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Sesquicentennial Mass Catholic fa ithf ul f ill , St Mary 's Cathedra l to mark 150th anniversary By Patrick Joyce Catholics with roots in countries around the world filled St. Mary 's Cathedral in San Francisco July 27 to celebrate the anniversary of the creation of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1853 - just four years after gold seekers from around the world had transformed a sleepy village known as Yerba Buena into the bustling new city of San Francisco. Joining Archbishop William J. Levada in celebrating the Sesquicentennial Mass were two dozen bishops from throughout California and from dioceses as far away as Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, which once had been part of the original territoiy of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. "Li ke a great tree planted 150 years ago, the Archdiocese of San Francisco has taken root . It is growing, " Archbishop Levada, the archdiocese 's seventh archbishop , said in his homily. "Its roots in the soil oi California go deep. It is destined to grow in age and , p lease God , wisdom and grace." The archbishop gave "thanks and glory to God for the many blessings we are heirs to, thanks to the sacrifices and dedication of the People of God - the priests , religious and laity - of th ese past 150 years. " "We thank God for the generations of people of such a rich diversity of backgrounds , Native Americans, Mexicans, Europeans , Africans , Latin Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders who, not withstanding our differences of language, race and culture , make up the one Body of Christ , the Church , " he said. "We admire the witness and achievement of their lives of faith and works of charity. " Representatives of these ethnic groups played prominent SESQUICENTENNIAL MASS, page 17

New Vatican document opposes same-sex unions By John Norton Catholic News Service

ng gay couples the legal protections and benefits of marriage. Massachusetts ' highest court is widely expected to Vatican City (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; In a new document , the rule in favor of legalizing same-sex marriages; similar Vatican otters detailed arguments against legal recogni- legislation was enacted in 2000 in Vermont. Also in July, tion of same-sex unions and asks Catholic lawmakers to Canada's government proposed a draft bill to legalize fight growing movements to legalize "gay marriage. " same-sex marriage; Belgium, Denmark and Netherlands The 12-page document underscores church teaching already have legalized such unions. requiring compassion for homosexuals, but it says legal PAGE 18 Seefulltext of document recognition of gay unions is contrary to human nature and ultimately hannful to society, a senior Vatican.official said. Opposition to gay marriage, including opposition The document, prepared by the Congregation for the among white U.S. Catholics, has dropped significantly in Doctrine of the Faith is titled, "Considerations Regarding recent years, according to a poll released in July by the Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Just 4l Homosexual Persons." percent of white Catholics today opposed legalized gay Release of the document coincides with a growing marriage, in contrast with 60 percent in 1996. Support movement in Europe and North America toward granti- for such measures among white Catholics has increased

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in the same period from 31 percent to 47 percent. A senior Vatican official said the document "offers arguments from human reason " about the foundational role of marriage in well-functioning societies and "The complete absenceof an analogy between tire marriage of a man and a woman and the union of two men or two women." The document was intended to help local bishops present convincing arguments against legal recognition of gay marriages, to give direction to Catholic lawmakers, and "to help anybody who has to confront the matter," the official said. It warns Catholic lawmakers that it is "gravely immoral" to vote for such measures. At the same time, the official said the document "strongly insists on respect" for homosexual individuals and should not be interpreted as an encouragement of "unjust discrimination" against gays.

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Supreme Council of the Kni ghts of Columbus in Washington , Anderson read a letter he sent Hatch in support of Pryor. "A continuation of the trend that critics of Mr. Pryor 's nomination have set in motion will compel American Catholics to face religious bigotry of a kind many of us thought to be extinct in this nation," Anderson said to a standing ovation as he quoted from the letter. Opposition to Pryor "suggests a de facto religious test for public office , something clearly prohibited by the Constitution ," the letter said. "It comes perilously close to suggesting that Catholics who faithfully adhere to their church' s teaching on abortion, and perhaps other public moral issues, are unfit to serve their country in the federal judiciary," it said. "It is worth reiterating that the Catholic Church teaches that abortion is unjust, not as a matter of faith, but as a matter of natural justice which obliges all citizens regardless of religious belief or lack thereof," the letter said. Opponents of Pryor have said the issue is not his religion but whether he would enforce laws that go against his beliefs. Anderson, in his speech to the Supreme Council, cited the late Supreme Court Justice Byron White, who dissented from the 1973 Roe

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A Christian 's faith journey should include increasing one ' s love and appreciation for nature and a commitmen t to safeguarding the environment , Pope John Paul II told Catholic Guides and Scouts. "This is a task which is urgent for everyone today, but which Scouts have always had , spurred not by some vague 'ecolog ism ,' but by a sense of responsibility which comes from faith , " the pope said. Pope John Paul' s message to 20,000 Italian girls and boys partici pating Jul y 28-Aug. 7 in four national camps sponsored by the Italian Catholic Association of Guides and Scouts was released Aug. 4 at the Vatican.

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CAPE TOWN , South Africa (CNS) — The apology by black South African priests for often treating black nuns as if they were children is "a great sign of hope ," said the leader of a locally founded reli gious congregation. "Their apology shows humility and openness , and we are grateful for their honesty," said Sister Mary Modise , moderator general of the Companions of St. Angela in the Johannesburg Diocese. Black nuns and priests "are the future of the local church , and we need to become strong, " Sister Modise said in a telep hone interview. Noting that "African nuns have been and continue to be given a raw deal in the church ," the African Catholic Priests ' Solidarity Movement said it was sorry for "the many wrongs that have been perpetrated against our African religious sisters and for the role th at we African priests have played in this ill treatment."

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WASHINGTON (CNS) — As federal legislation desi gned to ensure patient privac y makes it harder for some clergy to provide spiritual solace to those who are sick or d ying, interest in the relationshi p between spirituality and healing continues to grow. A Time cover story on meditation , a new postdoctoral program in spirituality and health , and new research on how spiritual interventions can affect everything from cancer and cardiovascular disease to obesity and irritable bowel syndrome all attest to the widening impact of the field. But the imp lementation this spring of regulations governing "protected health information " under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, also known as HIPAA, has translated into obstacles for some hospital chaplains.

Peace movement leaders gather, discuss ways to move fo rward

NEW YORK (CNS) — Prominent fi gure s in the peace movement gathered in New York Jul y 31 to assess their situation in the wake of the Iraq war and war on terrorism, and to exchange ideas on how to carry their cause forward. Veterans of many peace and justice campai gns, they expressed general agreement that the Iraq war was not justified , and that the war on terrorism has made the whole world less secure , rather than increasing the security of the United States. But a day of hearing diverse viewpoints , radical and pragmatic , and sharp criti ques of American church and political life , did not produce any consensus on tactics for the future . The consultation , held by Pax Christi International and Pax Christi USA at St. John 's University, drew some 200 Americans and representatives of several other countries.

