life in prison. A decision on whether or not to grant clemency is expected from Governor Gray Davis before Tuesday.

Among those testifying was Edward E. (Ned) Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference which represents the bishops of the dozen dioceses of the state. The following is the text of Dolejsi 's statement: .

On their behalf (bishops of the state) and on my own I stand here before you and request that you recommend to our governor that he grant clemency to Manuel Pina Babbitt. As we begin this we must acknowled ge and respect

the pain and sorrow of the family and friends of Leah Schendel. Their immense suffering is shared by all of us.

They and other victims of senseless violence, particularly those families in Littleton, Colo, and Kosovo, are in our thoughts and prayers.

Others here have made passionate and articulate arguments in favor of clemency. They raise legal concerns and evidence of rehabilitation and redemption. We stronglysupport their efforts. However, our presence here is to speak of the dignity of each human life, regardless of how flawed or unworthy in our human eyes. Our presence here is to speak words of faith from our hearts to yours.

It is our deep belief, shared by most everyone in this state, that God created us to witness to His unconditional love for each of us. This love is incredibly difficult for us to imagine and comprehend. Just as it is difficult for us to imagine the murder of someone we love. The prospect of experiencing that loss moves us to do all we can to prevent its ever happening or happening again. It moves us to walk with the victims in

care and compassion. It also moves us to exact "justice " on the one who did this despicable deed.

But we have here a moment to touch that awesome love God lias for us. We have here a moment to witness that love is more powerful than death. We have here a moment to demonstrate that we can break the chains of violence that leads to more violence. We have here the opporttmity to say "no " to taking life in the name of the people. We are safe from Manny Babbitt. We ask you to be merciful.

One of our bishops recently shared these thoughts. I conclude by sharing them now. "The causes of this violence are many and complicated: racism, fear, mental illness, selfishness, etc. But in another, deeper sense, the cause is very simple. We 're losing God, and in losing God, we 're losing ourselves."

We cannot resort to violence over and over again and then hope tliat somehow our children will help build a culture of life. We need to change - personally and as a society. Let 's begin here. Show mercy.

(Ed. note: Also see "Capitalpunishment as violence"page 13)

OBITUARIES Father David Walsh dies after long illness Father David I. Walsh, retired pastor of St. Mark Parish, Belmont , died on April 20 at St. Anne 's Home , San Francisco after a long illness. Father Walsh , who served in Belmont from 1969 - 89, celebrated his fiftieth year as a priest in 1998. He was 75, Father Clement A. Davenport , retiring pastor of Nativity Parish, Menlo Park , was a classmate and lifelong friend of the late priest. "Father Walsh was a great guy, a great priest and this is a great loss," Father Davenport said from Nativity after returning from Father Walsh's funeral Mass at St. Mark 's on April 22. "We have been friends since grammar school."

As students at St. Joseph School in Berkeley and St. Columba in Oakland the

two became friends as competitors in school sports. They entered the seminary together and during ensuing summers worked together "as longshoremen unloading boxcars in Oakland to pay our St. Pat 's tuition ," Father Davenport said.

Father Walsh "loved the horses but didn ' t know how to bet them."

Father Davenport laughed , remembering his friend' s "scientific " strateg ies for winning that included "his mother ' s favorite numbers " and "a horse that

Msgr. Robert Plocki dies April 26 Msgr. Robert Plocki, well known to been awarded the Bronze Star, Legion of parishioners of St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon , Merit , Vietnam Medal of Honor 1st where he has lived and helped since retir- Class, Vietnamese Staff Service Medal ing as a Colonel fro m the US Arm y more and the Civic Action Medal . than 20 years ago, died at his Marin home In a reflection on his live decades as a on Apri l 26. priest in 1 995 , Msgr. Plocki wrote , Msgr. Plocki was ordained in 1945 for "Almighty God has been so bountiful the Diocese of Springfield, 111. and with his love and graces over the 50 years became a military chaplain in 1948. He he has allowed me to serve him. I thank served in Korea and Viet Nam and had God every day of my life for his strength and direction ."

Bishop Joh n Wester presided at a funeral Mass for Msgr. Plocki at St. Hilary on April 29 at 10:30 a.m.

Springfield Bishop Daniel Ryan celebrated a memorial Mass for the late priest on April 26. Burial arrangements were being finalized at press time.

Archbishop Alberto Suarez of Morelia in Michoacan , Mexico will preside at two Masses in the Archdiocese commemorating Cinco de Mayo this weekend.

Tomorrow, May i , Archbishop Pope John Paul IPs 1998 encyclical , Suarez will celebrate Mass with the Fides et Ratio, will be the focus of a community of St. Anthony of Padua University oi San Francisco symposium Parish, Menlo Park, at 6 p.m. Many beginning today at 4 p.m. Keynote speaker of St. Anthony's parishioners are will be Catholic San Francisco columnist from Michoacan. On Sunday he will Father Milton Walsh , associate professor of celebrate the weekly Mass in Spanish systematic theology at St. Patrick at St. Mary Cathedral at 1 p.m.

Seminary, Menlo Park .

The encyclical will "be used as a tens Archbishop Suarez is here at the through which to examine the relation between invitation of Archbishop William J. the intellectual life and faith at a Catholic uniLevada who "invites all interested parversity," said a USF spokesperson. ties to attend either of these special Panel discussions will be held Saturday Masses, especially those who come beginning at 10 a.m. and ending at 5:30 from Michoacan in Mexico," p.m.. The symposium is free and open to the public. Call (415) 422-2386.

Cunningham; brothers Joseph and Lawrence and several nieces and nep hews.

Archbishop William J. Levada presided at Father Walsh's funeral Mass with more than 40 concelebrants including Bishops John Wester and Mark Hurley; St. Mark's pastor, Father Floro Arcamo and Father William Flanagan who served as co-pastor of St. Mark ' s with Father Walsh from 1980 - 89 and then as pastor until his own retirement in 1993. Interment was at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Hayward. Remembrances to American Parkinson Disease Foundation , 60 Bay St., Staten Island, NY 10301 or Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Anne Home, 300 Lake St., San Francisco 94118.

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Father Walsh' s greatest example came in "carry ing the cross ," Father Davenport said.

"You can ' t be a priest without the cross and he carried it perfectly."

In years previous to his St. Mark 's assignment, Father Walsh served as a parochial vicar at Most Holy Redeemer; St. Brendan; St. Raphael , San Rafael; Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Daly City and St. Timothy, San Mateo. He is survived by a sister , Mary Jane

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Find an alternative to violence, speaker tells catechists ' meeting INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — The final speaker at the April 18-22 National Conference of Catechetical Leadershi p in Indianapolis challenged relig ious educators to offer an alternative to the violence of today 's society.

With speech and Gospel songs , Jesuit Father J-Glenn Murray, director of the Office for Pastoral Liturgy and teacher of homiletics for the Diocese of Cleveland , engaged the 550 delegates in singing, clapp ing, laughing and crying as he dramatized "Our Sacred Role as Catechists."

With song, he introduced himself as his grandmother suggested: "If Anybod y Asks Me Who 1Am, 1Tell Them I' m a Child of God." "That 's the onl y thing you need to remember about me and that 's the only thing that you reall y need to remember about yourselves," he said.

Noting that African-Americans are often known for their hospitality and music ,

Father Murray began sing ing "I Woke U p This Morning With My Mind and It Was Stayed on Jesus."

But , he said , some people wake up singing, "Lord , How Come Me Here?" and wishing they had never been born. Then the priest went through a litany of school tragedies beginning in 1997 and ending with April 20 in Littleton , Colo., where the victims , he said, "were purposel y hunted down because they were popular ... because they were loved."

"When our only way of speaking is the language of social sciences ," he said, young people "can't be redeemed , they can onl y be programmed." He added , "If we have no moral center to our lives and our society, then these boys ... cannot fall into the loving arms of a forg iving God." Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle , director of the San Francisco Archd iocese ' s Office of Reli gious Education , praised

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Stressing the need for parental interaction even when youth don 't seem to want it , Elordi said adolescents, not unlike twoyear-olds, are "always looking over their shoulders to see if parents are with them in their lives."

