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Cream of the crop... Two local Catholic hi gh school grads have earned special honors recentl y. Mercy Sister Barbara Moran has been named Mercy Hi gh School , Burlingame's "Alumna of the Year," and if you ' ve caug ht the news recentl y, you know that Archbishop Riordan alumnus Richard Word has been named Oakland ' s Chief of by Tom Burke ' ' Police. Sister Barb holds a Ph.D. in " ' Eng lish and has taug ht across the country for 40 years , 28 at the college level. Most recentl y, she has been a humanities lecturer at St. Mary 's College in Moraga. In 1 997, she put down the chalk and took off for China where she sp iked hei inte rest in Asian culture and now is a docent-in-training at SF's Asian Arts Museum. Chiel Word , at 37, is the "youngest top cop " in Oakland' s history to quote Ann-Noelle McCowan , the Riordan PR team member tc forward us the good news about Richard. The new chief has said "It ali started at Riord an." Busy Oakland Police Chief as he surel y must be, Chief Word i)u u i ui aiu Word Richard i¦ is working on a graduate degree at Golden Gate University. He 's married to Stacy and their children are Noah and Taylor.

Richard' s boss, Mayor Jerry Brown, was a terrific guest a tew years ago on Mosaic , a show we produce with KPfX-Channel 5 which I have the p leasure to host. My son, Conor, was with me at the tap ing and a picture of Mercy Sister him and the former guv now sits Barbara Mora n proudl y in our living room. Think there could be a market tor cardboard images of parents who are never in any pictures because they 're always the ones taking them? Sure coulda ' used one that day.

School's in session... Once again , (he smell of new copy books and pencils fills the air. Thanks, hats off and every good thing to principals , teachers , secretaries , teacher aides, yard duty workers , volunteers , parents and all who have a hand in the ever-important work of education. Give 'em a hand whenever you can.

More chances to help... If you 've got time on your hands , think about volunteering in the areas of justice and peace , respect life, detention ministry, or with the Catholic Campai gn for Human Development . Find out more by calling the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns at (4J 5) 565-3673. See this and other volunteer opportunities in Datebook (page 20), Out there, somewhere... St. Mary 's Cathedral recently welcomed David Simmons as development director.

David recentl y comp leted work with Most Holy Redeemer Parish where he raised almost $1 million to remodel the church and downstairs hall. David will oversee the Cathedral' s ongoing $15 million endowment campaign , of which approximatel y $5 million has been raised, and assist with other Cathedral fundraising. David's predecessor is Julie Benbow who recentl y signed on with Ronald McDonald House. Julie is also known for her work as a graphic artist and is a member of the design team for Catholic San Francisco. A Cathedral regent to whom an all hats off is owed is Aldo Lera founder of Lera Electric and longtime supporter of Church projects. Aldo, the 1998 Assumpta Award winner at the Cathedral, died August 20 but right to the end he prayed each weekend from his regular seat at St. Pius' never relinquishing his firm handshake and good word for all. In his homil y at Aldo 's funeral Mass, Msgr. Peter Armstrong called him a "wonderful and generous man with an undying love for his family and an extraordinary sense of service." If Aldo saw a flickeri ng light at the church , a person from the company would be there on Monday to fix it , Msgr. Armstrong said. We'll miss you, Aldo....Cheers and congrats to Vicky Otto who has been welcomed as a pastoral associate at St. Raphael Parish, San Rafael . Hats off, too, to St. Gabriel Parish pastoral associate, Matt Shea. The two, who are young adults, will be presenters at the annual young adult caucus, Fall Fest, in October.... Connie Beckett, a longtime member of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame, said her sister, Sister Mary Virginia, has been a Sister of St. Joseph of LaGrange, Illinois for 66 years. "She's been everything," Connie laughed, "teacher, princi pal , superior."

The two haven ' t seen one another for half a dozen years but "talk, talk, talk" on the phone every Sunday. OLA welcomed new parochial vicar, Capuchin Father John De La Reva, and new pastoral associate, Capuchin Brother Bernard McAllister, recentl y. Farewell to Capuchin

Father Evangelist Kelly. .. The University of California has named a fellowshi p program in California studies for State Historian and Catholic San Francisco Advisory Board member Kevin Starr , Ph.D. UC prez , Richard Atkinson said he's pleased the program bears "the name of a distinguished California scholar. " I'll second that....Next month ' s School of Pastoral Leadership students will be among 30,000 Catholics across the nation preparing for lay ministry in the Church... The bishops ' Department of Education is telling colleg e freshmen to "keep life balanced , seek out new friends " and "stay in touch with famil y " as they begin their stays at various campuses. I remember a guy who broug ht a stack of postcards with him already stamped and addressed to his folks. All he had to do was drop one in the mail once in a while with a short note - none of which ever came close to "wish you were here " -and the troops at home had some idea of how he was getting along.... Happy 45'" anniversary to Barbara Mitchell and Deacon Bill Mitchell. Bill was director of communications for the Archdiocese for a decade and now is in service at Our Lady of Loretto Parish , Novato .