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"With us in our darkest hours" ignoring complaints about clerical abusers and shuttling them from parish to parish. Joan Frawley Desmond, now residing with The congregation was composed of her husband and three children in Washington, local abuse victims , priests , women reliD. C., is a member of the Catholic San gious, parish leaders , politicians and the V) Francisco Advisory Board. She attended the O'Malley clan. At various times during the recent installation of Boston Archbishop Sean celebration of the Mass, there were bursts a 0'Mai ley and provides this special report to of enthusiasm and traces of resignation, s o Catholic San Francisco. signs of grief and confusion. B! Three years ago, Pope John Paul II, poised My friends in Boston say that local on the cusp of a new millennium , asked the Catholics have been shuttered by the unfolding world's forgiveness for the sins of Catholics. scandal. In the cathedral, the congregants in the Many thought the pontiff's mea culpa referred center pews were flanked by Boston's clergy, | to past actions regarding the Crusades, the many of them tight-lipped and unsmiling, even Inquisition and Galileo. Some Catholics argued when Archbishop O'Malley lightened the ten- Archbishop Sean Patrick O'Malley blesses the congregation at his installation Mass. against any public expression of repentance, sion with a series of deftly told jokes (He believing the church would make itself the tar- described his installation as "my big fat Irish been unfairly singled out: Despite the scandals, the guilty — have been isolated and attacked. get of ridicule and bigotry. wedding."). he acknowledged that U.S. Catholics should be Many Catholics seem confused about Archbishop Sean O'Malley, in the homil y It was not the first time Archbishop proud of their contributions to their country. Yet whether the accused even belong in the during his installation Mass as Archbishop ol O'Malley, a robe-clad Capuchin Franciscan he seemed to thrust aside the issue of anti- Church, as if the trial lawyers had forced a Boston , recalled the pontiff' s words and friar, faced a vast congregation of American Catholic bigotry as a dangerous distraction. redefinition of the purpose and mission of the described them as prescient. Within two years, Catholics to ask the forgiveness of abuse vicInstead, he sought to bring the congregation Mystical Body of Christ—only the perfect the Catholic Church in the United States would tims and ordinary believers. News stories noted to a deeper understanding of the challenge fac- need apply. witness the public exposure of episcopal denial that this is his third clean-up operation. No one ing them, whether as victim or perpetrator, conThe new procedures and policies recentl y and irresponsibility for clerical sex abuse would blame him if a note of cynicism had fused layman or frightened bishop. established to protect against the clerical sexual against minors. crept into his homily. "If we do not flee from the cross of pain and abuse of minora are important , but they are not Identifying the mistakes and iniquities of The miracle is that Archbishop O'Malley humiliation, if we stand firm in who we are and sufficient . Archbishop O'Malley offered a the distant past is a relativel y comfortable exer- offered something quite different: a passionate what we stand for, if we work together, hierar- deeper response to this crisis that clarified a cise. For example, when we express indigna- defense of the truth of Christian freedom and chy, priests , religious and laity, to live our faith decisive path for a pilgrim church that stands at tion at the silence and cowardice of German responsibility under extreme conditions. and fulfill our mission - then we will be a the foot of the cross. Christians during the rise of Hitler, we offend [T]oday 1 tell you Jesus never promised stronger and holier church." no one and have no cause to doubt the right- that nothing would ever go wrong, but yes, He The lively sense of Become a MENTOR for a eousness of our position. promised to be with us in our darkest hours." enthusiasm that punctu ated But how do believers confront a real-time The archbishop spoke directly to his belea- the archbishop 's remarks homeless youth. crisis unfolding in their midst? Who points the guered priests, his voice shaking with passion- with sustained applause Local nonprofit seeks finger and who takes responsibility? How does ate intensity. suggested that he probed a an innocent victim of a clerical predator reclaim He asked his priests to reflect on their ordi- deep truth that was only volunteers to mentor his faith? Will an unfairly accused priest accept nation day, to recall the unique obligation of beginning to be understood homeless/formerly homeless youth. the brutal sentence of an unforgiving time or their vocation, and to imitate Christ 's radical by American Catholics conMake a difference, begin to hate the Church he once loved? Can "self-giving." "Know what you are doing and founded by this scandal. the shepherd find the strength to do what is imitate the mysteries you celebrate: model your The litigious legal culture become a mentor. right, whatever the costs to his vanity and repu- life on the mystery of the Lord's Cross." of our country has shaped Call 415-561-4621 tation? As the archbishop spoke with intensity much of the national debate on mentor @ homeaway.org A central paradox of our faith is that on about the path of the Cross, he incorporated the abuse scandal. earth, our "one, holy, catholic and apostolic every individual present that day. News stories depict an Church," is led by and composed of sinful To the broken victim, he promised that this arrogant and passive Church I did it so can you ! human beings. new chapter was not "business as usual." hierarchy as legally culpable The American Catholic writer, Flannery Though some bishops initially embarked on a for the actions of serial Sponsored by: O'Connor, explained the paradox in this way: change of course in an effort at damage control, abusers . Meanwhile, our jclifford @ mcguire.com "[T]he only thing that makes the Church now most confront a stark and decisive call to clergy — the innocent and endurable is that somehow she is the body of repentance that will have a lasting unpad on Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be the life of the Church in America. a fact that you have to suffer as much from the He acknowledged that the Church may have "The help receivedf the i-om the Church as for it but if you ¦¦ ¦ ¦j ¦¦ j f| j ^ Faith believe in the divinity of Prop ag ation of is literally K^,,^ H Christ, you have to cherish the ' " our 'lif eline , says one seminary world at the same time that you &i M J ^Z rector i n India. Although the struggle to endure it." 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By Gail J . Tierney [Editor 's note: The Bay Area is filled with churches that contain magnificent stained glass windows, which we often take for granted. Gail Tierney, a Ph.D. student in the History of Art and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, takes a closer look at Iwo of die most important producers of stained glass in die histoiy of the Archdiocese.] "These images nourishfaith and commitment in the unique manner that art offers us a prismthrough which the materialworld revealsthe presenceof God. " Bishop CarlosA. Sevilla On Sunday, January 11, 189 1, as Archbishop Patrick Riordan dedicated the new Saint Mary 's Cathedral on Van Ness Avenue and O'Farrell, a dazzling array of prismatic light flooded the interior. Daylight had turned into a variegated, illuminated light, as it passed through the intricate, multi-faceted stained glass windows produced by the Franz Mayer Studios of Munich, Germany. Riordan was to be the first ecclesiastical leader to introduce the "Munich Style" of stained glass to Northern California. On August 10, 1888, the Archbishop placed his first order for thirty-eight windows with Mayer, followed by another purchase on July 20, 1889 for an additional eight windows. Sometime during 1890, it is believed that Riordan also acquired a mix of stained and plain glazed windows for die two towel's and the cellar of his new Cathedral. The total cost for approximately seventy M ayer windows, according to diocesan records , was $19,196. Miraculously, none of the cathedral's Mayer stained glass suffered damage in the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire. It would instead, be a suspected arson fire on September 7, 1962 that completely destroyed the cathedral and all records of Riordan's transactions widi die Mayer firm. Riordan apparently found Mayer designs aesthetically pleasing, because .on February 9, 1913 he procured sixty-nine windows for Holy Cross Cemetery's new chapel. His purchase of Mayer windows for die German Romanesque style significantly influenced the parish priests who built new churches during his episcopate. Riordan 's affinity for Mayer windows and his aesthetic and thematic preferences established a standard for high quality, grandly ornate Bavarian stained glass. The immediate question that comes to mind is, "Why did Riordan select German windows?" It is also likely that Riordan 's Chicago based architects, Egan and Prindeville, may have suggested Mayer windows for the new structure. Since window openings play a paramount structu ral and aesthetic role in the design of a church , the decision on stained glass needed to happen early in the architectural process. In die end, Archbishop Riordan 's opinions would hold sway over th at of the architects. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of imported Bavari an windows streamed into the United States , Canada, South America, Australia , and New Zealand. The largest Germ an producers of exported stained glass were the Franz Mayer and F. X. Zettler studios of Munich , Germany. The phenomenal success of the M ayer and Zettler stained glass studios in the United States was largely due to the enormous increase in European Catholic immigration to the United States that in turn , fueled a construction boom of new churches, schools, convents, universities, and hospitals in order to meet the educational , spiritual, and health needs of Catholic immigrant communities. But it was more than just immigration numbers that contributed to the two glass studios ' prosperity. Their reputations , technological innovations , and familiarity with Christian iconography prepared them to dominate the religious marketp lace in Catholic windows. Due to the financial backing and enthusiastic encouragement of King Ludwig I (1786-1868) , a liturgical revival of mural and glass painting took p lace during the mid nineteenth century in Munich , Germany. Superior stained glass depends (then , as now) on excellent glass quality, highgrade paints , innovative painting techniques , sophisticated kilns, and skilled artisans. Between 1880 and 1890, Munich glass makers stopped using thin glass in favor of die more structurall y sound antique glass, or pot-metal glass, that resulted in better color intensity and endurance. German craftsmen then altered the actual sequence of painting glass, resulting in a more efficient and cost effective method of producing high quality windows. From medieval times up to the nineteenth century, window cartoons took enormous amounts of time to produce because they were laboriously created by hand. With the parallel development of photography in the nineteenth century, however, the Munich studios used enlarged photographs of window cartoons to cut the glass and determine the lead lines. These innovative techniques and materials enabled the stained glass makers to develop a quasi-massproduction line that met the demand for Mayer and Zettler windows in the international marketplace. Mayer and Zettler's primary advantage lay in their sensitivity to die aesthetic and theological needs of their Catholic clients. As Catholic fimis in the heart of Catholic Bavaria, their familiarity with traditional Roman Catholic imagery and iconography was unquestioned. And it was common practice in San Francisco, like elsewhere in the United States , to funnel the largest portion of ecclesiastical architectural projects to Catholic architects, contractors, stained glass studios, and supp liers of interior furnishings. When Catholic clients in San Francisco turned to Mayer and Zettler for dieir

stained glass, they were assured that the studios had the experience, knowledge, and ability to provide a variety of Christian narratives and saints. Approximately six hundred Mayer and Zettler windows were imported from 1888 to 1959 in Northern California alone. The largest percentage of windows came between the years of 1888 and 1912. Of the six hundred ordered, only sixtyfour windows were Zettler stained glass and they were installed in five Roman Catholic churches. Two Zettler sites exist in San Francisco, Saint John the Evangelist Church and Holy Cross Church. Two other Zettler churches were destroyed or torn down (Placerville and Yuba County), leaving only one extant site outside of the San Francisco Bay Area in Marysville at Saint Joseph's Church. All other remaining windows are Franz Mayer stained glass imported for twenty Roman Catholic churches and chapels. Of these, ten sites survive and five were lost in die 1906 earthquake or by later disasters. One location 's windows, Saint Francis Technical School Chapel (later renamed Saint Vincent High School) , were auctioned off in December of 1966 to make room for the current Saint Mary 's Cathedral on Geary Street. Two collections of Mayer stained glass, owned by Saint Mary 's Hospital and the Holy Family Sisters, have the majority of their windows in storage and have a limited number of windows on public display.As of this date, the location of the two remaining sets of Mayer and one set of Zetter windows are unknown. That Riordan found Mayer and Zettler's Romantic style attractive was not an aberration , but instead a reflection of a general trend within die American Catholic Church. Cadiolics during the last decades of the nineteenth century and well into the early years of die twentieth century wanted Romantic windows with idealized figures exhibiting traditional Christian iconography. The Romantic style, derived from European nineteenth century painting, is steeped in a sentimentality that is unfamiliar to us today. Yet, in their time, diese sentimental windows represented the aesthetic taste of San Francisco's Cadiolic parishes. Cadiolic churches expected traditional windows illustrating saints and nan-atives from the Life of Christ. All Mayer and Zettler churches do, indeed, have such subjects illustrated in their windows.But, diere is more in diese windows than pure Catholic visual tradition . At the end of the nineteenth century, die concept of maternal love and the relationship between mothers and their children was reinvigorated and regardedas a sacred calling. Motherhood was seen to be the finest exam-