Donna Bargetto, assistant principal at Immaculate Conception High School in San Francisco, agreed. "A lot of attention goes to kids m ^^ ** fro m babies to five years old. But adolescents are still babies , too. We forget they need more { attention. It's a differ\ ent kind than what \ goes to five-year\ olds. It is talking to \ them, heaiing them , \ asking questions , \ and engag ing

¦ Continued from page 3 Elordi , a licensed family counselor and certified bereavement specialist , serves as grief care program coordinator with Catholic Charities.

"My wonderment is, what did they (Harris and Klebold) do with their thoughts and feelings?" ^v*" asked Elordi. ^-**^T To keep a »— situ ation from escalating as it ^ \ did in Colorado, 1 I Elordi stressed , \ "We have to talk \ to our kids. We \ have to know what ' is going on inside .

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While teens associate closely with peers it 's still important for "parents to keep talking ¦ and have time together.

Computers are wonderful , but there has to be real inter action."

Elordi cited the example of one teen suicide. After their child' s death , the parents discovered computer printouts of articles about depression. "In isolation, she was trying to figure out what was going on with herself," said the counselor.

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On April 21 , Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein of Indianapolis welcomed the catechetical leaders to SS. Peter and Pau l Cathedral in Indianapolis for Mass. Bishops Gerald A. Gettelfinger of Evansville and William L. Hi gi of Lafayette concelebrated , along with priests at the conference.

"We want to express our appreciation for your tremendous contribution in the teaching mission of the Church ," the archbishop told the catechists.

Archbishop Buechlein said that in times of peace and in times of challenge, ancestors in faith persevered in their preaching and teaching and would not back off when Christian princi ples were at stake.

The archbishop pointed to the need for evangelization today when "nearly onethird of U.S. folks are not attending church services and 65 million claim to be unchurched."

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Sister Arbuckle attended the conference with ORE staff members Lynn Zupan and Julie Paavola as well as Dan Faloon, director of St. Ignatius Parish' s reli gious education program.

Catechists app lauded when Father Murray said , "Christians are made, not born , and we are made for a purpose. ...

Every Christian has been called to live the alternative... endeavoring to know better and better the profound meaning of this word....Your duty is not simp ly sacred but urgent to preach Christ crucified."

"There must be an alternative" to the world's violence, he said , "and there is and it is Jesus ." But someone needs to tell people of the alternative , Father Murray said.

"No matter how taxing the ministry is, without you and without what you do... the alternative will not be announced."

Those at the conference prayed with Father Murray as he presided at the closing ritual and commissioning of officers. The new NCCL president is Sue Grenough ,

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Catholic Relief Services off ers long-term hel p Catholic San Francisco feature editor Evelyn Zapp ia files the second of two reports on her April 6-9 tour of rural Guatemala as a working guest of Catholic Relief Services.

Photos and story by Evelyn Zappia Unfinished homes for nearly 600 peop le appeal' to be thrown in a jumble of disorder irr the disp laced community On the outside of San Miguel Church was a large slantof Guatemalan peasants in the small settlement of Guaian.

Yet it is chaos of hope. No one in this community could ed cross. "The cross is slanted because that is how it looked have dreamed that losing everything would bring them when Jesus carried it," he said. Inside the church , crosses near each Station of the Cross are slanted the same way. blessings of monumental proportion - their own land.

Father Joseph's second parish, The government of Guatemala, San Gabriel in Monterrico, is on an through the Guatemala Housing island. He takes a boal to visit and Fund , has arranged for the people celebrate Mass. Everywhere is evihere to be able to" purchase the dence of how house foundations of "high" land they sought for refuge mud proved too weak for Mitch. after Hurricane Mitch destroyed Mahfoud of CRS stated , "If their village last November. The houses had concrete foundations , government paid 75 percent of the losses would have been far less." land's worth, and the people, in Father Joseph walked from time, will pay the remaining 25 house to house pointing out the percent. Each family is purchasing devastation. Some sites are just one hector of land , roughly twocrevices where houses and families and-one-half acres. used to exist. Hurricane Mitc h The issue of land title in flooded nearly 20 square miles of Guatemal a is complex, and one the island.

Catholic Relief Services has been Ironically, Guatemala now faces involved with for some time. a drought. The canal is nearly dry.

According to Miguel Mahfoud , Mosquitoes the size of golf balls assistant country representative of swarm around the ruins.

CRS/Guatemala, "Proper records Fishermen , whose families for land titling have never been existed because of their trade, stand kept in many parts of Guatemala, it dejectedly by the canal that now is difficult to get a piece of paper Father Joseph describes well water contains contaminated water and identif y ing owners or giving problems and solutions to a video crew very few fish. papers to prospective land ownThe community of Guaian had ers."

News of members of the small Guaian community won a great victory but at a devastating price. being able to own land is important for Father Joseph Walking through the villag e I was reminded of what Gumercindo Solares. The local priest has been working Franciscan Father Floyd Lotito of St. Anthony activel y with CRS to work toward dependable, legal resoFoundation in San lution on land titles for the Guatemalan people. "The Francisco told me process has not shown much improvement for several before my tri p to years," the priest said.

Guatemala , "You will "Father Joseph ," 35, was a construction worker and meet simp le peop le cowboy before becoming a Catholic priest. He is pastor with great faith in their of two parishes , San Miguel in Taxisco and San Gabriel eyes." Nowhere in in Monterrico.

Guatemala was this Hurricane Mitch hit both parishes hard . Over 9,000 of more true. his people in the surrounding area needed assistance. All Childre n wearing received CRS aid immediately after the hurricane. donated clothes welStanding on the roof of Father Joseph's San Miguel comed me with smiles.

Church, the need for major repairs to the parish plant is Some patiently waiting in line for a drink of obvious. A building attached to the church had no roof.

Sections of the rectory were gone. Several parts of the purified water greeted A young girl receives her church walls had come down during the earthquake and me warmly with turn for a drink of purified "jHola!" Men and have not been repaired. Father Joseph estimated $400,000 and "many volunteers" could fix it. Still, Father Joseph is women were always proud of his 150-year-old church and the fact it is an his- anxious and proud to tell me how many children they have. torical monument.

Meeting the unspoiled peop le of Guatemala has changed me. Wh en my sister, Rosemary, asked me what I might want for my birthday, 1 replied, "I don 't need anything."

Guatemalan peasants confront a difficult world daily. Yet, for people who do not have clean water, easy access to education or safe living conditions, they clearly know abou t important things like respect for life, love of family, and faith.

The contrast to Americans with our obsessions for luxury cars, the Dow Jones average, designer clothes, and deadlines is dramatic. How can we want so much when others can be content with what little they have? How can we place time for family and friends so apparentl y low on our priority list?

When Mitch hit Central America last November, Pope John Paul II called on "all public and private institutions and all men of good will to do all they can in this grave moment of destruction and death." CRS is in Guatemala to The river near Guaian is now barely a creek; drought do just th at. has worsened the situation in Guatemala.

Media attention soon refocused elsewhere. Meanwhile

Cement block foundations will be a great improvement over mud ones that have fallen victim to mother nature.

CRS continued and continues to focus on the hundreds of communities remaining without adequate and safe drinking water and waste disposal systems. It has a comprehensive plan for health educalion, housing rehabilitation/reconstruction , infrastructure (for example, access bridges), subsistence agriculture rehabilitation , and institutional strengthening for social justice.

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 or call 1-800-736-3467 for further information.

In a CRS fabrication center, above , men form metal chimneys for safe r cooking and cleaner air, a substitute for direct wood fire cooking.

Below, Guaian women prepare tamalitos, wrapping them in corn stock .

Just war criteria met WASHINGTON (CNS) — Speaking on the National Public Radio program "Talk of the Nation " April 13, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles said the Kosovo situation "probably has crossed that threshold " for a just war.

"No war is ever black or white. You can ' t say it 's totally just or totall y unjust ," he said. But "this particular war has probabl y gone over that ed ge alread y."

In a transcri pt of the interview furnished to Catholic News Service, he said: "There were incredible negotiations and efforts made to halt this.

All the time the Albanian Kosovo peop le have been suffering greatl y." Kosovars are ethnic Albanians , predominantly Muslim , livin g in a re8ion oi' Yugoslavia considCardinal Mahony ered to hold some of the most sacred sites of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

"There just seems to be no other way to halt that continuing assault upon innocent people and th at does then nud ge the conflict into the just-war category," Cardinal Mahony said.

