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BACKGROUNDER Federal, state laws focusing on end of life By Kamille Maher Two officials of the U.S.. bishops' pro-life committee recently issued strong support for federal legislation to promote pain relief and palliative care for people with advanced chronic diseases. The Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999, introduced in both houses of Congress June 17 , would clarify federal law on the use of controlled substances and provide federal support for training in palliative care. Debate on the proposed law will coincide with similar dialogue on physician-assisted suicide legislation in the California Assembly, AB1592 , which remains viable for the next legislative session. Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore, chair of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee for Pro-Life Activities, said the national legislation would "serve the real needs of dying patients and their families," in a June 17 statement, reported Catholic News Service.

See "Guest commentary " on page 15 "Terminally ill patients deserve better pain control ," said Richard M. Doerflinger, associate director for policy development at the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, "precisely because they have the same innate worth and dignity as all other human beings and are in special need of our love and support." Doerflinger made his comments during testimony June 24 before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution. He added, "When a society singles out these patients BACKGROUNDER, page 21

Vatican bans priest, nun f rom any work withingay ministry By Jerry Filteau

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The 13th century altarpiece "Deposition " (above) is one 70 rare works of art to be available for viewing July 24 - Nov. 14 in the acclaimed "The Treasury of St. Francis of Assisi" exhibit at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 100 34th Ave., San Francisco. Another scheduled piece is "Dossal of St. Francis " (c. 1250), one of the earliest known portraits of the saint and said to be painted on the board on which his body was prepared for burial. The exhibit also includes sculpture, metalwork and textiles. Admission is $8 adults; $6 senior; $5 children 12 - 17; under 12 free; $1 from each adult fee will be donated to the restoration project of the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, Italy, severely damaged in a 1997 earthquake. For information, call (415) 750-3638.

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Representing 620 years of service to the people of God are seated , left to right: Holy Name Sisters Rose Patricia O'Reilly, 70 years; Mary Agnes Cecile Potts , 60 years; Mary Bernarda Gilfether, 70 years; Grace Reeder , 60 years; Antonia Marie Byrne, 60 years. Back (I to r), Sisters Emily Marie McKernan , 60 years; Marry Nessi, 60 years; Margheretta Marie Byrne, 60 years; William Marie Ayres , 60 Years; Marygene Heller, 60 years.

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by Tom Burke Thank you sometimes isn 't enough... The work of women and men religious is the definitive '" gift that keeps on giving " and though they can never be truly compensated for die good they have brought us, Catholics here came pretty close to the bulls-eye last year with donations totaling $191 ,000 to the annual Religious Retirement Collection. Donations across the country topped $30 million last year and have reached almost $300 million during the campaign 's 12year history. The 12 years here have raised $2.3 million... Sisters of the Holy Names recently celebrated jubilees for 10 sisters at their Los Gatos provincial house. Two of the sisters are sisters. Margheretta Marie and Antonia Marie Byrne entered religious life togetherm 1939~ and today are in retirement at the community ' s Peninsula provincial house. For 10 years, Sister Margheretta was supervisor of elementary education for the Archdiocese and for 16 years was principal of the Richmond District 's St. Monica Elementary. Sister Antonia spent most of her teaching years at the congregation 's high school and college in Oakland. Sister Mary Bernarda Gilfether has a St. Monica connection , too, having started her teaching career there in 1929 and completing it there in 1995.Sister Mary Nessi is a former librarian at Marin Catholic High School. History and historian, two great teachers... Jeffrey Burns, Ph.D., archivist for the Archdiocese and history faculty member at several area universities, will speak on "Archbishop Alcmany, Women Religious and the Creation of the Archdiocese of San Francisco" at St. Dominic Church, Steiner St. at Bush St. on Aug. 4 at 7:30 p.m. As one who is familiar with Doc Burns ' easy and engaging style, I promise this will be a most enjoyable evening. When I heard Jeff describe the tattered robes of first SF Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany I felt like I was there with the 19"* centuiy teen who, Jeff said, from a pew in a local church once counted more than 40 patches on the prelate's garb. Jeff's g ifts as a teller of true stories are also present in the new three-volume history of the Archdiocese, which he wrote and is writing. For into about his Aug. 4 talks, call (415) 5677824. Jeff is also author of the recentl y published Disturbing the Peace: A [ History of the Catholic Family I Movement, 1949-1974 from Notre ÂŚ Dame Press. Also ask for Jeff's *ÂŚ \merican Catholics and the Family Crisis, 1030-1962: An '|f| Ideological and Organizational Response. The Doc's getting to speak at St. Dominic's is one more example of parish family handiwork. Thanks, hats off and razzmatazz to Roderick Alvernaz, James Burke , Richard Condon, Helen Ann Davis, Joseph Di Nallo, Antoinette Doyle, David Farr, Elspeth Franks, Barbara Holt, John Holt, Claire Isaacs, Piers MacKenzie , Dominican Father Reginald Martin, Stedman Matthew, Catherine Mutz, Gerald Mutz, William Wahrhaftig and Robert Semes. Keeping up to date...Advocates from around the nation are in Los Angeles beginning yesterday for The National Catholic Gathering for Jubilee Justice. On board for the four-day recommitment to justice and peace is George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns. George's office has recently begun publishing a Social Justice Newsletter which you can receive by calling

staff member Tara Carr at (415) 565-3673. If at all possible, a small contri bution to help pay printing costs is appreciated. Tara, who speaks Spanish and English, recently chaperoned a bunch of St. Ignatius College Preparatory students on a mini-immersion trip to Guatemala. See Tara's take on the trek on page 10. Maurice E. Healy, director of communications for the Archdiocese , was featured speaker at annual Priest Appreciation Day lunch sponsored by the Downtown and Golden Gate Serra Clubs and held at the Irish Cultu ral Center on June 24. Maury spoke about the new archdiocesan newspaper Catholic San Francisco, a project he has been close to since the idea for a weekly paper surfaced in 1994. When asked why 100,000 copies are mailed he said, "Evangelization and economics ! With complete parish lists we reach those in touch with the Church as well as those who may not be and the larger circulation makes the paper more appealing to advertisers."

From left: Father Craig Forner, director of vocations; Rich Waters, president, Serra Club Downtown; Arthur Green, president-elect, Serra Club Golden Gate; Martin Kilgariff , president, Sena Club Golden Gate; Msgr. Edward McTaggart, chaplain , Serra Club Golden Gate at Priests' Appreciation Day lunch. Father Paul Rossi (right), pastor, St. Raphael Parish, San Rafael and classmate Father Jay Matthews , Diocese of Oakland, at reception following Mass commemorating Father Rossi's 25 years as a priest on May 22. The liturgy included song led by a tri-lingual choir and installation of the St. Raphael parish council. San Rafael Mayor Al Boro named the day for Father Rossi, a San Rafael native. Which way did they go?... If you 're asking about The Association of Catholic Student Councils, the office has moved to 86 Cityview Dr., Daly City. Marilyn Thickett, executive director, said the p hone number remains the same, (415) 584-9877. Is that where they make Hall Passes? On June 20, recentl y retired Father William Quinn presided at a Mass of farewell at Holy Name of Jesus Parish, where he has been pastor since 1990. More than 1,000 attended. From left: Parish Deacon Dennis Rivera, Father Quinn , Parochial VicarsFather Ray Zohlen and Edward Ludeman. Also concelebrating but not visible was Father Joseph Trong, a liaison of Archbishop Levada to the Vietnamese Catholic community and in-residence at Holy Name

Official appointments announced by Chancery Among official appointments within the Archdiocese of San Francisco announced last month are the following. The pastorates were effective July 1 with the exception of Salesian Father Thomas L. Juarez whose assi gnment will be effective Aug. I. Salesian Father Thomas L. Juarez, pastor, Corpus Christi Parish: Father Juarez entered the Salesian community in 1955 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1966. He holds a licentiate in sacred theology and has ministered as teacher, principal and parish priest in the United States, Canada and Peru . Dominican Father Xavier Lavagetto, pastor, St. Dominic Parish: Father Lavagetto was ordained to the priesthood in 1996. Since that time he has served the Dominican community at their San Francisco Priory and as director of the St. Dominic Parish RCIA Program. A former Christian Brother, Father Lavagetto has 25 years experience in the education apostolate of that community's

many schools including De La Salle in Concord . Father Labib Kobti , pastor, St. John of God Parish: Father Kopti was born in Lebanon and ordained from the Latin Patriarchate Seminary of Jerusalem at the Capuchin Cathedral of Beirut in 1975. His years of service have included studies which earned him a graduate degree in theology and a doctorate in canon law; several years as a parish priest in Jordan ; and vocation work for the diocese comprised of Jordan , Palestine and Israel. He has been chaplain to the Arab Catholic community here since 1992. In addition to Arabic and English , Father Kobti is fluent in French, Italian and Spanish. Father Joseph Richard , pastor, St. Cecilia Parish, Lagunitas: Father Richard, a native San Franciscan and a graduate of St. Cecilia Elementary and St. Ignatius College Preparatory, was ordained in 1958 for the Society of St. Paul. He ministered tor two decades in thai

community s publishing apostolate deciding to become a diocesan priest in 1978. Until 1989, when Father Richard went to the thenDiocese of Reno/Las Vegas to assist with pastoral needs there , he served as a parochial vicar at parishes including St. Anne of the Sunset , St. Vincent de Paul and St. Matthew, San Mateo. Apostolic Life Father Paulinos Mangesho, co-pastor, Sacred Heart Parish, San Francisco: Father Mangesho was born in the city of KeniRombo in Tanzania , Africa and ordained to the priesthood in 1991. In addition to serving as an accountant for his community, he has served as an associate pastor and pastor at parishes in his country 's Dioceses of Moshi and Tabora. Father Ken Westray, ordained in 1981 and pastor of Sacred Heart since 1985 , is scheduled to begin a sixmonth sabbatical including "prayer , stud y, travel , and in vacation " January 2000.

Marriage and Family Life Office director named By Kamille Maher Stronger marriages , parent-child communication , parish-level family programs and family catechesis are high on the agenda of Christopher Lyford , named director ol the archdiocesan Office of Marriage and Family Life effective Jul y 6. "No marriage is perfect ," said Lyford , a father of four. "You don 't have to get perfect. But I would say to married couples : spend some time on the heart of youi marriage. Make it a priority in your life. After all , it is your vocation." Lyford has several p lans underway to help couples do just that. Immediately is a Jul y 17 Natura l Family Planning workshop at 10 a.m. at Seton Medical Center, 1900 Sullivan Ave., Daly City. Lyford said he hopes to counter what he sees as a "definite lack of awareness " about Churchsanctioned methods of child spacing. "There is a lot of misinformation out there ," Lyford said. "I think it is a clear goal of Archbishop Levada's that I help people find out what it is, how it works, that it works, and who is using it." Also on the calendar is World Marriage

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Safeguard Eucharist, says Vatican

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Eucharist is such a great g ift that any act of desecrating a consecrated host should be punished , the Vatican said. The Church must "safeguard the greatest good received from divine mercy, that is, Christ the Lord himself , made 'the bread of eternal life ' in the Most Holy Eucharist ," said a Jul y 8 statement from the Pontifica l Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts. Archbishop Julian Herranz , president of the council , said his office had been asked to clarify nearly identical canons in the Lati n and Eastern Catholic codes of canon law which refer to a person who "th rows away the consecrated species or who takes them or retains them for a sacrilegious purpose. " In a response approved by Pope John Paul II, the archbishop said the Latin word "abicere," to throw away, should be understood with "the widest meaning of to scorn , to despise or to deni grate." "Therefore, one who takes or keeps the sacred species with a sacrilegious aim — obscene, superstitious or ungodly — or who, even without taking it from the tabernacle , monstrance or altar , makes it the object of an external, voluntary and serious act of disdain , commits the serious crime of sacrilege against the Body and Blood of Christ," the archbishop said. The penalty for sacrilege against the Eucharist is an excommunication which onl y the Vatican can remove, he said.