p le of God's love for his children. Since maternal love was at die core of the family, the family unit itself was a community where the care of children and other family members represented die acting out of Christian values.At the turn of die twentieth century, there was a strong desire for stained glass to emphasize maternal and familial themes in American Protestant and Cadiolic churches. Motifs based on family narratives endured well into the 1920s. In fact , American bishops and priests were strongly encouraged by Pope Leo XIII to devote themselves to the imitation of the Holy Family. Familial and maternal images appear frequently in Mayer and Zettler windows in Northern California. Riordan, himself, demonstrated an inclination towards designs that depict die role of mothers with their children including those of the Virgin Mary, Records in the Mayer archives list Riordan 's window selections in his purchases of 1888 and 1889. Eight windows illustrate the Life of Christ, sixteen portray the twelve Apostles, and ten depict designated saints. He also chose two large rose windows for the Cathedral 's transepts that contain ornamental elements and angels. The dramatic focal point of the cathedral's interior was die enormous Assumption of Mary window set directly behind the main altar. Riordan 's diemes (bodi narrative and those of saints) are repeated in the churches who ordered Mayer or Zetder glass after 1889. Well over ninety Mayer and Zettler windows depict aspects of familial and maternal references, even those that illustrate die Life of Christ. These scenes include TheAdoration, Christ Blessing the Children, Christ among the Doctors, Flight into Egyp,tHoly Family , Natiinty,and Presentationin the Temple.In addition, the Virgin Mary's maternal role is visually highlighted in the Instructionin Carpentry, Crucifixion, and Wedding at Cana windows. Overall, die most popular narrative was ChristBlessingthe Children, Fortunately many Mayer and Zettler Christ Blessing the Children windows exist today (among other diemes) in the churches of the San Francisco Bay Area. The second religious leader who bought Mayer stained glass was Reverend George Edward Walk of Trinity Episcopal in San Francisco who included a Christ Blessingthe Children window in his fourteen Mayer windows in 1897. In 1899, Reverend John McGinty followed suit by including a ChristBlessingthe Children in his selection of Zettler glass for the new Holy Cross Church. Even die Sisters of the Holy Family purchased the same tiieme for their nun 's chapel in 1892. Botii Reverend Michael Connolly (a close friend of Riordan) at Saint Paul's Church and Reverend William P. Kirby at Saint Agnes installed a Christ Blessingthe Children window in their baptisteries during 1908. In Berkeley, Reverend Doctor Harry Morrison of Saint Joseph the Worker Church purchased the same theme in 1910 and Reverend P McGuireof die Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco followed suit in 1912. Mayer and Zettler Christ Blessing the Children windows retained their popularity in San Francisco well into the 1920s and 1930s. When Reverend Francis P. McElroy built Most Holy Rosaiy Chapel and the Dominican Sister's Chapel at Saint Vincent's School in San Rafael in 1927 , he included an oversized version of Christ Blessingthe Children in die choir loft. As late as 1932 , the Sisters of Mercy imported a ChristBlessingthe Children window for the chapel at Saint Mary's Hospital. Remarkably, every church that contains Mayer or Zettler stained glass was a mixed ethnic congregation thereby resulting in a rich variety of saint windows. Irish , German , French , Italian , and Spanish saints exist alongside the twelve Ap ostles. The most frequently occurring saints are Saint Catherine of Siena , Saint Francis of Assisi , Saint Patrick and Saint Cecelia. Lesser numbers of windows depict Saint Rose of Lima, Saint Jane d'Aza , Saint Charles Borromeo, Saint Gerard Majella , Saint Columbkille , and Saint John Vianney. Between Mayer and Zettler, thirty eight different saints were depicted in thei r windows in Northern California. Today, the largest collections of Mayer windows exist at Saint Paul's Church in San Francisco, at Most Holy Rosaiy Chapel at Saint Vincent's School in San Rafael and at Saint Vincent de Paul Church in Petaluma. The least number of narrative windows and the most extensive and varied saint windows exist at Saint Vincent de Paul. Although Saint Paul's has the most number of Mayer windows, both Saint Paul's Church and Most Holy Rosary Chapel have similar designs and narratives. The largest extant Zettler collection exists at Saint John the Evangelist Church in San Francisco. whether die central scene in a Mayer or Zettler window illustrates a saint or a biblical stoiy, familial and maternal aspects are found in die figure 's faces and embraces. The interior scene is always dramatically encased in an intricate architectural or lush foliage glass borders that are typical of Bavarian stained glass. Mayer and Zettler windows deliver a visual message about what mattered to Catholic parishesat the turn of die twentieth century. They speak to us about how people felt, what tliey believed , and what moved them. The message is received by viewers in the transformed light that passes through colored glass. The gift of Mayer and Zettler to die archdiocese was great. This is one in a year-longseries of articlesmarking the 150th anniversary of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Jeff r e yBurns, archdiocesanarchivist and author of a history of the Archdiocese, is coordinating the series.

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The f uture of gay marriage By Maggie Gallagher For those who adhere to traditional Christian (or Jewish) sexual teachings , the future may look bleak. America is disfigured by high rates of sexual disorders , including unnecessary divorce, unmarried childbearing, sexually transmitted diseases, a pornographic culture, and the progressive normalization of alternative sexual lifestyles, along with the sudden real threat that courts will impose gay marriage. A Vatican statement simply repeating a 2,000-yearold ethical tradition about marriage and sex has prompted a flurry of threats, overt and implicit, around what we used to call the Free World. Hate-speech codes intended to prevent ^**mmwm*»»».. violence and harassment ate being directed at Catholics simply for . being Catholic. The Irish Council M for Civil Liberties has warned Jj F priests and bishops they may i f ace charges for simply quot- & ing or handing out | the Vatican | statement , according to the ffl Irish Times. "The wording is very strong and certainly goes lij against the spirit of the legislation," ^ warned Aisling Reidy, director of the ~««®mmmm^ ICCL. Violators face six months in jail. In 2001, the Dutch government considered charging the pope with violating its speech codes before concluding that, as head of state, he had sovereign immunity, according to press accounts. Andrew Sullivan wonders aloud why the U.S. government does not strip the Catholic Church of its charitable status. One of the top Democratic candidates, Sen. John Kerry, charged the Vatican with "crossing the line" violating the separation of church and state for expressing its views of Catholics' obli gations. Commitment to religious freedom among powerful elites seems suddenly uncertain. Call it the revenge of the WASP: In some people ' s minds , religion is becoming something like what sex used to be: private. Sure, you are free to do it, but only behind closed doors , where you won't annoy or seduce anyone else. Privately, I hear more and more mainstream people worry about where this is all going to lead: Will the soft power of the state be aimed directly at oppressing faith communities who hold fast to traditional sexual morality? Will radio licenses be yanked, charitable tax deductions pulled , individu als or ministers who try to share traditional Christian (and Jewish) sexual values be threatened with prosecution here? It is hard for me to give credence to such fears. This is America, after all. Religious liberty is our birthright , part of our founding creed. But it is even harder for me to give credence to the pessimism behind such fears. What will happen in the short mn? I do not know. Which ideas will triumph over the long run? That I do know. In the early '80s, the Soviet Empire appealed to be at its height, but Ronald Reagan, perhaps alone, understood: "The task," President Reagan said then, is "to manage the decline of the Soviet Union." A few years later, a false idea contrary to human nature collapsed in on itself. The Cold War was over, without a shot fired . Human beings are free to adopt self-destructive ideas, but we are not free to make them work. Ideas based on a faulty view of human nature can grip the imagination of the powerful for decades, wreak havoc and suffering on untold millions, but they cannot triumph in the end. What is contrary to nature, including human nature, cannot ultimately survive. Many good things, from a culture of civility and minority rights to greater respect for the unique contributions of women, may be rescued from the selfdestructive impulses of — what shall we call this beast, postmodern secularism? Fascist egalitarianism? Meanwhile, every tribe or group that adopts its sex code, from Europe to mainline Protestantism, is dwindling. The present may look bleak, but the future belongs to those people and cultures that deeply commit to ideas grounded in human nature: Men and women are not interchangeable units, sex has a meaning beyond immediate pleasure , society needs babies, children need mothers and fathers, marriage is a word for die way we j oin men and women to make the future happen. Magg ie Gallagher is a nationally syndicated columnist and the author of three books including (with University of Chicago Professor Linda Waite) "The Case for Marriage "— 2003 Universal Press Syndicate.

Thanhs and correction

On behalf of our parish of St. Raphael I thank Sharon Abercrombie and Catholic San Francisco for the outstanding article on our community of faith (July 11, 2003). Thank you for capturing the spirit and vitality of this richly diverse parish in the text and photos. I wanted to correct a few items in order to set the record straight: We are actually closer to 1700 officiall y registered families; and, as stated, due to immigration issues many more families unfortunately are not officially registered. However they do participate in parish life. In 1949 Father George O'Meara , not Msgr. Thomas Kenned y, supervised the rebuilding of the Mission. An important and valuable section of our parish was mistakenly not mentioned - those who attend 10:30 a.m. Sunday Mass at the Chapel of Saint Sylvester in east San Rafael. I would also like to add that our school has received a full six year accreditation the highest a school can receive. We continue enriching our school with parish children drawn fro m our entire parish community. Thank you again for a fine article keep up the good work. Father Paul Rossi Pastor, Church of Saint Raphael San Rafael

Political theologians

L E T T E E S

It has become pretty clear that San Francisco's only daily newspaper has taken a pushy stand of being die advocate of gay marriage. The paper found the Vatican's recent proclamation on gay maniage "strident. " and whined that Cardinal Ratzinger, "the Vatican doctrinal watchdog," was barking up the wrong tree in promulgating the Church's "assault on gay marriage." (Chronicle, Friday, Aug.l). But then the religion pundits of "Northern California 's Largest Newspaper" rarely miss an occasion to damn with faint praise any position the Vatican takes. But what was ready a hoot were the statements from Supervisors Susan Leal [Tm disappointed with the pope, and I disagree with him"), and doubting Thomas Ammiano (The Vatican document is a very "misguided directive"). Perhaps these two dubious "Defenders of the Faith" can chronicle a guest editorial to enlighten us befuddled Catholics where the pope has gone wrong and why his "very misguided" missive overshot its target. After all, anti-Catholicism is the country's last acceptable prejudice. Fr. Michael Ribotta, SDB San Francisco

Resp onding to Hall

Supervisor Hall's opposition to Care Not Cash (July 25) ignored a number of realities. The primary purpose of Proposition N was to take the cash out of the General Assistance (GA) program, and therefore avoid taxpayer subsidy of substance abuse. Not all homeless GA recipients are substance abusers, but even if only one-third of them are using drugs, it is still bad public polity to allow such a situation to continue. Supervisor Hall also ignored the reality that individuals come from the East Bay to receive San Francisco's full cash grant. When I ran the Department of Human Services in the 1990's, every time there was a breakdown in Bart or the Bay Bridge, our GA intake would drop by approximately one-third. This is not anecdotal. This is a fact and nothing has changed since then. It amazes me that Supervisor Hall could be so jealous and angry toward the author of Prop N that he is willing to ignore these realities and also ignore the

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wishes of seventy percent of his district voters. Supervisor Hall's criticism of non-profit agencies who serve the homeless is unjustifred. He says these agencies are "unaccountable", "there is no central intake system ", and that "non-profits are posing as providing services." As the head of Catholic Charities CYO, I know that our St. Joseph's Family Center provides emergency shelter for 50 to 70 families annually. They all receive crisis intervention and case management support; all the children receive individualized assessment and appropriate referrals to meet their needs. Sixty-five percent of the families exit our program either to transition or permanent housing and there is a centralized intake system in San Francisco through which the families are referred to us. St. Vincent de Paul Society runs the MultiService Center South and provides 380 shelter beds per night. Episcopal Community Services provides shelter for 225 homeless adults per night and another 250 homeless adults in a transitional case management program; forty percent of these clients move from shelter to housing or residential treatment . These faithbased agencies are just some of the valued nonprofit service providers that Supervisor Hall feels so free to denigrate. Brian Cahill Executive Director Catholic Charities/CYO

Ribera also p ro-life

I was surprised and disappointed by statements by Tony Hall in the last edition of Catholic San Francisco. He states that all the candidates for mayor of San Francisco are Catholic and criticize him for being pro-life. I can't speak for the other candidates, but I have always been pro-life. I also am committed to the sanctity of life, and was die only police chief in California to go on record opposing the death penalty. I also question Mr. Hall' s assumptions on homelessness. There is no doubt that significantl y more than "25 percent of the homeless population are drug or alcohol abusers. " There can be no question that a significant number of welfare recipients are not using their checks for basic needs or services. Care not Cash would simply replace cash with services. It is about time that we recognize that homelessness has reached crisis proportions in our city. We all, including Mr. Hall, need to put aside personal animosities and work together for the betterment of all San Franciscans. Tony Ribera Candidate for Mayor San Francisco