NATO attacks are protested Franciscan Father Louie Vitale, (center), pastor of St. Boniface Parish in San Francisco , prays with Hal Carlstadt of the Berkeley Unitarian Fellowship (left) and Ken Butigan , professor at the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley (right) , for an end to NATO bombings in Serbia during an April 23 vigil outside the Federal Building in Oakland. The Franciscan Office of Peace and Justice as well as the Franciscan Affinity Group were among the groups sponsoring the noontime rally. About 40 took part. i| CL.

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BELGRADE , Yugoslavia (CNS) — The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia is unlawful and immoral , said Russian Orthodox Patriarc h Alexei II of Moscow during a one-day visit to the Yugoslav capital.

The 70-year-old patriarch also offered prayers April 20 for the victims of the conflict and urged the warring sides to return to negotiations.

"We have become witnesses to an action of glaring lawlessness as a handful of powerful and rich countries , who dare consider themselves the measure of good and evil, is trampling upon the will of the people who wish to live differently," Patri arch Alexei said in Belgrade.

Pope John Paul II sent a letter to Patriarch Alexei , which the Russian Orthodox leader received from the Vatican nuncio in Bel grade.

The pope praised the patriarc h for visiting Belgrade and prayed for his attempts to encourage peacefu l negotiations.

"It is the obli gation of all those who profess the Gospel of peace to proclaim with one unanimous voice that every type of violence , ethnic cleansing, the deportation of populations and the exclusion of peoples fro m social life cannot be considered ways of achieving civilized solutions for problems ," ihe pope's letter said.

Patriarch Alexei , speaking after celebrating the liturgy with Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle of Belgrade , described the conflict as "an orgy ot sin " and said NATO countries were trying lo impose their will on Yugoslavia using "brute force."

"Bombs and missiles are pouring down on this land, not because they seek to defend anyone ," but to force the peop les of Yugoslavia to accept a foreign plan for settling their differences , Patri arch Alexei said.

He asked the Serb peop le _ . . . . . ... to seek reconciliation with Patnarch Alexei " the ethnic Albanian people of Kosovo and to offer them assistance in returning to their homes. "Then nobod y will be able to rebuke you for sinful actions in an attempt to justif y their own sin ," he said.

"You don 't kill people , including innocent civilians , to save other people," he said. "The Christians of the West who participate in these war actions commit a serious sin in the eyes of God and a crime from the point of view of international law."

Conscience struggle difficult

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Czech Cardinal Miioslav Vlk offered his support to political and military leaders who went through a struggle of conscience before deciding to use force against Yugoslavia to protect ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

"All peop le — of whatever country, race or religious persuasion — have the inalienable right to a home and land ," said the cardinal , president of the Council of European Bishops ' Conf erences.

"We are aware of the strugg le of conscience in diose responsible among the politicians and military who have decided to use force of arms to defend unarmed people who are exposed to the blind fury of the murderer, to horrendous violence and to the systematic destruction of their homes and their land," Cardinal Vlk said in a statement released April 26 at the Vatican.

The cardinal also asked everyone involved in the conflict to do everything possible to reach a cease-fire.

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Bay Area Kosovar relatives being sought Onl y two days after the April 21 announcement by the Clinto n Administration that the U.S. would be admitting 20,000 Kosovar refugees to the U.S. mainland , Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese and other relief agencies across the country began activel y seeking peop le to offer them shelter.

"Working with Catholic Charities in San Jose and Oakland , we are engaged in an effort to hel p the victims of the war in Yugoslavia ," said Frank C. Hudson , chief executive officer of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese.

The U.S. plans to move about 400 peop le a day from Macedonia and other countries that have been housing refugees temporarily in borrowed rooms , tents and sometimes open fields.

"At this time , the government is specif ying that onl y Kosovar refugees currentl y in Macedonia with relatives in the U.S. will be allowed into the country, " said Miquel Garcia-Vidal , who will be heading up the local Catholic Chanties recruitment effort.

"The term 'relative' is very loose , however. It is my understanding cousins are considered in this category."

Garcia-Vidal asked that "anyone living in San Francisco , San Mateo or Marin counties who are related to Kosovar refugees in Macedonia " call him at (415) 5435669.

According to Mark Franken , executive director of Mi gration and Refugee Services (MRS) for the U.S. Catholic Conference , refugees with medical needs and U.S. relatives will be g iven first priority. Any "remaining slots" would "likel y be opened to peop le who are being sponsored by strangers ," he predicted. "There is no way of knowing how many of the 20,000 slots for refugees may be filled at this time."

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Masterp iecesf romAssisi coming to San Francisco as p ainstaking restoration continues exhibition featuring masterpieces fro m AnItaly's Basilica of St. Francis of Assist which has received rave reviews at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be on its way to the Fine Arts Museum's Legion of Honor in San Francisco after its New York tour ends June 27. "The Treasury of St. Francis of Assisi" will also feature paintings , jewelry, liturgical art, precious manuscri pts , goldsmith 's work, textiles and other works of art from museums and private collections from throughout Europe.

Sponsors hope the exhibit will stimulate interest in the restoration project underway at the famed Basilica which was heavily damaged in a September 1997 earthquake.

A 13th-centurypaintedpanel depicts St. Francis and four stories of posthumous miraclesthat occurred through his intercession.

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Pieces of a fresco depicting St. Anthony are matched to a life-sizephotograph of the painting in a workshop near the Basilica, where art experts are f itting together thousands of thefragments.

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ssisi and the surrounding region were devastated by two earthA quakes on Sept. 26, 1997.

The Franciscan monastery and its historically and artistically significant upper and lower Basilicas were badl y damaged.

During the past 19 months many people have spent thousands of hours sifting through rubble to identif y and collect pieces of the fractured frescoes.

The painstaking processs to piece together as many parts as possible of the frescos in the upper Basilica, most by the Italian masters Cimabue and Giotto, still continues. Meanwhile the physical structures are being restored and reinforced.

The upper Basilica is scheduled to re-open to the public this year in time for a Christmas Eve Mass.

Program allows donors to buy bricks for walkway through Assisi

By Lynne Weil Catholic News Service

A worke r inj ects resin to reinforce the aging mortar in the ceiling vault of the Basilica.

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amoun t of resin introd uced to he caref ul it doesn 't seep down to thefrescoes below.

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ROME (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The town of Assisi , Ital y, which makes a living from tourists attracted by its sacred sites, has devised a fund-raising program that lets donors buy bricks for a walkway through town.

The initiative , called Assisi Jubilee 2000, has been endorsed by the local bishop and the Franciscan monastery that constitutes the region 's religious centerpiece.

A global campaign is planned to interest people in placing dieir names and home cities on terra cotta bricks meant to form a nearly nine-mile "Way of St. Francis."

Each brick , produced in the region near Assisi and measuring approximately 8 inches by 5 inches by 5 inches, is to be "written on " with a laser, leaving an inscri ption intended to withstand centuries of pilgrim feet . Each donor can have no more than one brick inscribed with his or her name, but bricks can be dedicated as gifts for other people.

The pathway is to pass all the sites in Assisi associated with the 12thcentury saint who made the town famous. It is meant to follow and to extend a two-and-one-half-mile course pilgrims used from the late 1400s until the 1800s, when almost all traces of it were somehow erased â&#x20AC;&#x201D; no written record explains the disappearance, but there are records of the path's existence.

The new two-and-one-half mile central section is to be completed and opened by the start of the year 2000, as long as the 300,000 bricks needed have been "sold" by then. The remaining six-and-one-half miles are to be filled in brick by brick.

Each will "cost " donors about $49. Organizers said in a statement faxed to international media in late March that the result will be "a street which will remain in the future an example of choral (coordinated group) effort and a symbol of univers al fraternity. "

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The Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi is still covered in scaffolding 19 months after being rocked by an earthquake. Valuablefrescoes and parts of the ceiling were destroyed in the upper Basilica and there was

serious structural damage to the bell tower and parts of the Franciscan monastery.

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restorer does delicate brushwork on a Bh-centuryf rescoon the vaulted Basilicaceiling.