Nuncio addresses U.S. bishops

WASHINGTON (CNS) — In his first address to a full gathering of the U.S. bishops , Pope John Paul IPs representative in the United States had high praise for the contributions of the U.S. Catholic Church to the worldwide church. But Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo , named apostolic nuncio to the United States last December, also urged quick action on U.S. norms for Catholic higher education and greater dissemination of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council to those who "have not yet reaped the fruits of the council."

Criticize embryo stem-cell study

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholic leaders are among ethicists, physicians, scientists, politicians and religious leaders urging Congress to continue the ban on federally funded human embryo research, which they said violates existing law and is unethical and scientificall y unnecessary. The group, brought together by the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity in Bannockbum, III , released a statement Jul y 1 in Washington saying stem-cell research holds great promise as long as it is pursued ethically, but using stem cells from human embryos cannot be ethical because the procedure "necessarily involves destroying those embryos."

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MEXICO CITY (CNS) — Dominican Fathei Timoth y Radcliffe , master general of the Dominicans , visited the state of Chiapas and supported the pastoral work of the Diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas. The solution to civil conflict in Chiapas must be throug h recognition of the ri ghts and cultures of indi genous people , he told reporters July 4. Father Radcliffe said the Dominican order supports the work of the diocese and Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia and expects that the anticipated successor to Bishop Ruiz , Bishop Raul Vera Lopez , will continue the process. Bishop Vera, the coadjutor , is a Dominican.

Bach immigrant amnesty bill

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Catholic bishops are backing a House bill to give legal status to immi grants who have resided in the country for years but whose applications for asylum have been rejected because of a misinterpretation of the law. On behalf of the U.S. Catholic Conference, Kevin Appleby, USCC director of migration and refugee policy, announced support of H.R. 2125 , the Legal Amnesty Restoration Act of 1999, introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas. As many as 350,000 individuals could be affected.

Caritas Mexico receives p apal g ift

MEXICO CITY (CNS) — Mexico 's national Caritas organization received $50,000 from Pope John Pau l II to aid victims of a June earth quake . About 25 people were killed and 7,700 homes were destroyed in the southeastern states of Puebla and Oaxaca by the June 15 quake, which measured 6.7 on the Richter scale.

Jake aim at teen p regnancy

MANCHESTER , Eng land (CNS) — Plans unveiled by the British government ro halve the nation 's teen pregnancy rate over the next 10 years have received a cautious welcome from Church and pro-life groups. The $90 million progra m launched in mid-June by Health Minister Tessa Jowell includes a national publicity drive to warn teen-agers of the dangers of unprotected sex and the difficulties of unp lanned parenthood. The program also will include extra funding for free contraceptive services for young peop le in areas with high teen pregnancy rates.

Decries p regnancy-relateddeaths

OTTAWA (CNS) — A doctor urged greater international efforts to prevent women 's deaths from pregnancy and childbirth, saying hundreds of thousands of such deaths occur each year because "mothers are not politically important." Dr. Robert Walley, founder and president of MaterCare International, and a consultor for the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, said 99 percent of the deaths occur in developing countries and involve mothers who are "so young, so poor, so insignificant that they don't have any voice." A rare 1,000-yearold coin on display at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem bears the likeness of Christ. Several similar coins were discovered last ¦ October during an archaeological dig near the Sea of Galilee. Greek inscriptions such as "Jesus the Messiah , the King of Kings " and "Jesus , the Messiah,the Victor," appear on some of the coins.

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Must heal racial divisions

NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — The Catholic Church must take the lead in healing racial and ethnic divisions by reaching out to those scarred by insensitivity and beni gn neglect , said a panel of religious leaders attending the annual meeting of the National Council for Catholic Evangelization , held June 16-19 in New Orleans. One of the panelists , Juan Barajas , a permanent deacon who directs the Hispanic ministry and stewardship offices in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, N.M., said God gave each ethnic group qualities that must be embraced . "It 's easier for me to get together with peop le who speak the same language ," he said, "but that 's not reall y the way of the Gospel."

Advocate campaig n refo rm

MADISON , Wis. (CNS) — The Catholic bishops of Wisconsin , saying they share a growing concern the health of U.S. democracy is threatened by the current political campai gn process , have issued a draft statement supporting campai gn finance reform. In the draft , the bishops rejected the idea regulation of campai gn expenses inhibits free speech , which some pro-life groups have maintained. The bishops do not endorse any specifi c reform plan.

Hi ts British medical g uidelines

LONDON (CNS) — Cardinal Thomas Winning of Glasgow , Scotland , has urged support for a campai gn against new British medical guidelines that would give legal protection to doctors who starve and deh ydrate their patients to death . Cardinal Winning, chairman of the Joint Bioethics Committee of the bishops ' conferences of England , Wales, Scotland and Ireland , called the guidelines "sinister" and "worry ing." .

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Reflections on Ecclesia in America Early in this final year of the 20th century and the second millennium of Christianity, the papal document which presented the conclusions of the historic Synod of Bishops meeting of representatives from North , Central, and South America with our Holy Father and heads of the Roman Dicasteries was made public. In the next few issues of Catholic San Francisco I want to share with readers of "Ordinary Time" some of the reflections on this document 1 offered to the priests at the annual June Study Days at Vallombrosa. On Jan. 23 of this year, Pope John Paul II came to America, to his beloved Mexico, where he had made the first of his now more that 65 pastoral visits throughout the world , to conclude the work of the Synod of Bishops for America in the basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It was on that day that he promul gated the A postolic Exhortation Ecclesia in America (The Church in America) by which he presented the fruits of the synod to the world. He spoke these words in his homily at that eucharistic "celebration" of the work of the synod: "Now, one year after the celebration of that synod assembly . . . I have come here to place at the feet of the mestizo Virgin of Tepeyac, star of the New World, the apostolic exhortation Ecclesia in America , which incorporates the contributions and pastoral suggestions of that synod, entrusting to the mother and queen of this continent the future of its evangelization " (no. 4). The "first" and the "new" evangelization I am immediatel y reminded ol the beautiful prayer we prayed in the synod hall for that month of Nov. 12 to Dec. 12, 1997, in which we daily referred to Our Lady of Guadalupe as "the star of the first and of the new evangelization." This is the heart of the pope 's purpose: "carpe diem " or better "carpe millennium"! If the Jubilee of the Year 2000 focuses the attention of the whole world on the birth of Christ as an event, it is up to us as Church to help the world interpret that event for what it is — the mission of Christ in and for the world , the Father 's "sending" of his Son on a mission of redeeming love, of transforming grace. To make this "work" the Son was sent b y his Father to do — the ''mission" of Christ — take root throughout the world is the purpose of the two-millennium-old "mission" of the Holy Spirit , sent from the Father and the Son to bring the work of the Son's mission to completion. Trie Pentecost of the Holy Spirit was a gift to create the Church, to send the Church on mission, to evangelize the world about divine love as its true vocation — as the real perfection of humanity. It is through the work of evangelization that the Holy Spirit brings to light the plan of God, revealed in Christ — a divinely-created trajectory that uncovers the goal of the world as the "new heavens and the new earth," a goal in which the life of the world is not the sum of a series of individual deaths, but eternal life.

I think it s worth recalling here the reflection the pope made in his apostolic letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente (no. 23), when he recalled that from his very first encyclical Redemptor Hominis he has made frequent explicit references to the Great Jubilee, suggesting that the time leading up to it, beginning with the Second Vatican Council, should be viewed and lived as "a new Advent." He goes on to say that "preparing for the Year 2000 has become as it were a hermeneutical key of my pontificate." He warns that this "is not a matter of indulging in a new millenniarism as occuned in some quarters at the end of the first millennium ," but is rather "aimed at an increased sensitivity to all the Spirit is saying to the

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Church and to the Churches, as well as to individuals through charisms meant to serve the whole community. ... Despite appearances, humanity continues to await the revelation of the children of God, and lives by this hope, like a mother in labor, to use the image employed so powerfull y by St. Paul in his Letter to the Romans (cf. 8:19-22): "Creation awaits with eager expectation the revelation of the children of God ; for creation was made subject to futility, not of its own accord but because of the one who subjected it,

in hope that creation itself would be set free from slavery to conuption and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now; and not only that, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spiri t, we also groan within ourselves as we wait for adoption , the redemption of our bodies." "Century of the Church" If it is true that, as Dominican Father Yves Congar observed, the 20th century is the "century of the Church" (by which he means that the Church herself has become the predominant focu s for theological reflection, as the persons of Christ and the Trinity were in the fifth, and the sacraments were in the 16th), then the pope is asking us to complete that reflection by helping us see the Church as engaged in the history of the world — by encouraging us to real ize that in the passing of these 2,000 years and the beginning of a new millennium of Christianity, the history of salvation is still being written. This is a familiar enough theme here in San Francisco, when we recall the beautiful words of Archbishop John R. Quinn in his address inaugurating the pastoral plan of the Archdiocese — A Journey of Hope Toward the Third Millennium. Reflecting on the seven letters of the Book of Revelation, he said: "You yourselves are the eighth letter. What will you wri te?" The Jubilee Year, then , invites us to take stock of the mission of Christ in the world' s history which we are living out today. It suggests that we in the Archdiocese have both the great responsibility and the great privilege of writing our chapter of this part of salvation history, just as the saints did in former times throughout these two millennia. May we do so with prudence, wisdom, fortitude and charity above all.