Thanhs f or HalVs stand

A Catholic voter in San Francisco, I have settled for the best of what's available, again, and again. Next election, I hope Tony Hall will run for mayor. He stands alone, prolife; not covertly, in private, in conscience only, or with any of the oft repeated cliched caveats of our many Catholic candidates. His pro-life position alone marks Mr. Hall as a sign of hope for all of us who will not be forever able-bodied, employable, vigorous and independent. Mr. Hall alone acknowledges our intrinsic value as human people. Particular policy choices and decisions will undoubtedly arise where Mr. Hall and I may not agree, but the common ground we share in giving priority to the sacred nature of human life will always mean progress for our community. Fellow San Franciscans, and in particular, parents of students in Catholic schools, what does it mean to be Catholic if it does not mean to be pro-life? Mr. Hall is giving us a chance to stand up and be counted. His candidacy for mayor would have been an opportunity to vote with confidence. Our support for Mr. Hall would breathe life into the one value that underpins all civil rights and moral obligations, the one value that so few Catholic elected officials have the courage to articulate - respect for human life. Thank you, Mr. Hall, for speaking for me. Maureen Lundy San Francisco

Guest Commentary

Old bias alive in the Senate Some things change, and some things don't. In the summer of 1963, a friend of mine — she was just 11 at the time — drove with her family to visit her sister, who had married and moved away to Birmingham, Ala. Stopping for gas in a small Alabama town on a Sunday morning, her father asked where they could find the local Catholic church . The attendant just shrugged and said, "We don 't have any of them here." The family finished gassing up, pulled out of the station — and less than two blocks away, they passed the local Catholic church. Most people my age remember the '60s in the South as a time of intense struggle for civil rights. Along with pervasive racial discrimination, Southern culture often harbored a suspicion of Catholics, Jews and other minorities. Catholics were few and scattered. In the Deep South, like Alabama, being Catholic often meant being locked out of political and social leadership. Today, much of the old South is gone. Cities like Atlanta and Raleigh-Durham are major cosmopolitan centers. Time, social reform and migration have transformed the economy along with the political system. The South today is a tribute both to the courage of civil rights activists 40 years ago, and to the goodness of the people of the South themselves. Most people, most of the time, want to do the right thing. And when they change, they also change the world they inhabit , which is one of the reasons why the Archdiocese of Atlanta can now draw thousands of enthusiastic Catholic participants to its Eucharistic Congress each

year in a state where Catholics were once second-class citizens. It also explains how a practicing Catholic, William H. Pryor, can become Alabama's attorney general — something that was close to inconceivable just four decades ago. I've never met Mr. Pryor, but his political life is a matter of public record. He has served the State of Alabama with distinction , enforcing its laws and court decisions fairly and consistently. This is why President Bush nominated him to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals , and why the Senate Judiciary Committee approved him last Wednesday for consideration by the full Senate. But the committee debate on Pryor was ugly, and the vote to advance his nomination split exactly along party lines. Why? Because Mr. Pryor believes that Catholic teaching about the sanctity of life is true; that the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision was a poorly reasoned mistake; and that abortion is wrong in all cases, even rape and incest As a result, Americans were treated to the bizarre spectacle of non-Catholic Senators Orrin Hatch and Jeff Sessions defending Mr. Pryor 's constitutionally protected religious rights to Mr. Pryor 's critics, including Senator Richard Durbin, an "abortion-rights" Catholic. According to Senator Durbin (as reported by EWTN), "Many Catholics who oppose abortion personally do not believe the laws of the land should prohibit abortion for all others in extreme cases involving rape, incest and the life and the health of the mother." This kind of propaganda makes the abortion lobby proud , but it should humiliate any serious Catholic. At a minimum, Catholic members of

Congress like Senator Durbin should actuall y read and pray over the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" and the encyclical "Evangelium Vitae " before thev explain the Catholic faith to anyone. They might even try doing something about their "personal opposition" to abortion by supporting competent pro-life judicial appointments . Otherwise, they simply prove what many people already believe — that a new kind of religious discrimination is very welcome at the Capitol, even among elected officials who claim to be Catholic. Some things change, and some things don't. The bias against "papism" is ah ve and well in America. It just has a different address. But at least some people in Alabama now know where the local Catholic church is — and where she stands — even if some people in Washington apparently don 't.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap is Archbishop of Denver. This article originally appeared in the July 27 issue of the Denver Catholic Register

Family Lif e

Home business means managing distractions It's a sunny Wednesday afternoon and, like many high powered business executives, I'm on the golf course with my associates. That's the great thing about running your own business. You're not tied to the office 9 to 5. Of course, this isn 't a real golf course. It's 18 holes of miniature golf, with bridges, tricky ramps, and revolving windmills, and my associates are my husband Steve and our sons Lucas and Gabe. We cap off our day, not at the bar, but with chocolate milkshakes at the drive-in. The weightiest business negotiations involve whether Gabe and I should get a 5-stroke handicap to help us keep up with Lucas and Steve. I lined up my yellow ball , took aim, and watched it ricochet off the side of the barn. "Darn ! Missed again." "Mom always misses the easy ones," said Lucas. "Don't forget that hole-in-one I got back there," I said. "You may be ahead, but I'll be on the highlight reels." When Lucas was born, Steve and 1—both writers— decided to work from home. That was 13 years ago, and we're still at it. Distractions are a fact of life in the home office. There's laundry to be done, pets to feed , plants to water. And , of course, extraneous people in the downstairs office. "Hi, Mom ." "I' m busy. Do you need something?" "I just wanted to see what you 're doing." "I' m working on a press release. I'll come up later."

Five minutes after I escort him out, I hear another knock on the door. This time it's Gabe. "I miss you so much!" He gives me a hug. "I miss you, too. But I'm trying to work." "I'm hungry. " "There are apples and cheese in the refri gerator." Five minutes later, they're both back. "Mom, we're going outside." "Good idea." Before long, my concentration is broken by cries from the backyard. Gabe appears at the sliding glass door, blood dripping down his leg. I take him into the bathroom, wipe away the blood and the tears, and put a Band-Aid on his knee. The phone rings. It 's my lucky day. Window replacement experts will be in my neighborhood next week. "No, thanks," I say. I sit back down at my computer. Now where was I? I remind myself that interruptions can be God's way of getting our attention. "Lord," I pray, "Show me what I'm supposed to accomplish today." Writing requires a mixture of p layful creativity and serious self-discipline. I have deadlines to meet and clients who count on me. Sometimes I' m up until far after midnight finishing a project. But the reward is being able to spend a relaxing afternoon at the beach with my boys. I pray daily for the wisdom to manage my workload. If

I take too many days off, I won't have any customers (or money). If I work too hard, I'll turn around and discover my children are grown and I missed it. As parents, we all struggle to balance work and family. There's so much we want to do and so much we feel we have to do. We need God's help to see what's important in each moment, where we are called to be now. Sometimes I dream of renting a writer's cottage by the ocean where I could write with no interruptions. But I don 't know if I could work with all that quiet. For us, combining work and family under one roof makes sense. Besides , my miniature golf game needs work.

Christine Dubois

Christine Dubois is a widely published freelance writer who lives with her family nea r Seattle. Contact her at: chriscolumn@juno.com.

Sp irituality

True and false notions of freedom C.S, Lewis tells the story of his conversion in a little autobiograp hical p iece entitled , Surprised by Joy. His journey has some things to teach us. For years he was blocked from conmiitting himself to faith precisel y because of his keen, uncompromising intellect. Brilliant , searching, skeptical of easy answers, he was unable to picture to himself how the great events of Christ 's life and resurrection could have happened. Moreover, he saw commitment to faith as somehow selling short one 's freedom . In all of this, he was constantly challenged by J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of Lord of the Rings, a friend and a practicing Roman Catholic. Lewis recalls how, on many an evening, Tolkien and he would have dinner together and then walk the streets of Oxford for hours, arguing faith and religion. On one such evening, shortl y before his conversion, Tolkien challenged him to this effect: "Your inability to picture for yourself the mysteries of Jesus ' life is a failure of imagination on your part!" Lewis was stung by that remark, but realized, too, its truth. Not long afterward he converted to Christianity and, as Surprised by Joy puts it, on the night when he finally, first , knelt down to acknowled ge his faith he did so not in a burst of jo y and enthusiasm, but "as the most reluctant

convert in the history of Christendom. Parts of him were still in rebellion, but he knew he needed to kneel in a certain acquiescence because, as he put it, he had come to know that "the harshness of God is kinder than the softness of man and God's compulsion is our liberation. " Happ iness and freedom , he realized, are paradoxical in the extreme. You can have them only by giving them away. Giving away freedom is what makes us free , just as jealousl y hoarding it is the ultimate enslavement. Scripture speaks of truths "hidden since the beginning of the world." What Jesus reveal s about the relationship of love and freedom is one of these truths. What does he reveal? That the essence of love is a certain obedience, a free acquiescence, a giving over of one 's freedom , a laying down of one 's life for love, morality, duty. Freedom doesn 't achieve its purpose by claiming itself for itself, but by giving itself away. There is a great paradox in that and we see it stunningly portrayed in the scene where Jesus stands before Pilate during his trial . From every outward appearance, Jesus is unfree. He stands before Pilate and the crowd, shackled, helpless to walk away, seemingly a victim. Yet, in all of literature, one will never find an image of someone

more free than Jesus at that moment . When Pilate says to him: "Don't you know that I have the power to set you free or put you to death ," Jesus answers, "You have no poweT ¦MIIIIHIUM iiiniimiimmMimmim over me. Nobod y takes my life. I lay it down of my own free will. " Pilate understood exactly what that meant; you can't make a saint into a victim or a martyr into a scapegoat. You can 't take by force what someone has already freely given over. Scholastic philosophy used to make a distinction around the notion of freedom that partl y captures this. It spoke of freedom as "freedom from" and "freedom for." The former designates a certain adolescent ideal, where freedom means lack of restraints, lack of duty, lack of moral inhibition, the ROLHEISER , page 19 HIIIIII

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Above, Archbishop William J. Levada at July 27 Sesquicentennial Mass at St. Mary 's Cathedral. Left and next page , some of the members of the two-dozen ethnic groups represented in native dress at the Mass.