The organizers also noted that St. Francis represents values held by nonCatholics and Catholics alike, such as tolerance and solidarity. They concluded that promoting a path past Franciscan sites was in everyone's interest.

For the project 's launch, a Rome-based, commercial public relations firm arranged a day trip for journalists to Assisi. Journalists were told that the first brick in the walkway would bear the name of Pope John Paul II, while heads of state from around the world would be individually invited to make a donation. Rome Mayor Francesco Rutelli reportedly was the first in his city to order his own brick.

A Web page was planned to publicize the project. A computer graphic projection of the completed walkway in three dimensions was the centerpiece of a brief video, which was also created to raise publicity. Interested Italian donors have access to a toll-free telephone number.

An article on the initiative published in late March in the Rome-based newspaper La Republica commented that the whole undertaking proved that "the ways of the Lord really are infinite."

"Road shows" for other countries include concerts and exhibits starting in late April â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a tentative schedule included stops in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto and the Australian cities of Melbourne and Sydney.

Proceeds for the project are to go to restoration of Assisi's artistic patrimony, including the holy sites, and to supporting social initiatives.

Interested donors can p hone the English-speaking operators at the Assisi Jubilee 2000 office in Assisi, Italy, at 011-39-075-80-44-151.

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Pray er, not -weapons

Do we live in a hilling culture ?

There likel y is a complex web oi motivation and madness (some of which may never be full y known or full y understood) behind the terrible taking of life that occurred last week at Columbine High School in Littleton , Colorado.

While the nation mourns, it also seeks explanations.

Contributing factors in the tragedy seem to be social alienation , glorification of violence, access to hi gh-powered guns, psychological disorder and a palpable presence of evil.

Perhaps most striking is the realization that the perpetrators viewed mass destruction of life as a rational and acceptable means to deal with problems and conflict. A little more than a year ago, in the aftermath of killings and school violence similar to that in Colorado, the Respect Life Commission of the Archdiocese of San Francisco was spurred to make the following statement: During the past f e w weeks, we have been dismayed by headlines and nevus broadcasts o f . . . young peop le gunning down teachers and peers. These disturbing acts lead all segments of society, in apprehension, to ask, "Why?" There is some consensus that a combination of pressures ... are contributing factors.

Caring generations in the past have addressed such conditions and coped with the violence they spawned.

However, the appalling escalation in our times of the fierce and fatal violence perpetrated by individuals to solve personal problems and frustrations g ive us cause f o r alarm. These acts are certainly symptoms of an expanding culture of death.

It is an unfortunate omission that most who assess the causes of the increase in personal violence do not factor in the possible impact of legalized killing.

Is it a coincidence that since the Roe versus Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973 that legalized the choice of a mother to kill her unborn child that personal violence against other persons has also increased ? Government reports state that personal violent crimes have steadily g rown since 1973, with an alarming increase between 1990 and 1995 of 34%.

The increasing acceptance of legalized killing is frightening. The legalization of abortion is now used to defend the brutal killing of a full-term child in the process of being born. This procedure is being staunchly justif ied to protect the right to choose. Infanticide has thus become one more indication of how deeply violence and the culture of death are penetrating our society. We can only envision the consequences of ihe growing movement for euthanasia and assisted suicide and the acceleration of cap ital punishment. These responses to illness , ag ing, and crime will intensify the visibility of the trend toward killing to solve problems.

As the availability of legalized death increases, we may anticipate more violence. In the minds of many, legalization is the equivalent of moral and societal approba tion. Does it not seem credible then that emotionally vulnerable and suggestible persons might perceive killing as an acceptable solution to overwhelming problems and conflict? Desensitized persons may view the tools and the methods of violence as merely a means to achieve an acceptable end.

Our challenge is to raise the national conscience that every human being has the right to life and a dignity that may not be violated. Our culture is called to seek conditions that will provide the supports and protections to all persons to live with human dignity.

Compromising these principles f o r any one group of persons, no matter how compelling the rationalization, can lead society and individuals to compromise them f o r all. - Archdiocese of San Francisco Respect Life Commission — April 7, 1998 Christ came into the world so that we might have life, and so that we might have it more abundantly (John 10:10) . We who are in the world should seek to assure respect and di gnity for all, so that we might build a culture that is based upon reverence for life and a society that is free from violence .

MEH

I am sending this letter in response to your April 9 Catholic San Francisco and "The Kosovo Crisis."

I am onl y 12 years old but 1 understand the sufferings of the peop le in countries at war. One example is the present war in Yugoslavia. I hear and read about them in all forms of media - newspapers , radio and television. We discuss them in my two schools , Susan B. Anthony Elementary School and Our Lady of Perpetual Help School of Religion.

For weeks now, the conflict continues in Kosovo. Tens of thousands of peop le have forcibl y fled their counhy for safer grounds.

Most of them are separated from their families and friends. Some are lost in the chaos and some are gunned down. More and more properties are destroyed.

More lives are taken causing loneliness, pain, and frustrations.

Since the war in Yugoslavia started , 1 never let a day passt by without saying a prayer for the victims. I can see and feel the pain of the young and the old. I believe these people who are severely affected are living saints. I admire their strong faith. These people share in the sufferings of Jesus. I know th at a better p lace is waiting for them in heaven.

We need to raise our hands in prayer not with weapons. We need to pray the leaders of Yugoslavia and the countries ' involved will see the Albanians the way Jesus sees them.

Let us pray so that peaceful negotiations will work.

World peace. This is my wish before the end of this century.

1 hope this letter will be published so that the children who read it will also pray for a peaceful world.

Jasef Casas Daly City

are there to the abortion , physician-assist ed suicide , immi gration , education and "Catholic bashing " issues. Yet , there seem few obstacles to official statements and the use of the pulp it to address these issues. At times , the Church seems to be one of the few voices of conscience to be heard and often insi ghtfull y persuasive. Also true is that Catholic Relief Services , funded by Catholics worldwide , is among the first on the scene of such tragedies.

And yet , the pul pit of our parish is woefull y silent on the Balkans. Seldom are we even asked to specifically pray for the suffering, on all sides. We were facilitators of a RENEW group and the guidebook provided had us bringing the concerns of out lives, reading and reflecting on the weekl y Lenten Scripture and applying it to I our lives today - with specific actions recommended.

What a contrast to the way the Scripture is presented to us from the pulpit! When we are confronted daily and unceasing ly with images and grim statistics of war how can we neglect to turn the enormous sp iritual energy of our Catholic Church on this moral outrage? The homilist at our parish , when asked recentl y how he could not dra w some obvious connection between the Scripture of the day and this real life tragedy said something about not creating confusion about the scri ptural message. Confusion , about what the message of the resurrection stands for?

Admittedly, the morality of modern warfare is comp lex. But , can we not speak to the suffering ?

Can we not reiterate Catholic moral principles regarding war? Can we not pray without ceasing as the bombs drop without ceasing - in our homes , in our parishes , in the Catholic media , in our official statements? The pope said on Palm Sunday : "It is never too late to meet and negotiate."

Can't we hear the message more forcefull y and more often from our local Church?

This is not the time to be lukewarm in the biblical sense.

Jack and Marilu Hitchcock San Mateo

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On prayers and votes

The article on Katie Short in the April 16 Catholic San Francisco is a delight to read, a reminder we must not let the abortion issue fade into oblivion.We must pray for an end to abortion and pray that our votes reflect that prayer at election.

Marion Mclnnis Burlingame

Speak out, p lease

We are concerned that so few of the "official" spokespeople for our Catholic Church are speaking out forcefull y about the Balkans. Your recent editorial was more a history lesson than an ethical statement.

True, there are "political" aspects to the actions our government is perpetrating. So

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One marty r 's cry

One year after the brutal assassination of Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi Conedera of Guatemala, the investigation into his death has made little headway. Two days before his death, Bishop Gerardi released a report with hundreds of tearful testimonies revealing the truth about the horrendous human rights violations that had occurred in that country in recent years.

To date, the investigation has been a tragic farce. An innocent priest and his frail old dog were accused of complicity, jailed and subsequentl y released. Two jud ges presiding over the case quit after receiving threats.

On April 16 the director of the Archbishop 's Human Rights Office was threatened , and his four-year-old son intimidated by thre e armed men. Government official s continue to ignore the army 's likely involvement .