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By Sister M. Antonio Heaph y, PBVM Director, Office of Evangelization/RENEW During these summer months we have asked our RENEW 2000 partici pants to work at reaching out to our in-active Catholic brothers and sisters . For every active Catholic in our area there are five, six , or even more in-active Catholics ju st waiting for an opportunity to be re-connected with the Catholic Church. It is widel y believed most in-active Catholics reach that state for no reall y serious reasons. They became negli gent at partici pating in the Sunday liturgy over a period of time and just gave up. Now, many of these people feel that even thoug h they would like to start back they simply cannot. There is that "tug " to come back , but they don 't know how to get there. These are only one kind of in-active Catholics. Many who are in-active Catholics don 't even realize this is the case. They go to Mass most weekends and always at Christmas and Easter. They pray fairly regular-

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By Clare Maloney The University of San Francisco said goodbye lo a legend at the end of June . During his 36-year career at USF, Jesuit Father Charles W. Dullea was a force that helped usher women into the classroom , saw USF enrollment nearl y double , raised more than $28 million , guided the school throug h most of the turbulen t 60s, and spearheaded major construction campaigns. Widely acknowledged as one of the school's most influential figures, the Jesuit has left the USF hilltop for the quiet hills of Los Gatos. But Father Dullea didn 't talk about retirement. He talked about moving on. And he quoted another legend , football' s John El way, "I'm not retiring, I' m graduating. " Father Dullea doesn 't plan on slowing down. He 's just changing scenery. "This is not just a retirement home," he explained , "I'm going to do some ministry down there. I plan to be busy." The Jesuit also feels that the move will bring him a sense of completion. "I'm going down to Los Gato s where it all started for me, 65 years ago," he said with enthusiasm. "In 1934 I entered and now I' m going back to the same house. It's come full circle." On Wednesday, June 2, the former USF president official ly celebrated his retirement at a dinner celebration on campus. Two weeks later he moved to the Sacred Heart Jesuit Center, a Los Gatos retirement home and infirmary for Jesuits. Around 200 friends and famil y members packed the Pacific Rim Conference Room on Lone Mountain at USF to attend the dinner hosted in Father Dullea 's honor. The evening was marked by a presentation from Jesuit Fathers John Schlegel , current USF president , and John Lo Schiavo, chancellor and former president. The two presented Father Dullea a plaque recognizing his many years of service to USF. The plaque , signed by Father Schlegel , lists Father Dullea 's accomp lishments while president (196369) and concludes , "Now, therefore , we are proud to honor Charles W. Dullea, S.J. with this dinner and thank him for all his work on behalf of the Jesuits and the University of San Francisco." It was also announced that the Olympic-size swimming pool at the USF Koret Health and Recreation Center would be named the Charles W. Dullea Natatorium. Despite the recognition and praise , Father Dullea attempts to divert attention. "I tried to find a donor to give a coup le million dollars so they would name the pool after him," he said. Nearby, Kenneth Galloway, special assistant DONNA LIFRACK EDUCATIONAL T H E R A P I S T & L E A R Tutoring NING SPECIALIST —

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The Jesuits in Rome had made the decision to allow the integration, but only after USF requested to become coeducational , noted Jesuit Father Michael Kotlanger, USF archivist. Father Dullea recalled the Jesuit influence on USF in the 60s. "In those days we had a lot more Jesuits teaching. They were the princi pal administrators ." The Jesuit numbers and , Father Dullea feels , their influence has decreased over the years. However, Father Dullea also observed , there is a strong movement on campus to rebuild that presti ge. "Father Schlegel is very conscious of the problem and he 's working on it. They 're really trying to beef up, so to speak , the Jesuit influence. " In regard to the University 's growth and development , Father Dullea pointed out that it had grown "obviousl y in numbers and along the co-educational lines " but also in being "multi-racial , multi-ethnic. And that 's all good." He expressed excitement about development of the College of Professional Studies , established in 1975. "We have progressed along the lines of giving an opportunity to peop le whose education had been interrupted with our College of Professional Studies—that 's a great program. In the future, Father Dullea hopes the University will maintain its Catholic identity. His advice to future USF presidents ; "They should be conscious of the fact that they are Catholic , that 's the big thing, and not do anything to diminish that or water it down." Debate surrounding the bishops of the United States ' proposed implementation plan for Pope John Paul IPs apostolic constitution , Ex Corde Ecclesiae, has brought the religious identity of Catholic universities and colleges under inspection. Father Dullea said he thinks the bishops do need to create an implementation program. "I think it 's necessary," he asserted. "We don 't want to be like any other school." However, the priest feels it is important to recognize that reli gion is the core area that defines the school' s difference. That is what the Church should have authority over, not over other disciplines, he indicated. He explained , "We're talking about religion and our Catholic universities aren 't just about religion. Religion has nothing to do with science, or history." Prior to becoming USF's 22»d president in 1963, Father Dullea had been rector of the USF Jesuit community for four years. Ordained in 1947 b y Archbishop John J. Mitty, Father Dullea earned his licentiate in theology in 1948 (Alma College), and from 1949-54 served as sub-secretary to the Jesuit General Curi a in Rome.

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By Sharon Abercrombie What do poor Catholic hi gh school students in Pakistan have in common with their middle class counterparts in northern California? The same notion of service, responds Robert Jordan , campus minister at De La Salle High School in Concord . Jordan saw a video of disadvantaged Pakistani youth helping other impoverished people in their town. A banner over their Christian Brothers ' school door proclai med, "Enter to Learn, Leave to Serve." Teens in Christian Brothers schools in San Francisco, Berkeley, Concord and Sacramento are also involved in works of mercy with the same motto emblazoned in their hearts. All have a common hero — St. John Baptist de la Salle , founder of the Christian Brothers in 1684. De la Salle devoted his life to serving the poor through education. Today, students who attend Christian Brothers schools in 89 countries have banded together in groups bearing both his name and his philosop hy of faith, service and community. They call themselves Lasallian Youth. Some 150 of the service-oriented youth will gather for a regional summer assembly, Aug. 1-6, at Saint Mary 's College in Moraga , said Christian Brother Kevin Slate of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School in San Francisco. Brother Slate is district coordinator for Lasallian youth programs. Delegates will be coming from California , New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado. They will spend their days in prayer, community building, reflection and visiting local service agencies. This is the first summer assembly for the West Coast, said Brother Slate. Since 1987, assemblies have been held in Quebec, Chicago, Kansas City, Memp his, Tulsa, New Orleans , Albany, NY, and Mexico City.

Lasallian Youth originated durof our students described her ing the 1960s in Spain. Since sense of accomplishment with her then , the groups have sprung up in service project , but also her frusevery country where the order tration with not having enough teaches. time to finish painting the home of Groups began in Californi a a low-income elderly coup le. last year, said Jordan. Once every Another student said , 'Could we quarter , the teens meet with their go back to that service site on our peers from surrounding cities to free day and finish the job?' There perform a variety of corporal was an immediate ground swell of works of mercy, such as making support within the group." sandwiches for street peop le , David Hol quin , a student at painting the homes of the elderl y Sacramento's Christian Brothers or organizing fund drives on Hi gh, said, "This work helps to behalf of AIDS sufferers. invi gorate me. Just by kn owing After Hurricane Mitch devasthat a seemingly small service tated parts of Central America last project actuall y helps to lighten a winter, they met at Pier 80 in San person 's burden and brings a smile Francisco to help a social service to their face, makes me feel agency prepare aid packages. incredible." "The neat thing is, this proAdds Sacred Heart Cathedral gram allows kids to see their herHi gh' s Alfredo Hernandez , St. John Baptist de la Salle itage in the context of a world"Young people are encouraeed to wide family," said Jordan. emulate the practice of St. de la Salle by looking for the Schools also do service on their own. This past year, 35 movement of the Spirit in the concrete experiences of life." teens met Thursday mornings before classes at De La Salle He said the group helped him "come closer to God. It has to pray, reflect and plan projects. Over Easter, a group taug ht me how to feel good about myself and help those in shopped for and cooked two meals for homeless families need." who were week-long guests at the Oakland Diocese's youth Maritess Cabrera, a June graduate of Saint Mary 's retreat center in Lafayette. College High, said, "When kids are asked who their hero is, Students often want to do more than their share. Shell y their answer is usually someone like Michael Jordan or Bill Gorman , Lasallian youth coordinator at Christian Brothers Gates, someone who is basically making tons of money. But High School in Sacramento and a long-time supporter of when someone asks me who my hero is, my reply is St. the movement, recalls a defining movement in her experi - John Baptist de la Salle — a man who took all the money he ence with these youthfu l volunteers. had to establish a school for poor young boys and a man "We were having a summer assembly in Memphis. One who has become a great example and inspiration in my life."

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By Sharon Abercrombie There is a face and a story behind every piece of clothing made in a "sweat shop " — and coming to know them can lead to heart ache , according to two young Bay Area women who visited Guatemala and El Salvador last summer. Sara Suman and Christina Pavloff were among students who toured some of the controversial garment factories located there during Jul y, 1998 as part of a summer "immersion program" in social justice issues sponsored by San Francisco 's St. Ignatius College Preparatory School from which both graduated last month. Suman visited factories under contract to a trend y "teen fashion label in San Francisco." She posed as a business student and a manager let her inside. Ventilation was poor. There was no child care. The manager told her the workers made good salaries. Interesting ly, its walls were covered with posters of San Francisco. With pride the foreman showed Suman a list of "subversive" former employees who had tried to organize a union. The list , Suman was told , was circulated to other area manufacturing facilities effectively keeping the "troublemakers " from being hired elsewhere. Outside the shop, Suman collected contradictory stories about wages. Workers told her they made half what their boss had said. "They earned $20 a month ," calculated Suman Suman stayed with the famil y of one worker who lives most of the week in a cardboard squatter settlement near the factory. The hours are so long and arduous there isn 't time to travel home.

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By Sharon Abercrombie Was your child' s school uniform or sports team equipment made by another child or adult working under sweatshop conditions? Teachers and students from five Catholic high schools are attempting to find out. Social justice activists at Woodside Priory, Portola Valley; St. Ignatius College Preparatory School and Archbishop Riordan in San Francisco; Mercy in Burlingame and Notre Dame, Belmont , are gath ering information about vendors which supp ly uniforms and athletic equipment to Bay Area schools. Their efforts are part of a national push by high school and college students to make certain their schools are not supporting overseas sweatshops , and to raise public consciousness around the social justice issues involved for workers, said Tom Webb, task force organizer. Webb teaches social studies and theology at Woodside Priory. Webb said the project began last October, after the Interfaith Center foi Worker Justice in Chicago sent letters to

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The Archdiocese 's School of Pastoral Leadership will begin its fifth year on Sept. 20 with classes for adults in the Catholic faith , Bible stud y, prayer and spirituality. The school will offer courses in six-wee k sessions. The first session will run from Sept. 20 to Oct. 28. A new afternoon program in San Francisco will also be available for those who cannot attend evening sessions. "We 've switched to a modular format ," explained Joni Gallagher, assistant director of SPL. Previousl y stu dents were required to take semester-long courses in sequence, with no chance to take time off. With the change to a modular system , Gallagher explained , "we are offering the same amount of information but tire commitment isn 't as tough." Students can skip a module or take more than one module at a time. Students may take several six-week modules covering sacraments, mora l theology, theology of the Mass, social teaching, and Scripture. If they wish to earn a Certificate in Pastoral Ministry of Teaching, Liturgy, or Social Ministry, they must comp lete these modules and then take 12 weeks of electees in their ministry of choice. Not every student needs to have discerned a ministry, Gallagher said. "A nice tiring about the new format is that a person may decide to update his or her faith," Gallagher said. "This is really for anybody. You need to know your faith in order to live it." SPL registration materials suggest that several categories of people enroll in SPL courses including SPL alumni, new converts, RENEW coordinators and participants, detention ministers, prayer group leaders, Bible stud y leaders, lectors, and teachers. Gallagher expects about 500 students to matriculate this September. 'The first and primary mission," states an SPL vision document, "is to train lay leaders for ecclesial ministry. This mis-