'The future is full of hope'

Homily of Archbishop Levada at the Sequicentennial Mass

Today is a Jubilee day - a day to give praise and thanks to God! Today we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the foundation of this Archdiocese of San Francisco, marking the appointment of Bishop Josep h Sadoc Alemany, O.P., just three years as California ' s first Bishop in Monterey, as first Archbishop of a new Metropolitan Province in the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. San Francisco de Asis was the name given to the mission founded in 1776 on Dolores Creek near the Golden Gate by the President of the Missions, Blessed Juni pero Serra . But it was only after the gold rush began in 1849 that the name of the village down by the bay, Yerba Buena , was changed by adopting the name of the nearby mission - San Francisco. Just in time for the new Archdiocese. To have the insp iration of such a patron, and to count on his intercession on our pilgrimage of faith , is trul y a consolation and a blessing for our City and for our Archdiocese. Anniversaries are familiar territory in American culture : silver, golden , and diamond jubilees are special moments in our personal, family, civic and Church life. But the concept of "jubilee" is something more than a marking of time. It is a moment of rejoicing that links us with the past, going back even to the great event of creation, in the Biblical tradition. Many of us recall with happy memories our celebration of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, with prayers and pilgrimages culminating in our Mass at the new Pac Bell Park. There we received a special sign of God's favor in the form of a downpour! During that Jubilee Year we gratefull y remembered and celebrated God's great gift to his people - to all humanity: the Incarnation, birth, life, death , and resurrection of the divine Son of God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Jubilees were celebrated by the People of God of the Old Covenant as prescribed by the Law every 50 years - for them 50 was a number that symbolized the perfection of a multiplication of Sabbaths. Every 7th day belonged to God; after the 6 days of creation, he rested on the 7th day, and so must his people gather weekly to worship him and give him thanks. The 7th year too became a "sabbatical" year of renewal and reintegration into the plan and purpose of the benevolent Creator. And the "Sabbath" of these 7th -year sabbatical years - the 50th year - was deemed a time for the whole nation to recall the blessings and gifts they had received, to pause and give thanks to God, and to share them with those who lacked them as a sign of the original blessing of creation. Here we find the Biblical foundation for the preferential option for the poor, and for the care for (he whole of God' s creation that has such a con temporary echo in the ecological movement . In the age of the Prophets, the Jubilee Year was used as an image of Messianic blessing, a prophetic image of the great good God had in store for his people when the Messiah, the great Prophet and Teacher would appear. The hope conveyed in this image became a personal drama for a group of Sabbath worshippers in Nazareth at a moment in time, in human history - a moment when Jesus read the words of the Prophet Isaiah about the Messianic promise, and then declared: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor, ... to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor" (Lk 4:18-19). As Jesus identified himself as the great Prophet and Teacher, he began a ministry of teaching and miraculous signs that won the admiration and following a growing band of disciples. He also led them to witness his passion,

death and resurrection -a fulfillment of his Father 's will rich diversity of back grounds , Native Americans , that he would redeem the world from its prison of sin and Mexicans, Europeans , Africans , Latin Americans, Asians disobedience by his own obedience "to the point of death , and Pacific Islanders , who, notwithstanding our differences of language, race and culture , make up the one Body of even death on a cross" (Phil 2:8). The motive for this obedience was love, love of the Christ, the Church. We admire the witness and achievement Father for fallen humanity, love so great that he would ask of their lives of faith and works of charity. But our joy and his beloved , only-begotten Son to empty himself in order to gratitude today is not limited to the confines of the three take on our humanity - to become "incarnate", enfleshed, counties that make up the present Archdiocese. We think of one like us "in all things but sin. " And love, love of the Son the many daughter dioceses, new local churches growing for his Father, with whom he was one in everything, shar- strong in faith, established over these 150 years: first the ing every joy and delight in the goodness of creation, and Vicariate of Marysville in 1860, which later became the every sorrow over the fall of the precious pinnacle of cre- Diocese of Grass Valley and later still, in 1886, the present ation , the human being, created in his own image and like- Diocese of Sacramento; then the Vicariate and soon the Diocese of Salt Lake City in 1891; the Diocese of Reno in ness. It is this drama of God' s love that we recall in a special 1931; the explosion of new local churches in 1962 with the way in this Sesquicentennial Jubilee of the Archdiocese of dioceses of Oakland, Stockton, and Santa Rosa; the San Francisco. We celebrate it in the spirit of the Great Diocese of San Jose in 1981; and finally the Diocese of Las Jubilee of the Year 2000, whose themes of gratitude and joy Vegas in 1995. We think too of the Diocese of Monterey, established in for the great gift of God's Son, incarnate in our world and 1850 and made suffragan to the Archdiocese three years in our minds and hearts. At our human history, still echo thnes the immediacy of the "world" we live in can obscure later with the establishment of a new Metropolitan the plan of God "from the beg inning." It seems, if we think Province of San Francisco. Bishop Amat, Alemany's sucabout it at all, that salvation history is "back then" while we cessor in Monterey, established his cathedral in Los live in a "now" far removed from the time of Jesus. But Angeles, and the diocese began to be called over the years "secular" history and salvation history are not two parallel, Monterey-Los Angeles; in 1924 a new diocese of asymptotic tracks that never meet. Indeed, the Incarnation Monterey-Fresno was founded; in 1936 the Diocese of San requires us to understand that God has entered human his- Diego, and at the same time a new, second Archdiocese and tory, that through Christ he has revealed to us the ultimate Metropolitan Province for* the state of California; in 1967, the Diocese of Monterey was reestablished, separated from destiny and purpose of human history. Jesus came "in the fullness of time" to sanctify time, to Fresno; in 1976 the Diocese of Orange; and in 1978, the reclaim it for the One who created it, and to open it to eter- Diocese of San Bernardino. May I say what a great joy it is nity. And we are privileged to live with him in that fullness for us to have the bishops from all of these dioceses, north of time, in the ongoing "year of the Lord's favor"! By the and south, here to join in this 150th anniversary Mass. It is gifts of the Holy Spirit he sends into our hearts , he calls us after all your Jubilee too! to be his instruments in writing the story of salvation histoIt is customary to wnte the history of a diocese around ry in this time and p lace: he invites us to write a new chap- the frame work of the succession of bishops. This is not to ter in the book of the Church that began with the Acts of the discount the many wonderful contributions made by religious women, who with great sacrifice built and staffed Apostles. In his beautiful Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio educational, health care and charitable institutions that Ineunte , at the close of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, remain the glory of our Church throughout America; nor to Pope John Paul II took up this theme in a way that strikes neglect the apostolic works so faithfull y done by generame as particularl y approp riate for our celebration today. He tions of religious men , priests and brothers; nor to ignore said, "Christianity is a religion rooted in history ! It was in the vital associations of Catholic laity, the story of whose the soil of history that God chose to establish a covenant contributions to Church and society will be recounted long with Israel and so prepare the birth of the Son from the after we are gone. But the bishop is the shepherd appointwomb of Mary 'in the fullness of time ' (Gal 4:4). ed by God to be the link with the first apostles whom Jesus Understood in his divine and human mystery, Christ is the sent out on mission: "Go and make disciples of all nations, foundation and center of history, he is its meaning and ulti- baptizing them ... and teaching them..." These are responmate goal. It is in fact through him, the Word and image of sibilities the Good Shepherd himself has commanded his the Father, that 'all things were made' (Jn 1:3; cf. Col 1:15). apostles to do: "Feed my sheep." The promise of Jesus "I His incarnation, culminating in the Paschal Mystery and am with you always, until the end of the age" is fulfilled in the gift of the Spirit, is the pulsating heart of time, the mys- and through his Church: in the proclamation of the Gospel, terious hour in which the Kingdom of God came to us (cf. in the celebration of the sacraments, and in the bishop, the Mk 1:15), indeed took root in our history, as the seed des- successor of the first apostles to whom Jesus gave the great tined to become a great tree (cf. Mk 4:30-32)." [NM1, 51] commission to evangelize the world. Like a great tree planted 150 years ago, the Archdiocese In these 150 years of the Archdiocese of San Francisco of San Francisco ...has taken root; it is growing. Its roots in I am only the 7th Archbishop . I never fail to be edified the soil of California go deep; it is destined to grow in age when I read the accounts of the wonderful works of my and, please God, in wisdom and grace. As we review in our predecessors. Like St. Francis, their example renews my mind's eye the history of this Archdiocese, we give thanks zeal for the building up of God's house, his people. Our and glory to God for the many blessings that we are heir to, Mass here today suggests two examples among the many thanks to the sacrifices and dedication of the People of God that history records in tribute to the great Archbishops of - the priests, religious and laity - of these past 150 years. this Archdiocese. We thank God for the generations of people of such a HOMILY, page 17

Homily . . . ÂŚ Continued from page 16 Out this window behind me you can see the dome of City Hall. It has been called the greatest civic building built by any city in America. It literall y rose from the ashes of the 1906 earthquake and fire . It is a tribute to the civic spirit of the leaders and people of San Francisco , among whom Archbishop Riordan was a beacon of strength and hope. His words to the Citizens' Committee after the earthquake provided the title for his biograp hy: "I am a citizen of no mean city, although it is in ashes," he said. "Almighty God has fixed this as the location of a great city. The past is gone, and there is no use lamenting or moaning over it. Let us look to the future and without regard to creed or place of birth, work together in harmony for the up building of a greater San Francisco." These words remind us again today that the many needs of building a just society require the efforts and cooperation of everyone. We are all citizens of the earthly city, and we all - even if we do not all yet realize it have been called to be citizens of the heavenl y city, so poeticall y represented in today 's reading from the Book of Revelation. In a time of relentless secularization , it is 0 our ever more urgent task to make the message of God's o unending love present in the ongoing project of building the city of man. For we remember the jud gment of the < u Psalmist, "Unless the Lord build the house, those who build it labor in vain . Unless the Lord guard the city, the o guard keeps watch in vain " (Ps 127:1). 6 The second example is this magnificent cathedral itself. Just six months after Archbishop McGucken 's installation in 1962, St. Mary 's Cathedral down the hill at Van Ness and have received from generations past to those who come O'Farrell burned down - any bishop 's worst nightmare ! after us. Prayer is the essential key to growing close to Jesus as Planning for, funding, construction of - and receiving his share of criticism and protest about this new cathedral his disciples. Prayer in its many forms ultimately involves marked more than half McGucken 's time as Archbishop . opening our hearts to him, being in dialogue with him. To him and those who shared his vision and his labors we Think of the treasures of the Church's prayer available to owe this great church. And to Archbishop Quinn we owe us: the Liturgy of the Hours, where we pray the very the beautiful works of art - these shrines representing the Psalms that Jesus himself used in his prayer ; Adoration of life of Our Lady - that have completed this cathedral so the Blessed Sacrament, where we rest in contemplation of harmoniously. To them and their co-workers we owe a debt the overwhelming love of God for us; the Rosary, where of gratitude as well. Mary guides us through a litany of familiar prayer in a As our Hol y Father has remarked , a Jubilee is not only meditation on the life, death and resurrection of ber Son . a remembrance of the past , but also a prophecy of the We should intensify in particular our love for the Eucharist, future (cf. NMI , 3). The program for the future is not new in which Jesus gives himself to us again and again in Word to the history of the Church , but it must be renewed in and Sacrament, so that we and the whole People of God can our time. This "program " invites us to follow Christ more sanctify the Lord's Day by our Sunday Eucharist, and can nearl y as his disci ples, and it asks us to commit ourselves be transformed ever more by the grace of his redeeming ever more generously to being his apostles in the world. sacrifice of the Cross, and be nourished by his own Body Onl y in this way can we leave the legacy of faith that we as food for our pilgrim journey in Holy Communion. As CQ