The blood of Bishop Gerardi , martyred for his commitment to the truth , cries to the heavens for justice , not just for himself but for the more than 200,000 other Guatemalans (mostl y Mayans) killed in a genocidal effort admittedly supported by the U.S. government.

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Guest Commentary

Capital punishment as violence

Father Gerald D. Coleman V_/ n Good Friday of this year the Administrative Board of the Catholic bishops of the United States issued an "Appeal to End the Death Penalty." I would like to focus on two points in this appeal : First: the death penalty is a form of violence.

While some people who support the death penalty do so out of a motive of vengeance , many others rest their support on the belief the death penal ty is an answer and a proper response to violence and crime in our neighborhoods and society.

Al times , some persons in both of these categories offer the additional viewpoint that capital punishment is not violent as such since it is carried out in humane and civil ways: for example, death comes very quickly. In Dead Man Walking , for example Vernon Harvey comp lains that "Willie died too quickly."

Causing another ' s death is always an act of vio-

lence , no matter how it is carried out. It is necessary to see this , but also to recognize the fact violence begets violence.

We cannot uphold an ethic of life and at the same time sponsor killing as an answer to any problem.

Catholics do not endorse abortion , for example, as an answer . to unwanted or unexpected pregnancy; noi euthanasia or ph ysician assisted suicide as an answer to unrelenting pain and suffering.

Catholics and others should likewise not endorse capital punishment as an answer to crime and violence; nor as an equitable punishment for wrongdoing. Such answers only prolong the illusion we can defend life by taking life.

Capital punishment is wrong, then , not simply because it does violence to a human being, but it also amplifies violence as an acceptable mode of action in our society.

Second, the Catholic teaching on this subject has been in evolution.

While it is true and demonstrable that certain biblical passages support the death penalty, significant Rabbinic teaching by the end of the 5th century pointed out that these passages are meant to point out that certain human actions are always evil , but the death penalty should not in fact be carried out.

St. Augustine and St . Thomas Aquinas recognized the state ' s ri ght to employ the death penalty, althoug h both counseled the state not to carry out this preroga-

tive it it could guarantee the safety of society by the incarceration of the criminal.

Subsequent Catholic teaching has given more and more attention to the absolute dignity of every human being, even those who do great harm and commit serious crimes. Vatican It' s document The Church in the Mode m World teaches , for examp le , says that "...whatever is opposed to life.... whatever violates the integrity of the human person... whatever insults human dignity ... are infamies indeed...

The teaching of Christ even requires that we forg ive injustices , and extend the law of love to include every enemy, according to the command of the New Law...

In their 1 998 statement "Living the Gospel of Life ", ' the U.S. Catholic bishops offer a provocative challenge: "Our attitude toward the sanctity of life in these closing years of the 'American century ' will say volumes about our true character as a nation."

Why should Catholics work to end the death penalty? For at least these two reasons: cap ital punishment does violence to human beings and to society; and the Catholic tradition has always resisted its use.

...it does violence to a human being, but it also amp lifies violence as an accep table mode of action....

Sul pician Father Gerald D. Coleman is president and rector of St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park, and a frequent contributo r to the Catholic Press.

See note of a recent book he co-authored, page 19.

The Catholic Diff erence

'From Y2K to the Great Jubilee

George Weigel x Vsked for a p ithy phrase to describe what will begin after midni ght this coming Dec. 31, most Catholics, like most Americans , would likely say, "Y2K." That we think of a phrase coined to describe a computer glitch before we think of "the Great Jubilee of 2000," as Pope John Paul II has called the impending holy year, tells us something about how well the Church in the United States has prepared itself for the 2,000th anniversary of the incarnation - which, according to the creed we profess every Sunday, is the axial moment , the turning point , of history.

Walk into many Catholic parishes today, and you 'd be hard put to know that something extraordinary is going to begin in about eight months ' time. Yet on Christmas Eve, 1999, the Holy Father will solemnly open the jubilee year by opening the Holy Door in St. Peter 's Basilica in Rome.

Between now and then, what might a parish do to prepare itself for the Great Jubilee of 2000?

It can start by educating itself about the deep meaning of the Great Jubilee. Throug hout the jubi lee year, the Church is celebrating the revelation of the truth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the

tru th about God, and the truth about us. For, as the Second Vatican Council put it, "...it is only in the mystery of the Word made flesh that the mystery of man truly becomes clear... Christ, the new Adam, in the very revelation of the mystery of the Father and of his love, fully reveals man to himself and brings to light the most high calling " {Gaudium et Spes , 22).

Pope John Paul IPs 1994 apostolic letter on the Great Jubilee, Tertio Millennio Adveniente , is a profound, lyrical meditation on both these aspects of the incarnation . It should be in every Catholic home. Pastors should see it gets there.

A parish can prepare for the Great J ubilee in its ^ common prayer. Every Sunday, indeed every day, a petition in the general intercessions should ask God to make us "docile to the action of the Hol y Spirit " in these last months of preparation , so that we may enter the Great Jubilee of 2000 as a "new springtime of Christian life " {Tertio Millennio Adveniente , 18). Weekly or monthly parish hol y hours in preparation for the Great Jubilee are another way to remind ourselves something far greater than Y2K is on the horizon.

Parishes can also prepare for the Great Jubilee by deepening their appreciation of ours as a century of saints and martyrs. A paragraph-long biograp hy of one of the saints of the 20th century could appear in the parish bulletin every week. The parish school and the parish's religious education programs for young people and adults can take the saints and martyrs of our time as a special focus of study.

The Holy Father 's prayer for this third year of

preparation , the "Year of God the Father," should be available in the pews , and could be recited in common as a post-Communion meditation every Sunday.

Priests and deacons can make the impending Great Jubilee a regular theme in their preaching. Time, for the Christian, is never mere chronology, for time is filled with the presence of God. Helping us grasp the myriad ways in which Christ has journeyed down the centuries in the lives of the people who are his body is a great task for preachers preparing their fellow Christians for the Great Jubilee of 2000.

The new evangelization should animate the Great Jubilee of 2000. Would a door-to-door survey of a parish 's entire neighborhood , asking the neighbors what they would like the local Catholic parish to pray for during the jubilee year, be a way to begin the process? ': Because the second millennium of Christian history has been a time of Christian division , ecumenical efforts must figure prominently in preparations for the Great Jubilee of 2000. Might every Catholic parish invite its Christian neighbors to join with it, as Dec. 31 turns into Jan. 1, to lift a common prayer of petition to the Lord of history for the unity of the Church of Christ?

Millennia turn onl y every thousand years. It 's long past time to get serious about turning Y2K into the Great Jubilee of 2000.

Mig ht every Catholic pa rish invite its Christian neig hbors to join with it, as Dec. 31 turns into Jan. 1, to lift a common p rayer of pe tition to the Lord of history...?

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

On Being Catholic

Life after death: continuity

Father Milton T. Walsh v> nless I ... put my linger into the nail marks... I will not believe ." (Jn 20:25) The hesitation of the Apostle known to history as "doubling Thomas " provides material for our reflection in this Easter season. It is" rather unfair that this disci ple, the first to express a willingness to die with Christ, should be connected forever with a reluctance to believe; but the nature of the experiment he proposed is significant.

His friends claimed the y had seen the crucified Jesus alive . Such an assertion seemed to Thomas to be the fruit of wishfu l thinking: either they had experienced some kind of hallucination or th ey had seen someone with a physical resemblance to their beloved teacher. Visions cannot be touched , and a look-alike would lack the uni que proof that this was indeed Jesus: the marks of crucifixion. Hence, the test of touching the wounds.

The evidence sought b y Thomas provides one of the clues given in the New Testament concerning the nature of risen humanity of Jesus. This is not simply a matter for abstract speculation , because part of the Easter message is that what happened to Jesus can happen to us. In the word s of St. Paul , "just as Christ was

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¦ Continued from page 12 associate at St. Augustine Parish , SSF), as a long-time partici pant in the solidarity movement, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Witness for Peace, I urge the readers of Catholic San Francisco to contact Ambassador William Stixrud at the Guatemalan Embassy in Washington DC (fax: (202) 745-1908) and Elise Kleinwaks at the Guatemala Desk of the Department of State (fax: (202) 647-2597), asking them to assure appropriate action is taken to expedite the investigation and to assure the safety of all those working on the case.