Marria g e.. . ¦ Continued from page 3 and between parents and children. The 39-year-old has worked 16 years as a full-time Catholic lay minister, as director of reli gious education , youth , and young adult ininistry in various parishes in Northern California and Oregon. He just finished his fourth year teaching religious studies at Marin Catholic Hi gh School. He said he feels especially proud of a parent support group he launched , wherein 16 couples met for six weeks, watching a video series and discussing parenting issues. After the official six-week program concluded , the group evolved into one of ongoing support. "That 's one model I would hope to see happening in parishes," he explained. Lyford's wife, Vickie, was recently featured in the Marin Independent-Journal on the release of a CD of Christian music. The couple are members of St. Sebastian Parish in Greenbrae. The position of director had been vacant for about a year. Administrative Assistant Betty Reichmann "kept things going ," Ly ford said, noting the office is ready to imp lement a "reassessment " of its ministry. The office 's role includes collaborating with Marriage Encounter, Engaged Encounter and Movimiento Familiar Cristiano b y serving as the contact and information office. The office will also offer support and direction to widowed, separated and divorced Catholics.

sion was entrusted to the SPL by the Archbishop according to the Pastoral Plan of 1995." SPL offers classes in San Mateo at St. Gregory Church, 2715 Hacienda St.; in Marin at St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr. in Tiburon; and in San Francisco at Archbishop Riordan High School , 175 Phelan Ave. (evening class), and5t. Dominic Church , 2390 Bush St. (afternoon class). Times are 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. for evening courses and 2 lo 4 p.m. for afternoon sessions. "Christianity: An Introduction to the Catholic Faith"will be offered in four options: in San Mateo by Father Milton T. Walsh, dean of students and faculty member, St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park; in San Francisco (afternoons) b y Dominican Father Xavier Lavagetto, pastor, St. Dominic Church; in San Francisco (evenings) by Jesuit Father Tony Lambino, parochial vicar, St. Isabella Church , San Rafael; and in Mari n by Dominican Father Steve Maekawa, parochial vicar, St. Dominic Church. Jesuit Father Donald B. Sharp will teach "An Introduction to the Old Testament " in San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin. Father Sharp has earned degrees from Gonzaga 'University, Regis College of the University of Toronto, and the University of Innsbruck where he earned a doctoral degree in Old Testament studies. He has taught at Gonzaga and the University of San Francisco. He co-authored Deepening Christian Life: Integrating Faith and Maturity. Jesuit Father Bernie Bush is slated to teach San Mateo 's spiritu ality and prayer module called "Prayer: Finding the Heart 's True Home." Father Bush , who has a doctoral degree in human studies (psychology and theology), worked for 15 years as a therapist for emotionally troubled clergy and religious with the House of Affirmation in Montara, Calif. He trained as a spiritual director in Toronto, Canada, and is now a retreat director on the staff of the Jesuit Retreat House in Los Altos. He is the author of books and articles on spirituality, social justice , and child abuse prevention. Sister of Charity Sister Maiy Ann Donovan and Franciscan Father Joseph Chinnici will teach San Francisco 's spirituality and prayer courses in earl y Christian spirituality. Sister Donovan is associate professor of historical theology and spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. She earned a doctorate from St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto. Father Chinnici is professor of Church history at

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Anthony Wilhelm dies WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (CNS) — Anthony J. Wilhelm, author of the best-selling book on Catholicism, Christ Among Us, died Jul y 7 at Kaiser Hospital in Walnut Creek of complications from advanced myeloid dysplasia, a degenerative blood disorder. He was 74. A memorial service is scheduled at 10 a.m. Jul y 24 at Hol y Spirit Parish at the University of California at Berkeley, where he and his wife, Pamela, were parishioners. Wilhelm , who joined the Paulists following military service in the Pacific in World War 11, was ordained in 1959 and was in Rome for the Second Vatican Council. Paulist Press published his first edition of Christ Among Us in 1967. Subtitled "A Modern Presentation of the Catholic Faith for Adults ," it gained wide popularity as a resource for Catholic inquiry classes, adult catechumen programs and high school reli gious education courses. In 1975 Wilhelm left the priesthood and married, but continued to write and lecture on Catholicism. He also worked as a marriage and family counselor in Berkeley. Christ Among Us in its fourth edition had sold more than 1.6 million copies when the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1984 called for removal of its imprimatur.

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Vatican b a n . . . ¦ Continued from page 1 Sister Gramick and Father Nugent can find the way to express their acceptance of the Church's teaching on homosexuality." "This decision was reached after nearly 12 years of dialogue with Sister Gramick and Father Nugen t," he said , noting the long time taken to reach a decision "indicates that these disciplinary measures were not taken lightly." Father Nugent and Sister Gramick became involved in gay and lesbian ministry in Philadel phia in 1971. In 1977 they cofounded New Ways Ministry, with head quarters near Washington,D.C. They co-directed New Ways until 1983, when Cardinal (then Archbishop) James A. Hickey of Washington, D.C., asked their superiors to remove them because he believed they distorted Church teaching on homosexuality. New Ways Ministry continues to exist as an unofficial , Catholic-oriented ministry. Three times between 1977 and 1988, at the request of the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, then called the Congregation for Religious, the Salvatorians and School Sisters of Notre Dame undertook internal studies of Father Nugent 's and Sister Gramick's work. The congregation instituted a fourth investigation in 1988, appointing a study commission. That commission submitted a report to Rome in 1995, noting "some positive aspects in the apostolate " of the priest and nun , but also "serious deficiencies ... incompatible with the fullness of Christian morality." The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life trans-

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Frank Hudson , CEO of Catholic Charities in the Established in 1997, the program provides 35 residen- Archdiocese, said, "Everything resolves around the dignity Peggy tial units for men and women with middle-to-late- stage of the individual at Leland House. It is living out the Good mental illness on a day-to-day basis." Samaritan in an instituHIV disease and 10 end.. Residents themselves agree. Paul , for example, said stage/hi gh level care bed tional setting." It's a place where the AIDS virus "Leland House is a nice p lace" but he was concerned not Himself a registered units. "Nearly 85 percent of controls the outcome of lives the residents " are affected nurse, Varela open ly con- enough was being done about one resident feared to be by "significant mental illand a peaceful death is sometimes cedes "one of our biggest using drugs. "Not true," counters Varela. "We reall y work closely ness," noted Motola. struggles" in the program considered a success. with abusers, trying to get them treatment and trying to do "is helping people to not Residents profess a everything we can to help. The way this program is strucgamut of feelings about use dings. It's very hard Glenn Motola Leland House. Some love for some people to stop tured we can 't just throw people out of here for using. The it , others don t. Some can t using, especially tor many residents rent their rooms. They have leases and we have wait to leave, while others never want to call any other of our residents who are mentally ill, who have little or no to follow regular law and guidelines of eviction." That can be "frustrating, " claims Peggy, a two-year place "home." coping skill. So occasionally people do relapse. It 's our job resident. "They tell us they try to address each' individual where the AIDS viru s controls the outcome to help them through that." It's a place of lives and a peaceful death is sometimes considered a suc"Something chaotic or difficult happens in this house according to their needs—and because of client confidentiality they can 't tell us what they are doing." As a result, every day," added Varela. "It's a difficult job to help the cess, said Motola. she says, she does not always feel safe and sometimes she It's also a place, despite the seemingly inexhaustible residents live in harmony, stay off drugs and deal with list of AIDS symptoms, where the resourceful staff delivers feels "treated like a child". Still , she extraordinary results . For example, an emaciated man concedes , "The staff at Leland found unconscious in his apartment was referred to the House has gone to bat for me a few facility. He weighed 100 pounds and was given little times." chance of survival. Today he weighs 180. He has moved On the other hand , resident back out on his own and is attending law school. 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Charities CEO: AIDSpushes victims to edges of society By Lynne Weil, CNS

ROME -As the survival rate for peop le with AIDS continues to climb, more are being marginalized - in the same way society pushes the long-term poor to its edges, according to the head of the Archdiocese of San Francisco's Catholic Charities operation. "Not all people who have HIV are economicall y deprived ," said Frank Hudson . "However, the disease has such a stigma - even in a sophisticated city like San Francisco - that one tends to become ostracized from loved ones and famil y. This is a form of poverty which is extreme." Hudson spoke while attending an international conference on charity arranged by the Vatican's umbrella humanitarian organization , the Pontifical Counci l "Cor Unum." Currentl y, Hudson said , his agency 's two main focuses of attention in San Francisco are the homeless and people with HIV virus or acquired immune defi ciency syndrome. Often, he said, those in one circumstance also face the other. "The disease is so debilitating," he explained , "that even though one may be a college-educated professional , the ability to stay in the work environment is drastically reduced and eventuall y is finished." The physical symptoms of AIDS are well documented; Hudson said a lesser-known effect is isolation from social support structures. He said such isolation is especially acute for AIDS patients in hosp itals and those with terminal cases who spend their final days in hospices. The San Francisco Archdiocese , which in the 1980s was among the first in the country to open a housing program for people with AIDS, has shifted its emphasis to include more of those who - because of techniques developed in the last few years - are able to get along despite the disease by sticking to a strict regimen of medication. "With some of the new drug methodologies - at

HIV is a type of virus known as a retrovirus. As the amount of virus (viral load) in the body increases , the immune system wears down. Viral load is the result of the battle between how much HIV is made in the body each day, and how much HIV the body can get rid of each day. The body makes millions of "fighting cells" each day. But the virus makes millions of new viruses each day, too. Protection of the immune system begins to fail when the body cannot make enough cells to replace those being destroyed by HIV. AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is caused by HIV. It is the final and most serious stage of infection by the virus. The severe immune system deficiency leaves the body vulnerable to a variety of life-threatening illnesses. There is no known cure for AIDS. For more information , call National AIDS Hotline (800) 342-2437.

least in the United States - people are living longer," Hudson said. "We're trying to reintegrate them into the community and particularl y work toward reconciliation with famil y members and fonner employers and so on." Much of the immigrant population of people with AIDS traveled from Central or South America to California before contracting the disease or before being diagnosed as having it, Hudson said. Theirs is a "particularly challeng ing " type of isolation - one the Archdiocese meets throug h specialists who speak a total of 30 dialects , he said. To assist all who come for hospice accommodation , apartment rental subsidies, psychotherapy, help with financial management, marriage counseling and other services, Catholic Charities maintains a full-time care-giving staff of 370, along with more than 2,000 volunteers. In partnership with other private organizations and the city and county governments , Catholic Charities in San Francisco addresses the round-the-clock needs of thousands of people with AIDS - out of the 70,000 individuals the agency serves per year in a variety of areas.

HIV/AIDS care shows gap between rich and poor health care institutions and workers are focused on closing the gap, and can be seen doing so in their care for people with HIV/AIDS. between rich and VATICAN CITY - The growing gap According to a statistical study commissioned by the poor in the world is glaringly evident in the care provid- council in preparation for a summit op Catholic health care ed to people with HIV/AIDS , the head of the Vatican's and AIDS, he said, Catholic hospitals , clinics and hosp ices health care council told the World Health Organization. are responsible for nearl y 25 percent of all medical care Governments and health care institutions must provided worldwide to those with HIV/AIDS. v commit themselves "to making medications and the The care, Archbishop Lozano said, is focused in "the most advanced treatment fully accessible to all those most inaccessible regions and the most marginated social suffering from AIDS, not only the wealthiest or citizens groups," especially in Africa, and confirms the poor are the of the most developed countries ," said Archbishop last to benefit from advances in treatment. Javier Lozano Barragan. "The precarious health situation of a large part of the The archbishop, president of the Pontifical Council world at the threshold of the third millennium is a marked for the Pastoral Care of Health Workers , spoke in late contrast to the abundance of scientific and technical May to the World Health Organization 's general assem- means" available, he said. bly in Geneva. The contrast is a call to re-think the means the World "The abyss which separates rich populations from Health Organization and governments use to stimulate the poor is particularly deep and dramatic in matters of medical and phannaceutical research, the archbishop said , health ," the archbishop told the assembly. adding that a speedy response to healing and curing disArchbishop Lozano said the Catholic Church's eases must take precedence over quick riches . By Cindy Wooden, CNS

HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that damages the immune system which defends and protects the body from infection and other disease.