our Hol y Father s recent Encyclical reminds us, the Eucharist builds the Church; it is the heart of our life as disciples of Jesus. As we spend time with Jesus, know him better and love him more, how can we not respond to his invitation to be his apostles who proclaim this good news to the ends of the earth? We do this by the witness of our lives, faith-filled and resolved to keep the commandments he has given us. We do it by our participation in works of charity on behalf of our neighbor in need , by the pursuit of justice in our personal lives and in our society, by seeking to make the peace that is the fruit of the Holy Spirit ever more a reality in our lives and in our world. And we do it by telling the story of Jesus, of God's love in person, of how he here and now asks everyone to let him into their lives. Sometimes we may think that Jesus is already known "to the ends of the earth." But in proposing the new evangelization as the principal project of this new millennium of Christianity Pope John Paul has reminded us that each generation needs to be evangelized anew, that nations once Christian need to hear the good news proclaimed again , that each one of us needs to hear more radically the call to conversion and communion with our Lord. Our work for justice, peace and outreach to our brothers and sisters in need, a work we so willingly do in solidarity with our fellow citizens of the city of man, is not in conflict with the command to evangelize that Christ gave to his apostles. Christ came to be the servant of humanity; the proclamation of his gospel of love does not do violence to the many cultures or religions in which people seek God. His is a gentle invitation to love and fulfillment. Like the suffering Servant in the Book of the prophet Isaiah, "a bruised reed he will not break, a smoldering wick he will not quench" (Is 42:3). Jesus does not condemn or replace what is true and good in our many cultures and religions. Rather, through the light of his teaching and example, and through the conversion of hearts from sin by his transforming grace, he seeks to open up to every member of the human race the path to our true destiny: life eternal with our loving God. This is good news indeed! The future is full of hope, the prophet tells us. But many today despair of knowing the purpose of life, and are ready to throw it away. God has shown us in Jesus what the true fulfillment of human life is. He has given humanity this gift , and he has asked us not only to embrace it ourselves, but also to share it with the whole human family. May the gentle fri ar of Assisi, St. Francis , who saw in sun and moon, in birds and animals , the goodness of the loving God, help all of us throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco and beyond make his prayer our own: to be instruments of the Lord's peace, hope and love. Happy 150th anniversary, San Francisco! Amen.

Sesquicentennial Mass . . . ÂŚ Continued from cover roles in the Sesquicentennial Mass. Dressed in traditional costumes, they processed into the cathedral before the Mass, prayed the petitions of the Prayer of the Faithful in their native languages and brought up the gifts at the Offertory. During the call to worship, each of the bishops received colorful leis, which they wore throughout the Mass. Archbishop Levada also praised the work of his six predecessors, citing "two examples among the many that history records in tribute to the great archbishops of this archdiocese." He noted the role Archbishop Patrick Riordan played in rebuilding the city following the 1906 earthquake and fire . His predecessor 's vision was captured , Archbishop Levada said, in Riordan 's words to a citizens committee after the earthquake: "1 am a citizen of no mean city, although it is in ashes. Almighty God has fixed this as the location of a great city. The past is gone, and there is no use lamenting or moaning over it. Let us look to the future and without regard to creed or place of birth , work together in harmony for the upbuilding of a greater San Francisco." "These words remind us again that the many needs of building a just society require the efforts and cooperation of everyone," Archbishop Levada said. "In a time of relentless secularization , it is our ever more urgent task to make the message of God's unending love present in the ongoing project of the building of the city of man ." Archbishop Levada said the archdiocese also owes a "debt of gratitude" to two other archbishops: Joseph McGucken for the construction of "this magnificent cathedral itself and John Quinn for "the beautiful works of art these shrines representing the life of Our Lady - that have completed this cathedral so harmoniousl y." While looking back on the achievements of the past, Archbishop Levada stressed that the Sesquicentennial celebration is not simply a way of marking the passage of time - it is a jubilee. "It is a moment of rejoicing that links us with the past, going back even to the great event of creation , in the biblical tradition ," he said. "As our Holy Father has remarked , a jubilee is not only a remembrance of the past but also a prophecy of the future . The program for the future is not new to the history of the Church but it must be renewed in our time," Archbishop Levada said. The program, he said, calls on us

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the Lord," the archbishop said. At the same time, he said, Christians are called to work for "justice, peace and outreach to our brothers and sisters in need. " Following the Sesquicentennial Mass , a reception was held in the conference center beneath the cathedral featuring foods prepared by two dozen different ethnic groups represented in the archdiocese today. Entertainment included ethnic music and dancing.

Text of Vatican document on proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons The following document was prepared by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and approved by Pope John Paul II. It contains a reaffirmation of Church teach ing on marriage and homosexuality and argues against efforts to legally recognize homosexual unions. It also discusses the moral duties and responsibilities of Catholic law-makers with regard to such efforts.

INTRODUCTION

1. In recent years various questions relating to homosexuality have been addressed with some frequency by Pope John Paul LI and by the relevant dicasteries of the Holy See. Homosexuality is a troubling moral and social phenomenon, even in those countries where it does not present significant legal issues. It gives rise to greater concern in those countries that have granted or intend to grant legal recognition to homosexual unions, which may include the possibility of adopting children. The present consideration s do not contai n new doctrinal elements; they seek rather to reiterate the essential points on this question and provide arguments drawn from reason which could be used by bishops in preparing more specific interventions appropriate to the different situations throughout the world aimed at protecting and promoting the dignity of marriage, the foundation of the family and the stability of society, of which this institution is a constitutive element. The present con-

ally responsible for it, but it does attest to the fact that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." This same moral jud gment is found in many Christian writers of the first centuries and is unanimously accepted by Catholic tradition. Nonetheless, according to the teaching of the church , men and women with homosexual tendencies "must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided." They are called, like other Christians, to live the virtue of chastity. The homosexual inclination is however "objectively disordered," and homosexual practices are "sins gravely contrary to chastity."

II. Positions on the Problem of Homosexual Unions

5. Faced widi the fact of homosexual unions, civil authorities adopt different positions. At times they simply tolerate the phenomenon; at other times they advocate legal recognition of such unions under the pretext of avoiding, with regard to certain rights, discrimination against persons who live with someone ot me same sex. in other cases they favor giving homosexual unions legal equivalence to marriage properly so-called, along with the legal possibility of adopting children. Where the government 's policy is de facto tolerance and there is no explicit legal recognition of homosexual unions, it is necessary to distinguish carefull y the various aspects of the problem. Moral conscience requires

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ed to give direction to Catholic politicians by indicating the approaches to proposed legislation in this area which would be consistent with Christian conscience. Since this question relates to the natural moral law, the arguments that follow are addressed not only to those who believe in Christ, but to all persons committed to promoting and defending the common good of sociely.

I. The Nature of Marriage and Its Inalienable Characteristics

2. The church' s teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognized as such by all the major cultures of the world. Marriage is not just any relationship between human beings. It was established by the Creator with its own nature, essential properties and purpose. No ideology can erase from the human sp irit the certainty that marriage exists solel y between a man and a woman, who by mutual personal gift , proper and exclusive to themselves , tend toward the communion of their persons. In this way they mutually perfect each other in order to cooperate with God in the procreation and upbringing of new human lives. 3. The natural truth abou t marriage was confirmed by the revelation contained in the biblical accounts of creation, an expression also of the original human wisdom in which the voice of nature itself is heard . There are three fundamental elements of the Creator's plan for marriage as narrated in the Book of Genesis. In the first place, man, the image of God, was created "male and fem ale" (Gn. 1:27). Men and women are equal as persons and complementary as male and female. Sexuality is something that pertain s to the physical-biological realm and has also been raised to a new level - the personal level - where nature and spirit are united. Marriage is instituted by the Creator as a form of life in which a communion of persons is realized involving the use of the sexual faculty. 'That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife and they become one flesh" (Gn. 2:24). Third, God has willed to give the union of man and woman a special participation in his work of creation. Thus, he blessed the man and the woman with the words "Be fruitful and multiply " (Gn. 1:28). Therefore, in the Creator's plan, sexual complementarity and fruitfulness belong to the very nature of marriage. Furthermore, the marital union of man and woman has been elevated by Christ to the di gnity of a sacrament. The church teaches th at Christian marriage is an efficacious si gn of the covenant between Christ and the church (cf. Eph. 5:32). This Christian meaning of marriage, far from diminishing the profoundl y human value of the marital union between man and woman , confirms and strengthens it (cf. Mt. 19:3-12; Mk. 10:6-9). 4. There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God' s plan for marriage and family. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against ihe natural moral law. Homosexual acts "close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved." Sacred Scripture condemns homosexual acts "as a serious depravity [cf. Rom. 1:24-27; 1 Cor. 6:10; 1 Tm. 1:10]. This judgment of Scripture does not of cours e permit us to conclude that all those who suffer from this anomaly are person-

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Christians give witness to the whole moral truth, which is contradicted both by approval of homosexual acts and unjust discrimination against homosexual persons. Therefore, discreet and prudent actions can be effective; these might involve: unmasking the way in which such tolerance might be exploited or used in the service of ideology; stating clearly the immoral nature of these unions; reminding the government of the need to contain the phenomenon within certain limits so as to safeguard public morality and, above all, to avoid exposing young people to erroneous ideas about sexuality and marriage that would deprive them of their necessary defenses and contribute to the spread of the phenomenon. Those who would move from tolerance to the legitimization of specific rights for cohabiting homosexual persons need to be reminded that the approv al or legalization of evil is something far different from the toleration of evil. In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty. One must refrain from any kind of formal cooperation in the enactment or application of such gravely unjust laws and as far as possible from material cooperation on the level of their application. In this area everyone can exercise the right to conscientious objection.