Betsy Lamb San Francisco

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raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life." (Rom 6:4) The risen Christ reveals our destiny, what awaits us on the other side of the grave.

The empty tomb, the fact that after Easter Jesus ate with his disciples and could be touched by them, the mark s of crucifixion on the glorified Lord , all testif y to what the Church proclaims in her Creed: "I believe in the resurrection of the bod y." The bod y is not a husk broken open to release the soul , or some kind of booster rocket which falls away when the soul leaves earth behind.

No , resurrection involves the whole of our humanity, including our body. (This is why Christians do not accept the idea of reincarnation , which teaches that bodies are simp ly so many containers receiving souls as they travel fro m one bod y to another.)

There is a bodily continuity in Jesus before and after Easter.

And yet the witness of the first Christians also affirms that the body of Jesus was different after Easter.

The resurrection is not the reanimation of a corpse: his closest friends do not recognize him, he is able to come into their midst through locked doors. Part of the mystery of Easter is that our bodies are transformed; Jesus does not simply offer prolonged existence, but eternal life, life on a level beyond our limited perception.

When the Corinthians asked "what kind of body is it after resurrection?", St. Paul called their question foolish. I do not think he meant the question in itself is foolish , since it is both obvious and important. Rather, having himself had an encounter with the risen Christ, Paul realized there is no category of human experience adequate to capture' this reality. The best image he could find is that of a seed and a full-grown plant. Here we find both continuity and*

transformation: the acorn becomes an oak, althoug h it would be impossible for someone who had never seen an oak to imagine what the acorn would become.

1 would venture another analogy; it is fro m our own experience, althoug h we do not remember it. During the nine months before birth , I lived and grew in my mother 's womb. Eyes were being fashioned , fingers shaped , a mouth was being formed. All of these organs and limbs were being prepared for this world; 1 had no need of them in the womb. Before birth , I could never have imagined the majesty of a seascape, the sweetness of birdsong, the smell of a spring garden , and yet during those nine months I was develop ing the sense organs needed to take in the beauty of this earthl y creation.

Does not the risen Christ show us that this is how we can understand our world in relation to heaven?

There is continuity: I will be the same person after death , just as I was the same person before birth. I could not imagine the sp lendor of this world before I was born , even thoug h every moment in the womb was shaping me to experience it.

Similarl y, "What no eye has seen and no ear has heard , what the mind of man cannot visualize; all that God has prepared for those who love him." (1 Cor 2:9) Easter reveals resunection as a birth into a glorious reality beyond our imagining, with a body shaped in this life and transformed throug h the power of God's love so that we can experience it. Do we doubt? Ask Thomas.

'...the body is not a hush broken open to release the soul , or some kind of booster rocket.. '

issues addressed in the peace and justice sections by Sharon Abercrombie. Her article on the world land mine situation and the "Adopt a Minefield" program sponsored by Roots of Peace in San Rafael inspired me to write thank you letters immediately to the four California wineries which are de-mining large areals of Slovenia and replacing them with grapevines.

Last week's excellent articles on Sister Bernie Galvin 's untiring efforts on behalf of the homeless of San Francisco and the wonderful work of the hospice program in the Bay Area were very informative.

Catholic San Francisco is "covering the bases" in my areas of interest and service at this time. I encourage you to continue your coverage of vital issues, which inform and challenge my service and support .

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X his article comes as the third in an Easter series on the themes of "mystagogy," the special period of instruction for the neoph ytes who were baptized , confirmed and received first Eucharist at the Easter Vi gil. Like the reflections offered by Sister Sharon McMillan last week and the week before , mystagogy provide s a step-by-step anal ysis and explanation of each symbol and gesture of the baptismal rite intertwined with scriptural commentaries.

In the last two articles Sister Sharon led us throug h such reflections upon our Easter experience of the waters of baptism and the chrism of confirmation. Next week she will do the same for the Eucharist.

In this article we will look at the experience of mystagogia itself. What does it mean to the neophytes?

What 's in it for the rest of us?

Mystagogia

Among the ancient Church writings we treasure most are the "mystagogical sermons " of great bishops like St. Cyril of Jerusalem , St. Ambrose , St. John Chrysostom and St. Augustine. Today the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults encourages bishops , priests and deacons to model their own homilies upon these ancien t texts, many of which are provided in the Liturg y of the Hours throug hout the Easter season. Likewise, the second reading at all the Sunday Masses during this Easter season will be taken from the First Letter of Saint Peter which bears all the marks of a mystagogical sermon itself.

While sacramental instructions before baptism onl y hinted at the ritual experiences yet to come, this special period of postbaptismal catechesis focuses upon the sacraments ("mysteries") which the neophytes are final-

Father John Talesfore

ly experiencing for themselves and helps them contemplate the meaning of these awesome ritual events. In the introduction of his first mystagogical sermon , St. Cyril of Jerusalem tells his neophytes: "It has long been my wish, true-born and long desired children of the Church , to discourse to you upon these spiritual mysteries. On the principle, however, that seeing is believing, I delayed until the present occasion."

What a shame it would be to have these experiences but miss their meaning !

For many, formal education regarding the Eucharist ended with second grade preparation for First Communion. Imagine the state of affairs if lessons in mathematics suddenl y stopped at that age. A seven-yearold' s understanding of the Eucharist is just fine for a seven year old , but as we grow in faith and life experience, our comprehension of these sacred mysteries oug ht to increase according ly. That cannot happen without a conscious effort.

While I strong l y encourage any and all attempts to learn more about the liturgy whether by means of reading the Catechism or articles such as this or by attending courses provided by our archdiocesan School of Pastoral Leadership, the liturgy itself is actuall y the very best school for such an education. The words , gestures and symbols of the liturgy all communicate what no classroom or article could ever transmit. To promote a deeper experience and understanding of the sacraments , the Church encourages all the faithful to "full , conscious and active participation" in the liturgy.

The Easte r homilies of mystagog ia are meant to hel p the neophytes enter into this experience for the firs t time.

Year in and year out , they hel p the rest of us delve into the experience still more deeply.

What a shame it would be to hav e the experiences but miss their meaning !

Something for everyone

To some extent we are all neophytes. Even after years of experience , none of us full y comprehends the words gestures and symbols of our faith which make up flu liturgy. The very fact you are reading this article is probably proof in itself.

Director of the archdiocesan Office of Worship, Father Talesfore holds a licentiate degree in sacred liturgy from the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, Sant 'Anselmo , Rome.

J o hn and Peter encourage sp irit of wisdom Fifth Sunday of Easter

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we Acts 6:1-7; Psalw i3; may have heard 1 Peter 2:4-9; John 14:1-12 the words of Sunday 's Gospel proclaimed in a funera l liturgy and found them filled with comfort and hope in the face of bereavement: " 'In my Father 's house there are many dwelling places. If there were not , would 1 have told you that I am going to prepare a p lace for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself so that where I am you also may be.' " The words speak to our grief and assure us the Lord has taken our loved one home.

This use of the Scripture , valid and helpful as it is, may deafen us to the author's original intent which flood s us with Easter joy during our great 50-day celebration.

The fourth Gospel always invites to appreciate die hereand-now, to realize that the future has become the present, to welcome right now the end of the world and the beginning of another. See the contrast in the dialogue between Martha and Jesus'. "Martha said to him, 'I know he (Lazarus her brother) will rise in the resurrection on the last day.' Jesus told her, T am the resun-ection and the life.' " (Jn 11:24-25) The last day 's resurrection is a present reality in Jesus, the Son of Man "lifted up " on the cross and into glory, who gives deathdefeating life now to those who believe in him.

Chapter five of Joh n is even more explicit: " Amen , amen , I say to you , whoever hears my word and believes (present tenses) in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to condemnation , but has passed from death to life. Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead (those yet uncalled) will hear the voice of the Son of God , and those who hear will live.' " (Jn 5:24-25) With this background in mind, we listen to Sunday 's Gospel and discover Jesus has indeed gone "to prepare a place" for us through his "passover" in love to the Father, through his glorif ying death, but he has come back as glorified Lord and formed us into his Father's house with the "many dwelling places." Already we are where he is; already we do for him what he has done for the Father.