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Peop le of good will must unite in efforts against bigotry Instances of individual s violentl y acting out their hatred for peop le different than themselves have scarred the summer of 1999 in both the Eastern and Western United States. In Illinois and I Indiana in early July, a hate-filled gunman shot and killed an African-American and an Asian-Am erican, and wounded several 1 others including members of a Jewish congregation. In Northern California , three synagogues in the Sacramento area were attacked by arsonists four weeks ago. The two suspects in the arson attacks, according to press reports, are linked to the later murders of two homosexual men in Redding, California on July 1. The perpetrator of the Illinois-Indiana rampage, who committed suicide with the same gun used on his victims , was a | member of a hate-group called the World Church of the Creator. This Illinois-based organization has a membershi p estimated to be between several hundred and several thousand , and it is reported to be strongest in Florida and California. In ( Sacramento, a member of the World Church was arrested in late I 1997 on a charge of attempted murder in the stabbing of a man who affronted the organization. The group promotes a holy war against anyone different than its members and counts as its enemies African-Americans , Asian-Americans , Jews, Hispanics and Christianity itself , which the so-called church calls a plot to dupe white peop le. While many critics tend to dismiss the organization , Harlan Loeb of the Anti-Defamation League says, | "The group has a record of violence that surpasses every other 1 hate group at this point." The Sacramento Bee has reported that anti-Semitic pamp hlets and other literature from the World Church of the Creator were found at the home of the suspects in the synagogue arsons and Redding murders. The key suspect is a young man who, i after showing an interest in a religious cult , developed a fascination with the white supremacist movement. It is not surprising that the Northern California crimes appear to be rooted in white supremacy beliefs. Chicago Sun Times columnist Mary Mitchell notes that "in nearly every instance [of violence against minorities], those who commit hate crimes have been linked to white supremacist doctrine or groups. To ignore the relationship between hate speech and hate crimes leaves it to grow like a cancer." We cannot take for granted that our family, friends , I colleagues and neighbors are aware of the danger of bigotry and prejudice. That is why speaking out against these evils is so important. We are obligated to condemn publicly statements of bigotry and prejudice whenever they appear, so that the views and actions of bigots are placed far outside the realm of the acceptable. In words that extend beyond the attacks on the Sacramento I synagogues , Bishop Sylvester Ryan , as president of the | California Catholic Conference, noted , "No house of worship nor group of people remains secure if we do not resist the attitudes that propelled these cowardly actions." Desp ite being collectively harmed by the forces of hate and violence, we still can declare our independence from those evils by denouncing the moral perversion spewed by hate groups. Perhaps the greatest form of social rejection of this evil is to build stronger bonds I between all good and moral people. We have an opportunity for people of good will to unite in rejecting hatred and renewing our commitment to mutual understanding and respect. MEH

Resp onse to reality

It appears from a number of recent articles in Cathode San Francisco and elsewhere that many Jesuit leaders in the United Slates believe Ex Conle Ecclesiae is a mean-spirited document conceived in a vacuum. The apostolic constitution is, in tact , a response to the very real problem of the secularization ot Catholic colleges and universities , particularly in this country. It is astonishing that an order of men who take an extraordinary vow of fidelity to the Holy Father should be the main agitators against a very modest imp lementation of his wishes. Congratulations on an excellent paper , and best wishes for the future. Jack Smith San Francisco

Care appreciated

On behalf of the Sisters of the Holy Names , California Province , 1 extend to all the generous peop le of the San Francisco Archdiocese our deep, heartfelt gratitude for the basic grant we recently received from the 1999 Retiremen t Fund for Religious Appeal. Your support helps ensure the care of our retired sisters while we continue our commitment to our mission and ministry. Blessings to you. Sister Sally Slyngstad, provincial Los Gatos

astray. The Archb ishop is teacher, shep herd , and father to all of us. Jeanne Condon San Mateo

Goose in trouble?

Are we killing the goose that lays the golden eggs? We pay tuition to send childre n to Catholic schools. We do at least 20 hours to help our schools. We buy raffle tickets, attend luncheons and dinners to raise money for our schools. We use Sunday envelopes. We support the Archbishop 's appeal every year with the appeal increasing every year. We now have to look forward to raising $30 million for a program to support families attending Catholic schools. Our Catholic schools are filled to capacity. We must stop and think in li ght of families to raise, mortgages to payWalter T. Moniz San Bruno

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Thank goodness that there was someone out there who detected that the June 11 issue of Cathode San Francisco contained either a reference, the name, the image, or the title of the Archbishop 27 times ("Overexposure " in the Jul y 2 Letters). And I cannot describe how shocked I was when that same agent broug ht to our attention that the Archbishop had brazenly listed his name as publisher on the editorial masthead! By Jove, we may have caught these extremely suspicious journalistic activities just in time. Readers, this is not yet a call to amis; but stand ready. For now, let us redoubl e our vi gilance over the media so that these unbridled literary shenanigans are promptly brought to . light and quickl y suppressed. Clem DeAmicis San Francisco

Need shep herd

This is in response to Joe Cowan 's July 2 letter where he said the Archbishop is getting too much exposure in Catholic San Francisco. I heartil y disagree. First, the paper is the workings and the brainchild of the Archbishop. Secondly, we the people need to hear from our bishops frequently. How will the sheep recognize the local shepherd if he doesn ' t make himself known? As a case in point , how many call themselves "Catholic " but do not know or follow Church teaching on abortion , contraception , celibacy, care for the poor — the list goes on? Another example is the famil y and training children . Families have ru les and boundaries. If the father is not around to remind and enforce those rules, the children will go r—'

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Throw open doors

It is time for us to address gay marriage directl y, rather than to dance around the issue and debate the definition of marriage to exclude a certain segment of our society. As Catholics in a city where one is likel y to be nei g hbors with or to work and with openly gay men lesbians , 1 think that we should not be so complacent about equality. Let 's stop turning away gay men and lesbians at the doors to our churches , claiming that they are welcome, but don ' t deserve all the sacraments of the Catholic Church. It 's time to th row open the doors to marriage to all gay and lesbian couples who want it and deserve it. Michael A. Siani San Francisco (Ed. note: Church teaching defines marriage as a sacramental union of a man and a woman. A lso see related story on page one, "Vatican bans " .)

A f orce, not threat

I would like to respond to George Wei gel's article "Population and destiny " . Mr. Weigel has an interesting idea of what might happen to China in 20 years. I believe it is true China will have a "surplus " of men but he doesn 't take into account , among other things , how many will become farmers, laborers , and businessmen. Mr. Weigel shouldn 't pose China 's problem as a threat because it onl y causes problems for both sides. Chinese-Americans , like myself, bear the brunt of such thinking . I don 't know why Americans look at Asians as a threat. I was assaulted physicall y and verball y b y two Americans of European descent in an office setting. They felt they were doing their civic duty ! That 's what 1 gathered after one put her fist in the air and said , "Irish and Catholic." At any rate, I' m sure the European crusaders felt ri ghteous when they explored the New World and other parts of the world. Why is it then when China might , according to Mr. Weigel's prediction, try to take over Siberia is it so horrible? Everything goes in waves. Although my famil y has been here since the 1800s let me say this: China is not going to have any inclination to take over the U.S. Sure, it has a different political system than ours , but it is hel ping to organize a large mass of people. If communism ended tomon-ow, there would be more prostitution , drugs , and crime than there are now. Look what happened to the U.S.S.R. — the rates of teen pregnancy, runaways , and drags skyrocketed after all the youth programs ended. I think the same would happen in China. There would also be a greater desire to emi grate to the U.S. and other countries. Is that what you reall y want to prove a point? Please tell Mr. Weigel to be careful of what he says. Asia is a force , but no threat. Asian-Americans get slandered, beaten and killed because of notions based on projections!

Debra Yick San Francisco

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George Weigel JX.OME. — When Archbishop Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan , president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, enters a parlor in his offices in the Palazzo S. Calisto, the soft-spoken Vietnamese prelate doesn 't create an aura of heroism — at least as the modern world understands heroism. This is no Bruce Willis , no Sean Connery. Everything about the man is understated. Yet the archbishop is an authentic martyrconfessor, an heir to the legacy of Cyprian and other confessor-bishops of the early Church. For eight years, Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan was Bishop of Nhatrang in central South Vietnam. In April 1975, just as the United States was caving in to North Vietnam ' s violations of the Paris Peace Accords , Pope Paul VI named him coadjutor archbishop of Saigon. The city fell to the communists shortly there after, and the conquerors immediatel y charged the archbishop 's appointment had been part of a Vatican-Washington conspiracy to organize resistance to the new regime. Arrested on the

Modern martyr in the Curia Jesus in the Eucharist is always with Solemnity of the Assumption , 1975, me in my shirt pocket." Nguyen Van Thuan spent the When he finally enticed his next 13 years in prison and re-education camp. guard s into conversation , he began to evangelize them. The one thing they Nine of those years were in solicouldn ' t understand was love. tary confinement , with onl y two "There is no goodness here , nor guards for company — and they were forbidden to speak to the love," one said. "There is onl y responsibility ." But he was wrong. prisoner. Nine years in a foul , fetid Slowly, the transparent goodness and cell , so humid that mushrooms grew love that animated Francis Xavier on the prisoner ' s bed. Nine years, as he put it in a memoir, of "mental Nguyen Van Thuan began to break torture , in absolute emptiness, withthroug h the barriers of hatred. He taught the guards foreign languages. out work, walking in the cell from He began to catechize them. He morning until nine-thirty at night so made converts: converts to humanity, as not to be destroyed by arthritis , at " and converts to Christianity. the edge of insanity. Nguyen Van Thuan Archbishop To this day, Archbishop Nguyen It was a regimen designed to Van Thuan wears a piece of his crush a man , sp irituall y and p hysicall y. Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan declined imprisonment , perhaps the most striking pectoral cross to be crushed. Instead , he made his solitary confinement in the world. The cross itself is made fro m wood the into a seemingly endless retreat , and an evangelical archbishop cajoled a guard into letting him chi p out of a opportunity. He celebrated Mass with three drops of log. Its "chain" is made of bits of electrical wire, of the wine (a bottle was given him as stomach medicine) and sort used to electrify prison-camp fences and help prea host smuggled in by sympathetic outsiders. "They vent escapes. But the cross-and-chain, the archbishop insists , are not so much reminders of prison as symbols [were] the most beautiful Masses of my life." Prior to his solitary confinement, in re-education of "my profound conviction...[that] only Christian love camp, the archbishop had said Mass for his fellow can change hearts." By chronological accident , Archbishop Nguyen Van prisoners — in "We were Thuan and 1 share a birthday. But the bond 1 feel with him bed. divided into transcends such ephemera. As I was leaving his office, I groups of 50 asked for his blessing. After giving it to me, he said, "Now we have truly met each other." He was right. people. We slept beds, on common When we first shook hands , we were two men , a having the right tc Vietnamese and an American , linked by our countries ' 50 centimeters. We tortured entanglement and a mutual interest in Catholic arranged it so that there were five Catholics with me. Al social doctrine. Now we had met us brothers in Christ , in nine-thirty the lights are turned off and everyone has tc the kind of meeting that antici pates the Kingdom. sleep. I curl up on the bed to celebrate Mass, by memory, and I distribute communion moving my hand under the mosquito netting. We made little containers from the papei George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and of cigarette boxes to reserve the Blessed Sacrament Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C

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Pity versus compassion

Father Gerald D. Coleman J_ he San Jose Mercury News editorial opinion of May 10 "When Death Is Your Choice " supports AB 1592 and asserts that "assisted suicide can, like abortion , be the best last resort in very limited situ ations." I believe the Mercury 's op inion is short-sighted and corrosive of the authentic meaning of community and society. Dying persons often experience a profound and heart-breaking loneliness. The Mercury inteiprets this solitariness as a scream for death , rather than a cry for life. The Mercury 's position abandons a dy ing patient by placing power/control over social responsibility, and pity over compassion.