III. Arguments From Reason Against Legal Recognition of Homosexual Unions

as a private phenomenon and the same behavior as a relationship in society foreseen and approved by the law to the point where it becomes one of the institutions in the legal structure. This second phenomenon is not only more serious, but also assumes a more wide-reaching and profound influence and would result in changes to the entire organization of society contrary to the common good. Civil laws are structuring principles of man's life in society for good or for ill. They "play a very important and sometimes decisive role in influencing patterns of thought and behavior." Lifestyles and the underlying presuppositions these express not only externally shape the life of society, but also tend to modify the younger generation 's perception and evaluation of forms of behavior. Legal recognition of homosexual unions would obscure certain basic moral values and cause a devaluation of the institution of marriage. From the Biolog ical and Anthropolog ical Order 7. Homosexual unions are totally lacking in the biological and anthropological elements of marriage and family which would be the basis, on the level of reason, for granting them legal recognition. Such unions are not able to contribute in a proper way to the procreation and survival of the human race. The possibility of using recentl y discovered methods of artificial reproduction , beyond involving a grave lack of respect for human dignity, does nothing to alter tins inadequacy. Homosexual unions are also totally lacking in the conjugal dimension, which represents the human and ordered form of sexuality. Sexual relations are human when and insofar as they express and promote the mutual assistance of the sexes in marriage and are open to the transmission of new life. As experience has shown, the absence of sexual complementarity in these unions creates obstacles in the normal development of children who would be placed in the care of such persons. They would be deprived of the experience of either fatherhood or motherhood. Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children , in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development. This is gravely immoral and in open contradiction to the principle recognized also in the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child that the best interests of the child, as die weaker and more vulnerable party, are to be the paramount consideration in eveiy case. From the Social Order 8. Society owes its continued survival to the family, founded on marriage. The inevitable consequence of legal recognition of homosexual unions would be the redefinition of marriage, which would become in its legal status an institution devoid of essential reference to factors linked to heterosexuality; for example, procreation and raising children. If from the legal standpoint marriage between a man and a woman were to be considered just one possible form of maniage, the concept of marriage would undergo a radical transformation with grave detriment to the common good. By putting homosexual unions on a legal plane analogous to that of maniage and the family, the state acts arbitrarily and in contradiction with its duties. The principles of respect and nondiscrimination cannot be invoked to support legal recognition of homosexual unions. Differentiating between persons or refusing social recognition or benefits is unacceptable only when it is contrary to justice. The denial of the social and legal status of marriage to forms of cohabitation that are not and cannot be marital is not opposed to justice; on the contrary, justice requires it. Nor can the princi p le of the proper jP autonomy of the individual be reasonably 4x invoked. It is one thing to maintain that y individual citizens may freely engage in those activities that interest them and that this falls within the common civil right to freedom; it is something quite different to i hold that activities which do not represent a 1 significant or positive contribution to the h development of the human person in society can receive specific and categorical legal recognition by the state. Not even in a remote analogous sense do homosexual unions fulfill the purpose for 1 ¦ which marriage and family

6. To understand why it is necessary to oppose legal recognition of homosexual union s, ethical considerations of Q^v^ different orders need to be taken into ^im considerati on. • ^j From the Order of Right Reason f The scope of the civil law is certainly *§K more limited than that of the moral law, but civil law cannot contradict right reason without losing its binding force on con- W% science. Every humanly created law is mf legitimate insofar as it is consistent with jPv the natural moral law, recognized by right reason and insofar as it respects the inalienable rights of every person. Laws in favor of homosexua unions are contrary to right reason because they confer legal guarantees analogous to those granted to mar, , .j . contrary, there are good 7 riage to unions between Considering homosexual Unions tO be reasons for holding that persons of the same sex. such unions are harmful to Given the values at stake m any of development way similar or even remotel the proper y in this question, the state especially society, human could not grant legal standif their impact on society ing to such unions without analog ous to God 's p lan f or marriag e were to increase. failing in its duty to proFrom the Legal Order mote and defend marriage and family. 9. Because married , as an institution essential — couples ensure the succesto the common good. sion of generations and are It might be asked how a law can be contrary to Ihe common good if it does not impose any particular - kind of behavior but therefore eminently within the public interest , civil law grants simply gives legal recognition to a de facto reality which does them institutional recognition. Homosexual unions, on the other not seem to cause injustice to anyone. In this area one needs hand , do not need specific attention from the legal standpo int first to reflect on the difference between homosexual behavior since they do not exercise this function for the common good. UNIONS , page 19

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IV. Positions of Catholic Politicians With Regard to Legislation in Favor of Homosexual Unions

10. If it is true that all Catholics are obli ged to oppose the legal recognition of homosexual unions , Catholic politicians are obli ged to do so in a particular way, in keeping with their responsibility as politicians. Faced with legislative proposals in favor of homosexual unions , Catholic politicians are

CONCLUSION

to take account of the following ethical indications. When legislation in favor of the recognition of homosexual unions is proposed for the first time in a legislative assembly, the Catholic lawmaker has a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicl y and to vole against it. To vote in favor of a law so harmful to the common good is gravely immoral . When legislation in favor of the recognition of homosexual unions is already in force, the Catholic politician must oppose it in the ways that are possible for him and make his opposition known; it is his duty to witness to the truth. If it is not possible to repeal such a law completely, the Catholic politician, recalling the indications contained in the encyclical letter Evangeli um Vitae, "could licitl y support proposals aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law and at lessening its negative consequences at the level of general opinion and public morality, " on condition that his "absolute personal opposition " to such laws was clear and well known and that the danger of scandal was avoided. This does not mean that a more restrictive law in this area could be considered just or even acceptable; rather, it is a question of the legitimate and dutiful attempt to obtain at least the partial repeal of an unjust law when its total abrogation is not possible at the moment.

11. The church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behavior or to legal recognition of homosexual unions. The common good requires that laws recognize, promote and protect maniage as the basis of the family, the primary unit of society. Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behavior, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity. The church cannot fai l to defend these values for the good of men and women and for the good of society itsel f. The sovereign pontiff John Paul II, in the audience of March 28, 2003, approved the present considerations , adopted in the ordinary session of this congregation , and ordered their publication. Rome, from the offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, June 3, 2003, memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and his companions , martyrs. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , Prefect Archbishop Angelo Amato , SDB , Secretary

mission — his giving away his freedom to his Father. Simone Weil, a fiercel y independent mind who died fighting for freedom, was once asked: "What are you searching for?" Her answer, in essence: "I'm searching for someone to be obedient to because without obedience we inflate and grow silly, even to ourselves." It was precisely this realization that drove a reluctant C.S. Lewis to his knees in genuflection. God's harshness is softer

than our kindness and obedience in love is what sets us free . Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theolog ian, teacher and award-winning author. He currently serves in Toronto and Rome as the general councilor for Canada f o r his religious order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Father Rolheiser can be contacted at info ® ronrolheiser.com

Rolheiser . .. ¦ Continued from page 15 capacity to do whatever you like. The latter designate s the purpose of freedom itself , namely, the capacity for self-donation in love, for altruism, for morality, for duty, for service. This is not something we understand or accept easil y. We are all too easily seduced by the idea that freedom means "freedom from " - from duty, from moral restraint, and from anything else that inhibits or ties us down. Duty, morality, and religion are then seen as unhealthy weights, shackles to be shed. But that 's a dangerous, unhappy notion . In Mark's Gospel , the disciples of Jesus are cast in a particularl y bad light. They don 't just abandon Jesus during his passion and death; they misunderstand, betray, and get things wrong all the way along. But that 's partly the point of Mark's Gospel . For him, it 's difficult , indeed impossible, to come tc faith in Jesus unless we share precisely in the cross by giving away our freedom as Jesus did — freel y, without resentment. In Mark's view of things, disci pleship can only be grasped existentiall y, by partici pation in what lay at the heart of Jesus'

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Food & Fun Aug. 16: All-you-can-eat Spaghetti Dinner benefiting St. Veronica Parish organ fund beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall, Alida Way and Ponderosa off El Camino Real, in Soulh San Francisco. Families $30; adults $10; children under 12 S6. Enjoy Ihe sounds of a Barbershop Quartet and Chris Lindstrom , parish music directo r, on the keyboard. Help St. Veronica 's purchase an almost new Rodgers Organ lor less than half its estimated value. Call Chris at (650) 588-1455 for more information.

Annual Public Policy Breakfast and Dialogue with Catholic Lay Leaders takes place September 4th in the lower halls of St. Mary 's Cathedral beginning with a light breakfast buffet at 7:30 a.m. Major presente r is, Cathleen Cleaver, attorney and executive of the Pro-Life Activities office of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Ms. Cleaver has wide media experience in defending life including appearances on PBS' Firing Line and CNN's Crossfire. She is a graduate of the Georgetown University school of law and former Chief Counsel to the House Subcommittee on the Constitution. Archbishop William J. Levada will lead prayer at the event. Reservations at $20 per person are required by August 15th to the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns at (415) 614-5572 or desmondr@sfarchdiocese.org.

Aug. 16: Outdoor Mass at noon in Lafayette Park at Washington and Laguna SI., SF followed by potluck picnic. All are welcome. Call (415) 364-1511 or www.st-brigid.org. Aug. 18: Dolores ttl YLI meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Green Room of St. Cecilia Parish, 17th Ave. and Vicente , SF. Call Rose Marie at (415) 753-5680. Catholic women interested in learning more about the organization are invited. Aug. 23: Respect Life Potluck Dinner featuring Jennifer Lahl, executive director, Center for Bio-ethics and Culture, speaking on cloning, stem cefl research and more. Takes place at St. Sebastian Parish Hall, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Greenbrae. Begins after 5 p.m. Mass. Call Vicki Evans at (415) 945-0180. Sept. 18: Luncheon of St. Thomas More Society featuring Chad Evans, former director, Spiritual Life Center, St. Agnes Parish, SF. Chad will demonstrate spiritual tools for busy people including a guided meditation and faith sharing. Takes place at noon at the Bankers Club, 52nd floor, Bank of America Building, 555 California St., SF. Tickets $30 members/$40 non-members. Call Stacy Stecherat (415) 433-1400. Sept. 20: Lady of Light, a Pageant on St. Clare at St. Boniface Theater, 135 Golden gate Ave., SF at 2 p.m. Tickets $5 per person or 6 for $25. A commemoration of the life of this great saint who died 750 years ago. Music by the Schola Cantorum of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi. Produced by the St. Francis Fraternity. Call (415) 62f-3279orcontact ssclare4000@juno.com.