Jesus spent his life making the Father known by his words, deeds, and very person . That is why he can reply to Phili p 's request , "'Master , show us the Father, and that will be enoug h for us ' ." b y saying '"Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Phili p ?

Whoever has seen me Father David M. Pettin gill has seen the Father.

How can you say,.

'Show us the Father'? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that 1 speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works '. " Now we in our turn in our communities by our words, deeds, and very persons make Jesus known. " 'Whoever believes in me will do the works I do and will do greater than these because I go to the Father (and come back to you)' . " The presence of the glorified Jesus to us has enabled us to do great works. We are forming our neop hytes (newly illuminated , initiated) during this time of their mystagogia (understanding the content and intent of the sacraments they have celebrated) as we remind ourselves of our baptismal dignity with the words of I Peter: "Come to him , a living stone, rejected by human beings, but chosen and precious in the sight of God, and, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ."

What Spirit-filled worship we offer when we form our neophytes and allow them to form us! What Spirit-filled worship we offer as we try new ways to relate to self, each other, our present and future in the light of Easter renewal. New ways to pray, to live, to work, to minister, to plan, to dream beckon us, because each new path explored proclaims us " 'a

chosen race, a royal priesthood , a holy nation , a people of his own so that you may proclaim the praises' of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light."

Thus we are equipped to deal with issues and problems that surface in our parishes. See how the complaints of the Hellenists (Greek-speaking) against the Hebrews regarding the treatment of Greek-speaking widows was resolved with the appointment of seven men "to serve at table" and to see to the equitable distribution of food. As Easter Church, we can face issues, conflicts, and difficulties with the communal spirit of wisdom that fills our parishes, parish pastoral councils, and pastoral staffs.

...we listen to Sunday 's Gospel and discover Jesus has indeed gone 'to p repa re a p lace'f or us. . .

Our Sunday celebration invites us to praise and thank our gracious God for enabling us to do for Jesus what Jesus has done for his Father: disclose the heart of God. Questions for RENEW 2000 communities: 1. Can you describe the works "greater than these" that you see going on in your parish and in your RENEW community?

2. How have you implemented the liturgical focus of the first two seasons of RENEW in your parish? (A reminder: the first concerned the gathering rite; the second, the liturgy of the Word.) Why is this renewal so important if we are the "royal priesthood" I Peter speaks of?

3. How do we confront issues that surface in our smal l community and in our parish? Does Acts offer any help in this regard?

Father David Pettingill directs the archdiocesan Office of Parish Life

Family Lif e

Peace and sibling rivalry

Nothing too radical. We walked in a few peace marches , apologize. Often , they end up gigg ling and are soon best wrote letters to our congressional representatives, gathered friends again.

In our house , 1 exp lained , we have a zero-tolerance polto pray for peace. Our greatest fear was nuclear war. Now, icy on hitting. Sure , it took some enforcing when they were it seems, the violence is closer to home. younger. But they know that 's the rule , and they ' ve learned I cut back on my social activism after my children were born. Although I felt a twinge of gu ilt , jugg ling kids to express their disp leasure in other ways.

Of course , they don t and writing left little time always get along, but my husand energy to work for the we want to see peace in If has fi gured out a , Steve, band social change. creative way to deal with that.

The events of the last He sings them an old '60s week have shown me that world , we need to start at home. peace song: "Hey there, brothI've ended up on the foreers/Why don 't we love one front of peace work after all. , of course.

They 'll drop the argument Two days after the shooting, I attended a parenting class another?" (They hate it ' ve also made Psalm 133 ing!)

We just to gel him to stop sing on sibling rivalry. The conversation soon turned to hitti ng.

Christine Dubois "My son reall y hurts his little sister," said one Mom. "I our favorite dinner prayer: "How good and how pleasant it is tell him he should feel bad about hurting her , but he doesn ' t." when brothers live together in harmony." (Ps. 133:1) If we want to see peace in the world, we need to start at "My 18-month-old hits his 5-year-old sister," said JL turn off the radio when my boys get in the car. I don t another. "I tell her to put up with it because he doesn ' t home. Parents, grand parents, teachers—everyone who cares want them to have to wonder whether it 's sale to go to know any better. But , of course , I won 't let her hit him about and spends time with children—can help stop the violence . We must teach our children to respect one another, to back, so 1 guess it 's not reall y fair." school.

One by one, we shared our approaches to creating har- solve their differences throug h negotiation and compromise.

Ever since two Littleton , Colo., teens shot up their hi gh Our culture has so many ways of teaching children vioschool—killing 12 classmates, a teacher, and themselves— mony at home. We didn ' t always agree, and we weren't always successful , but we were all working on the problem. lence. It 's up to us to be sure they learn peace. the story has dominated the media.

Some ignored the fighting, believing that attention only Talk show callers present their pet theories. Experts blame parents , guns, video games, m oral decay, and a host made it worse. "As long as there 's no blood , I figure they 're of other evils. If we could solve the problem by talking learning to work it out ," said one Mom. Christine Dubois is a freelance write r who lives Oth ers intervened , hel ping their children share their about it, we'd be home free. But it 's obvious that it 's going with her family near Seattle. Contact her at: to take more than that. feelings and come up with solutions. One Mom makes her Years ago, I belonged to a parish peace fellowship. children stand and look at each other until they 're read y to chriscolumn @juno. com.

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Evil wove its way into these young hearts B y Amy Weiborn

underlies ail of the above and mixes into a destructive horrific stew of carnage.

It was evil.

To carefull y construct pipe bombs filled with nails and plant them around a school. To walk into a room of human beings, shoot them , liste n to them beg for their lives and say that 's just too bad: This is evil.

Whatever its cause, this is what those acts in Littleton , Colo., expressed: complete disregard for the value of human life , and I mean complete.

Consider the depths to which one would have to go to kill so ruthlessly and puiposefully, and then end the thing by taking one 's own life.

Somehow, somewhere, evil wove its way into hearts and minds made for good , and there is nothing else to call it.

The arguments will be hurled fast and furiously over the next few weeks. Teens trained to be responsible gun owners will protest that the massacre shouldn 't cast a shadow on them. Members of the subcultures initiall y implicated as factors - Goths, devotees of industrial rock,

JL sit down to write these words at 1:30 in the morning bleary-eyed and numb after hours in front of the television.

Within a 100-foot-radius , my children sleep — a little girl and two teen-age boys who went to school today and returned to me safe. Tomorrow morning they will rise , and I will send them off again and wait — and trust.

And at this moment, two time zones away, high in ancient mountains , other parents sit in other homes.

Yesterday morning they also trusted, but now the rooms within their sight and hearing are dark and empty.

Their children lie dead in a library, a cafeteria , a hallway — lifeless in a place that was once a school but is now a bloody mausoleum.

By the time you read this you will know much more about the group of self-proclaimed outcasts called the Trench Coat Mafia; from clues left, a picture will probably have I CATHOLIC emerged to begin to answer ITS AN FRANCISCO why, even if the reason is beyond reason.

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As morning breaks , I go to the Internet news groups to see what 's being said about this. There is universal horror, but sprinkled among the grief are the following: —"Twenty-five rumored to be dead.... But hey it 's a start."

—"Twenty-five dead....Not bad."

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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., Burlimngame , 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 School of Pastoral Leadership. $10. Call (415) 242-9087.

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 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.

Taize 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.

First Fridays 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 Julia Tollafield at (650) 366-8817.

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

April 30; May 1, 2: "Festival '99" for St. John the Evangelist Parish at the parish school 925 Chenery St., SF. A community celebration of diversity and unity. Call (415) 334-4646.

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) 6975745.

Datebook Performance Sundays in May: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral featuring various artists at 3:30 p.m.

Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. For information, call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213.

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.

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.

May 17: Spring Concert at Mercy High School, 2750 Adeline Dr., Burlingame, 7 p.m. featuring Mercy's Chorale and Advanced Chorale with theTriSchool Chorus with voices from Mercy, Notre Dame and Junipero Serra High Schools. Reception follows. Call Katherina Kulp at (650) 685-7390.

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

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

Volunteer Opportunities 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.