I believe there are three major reasons why legalization of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide is wrong. First, allowing euthanasia and assisted suicide would radicall y isolate dying persons from society. "Ri ghts " should not separate us from one another, but bind us to one another in building a common life. AB 1592 redefines human rights in a purel y individualistic way, thus further corroding our sense of the common good, and leading us to become a collection of competing interests. Second, those who support euthanasia and assisted suicide equate freedom with control and selfdetermination. "Control" becomes the dominant issue and this leads to a society which is ultimately concerned with power, initially over self, but finally over others (it is surprising in this regard the Mercury does not buy the "slippery slope" argument). Legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide dramatically redefines the way we deal with one another and introduces questions of power and control over human life itself. When the question of human life is translated into matters of social and economic utility, the very meaning of life becomes inevitably recast, thus affecting the way we deal with one another in society. Third, compassion must always exercise a primary claim on us: that is, entering into and sharing the suffering of another. Pity, on the other hand, evokes sadness and incompetence in the face of suffering and ulti mately leaves the dying person to bear the pain alone.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide break human ties, making suffering a private affair, one which isolates a dying patient. Our tradition of the common good must place compassionate responsibility at the heart of these deliberations . A final note: those who favor euthanasia and assisted suicide need to carefully assess their attitude s about life itself, a gift which most people regard as sacred, a gift which differs dramaticall y from all other human goods. We should not dispose of life at will , as life provides the ultimate basis for all our human relationships. To erode a sense of life as a gift we hold in trust undermines all efforts lo build together a truly humane society. We are called upon to exercise a concent and mutual responsibility for one another 's life, and euthanasia and assisted suicide represent acts which are fundamentally contrary to this common commitment. Suffering and pain are not always ennobling. They reveal our human weaknesses and vulnerability. They can and often do isolate us. It is for these very reasons we must as a just society place our resources at the service of those who are sick, vulnerable and dying. Euthanasia and assisted suicide do not do this. They abandon persons to their pain and suffering. AB 1592 onl y encourages pity and does nothing to support authentic human compassion. _ -_ « _&-« M ,fl MW|

Sulpician Father Gerald D. Coleman is president and rector of St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.

LITURGY &SCRIPTURE Pope John Paul calls Sunday the 'Day of Days In his apostolic letter Dies Domini, a guide to keeping Sunday holy, Pope John Paul dedicates the final chapt er to Sunday as the "Day of Days." In that chapter he calls Sunday "the primordial feast, revealing the meaning of time ." Keeping time Time is a precious gift , a commodity most of us fail to fully appreciate. God who gives everything in abundance is not so liberal with the gift of time. He gives it to us only one moment at a time. This moment is all we possess. The last moment is gone. The next is yet to come. Like all precious resources that are in short supply, time is quite valuable. Because of its value, we measure it to keep accurate count. As humans we celebrate all sorts of anniversaries to mark the progress of time in its natural course. As Christians we celebrate our own anniversaries to mark the progress of time in the course of eternity. That is why the upcoming millennium is or should be so important to us. According to our reckoning (as inaccurate as it may be), the Jubilee year will mark 2000 years of our salvation in Christ. By this measurement of the years we acknowledge Christ's life, death and resurrection as the core of history around which all time revolves. In celebrating Christ as the center of time we affirm our

In the same way that we measure the years, we measure the weeks of the year by counting the Sundays as anniversaries of the resurrection. That is why this time of year is called Ordinary Time. The term "ordinary" does not mean that this season isn 't special like Advent , Christmas, Lent or Easter. In reference to the Sundays of the year, "ordinary" actually means "counted" or "ordered" by number like the "ordinal numbers " - first, second, third etc. Thus, for example, we celebrate the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time or the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. What a difference a day makes Now the question arises, "So what?" All this may be very interesting, but what difference does it make in our lives and the way we spend Sunday? The answer to that question is what we make of it. To the extent that we allow Sunday to mean more than any other day, time itself will have more meaning. Contrary to the old soap opera, the days of our lives should not merely fall like sands through an hourglass. As Christians our lives should follow a meaningful course that we measure Sunday by Sunday, the day of days.

Father John Talesfore faith in him as the center of our lives and that our lives have eternal value because of him.

Father John Talesfore directs the Office of Worship.

God invites us to tear up our 'little list' "I've got a little list/I 've got a little list/of society offenders/who never would be missed," sings the lord-high executioner in Gilbert and Sullivan 's 'The Mikado." Like him we, too, may have a "little list" of those who should not be members of the Church and of God's Kingdom. While not wishing for their execution, we would settle for their banishment from our ranks. We can be assured without too much doubt that our names appear on the "little list " of others. Be that as it may, the Sunday readings j oyfully tell us God does not have such a list and that he invites us to tear up ours. Our first reading from Wisdom comes from an entire section which discerns God pursuing his plan in the life of the world and in his dealings with Israel, his chosen people. What amazes our author here is God's admirable restraint. While God alone has the power to make his "mastery" felt, he instead shows "lenience" and "clemency." "But though you are master of might, you jud ge with clemency, and with much lenience you govern us.... You gave your children good ground for hope that you would permit repentance for their sins." This reflection on the ways of God with human beings leads us to the parable of Matthew, describing the present annoy ing situation in God's kingdom. "The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off." After the wheat and weeds have grown, the master's slaves want to go and remove the weeds. The master's reply surprises them/us: "Let them grow together until the harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, 'First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my barn'. " Weeds and wheat now; separation on the final day—God 's agenda. The present realization of God's kingdom will be a mixture of good and evil, saints and sinners, the easily embraced and the unbearably difficult. It becomes more difficult: at any given time, any of the kingdom's people can be a combination of contrasts: a saint with flaws; a sinner with incredible love; a person with only one valid insight undervalued. But the Son of Man,

16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Wisdom 12:13, 16-19; Psalm 86; Romans 8:26-27; Matthew 13:24-43

Father David M. Pettingill God's agent for realizing the kingdom, is content with the present situation; he forgoes judgment and hopes for conversion. Only "at the end of the age" will the "Son of Man send his angels and they will collect out of his kingdom all who cause others to sin and all evildoers. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. " God invites, indeed empowers us by his Word, to tear up our "little list" of those who should be separated from us now. This is not the time for judgment, rejection, or embarrassment because "these types" are part of our picture, as if they lowered the tone of the kingdom God the realist still loves. We know the story: rejection of our own flesh and blood because they made the wrong (i.e., not-our) choice; joining another parish that is more ethnically homogeneous; retreating to the so-called halcyon past rather than deal with present conflict and division. We feel the present

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Christine Dubois J. walked forward three steps , then turned to the left. The path doubled back to the right , then left , looped around the center, and doubled back left again. My husband Steve followed quietly behind me. The boys scampered on ahead, their laug hter filling the courtyard.

Walking the labyrinth We were walking the labyrinth , an ancient spiritual discipline that flourished in the 11th and 12th century cathedrals of Fi ance and Italy. This labyrinth was in Tucson, Ariz., painted in sandstone red on a cement courtyard outside Grace St. Paul Episcopal Church. It was modeled after one that lies below the great rose window inside Chartres Cathedral in France. I'd read abut the labyrinth but had never seen one until we visited my parents in Arizona. At first glance, the circular pattern looked like a maze. Unlike a maze, however, the pathway never forked. It led in a roundabout way - to the center of the figure and back out again. A brochure explained that walking the labyrinth was a sort of pilgrimage, a way to discover more about ourselves and God. "Where do you start?" asked 9-year-old Lucas. "I' m not sure," I said, frowning at the sketch on the brochure. "Looks like the entrance is over there." We found the starting point and began our walk, uncertain of what we'd find. Round and round we went. Sometimes the path stretched out, and we picked up speed. Other times, a dizzying series of 180-degree turns slowed us down.

"Almost there!" cried 5-year-old Gabe, as the center came into view. But then the path veered abruptl y to the outside of the circle, There was nothing to do but walk and trust that God was leading our steps, even though it seemed we weren 't getting anywhere. "Hmm," I thought , "this is a little like trying to get a book published . . . a little like parenting . . . a little like life in general." We passed each other going - it seemed - in opposite directions. By now the boys were in another quadrant ahead of me, or maybe behind . It was impossible to tell. Eventually, 1 reached the center. Lucas and Gabe had arrived first and were waiting for Steve and me. In the center was a flower with six petals, representing minerals, plants, animals, humans, angels, and unnameable properties. Underneath, embedded in the concrete, were three consecrated hosts, representing the three persons of the Trinity. The boys folded their hands and bowed their heads as Steve thanked God for the beauty of the desert rocks, the trees that shade our Northwest home, our guinea pigs, our family and fri ends, the angels who watch over us, and the blessings we can't begin to name. Then we walked out, navigating the same path , but with more confidence this time. We knew God was walking with us, and that we would end up—after many twists and turns—exactly where God wanted us.