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Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Val/ejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to the public. Sundays: Concerts at SI. Mary Cathedral at 3:30 p.m. Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) 5672020 ext. 213. Concerts are open to the public.

Oct. 11: Class of '58, Mercy High School, SF. Postcards have been sent "to all the addresses we have ," said Kathe McDonnell Farrell. "If any classmates did not get a postcard, we don't have your address." Call Kathe at (415) 681-2876 or Clare Breen Mayne at (415) 826-5255.

Reunions Oct. 2003: Class of '53 , St. Philip Elementary School. SF. "Where are you? We need you," said classmate Consuela Hooper-Aguilar. Call (415) 435-0941, email consuela24@msn.com; or fax info name, address et al - to (925) 671-2684. Oct. 4: Class of '83, St. Philip Elementary School, SF is planning a Family Picnic/20th Reunion If you're a classmate or know of some, contact Ellen McCarthy Perieff at (415) 330-9897 or ellen.perieff@sfgov.org. Oct. 5: San Francisco's St. Peter School celebrates its 125th anniversary. Milestone celebrations so far include Mass with Bishop John Wester presiding in the beautifully restored parish church plus homecoming, and thanks to all the clergy and religious who have contributed so much here. Call the school at (415) 647-8662. Oct. 18: 1st annual reunion of St. Monica Elementary School alumni. Call Bret Allen, principal, for an invitation, (415) 751-9564.

Maggie McCarty, a youth ministry specialist and author of Making Decisions, a classroom text for junior high age youth, is featured speaker at A Faith Formation Conference with a special Youth Leader Track on Sept. 27th at the San Francisco Marriott, 4th st. and Mission St., SF. The daylong event is sponsored by the Office of Religious Education/Youth Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Office of Pastoral Ministry of the Diocese of San Jose. Workshops following a theme of "Woven Together in Hope" will give "those engaged in the ministry of catechesis new Ideas that will be heipful in the classroom and assist each of us in our personal ongoing faith formation," said San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada. The conference , like its predecessor - The Religious Education Institute - celebrates "the Church's mission to evangelize and catechize," Archbishop Levada said. Father Patrick Brennan is the day's keynote speaker. In the face of reports that "75 percent" of Catholics "remain relatively unchurched," his presentation will otter steps Toward a New Image of Parish. For information and brochures, call (415) 614-5650. Youth Leader Track , $20 until Aug. 25th. Faith Formation Conference fee is $25 until Aug. 25th, later registrations, $30.

Oct. 18: Annual reunion St. Brigld High School, SF. All alumnae invited tc Castagnola's, 280 Jefferson at Fisherman's Wharf. Luncheon at noon. Call Evelyn Vanucci Carrignani at (415) 775-0491 or Lorraine Pengel

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Vocations/Prayer Opportunities Aug. 16: A Retreat Commemorating the 750th Anniversary of St. Clare with Franciscan Sister Ramona Miller of the Franciscan School of Theology and regular leader of pilgrimages to Assisi, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at The Poverello, 109 Golden Gate Ave., between Leavenworth and Jones, SF. $25 donation includes lunch with pre-registration by July 30. Call (415) 621-3279. •_r

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Meetings/Lectures/ TV-Radio/ Aug. 26: The Roman Curia: Help or Hindrance to Ecclesial Communion , by Dominican Father Robert Christian at St. Dominic Church , 2390 Bush St., at Steiner, SF at 7:30 p.m. Father Christian, professor of Theology, Pontifical University of St. Thomas , The Angelicum , is a native San Franciscan who has spent the majority of his priesthood in Rome gaining a keen grasp on the inner workings of the Church. Plenty of parking. Call (415) 567-7824.

Retreats/Days of Recollection Vallombrosa Center 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees , times and details about these and other offerings call (650) 325-5614. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, Program Director. Aug. 22-24: Strengthening Our Soul's Center with Ursula Caspary Frankel , a licensed marriage and family therapist. Explore new ways to bring into balance today 's outer world of chaos and inner worlds. Will examine relationships and patterns of communicating with God, ourselves and others . Aug. 23: Martha and Mary Revisited , a day for sisters to reconsider their relationship. What are the dynamics that create this lasting bond? Carol Kaplan will facilitate . Sept. 6: Opening the Global Heart with St. Joseph Sister Joanna Bramble , a reflective experience for those seeking courage , compassion and clarity in the crises of our times. Sept. 13: Catholic Christian Morality: Life , Love , Loyalty, Laughter, with Paulist Father Richard Sparks. Looks at "life , love, loyalty, laughter ' as the keys to sound , solid , approachable Catholic morality. The 11th annual Capuchin Seminarian Golf Tournament takes place Sept. 15 at Sharon Heights Country Club, Menlo Park. A shotgunstart begins the18-hole Scramble followed by cocktails and dinner in Our Lady of Angels Parish Hall at 6 and 7:30 p.m. Fee of $225 per person includes golf , cart, tee prizes, lunch, beverages and dinner. Tickets are available for dinner only at $50 per person. Sponsorships are available from $50. The Capuchin Francisca n Friars have served in the Archdiocese for more than a century and have shepherded Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame since its founding in 1926. For ticket information and reservations, call Mike Stecher at (650) 342-4680.

Mercy Center 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. For fees, times and other offerings, call (650) 340-7474 or www.mercy-center.org. Aug. 22 - 29: Weeklong Meditation Intensive Retreat with Jesuit Father Thomas Hand. Provides opportunity to enter deeply into a meditative experience of silent meditation. Also includes instructional talks and individual conferences with director. $400/.

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Cardinal defends Pope, Church against media bias Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago used an Aug. 3 homily to defend Pope John Paul II against a newspaper headline that charged the pope with launching a campaign against homosexuals. Cardinal George said an Aug. I headline in the daily Chicago Sun-Times that read "Pope launches global campai gn against gays " was a "false accusation " he felt compelled to defend. The headline on the front- page article appeared a day after the Vatican released a 12page document that called on lawmakers to offer "clear and emphatic opposition " to samesex marriages, which it said were contrary to human nature and ultimately harmful to society. In releasing the document, the pope was re-affirming the "nature of marriage, " the cardinal said. Following is the complete text of his homily. Dear Friends in Christ: I stand before you not as the celebrant of the Mass but as the Archbishop of Chicago, the pastor of this local Church , to use thi s pul p it of the Cathedral in a way that I have not used it in the six years that I have been Archbishop here. For those of you who are visitors, I ask your indulgence. I stand here to defend our Holy Father, Pope John Pau l II, against a false accusation made on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times last Friday. The headline reads: "Pope Launches Global Campaign against Gays." The Pope, of course, did no such tiling. First, what did the Pope do to invite this false accusation against him? The Hol y Father, through the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, approved a statement about the nature of marriage, a statement which repeats what every Pope has taught for two thousand years: marriage is the life-long union of a man and a woman who enter into a total sharing of themselves for the sake of family. This is not first of all a religious teaching, although Christ raised marriage to the level of a sacrament. This is an understanding of marriage from nature itself. Marriage predates our present government or any other and predates, as well, the founding of the Church . Marriage is not the creature of state or church, and neither a government nor the church has authority to change its nature. A government that claims such authority becomes totalitarian. What the Holy See concluded from the fact that there is neither biological nor moral equivalence between heterosexual marriage and homosexual unions is that there should be no legal equivalence either, in a well-ordered and wholesome society. It is this conclusion, evidently, which was represented falsely as a "global campaign against gays." Because of a concerted campaign in movies and TV shows in recent years to shape public imagination and op inion into accepting same sex relations as normal and morally unexceptional, obvious truths now are considered evidence of homophobia. Because a morality based upon desires has largely supp lanted a morality based upon the truth of things , a teaching which limits sexual selfexpression of any sort becomes oppressive. In this context, the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that people of homosexual orientation should be treated with every respect and with compassion; but the Catechism also teaches the truth about the nature of God' s gift of human sexuality, a truth our bodies themselves proclaim and the lives of married couples attest to. Secondly, who is the Pope and why should Catholics take to heart false accusations against him? The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, and therefore the successor of the apostle who heard Jesus tell him: "You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church , and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven , and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." (Mt. 16: 18-19).

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Irish Handyman available. Carpentry, plumbing, stone work , landscape construction. 415-652-2094

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This rapidly growing 2 ,000+ family parish located in the Siera Foothills near Sacramento is seeking a creative, artistic induvidual with a love and knowledge of Catholic liturgy and music in the spiri t of Vatican II. With the support of a respected pastor and responsive congregation , this person will provide leadership to an energetic Liturgy Team and Music program. Liturgy and Music responsibilities include coordinating and involving parishioners of all ages in 5 weekend masses, Holy days and sacramental celebrations. Additional music responsibilities include guiding the selection of liturgical music and develop ing pastoral musicians. The candidate should be capable of leading music at liturgy.

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Nurses are needed to provide specialized nursing care for children in the San Francisco Public School setting. Generous benefit packages for generous nurses. Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles , RN 415-435-0421 Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon , Ca 94920

The Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) of the Archdiocese of Seattle has an opening for a full-time Director. Minimum qualifications include BA degree in a related field; 5+ years demonstrated successfu l leadership/ management experience in camping, outdoor ministry, youth sports/ athletics and/or retreats; experience in fundraising and/or development-related activities; experience in staffing boards, committees and other leadership groups; strong demonstrated competence in interpersonal and public relations skills; and active member of a parish/faith community in good standing with the Church.

The Roman Catholic Parish of St. Cecilia 's is seeking an Office Manager with proven supervisory and administrative experience, and resourcefulness in handling projects. Duties include: establishing work assignments and staff scheduling; maintaining parish record keeping systems, producing the bulletin and promotional materials; and providing administrative and project support to the pastor and other designated staff.

Deadline for applications is Sept. 1, 2003. Competitive salary and excellent benefits. Please look at our website www.seattlearch.org or call 206/382-2070 for

Applicant must be an active member of the Roman Catholic Parish , have experience in parish ministry; have at least 3 years of supervisory experience; demonstrated the ability to work collaboratively with all staff and volunteers ; have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Applicant must be proficient in MS Office Suite and email, and demonstrate the ability to use technology to improve office processes and communications. Applicant must be respectful , patient , and able to maintain confidences; and have good judgement in decision making.

Please send a letter of interest and your resume to: Pastor; St. Cecilia Church; 2555 1 7th Avenue, San Francisco , CA 94116 or e-mail to stcecil@stcecilia.com by August 20, 2003 .

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