San Mateo County's Volunteer Center: call (650) 342-0801.

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) 6641580, ext. 4-2422.

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.

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

Cathedral invites you to join them in service to the poor: (415) 563-0863.

Women in Community Service, seeks people to assist women making the transition from public assistance to the workforce. Call Gwen at (415) 397-3592.

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.

High School Open House May 7: "Seventh Grade Day" at Notre Dame High School, 1540 Ralston Ave., Belmont , 1-3 p.m., includes admissions information , entertainment and ice cream social. Reservations required. Call (650) 595-1913, ext. 320; mveIasquez@ndhs.pvt.k12.ca.us

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

Centering Prayer: Mondays, 7 p.m.- 8:15 p.m., Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St., SF. Call Sr. Cathy Cahur at (415) 553-8776; Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. - 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 1 7"' 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) Fridays at 3 p.m., Divine Mercy Devotions; Saturdays at 12:15 p.m., Franciscan Marian Devotion, Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi , 610 Vallejo St. (at Columbus), SF. For information , call (415) 983-0405.

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May 24: The Booster Club of Notre Dame High School, Belmont announces a fundraising Golf Tournament at Green Hills CC, Millbrae. Shotgun tee off is at noon, dinner follows. Call Chris Miller at (650) 595-1913, est. 255.

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; Mission Council, call Paul Jobe at (415) 333-6197; Golden Gate Council, call Mike Stilman at (415) 752-3641.

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

Religious Education May 16: Religious education class for special needs children begins today at St. Veronica Parish, 434 Alida Way, SSF. Preparation for the sacraments of reconciliation and Eucharist will be provided where appropriate as well as ongoing 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 or to volunteer, call Lynn Zupan, Office of Religious Education, (415) 565-3669.

Divorced, Separated 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.

June 11 - 13: Retrovaille weekends, a program for troubled marriages. Call Lolette and Tony Campos at (415) 893-1005.

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.

Social Justice/Advocacy May 7: The film "Dead Man Walking" will be shown at St. Dominic Parish, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF at 7 p.m. Dominican Father Roberto Corral will facilitate discussion after. Light refreshments will be provided. Call Susan Guevara at (415) 584-5587.

May 11: "Lobby Day," sponsored by California Catholic Confe rence with cooperation of Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns. Buses will take interested parishioners to Sacramento for meetings with legislators and lessons in lobbying. Call Tara Carr at (415) 565-3621.

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.

May1 : "Sail Away" with St. Dominic Elementary School Auction , 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the school, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF. Evening will be fun-filled with raffle , refreshment and hors d'oeuvres. Tickets $15 per person. Call Joanne Bannan at (415) 346-9500 or jo anne@stdominics.org for tickets or if you would like to donate an item for the auction.

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) 6485751 for tickets or more information.

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) SR 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. St. Bruno Church, 555 W. San Bruno Ave.,San Bruno, 24 hours everyday, Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel.

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) 791-8136 or Bay Area Pax Christi at (510) 832-3776.

St. Mary Magdalene Churc h is a mission or auxiliary churc h of Sacred Heart Parish in Olema. It was built duxing an El Nino winter in 1877-78 on land donated by the family.of original owner Gregori o Briones. The first Mass is presumed to have been celebrated here by Father James Croke on Easter, 1878 but no record exists. Precise dedication dates are also unknown.

The churc h , built in a sty le known as Generic Country or Carpenters ' Gothic , is similar to several Marin churches. Originally, the church was a 25 -by-40-foot "box ". It was enlarged in 1890. In 1908 a bell tower was added. Althoug h only several hundred yards from the San Andreas Fault , the church survived the 1906 Earthquake

with minor damage. Money to make repairs was raised by two dance parties organized by Catholic women of the are a at the time , Old tinted , engraved pictures including one of Mary dating to the turn of the century, and equally-as-old statues t)f St. Josep h. St. Anthony, Jesus and Mary add to the prayerfulness.

As many as several hundred people worshi p at St. Mary Magdalene hut the core community is comprised of about 20 families from Stinson Beach and Bolinas.

Pastor: Father Richard Bain Mass: Sunday, 11 a.m.

Seating capacity : 120 Founding date : 1878 as mission Phone: (415)663-1139

Information about the Catholic Business Network is available by calling Father Labib Kobti at (415) 665-1600. The CBN meets regularly over breakfast to discuss living one's faith in the marketplace.

Lectures/ Classes/Displays May 14: Pramoeyda Ananta Toer, one of Southeast Asia's most important literary voices , the author of more than 30 works of fiction and non-fiction and a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature will present his autobiographical film , "The Mute's Soliloquy" at University of San Francisco's Lone Mtn. Campus , 2800 Turk Blvd. between Parker and Masonic at 6:30 p.m.

Call Jeannine Cuevas at (415) 422-5984.

Datebook is a fre elisting for parishes, schools and non-prof it groups. Please include event name, lime, daw, p lace, address and an information p hone number. Listing must reach Catholic San Francisco at least wo weeks before the Fridaypublicationdate desired. Moil your notice to: Datebook, Catholic San Francisco, 441 Church St., S.F. 94114, orf a xit to (415) 565-3633.

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Counselors The Catholic Youth Organization, based in San Rafael , seeks individuals capable oi making a difference in the lives of at-risk youth. At our Si Vincent School for Boys campus , we oiler residentia l treatment to youths with severe emotional problems and serious histories ol abuse and neg lect.

We need caring, mature &r dedic ated individuals who can be positive role models and help restore a sense of security, safely and a future 10 these children. F/T, P/T and on-cal! positions are available , including evenings , overnig hts and weekends. Bachelors degree (especially in a behavioral science) is preferred , but not required. Experience with childcare , teaching, recreation , residential treatment or social service is a plus. Openness to training is essential

Send resume indicating job#: CYO, Attn. J. Webster, I St. Vincent Drive , San Rafael , CA 94903 or FAX to (415) 491-0842.

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Located on the San Francisco peninsula , seeks an experienced , mature , organized person to direct an established , well organized , successful youth ministry program for 9th thru 12th grades with a strong parish commitment and parental support to the youth.

Responsibilities: coordinating and plann ing annual Mexico Mission Trip, month ly Youth Mass, and meeting, community outreach , special events; and two level Confirmation program.

Required: Experience in youth ministry.

Preferred: National Certification in Youth Ministry and/or religious educa tion background.

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Are you looking for a large Young Adult Community in need of your skills in management and Development? The Archdiocese of San Francisco seeks an individual with a strong Catholic Church background to direct an outreach program to the Young Adult Catholic community: women and men in their 20s and 30s , married and single. Some of the position responsibilities include the following: Develop ing young adult ministry programs with pastors and staff and establishing an Archdiocesan Young Adult Volunteer corps.

You will collaborate with Campus Ministry programs on Archdiocesan events, prepare and maintain the bud get and perform other related duties and responsibilities as required.

A Bachelors degree in a related field is required. You will need a high level of proficiency on Windows 95 using MS Office and you will need to be familiar with desktop publishing programs. Bilingual skills are desirable. Interested in learning more about the position and the benefits we offer? Please send your resume with a cover letter to:

The Archdiocese of San Francisco, Office of Human Resources , Attn: Rose Brown , 445 Church Street, San Francisco, CA 94114 or FAX to (415) 565-3648

Job Opening for August 1999

Large peninsula parish and school seeks qualified person as Director of Development to handle all aspects of development, e.g. fundraising, alumni, cap ital campai gns.

Send resume to: St Pius Parish Search Committee, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, CA 94061 or FAX to 650-361-1411

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lob Opening for a fulltime computer teacher at Nativity Catholic School , Menlo Park , to leach grades K-8 in our brand new PC Lab (Not A pp le).

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A Bachelors Degree in a related field is required , a Master 's of Theological Degree is hi g hl y desired. You will need a high level of proficiency on Windows 95 and some desktop publishing skills. 3-5 years of pastoral experience at the parish level is required as well as a strong familiarity with Roman Catholic teachings on marriage and famil y life. Bilingual skills in Spanish are desirable.

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Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Access, Quickbooks a plus. This position pays $10/hour, offers pro-rated benefits, and is available at the end of May. Please fax cover letter and resume to 415-566-5073. For more information, call Carol at 415-566-5610-

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