Is John's Gospel anti-Semitic? By Father John Dietzen Q- Like many Catholics after Vatican II, I am troubled by the expression "the Jews," which occurs so often in Scripture, especially in the Gospel of John. The expression seems to promote anti-Semitism, which certainly we would condemn today. Could you suggest how to understand this ? (New York) A. The Greek word translated as "the Jews," "loudaioi," occurs 71 times in the fourth Gospel, most of the time in an antagonistic context, pitting that group against Jesus and his followers. So the problem is real. Much of the ugly anti-Semitism of die last 2,000 years has been blamed on the Gospel of John. Scholars today generally point to two questions which help put this concern in perspective. First, what was the historical context in which this Gospel was written? Second, who exactly were these "loudaioi" in the story? Everyone minimally interested in the Bible is aware, I believe, that the earliest Christians considered themselves still a part of Judaism. Their worship was fashioned in the style of synagogue worship; they met in the places of Jewish prayer; their leader, Jesus, all his first disciples and most of his followers for a number of years were Jews. Therefore, when Christians were rejected by their Jewish brothers and sisters sometime after the destruction of the Jerusalem temple by the Roman armies in the year 70 AD and were refused access to their Jewish roots, there was a great sense of dislocation and confusion. How would they identify themselves in isolation from their Jewish background? The fourth Gospel makes clear, in many subtle and not so subtle ways, that they still professed their historic Jewish connections. But now they had to find their identity over against those who had become their opponents and persecutors. The problem is that we can read this Gospel as if it were written today, not realizing the polemical, argumentative contest that is going on in the story. The same kind of mistake can be made, of course, with other books of Scripture. When this happens, we easily end up with interpretations way off course. Thus, it would be a mistake not to understand that these texts are "occasional" writings; that is, they are molded for the occasion , the social context, in which they were written and to highlight the belief-vs.-unbelief theme , which is a major one for John. There is, therefore, no warrant to be found here for any Christian rejection of, or animosity toward, all Jewish people. This fact is underlined by the second question , Who were these "Jews" the fourth Gospel speaks of so reproachfully? Apart from the fact Jesus and his close disciples were Jews, John reports that many other Jews were believers in our Lord (see for example John 8:31 and 10:21), and some of their leaders, including Pharisees, were friends of Jesus. One of these Pharisees, Nicodemus, helped to bury him after the crucifixion . Obviously, therefore , it makes no sense to assume that "the Jews" refers to die entire Jewish people. Most scholars today would suggest, as one likelihood, that the phrase intends to designate the Jews of Judea (the area around Jerusalem and Bethlehem), as distinct from those of Galilee (Nazareth , Capernaum , the Sea of Galilee). Another possibility is the referral is to Jewish leaders at the time, and in the locations, of the Christian commuwould be among the reasons not to read an antiJewish justification in litis Gospel. Copyright (c) 1999 by Catholic News Service.

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Beatification of two Fatima children advanced by pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II has approved the last document needed for the beatification of two Portuguese children who saw the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima in 1917. The June 28 decree marked the Vatican's acceptance of a miracle attributed to the intercession of Francisco and Jacinta Marto , two shepherd childre n who were with their cousin , Lucia dos Santos — a Carmelite nun still living — when Mary appeared at Fatima, Portugal. In the beatification cause of the Fatima children , the Vatican said there was no natural explanation for the healing of a Portuguese woman who had been paralyzed for 22 years. The Vatican did not announce a date for the children 's beatification. Francisco and Jacinta died of influenza; Francisco was 10 years old and Jacinta was 9. The two will become the youngest people beatified since the modern beatification and canonization process began in 1592. Archbishop Jose Saraiva Martins , prefect of the Congregation for Sainthood Causes, described the children as two of "the visionaries of Fatima" through whom "the Mother of Christ recommended to the whole Church persevering prayer, the conversion of hearts and penance as irrep laceable means of holiness and instruments of perfection even for civil society and nations." Sister Lucia dos Santos, a cloistered Carmelite in Portugal , was informed by Divine Word Father Luis Kondor that the decree would be signed.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic Church will have 14 new saints within the next year, including the first Sudanese saint , Josephine Bakhita. Pope John Paul II and cardinals living in Rome met at the Vatican July 2 for an "ordinary public consistory," a meeting which formal ly ends the sainthood process. Earlier in the year, the pope had recognized the final miracles needed for the canonizations of the 14 candidates. According to a Vatican announcement , the new saints will be: • Blessed Jose Sanz Tejedor and eight other Brothers of the Christian Schools and Passionist Father Manuel Canoura Arnau , who were martyred in 1934 in Turon , Spain. • Father Benedetto Menni , a member of the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God , founder of the Hospitaller Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He died in 1914. • Franciscan FatheT Tommaso da Cori, an Italian who died in 1729. • Mexican Sister Mari a Venegas de La Torre, founder of the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus , who died in 1950. • Josephine Bakhita , a former slave from Sudan who entered the Canossian Sisters in Italy and died in 1947. The 10 Spanish martyrs and the two Italian priests will be canonized Nov. 21, and Blessed Bakhita will be canonized Oct. 1, 2000. Canonization date of the Mexican sister was not announced. Another sainthood cause moved forward on June 28

when the Vatican officially recognized a miracle in the cause of Sister Maria Ester Soureau-Blondin , the Canadian founder of the Sisters of Saint Anne , clearing the way for her beatification. Another decree recognized the miracle needed for the canonization of 25 Mexican martyrs, a group of priests and lay people killed between 1915 and 1937.

Confident of Mother Teresa sainthood CALCUTTA, India (CNS) — The archbishop of Calcutta, who will formally initiate the canonization cause for Mother Teresa July 26, says her reputation for holiness and commitment to the "Gospel of life " are the strengths of her cause. "General acceptance of Mother Teresa as a saint in her lifetime will be the strongest reason for initiating the process of canonization ," said Archbishop Henry D'Souza. The archbishop spoke as the 12-member diocesan tribunal he assembled to gather information concerning Mother Teresa's cause prepared for its preliminary investigation.

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Oct. 4-17: Fatima, Portugal, Spain, call Anthony Peligrino, (650) 583-5792. May 2000: St. Dominic 's Young Adults Group invites people in their 20s and 30s on a Jubilee Pilgrimage to Italy. Walk in the footsteps of great Christian saints in Milan, Bologna, Siena and other cities. Call Maria Vickroy-Peralta at (415) 776-0588.

Volunteer Opportunities Help special needs children with The Learning Tree Center, a non-profit organization that will train, supervise and provide ongoing feedback to you in a unique home-based program. Learn how to share energy, enthusiasm and acceptance. Call Arlene (415) 457-2006. Most Holy Redeemer AIDS Support Group is looking for volunteers to provide practical and emotional support to people living with AIDS. For information , call Milton Headings at (415) 863-1581. St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Mary Cathedral invites you to join them in service to the poor: (415) 563-0863. Women in Community Service, seeks people to assist women making the transition from public ass/stance 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. California Pacific Medical Center is always in need of volunteers. Call (415) 750-6038. Catholic Charities' St. Joseph Village needs volunteer facilitators for its new TGIF program. Call Andrea Brady at (415) 575-4920, ext. 255. Volunteers are also needed for the computer lab. All levels of computer experience welcome. Call Kristen Rauda at (415) 575-4920, ext. 223. 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. For San Francisco Volunteer Center, call (415) 982-8999. Laguna Honda Hospital , SF is in need of volunteers to serve as eucharistic ministe rs, lectors and chapel escorts at Tues. and Sun. morning Masses. Call Sister Miriam at (415) 664-1580 , ext. 4-2422.

Class of 1979, Holy Name of Jesus School, SF is organizing 20 year reunion. Class members may call Kathleen Burke at (415) 566-8976.

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Drop-in Bereavement Sessions at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF on 2nd and 4lh Wed., 2:30 - 4 p.m. Sponsored by Catholic Charities and Mid-Peninsula Hospice. Call Sister Esther at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218. Ongoing Sessions: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish at the Parish Center, Fulton and James St., Redwood City, Thurs., 6-7:30 p.m. Call (650) 3663802. Our Lady of Angels Parish, 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame; 1sl Mon. 7-9 p.m. Call (650) 3477768. St. Gabriel Parish, 40,l> Ave. and Ulloa, SF; 1st & S^ Tues., 7-9 p.m. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. St. Hilary Parish, 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon; 1sl & 3rd Wed., 3-4:30 p.m. Call Sister Colette at (415) 435-7659. Structured 8-week Session: Our Lady of Loretto , 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, evenings or afternoons available. Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171. St. Isabella Parish, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, evenings. Call Pat Sack at (415) 479-1560. For Parents Who Have Lost a Child: Our Lady of Angels Parish, 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame, 2nd Mon. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579 . Children/Teen Groups: Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. "Compassionate Friends," a non-profit organization offering friendship and support to families who have experienced the death of a child, meet on 2nd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, 850 Judah St. at Funston, SF. Call Marianne Lino at (415) 892-7969. Crossroads Hospice Volunteer Training takes place on July 17 & 18. Crossroads is a communitybased hospice providing care for terminally ill persons often allowing them to remain at home as they approach the end of their lives. Volunteers are at the core of this team. Forfurther information and to arrange a meeting, call Karen Geiger at (415) 682-2111.

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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. Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages, has upcoming weekends. Call Lolette or Anthony Campos at (415) 893-1005.

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Located in the heart of Mill Valley, the design of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church includes contemporary and traditional architectural styles typical of this country-like Marin County town. Erected in the post-Vatican H era, it was built by Ray Johnson from a model by architect Fred Houwling and dedicated on May 12, 1968. The church is the third for this worshipping community. A 1996 piece about Our Lady of Mount Carmel circulated by the Mill Valley Historical Society called the church "specfacular" and a "landmark" that visitors can depend on. Stained glass windows in the church contain virtually all colors found in the color wheel and tell the story of the seasons and major days of the liturgical year.

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July 23-25: "My Lord VII," a Gospel Music Workshop at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church , 1122 Jamestown Ave. at 3rd St., SF. Learn to sing in the African American tradition with Richard Cheri and his music team. Everyone is welcome. Fri. 7-9 p.m.; Sat. 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. lunch included; Sun. Gospel/Jazz Mass at 10:30 a.m. Reg. $20 in advance/$25 at door. Call (415) 468-3434.

2nd Sun.: Pray for Priests,3:30 p.m. at Star of the Sea Parish, 4420 Geary Blvd. at 8"' Ave., SF. Call (415) 751-0450. Centering Prayer: Mon. 7 p.m.- 8:15 p.m., Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St., SF. Call Sr. Cathy Cahur at (415) 553-8776; Tues. 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd., SF. Call Chuck Cannon at (415) 7528439; Sat. 10 a.m. - 12 noon, St. Cecilia Church, 2555 17'" Ave., SF. Call Coralis Salvador at (4 15) 753-1920.

The first and last of the 10 windows depict angels, first announcing the Lord' s coming and later the Lord 's return , Christmas, Lent, and Easter are studied in other windows with special attention to Christmas Day, Good Friday, Easter and Pentecost. Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a welcoming community of 950 households with a focus on parishoner participation and involving children in litu rgy. Pastor: Father Joseph A. O'Connell Masses : Saturdays: 5:30 p.m.; Sundays: 8, 10 a.m.; 5:30 p.m. Seating capacity : 800 Founding dates: 1893 as mission; 1910 as parish Phone: (415) 388-4190.

Conventions Sept. 3-6: Italian Catholic Federation's 75th anniversary celebration at Embarcadero Hyatt Regency Hotel, SF. Prayer, Banquet , entertainment will mark the occasion. Call (888 423-1924.

Single, Divorced, Separated 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 .

lectures/ Classes/Exhibits July 19: "Authors of the World" at Borders Stonestown Book Store, SF, Jesuit Father Alberto Huerta, host discussion of Graham Greene's 'The Comedians ," 7 p.m., complimentary tea and coffee call (415) 731-0665.