Richard Elliott has expanded his music role at Our Lady of Loretto and will now direct two Sunday choirs and help coordinate the music at all parish liturg ies. Our Lady of Loretto Elementary School celebrates its 40"' anniversary on Oct. 2 with festivities including a famil y p icnic , games, open house , special afternoon Mass and spaghetti dinner.

New pastor is Father William McCain Corpus Christi Parish had a farewell and thank you dinner for Salesian Father Ben Dabbene , who recentl y departe d as pastor of the Excelsior District community to take on fulltime duties as vicar for parishes. Father Ben said the evening "made my heart swell in gratitude and deep appreciation " and thanked "all the parishioners " who helped with special thanks to chair Father William Kevin Starr, Ph.D. dinne r McCain B a r b a r a Murphy. Father Ben presided at his final Masses as pastor on Jul y 25. Also seen off with a special Jun e 20 lunch was Salesian Father Hugo Santucchi, parochial vicar....I n a "Meet Our New Priests" bio, Father Stephen Meriwether said he is "delighted" to be pastor at Nativity , Menlo Park and "the celebration of the Eucharist with the community" has been immensely important to his priesthood . Also spotlighted was new parochial vicar, Father Steven Davies, whose boyhood pastor in Dallas annointed President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Nativity said goodbye to pastoral associate Marco Roman at a reception on Jul y 25....Paulist Father John Foley, pastor of Old St. M ary's, begins a "long overdue" sabbatical on Sept. 1. In a bulletin note he said members of the Chinatown parish "comprise a truly wonderful congregation of God' s people." "n " trouble... "Tv/&s my fault that attorney Larry Jannuzzi's name was missing an "n" here a coupla' weeks ago. Not one to hold a grudge, Larry promises to keep us up to date on speakers for the St. Thomas More Society ' s monthly luncheons. See Datebook for September ' s presenter.

Welcome home...Franciscan Father Jim Goode , pastor of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish from 1983-95 , will preside at a 10:30 a.m. Mass at the Hunters Point church on Aug. 29. Father Jim is currentl y with Solid Ground Ministry at St. Clare Friary in New York. Current pastor , Conventual Franciscan Father John Heinz, invites all to join the community in laying out a big welcome for Father Jim.

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When you are Father Eugene Boyle, you still get arrested; you speak out for a living wage; you lobb y for the homeless; you 3 support farm worker and hospital employee efforts to unionize ; a A you attend last month's Jubilee Justice gathering in Los Angeles. » Father Boyle, 78, is well toiown for his championing of Cesar 5i; Chavez and farm workers' union struggles during the 1960s. The K son of a San Francisco Teamster, the priest hel ped mediate one < X, of the early contracts between the United Farm Workers and San -q Joaquin Valley growers. > s_> He has marched in Selma, Ala. with the late civil rights legend, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. When he became pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in San Francisco in 1968, he provided space to UFW organizers as well 5 as for the Black Panthers ' children 's breakfast program.

"It was important to endorse the posilive side of their work ," he emphasized. "The decision to allow the Panthers to use our basement was based on the dire need for those z children to have something to eat in the morning."

—, But after the program began, a children 's coloring book turned up which called the police "pi gs". It proclaimed , "The only good pig is a dead pig." Media flocked to Sacred Heart after £ a San Francisco police intelligence officer showed the book to a congressional committee.

Father Eugene Boyle (center) participates in a 1969 candlelight march in support of the Years later, a committee headed by Idaho Sen. Frank Church United Farm Workers in San Francisco. investigating the FBI, concluded the agency itself had planted the book at Sacred Heart.

"By then, I was long gone from there. But I just wish the Father Boyle is also helping the homeless. For the past five employees better. "In the past, this matter ot the Church and media had given the (Sen.) Church committee findings as years he has served as chair of the Community Technology wages lias not been good," he said , but he added that most diomuch space as they did the original incident ," Father Boyle Alliance, a hub group for the Bay Area Housing Alliance ceses began responding favorabl y when the U.S. bishops defined says today.

(BAHA). The HUD-funded agency links 54 non-profit agencies a living wage as enough money Lo support a family — housing, Now a resident of Menlo Park, Father Boyle was a priest of in nine California counties in a centralized inform ation system to health care, clothing, nutrition , etc.

Does the social justice veteran have any favorite memories? the Archdiocese of San Francisco until the San Jose Diocese was improve access to shelter, housing, services, benefits, and formed in 1981. He was its vicar for public affairs for a decade employment for homeless or at-risk individuals and families.

Yes, a jailhouse story. In 1973, the first time Father ending in 1994. Among the litany of labor, social justice, and One of its services brings communications access to street Boy le was arrested at a UFW rally in Fresno , he and 30 othpeace activities he has been involved are: people. "Homelessness ' usually means phonelessness ," said ers spent two weeks in a cell block. "Somebod y broug ht in •Hel ping found the national Catholic Campaign for Human Father Boyle, pointing out that individuals trying to find jobs are a bottle of Manischewitz wine and we decided to celebrate Development , said to be the nation 's largest funding source for at a major disadvantage trying to stay accessible to potent ial Eucharist. " Father .Boyle classifies it as a "peak experience , seeing organizations operated by and for the poor employers. Throug h the CTA voice mail syste m, they are better themselves; able to stay linked , not only to future employment opportunities , these men , rang ing in ages from 18 to 78, gathered around a table, singing old hymns and tying them into justice and but to shelter hotlines and support services.