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Backgrounder : laws focus on end-of-life questions Back grounder . . . ¦ Continued from page I as candidates for physician-assisted suicide , it denies the value of their very lives, and thereby undermines respect for their dignity and their legitimate needs — including their need for the best possible palliative care." The World Health Organization in 1990 adopted the following definition of palliative care: "...the active, total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment. Control of pain , of other symptoms, and of psychological , social and spiritual problems is paramount The goal of palliative care is achievement of the best possible quality of life for patients and their families. Many aspects of palliative care are also applicable earlier in the course of illness." The WHO Expert Committee said palliative care "affirms life and regards dying as a normal process; neither hastens nor postpones death; provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms; integrates the psycholog ical and spiri tual aspects of patient care ; offers a support system to help patients live as activel y as possible until death ; and offers a support system to hel p the famil y cope during the patient 's illness and in their own bereavement." "Hospice is simp ly one way of delivering good palliative care," according to Michael Galazka , executive director of the Hospice Education Institute , an Essex, Conn, non-profit organization , which fields regular calls from Kaiser Permanente , Hospice by the Bay, and Hospice of

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Northern California , among many other local health care systems. Nearly 3,000 hospice and palliative care programs offer specialized care across the United States. "In 20 years of this work," Galazka said in a telephone interview, "I have come to see that when someone says 'I don't want to live,' that means T don ' t want to live this way.' I see it as an absolute disgrace that peop le are contemplating suicide due to inadequate medical care." He added , "End-of-life questions are so personal that they are not amenable to legislation. They are best dealt with on a one-to-one basis." Author Wesley J. Smith claims adequate palliative relief would render obsolete the perceived need for legal assisted suicide. "Advocates of euthanasia assert that legalization is necessary to make available through killing the relief of otherwise unrelievable suffering and pain ," Smith writes in Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder. "This is a false premise. It is certainly true that far too much pain and suffering go unrelieved, not because we can 't provide relief but because we don 't." "The difference between 'can ' t' and 'don't' is a vital part of this analysis," the East Bay author explains. "If relief of agonizing pain and suffering is the overarching purpose for legalizing assisted killing, and if medical science has the wherewithal to relieve pain and significantly reduce suffering , then there is no real need to legalize euthanasia. Rather, there is a need to make the currently available relief universally accessible." Making effective pain relief universally accessible is one of the goals of the legislation being considered on

Pain Relief Promotion Act 's purposes listed WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Pain Relief Promotion Act was introduced in the Senate by Republican Sen. Don Nickles of Oklahoma and in die House by Reps. Henry Hyde, R-I1L, and Bart Stupak, D-Mich . Its purposes are to: • Encourage practitioners to dispense controlled substances as medically appropriate to relieve pain and other distressing symptoms. • Reinforce the federal Controlled Substances Act to make clear that administration, dispensation or distribution of a controlled substance for the purpose of assisting in a suicide would remain illegal. • Require physicians obtain a license directly from the federal government to dispense a select class of drugs listed as "controlled substances." These include barbiturates , amphetamines and opiates, and they are treated separately in pharmacies and kept in locked cabinets in hospital wards. • Provide education and training to law enforcement officials and health professionals on medically accepted means for alleviating pain and other distressing symptoms.

Tobin, McSkimming exp lained that FairCare focuses on "empowerment for the individual patient or caregiver" while her organization focuses on "physician education in a nontraditional manner." She said traditional continuing education might not persuade physicians to change procedures. Supportive Care uses two models for p hysician education. One at St. Louis University provides palliative care to dying patients , from whom physicians learn new skills in the context of service. McSkimming hopes to have the other model operative in California in November. That model would train influential physicians within organizations to become professional mentors and in the process upgrade practices of their institutions. She did not have names of any mentor physicians yet and has a tentative health network in mind but did not want to release its name until the board of her organization makes a final decision late this month. "There are gifts in the last phase of life ," McSkimming said, "about relationshi p healing, messages to loved ones , and communicating the value of the dying person 's life. I think it 's very sad when we shorten that process. It 's sad that we think the solution to the problem is to give them many choices to end their lives. Physician-assisted suicide legislation , notably AB 1592 , could come to a vote in the California General Assembl y next January. The bill narrowl y passed throug h the Assembly Appropriations Committee May 27 when a roster mix-up replaced two "no" voters with two "aye" voters , resulting in a vote of 12 to 9. All bills not sent to the Senate by June 4 were essentially dead for the legislative session. However, because AB 1592 passed out of both the Judiciary and Appropriations committees, it will not have to repeat committee hearings next year. The bill , fashioned after Oregon 's euthanasia law that went into effect last year, would allow doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to dying patients who request them. Opponents of the bill—including Californi a's Catholic bishops, the state's Catholic hospitals , medical professional s, medical ethicists and disability activists—contend the law has too few safeguards to protect against irrevocable abuses. (Ed. note: Supportive Care of the Dyin g 's Internet web site address is www.carcof dy in g.orti: for FairCare the site address is www.FairCare.orv. 1

Capitol Hill. Il is also the work of Dr. Dan Tobin, founder of the Life Institute for FairCare Education , a training center for medical doctors based at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Albany, N.Y. "The whole subject of assisted suicide speaks to the fact that mainstream medicine has not done a great job physically, spirituall y, or psycholog ically," said Dr. Tobin. "Assisted suicide becomes the focus when we're shortsighted. Suicide is completely unnatural . It is not only dangerous, but rather uncreative. " FairCare educates medical students , insurers , clergy, hospice workers and other people who support people as they die. Dr. Tobin said he gravitated to this work 20 years ago as a third-year medical student and formall y started working as a palliative care physician in 1995. Dr. Tobin said the Catholic health care system "has an unparalleled opportunity to make assisted suicide obsolete , but it needs to move more quickl y. It's one thing to discourage assisted suicide : leg islation , but it's very ^Hl^K^^^B^V '']_d__i important to be able to give the public alternatives." Providing alternatives is the goal of Supportive Care of the Dying, an Oregonbased coalition of Catholic health care organizations. The institute researches needs of peop le with life threatening illnesses , develops models of pallia_Btive care, and teaches pali_^__J_H__B-: i__^__i i_^__H fl 9 liative (termed "supportive") care skills through a professional mentorshi p ¦< program , according to its Wg/f ~Ma" ' . ' '" ' Internet web site. AH or "Catholic health care has of sheets a sue steel I a strong commitment to end|gg s \J°°J*^ , wC! tons ^ aD reatueu »w I a„d . of machinery, 1 load. VfloM of-life care and we are movof «*^™ side , t » **%*£and coutdn' $* Hits the ing," said Sylvia ££ ^uaUy McSkimming, Ph.D., executive director of the four-yearold organization . "Part of Pt B.i.o P^e^ Pen^n, _ knowing what you 're going . ^H . to improve means knowing what you 're doing." Catholic health networks provide spiritual components, in addition to pain and symptom relief, she said. Citing her "respect" for Dr. SOME P R O T E C T I O N IS I N D E E D B E T T E R T H A N O T H E R S .

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Dorine, the maid, is a paragon of down-to-earth common sense; Roxanne Raja, full of gusto and impeccable comic timing, p lays her in the great tradition of the servant showing up the foolishness of the master. Darry l Theirse has Tartuffe's external show down pat , but he is not strong enough to convince us of the evangelist 's power over his victim. On the other hand Fannie Lee Lowe, as Mme. Pernelle, Orgon 's mother, is a tower of strength who shows just how Orgon got to be that way. Hers is one of the funniest impersonations in the cast. Shona Tucker as Elmire, Orgon 's wife, also gets her share of laughs, especially in the climactic overthrow of Tartuffe. Anika Noni Rose and Rudy Guererro make an appealing pair of young lovers. The elegant and highly functional set is by Ral p h Funicello. This is a very palpable hit; let 's hope it does not languish too long before it returns.

the evangelist 's wiles, but the bamboozled Orgon adamantly proclaims the virtues of "the Lord's anointed." The audience, of course, has visible evidence of Tartuffe's chicanery and wails impatientl y for the imposter to be exposed. How this takes place, through a series of twists and turns of the wonderful p lot , is the matter of the evening 's entertainment. It might be objected that this production engages in too much farcical activity (the opening song and dance number goes on too long and should be abbreviated). But no less an authority than Erich Auerbach , in Mimesis, claims that Moliere himself intended that farce should be an active ingredient in his comedy of manners. The cast largely engages the farcical side of the play without abusing it. In this they are immensely helped by their clear recitation of the Richard Wilbur translation. There seems to be a general understanding that the word is paramount here and no amount of clowning can replace it. But some inspired clowning there is. In the crucial role of Orgon, Steven Anthony Jones is a marvel. He is a total lunkhead , but he captures the vulnerable side of the poor dupe, and even at his worst, when he is pulling off his greatest goofs, he somehow gamers our sympathy.

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NEW YORK (CNS) — Here are recent films rated by the U.S. Catholic ; Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting on moral suitability. The first .symbol after each title is the USCC classification. The symbol is Motion Picture Association of America rating USCC classifications:. A-I — general patronage; A-II — adults and adolescents; A-Ul — adults; A-IV .— adults , with reservations (this indicates films that , while not morall y offensive in themselves , are not for casual viewing because they require some analysis and explanation in order to avoid false impressions and interpretations); O — morally offensive. MPAA ratings: G — general audiences , all ages admitted: PG — parental guidance suggested , some material might not be suitable for children; PG-13 — parents strongly cautioned some material might be inappropriate for children under 13; R — restricted , under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian; NC -17 — no one 17 or under admitted.

The beauty, splendor and nuance of Gospel music will be the focus of "M y Lord ! VII," a three-day voice-on experience in the ageless mode at St. Paul of the Shi pwreck Parish, 1122 Jamestown Ave. at 3rd St., San Francisco , on Jul y 23-25. Facilitating the rhythms of the weekend will be Richard Cheri , known for his Gospel music workshops at the National Congress on Reli gious Education sponsored annuall y by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. ""M y Lord ! VII' provides a rare opportunity for local choir members to learn Gospel harmonies and sty les from this nationall y acclaimed team and enjoy prayer and fellowshi p as well," said St. Paul of the Shipwreck parishioner and choir member Mattie Scott. The workshop can be valuable to "experienced and aspiring singers alike ," Scott added. Joining Cheri , who directs the Gospel Choir of the Archdiocese of New Orleans and sings with the Moses Hogan Chorale , are soprano , Jennifer Broyard Bonam , associate director of the New Orleans group, and Jalonda Robertson , alto , music minister at New Orleans ' St. Gabriel Parish. Accompanist will be Kenneth Louis of Hol y Comforter/St. Cyprian Parish in Washington D.C. and a contributor to the African-American Catholic hymnal , Lead Me, Guide Me. Exercises will be in line with the workshop theme , "Stir Up the Gift." Singing begins on Friday at 7 p.m., continues on Saturday beginning at 8:30 a.m. and concludes with participants ' ministering as' song leaders at the parish's 10:30 a.m. Gospel/Jazz Mass on Sunday. Registration is $20 in advance , $25 at the door. For more information , call Fran Sullivan at (415) 468-3434 or (510) 531-8053

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Panel discussion members at the July £ evening session of the RENEW 2000 Summer Institute included , from left: Ed Gleason , St. Teresa Parish , SF; Kathy Miranda , St. John Vianney Parish , Walnut Creek; Amor Baldomero , St. Augustine Parish , South San Francisco ; and Ed Ang, St. Augustine.

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