• Running for the State Assembl y in 1974, capturing 40 percent of the vote; Father Boyle traces his passion for social jus- equality. Some of us were fasting...and the biggest temptation tice to his seminary days. The summer of 1939, he when you 're fasting, I learned , is to grab the bi ggest piece oi • Guiding Stanford University 's Newman hired on as a janitor in what is now Selon Medical the Host. When they let us go on Aug J 5, it was the Feast of Center for almost a decade; Center in Daly City. At first young Boyle was the Assumption and there were 400 people waiting outside to • For several years hosting radio shows on impressed with his $50 a month salary. But when greet us." social issues at KSFO in San Francisco and at he realized this was a job which would probably Favorite battle? He said it would have to be 1964 when he KPFA, Berkeley 's listener-supported progressive be held later by a family man , the seminarian took up the "long, hard struggle" against the California Real station. changed his mind. "As I reflected on it, 1 realized Estate Board's successful sponsorship of Prop. 14, an anti-fair He treasures the radio years. "KPFA has the sisters there had a great emphasis on charity, housing amendment. The law was later declared unconstitutionalways been the kind of station where its al. Standing out in his memory, is the night he gave the invocabut not on justice." listeners turn their radio dials to 94.1 FM, and Hospitals and justice issues occupy his mind tion at the Cow Palace when Marti n Luther King, Jr. spoke in then take the knobs off," he joked. once more. He has concerns that Catholic Health favor of abolishing the law.

Not unlike his own intense focus on "social The civil rights pioneer believes all the earl y work done by Care West of California , the third largest Catholic justice " concerns over the years, many might say.

Hospital system in the country, has not been fair activists "was not in vain."

In his own words, "My interests remain the Father Eugene Boyle "But we still have a long way to go," he added. and open in dealing with reg istered nurses, techsame. I want to continue to work for justice and Now officially freed up from pastoral dudes — three years peace as seen in the Gospel." nicians, food service workers, housekeeping and support staff Only these days, the priest no longer pilots an airp lane, as efforts to unionize at 10 Los Angeles and Sacramento hospitals. after retiring as pastor of St. Catherine Parish in Morgan Hill — u he did when he went to farm worker rallies in and around (See Aug. 13 Catholic San Francisco, ...hit impasse," page 19.) Father Boyle celebrates liturgy at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Father Boyle sees Palo Alto. He continues to chair the Interfaith Council on ,-however, Fresno and Del ano. "My hearing 's not that good, anymore," Despite this particular stand-off he explained.

Church support for unions as solid. He also points to labor Religion, Race, Economic and Social Justice for the Diocese of When strawberry workers in Watsonville were organizing forces' efforts to reestablish relations with the Church , and cred- San Jose. The Council has been visible in support of efforts to unionize Stanford UC Hospital and in appeari ng before San Jose two years ago, Father Boyle carpooled himself there to support its AFL-CIO president Joh n Sweeney for making it possible.

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Full communion app roved

DENVER (CNS) — Culminating 30 years of ecumenical dialogue , the churchwide assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America approved full communion with the Episcopal Church Aug. 19. Under full communion , the 5.2 million-member ELCA and the 2.4 million-member Ep iscopal Church will retain their own structures. But each will recognize the other 's sacraments , clergy from either church can be accepted for work in the other , and the two can hold joint worshi p services. In a separate action earlier the same day, the assembl y approved full communion with the Moravian Church in America.

It has been only two years since the ELCA, at its 1997 assembly in Philadel phia , entered full communion with three churches of the Reformed tradition — the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Reformed Churc h in America and the United Church of Christ. The Moravian Church owes its origins to the reform movement of Jan Hus, a Bohemian theologian burned at the stake for heresy in 1415 , regarded as a precursor of the Protestant Reformation.

Pact on Guadalup e basilica

MEXICO CITY (CNS) — A long struggle among Churc h leaders over the status of Mexico City 's Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe ended with an agreement between the Archdiocese of Mexico City and the Mexican bishops ' conference to administer the basilica jointl y. Each year the basilica generates a revenue of about $1.5 million and attracts about 18 million pil grims. The agreement is expected to stop a plan that would have converted the basilica — made up of four churches — into a separate diocese.

Former Lutheran minister La rry Blake , a husband and father of three young children , is awaiting ordination as a Catholic priest for the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis

U.S. p rovinces to decide observance

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Pope John Paul 11 has approved a plan allowing each province of U.S. bishops to decide whether to observe the Feast of the Ascension on Sunday. In practice, the rule is likely to mean most Catholics in the West will observe Ascension on Sunday while most Catholics in the East will continue to observe it on Thursday. In nearly a decade of debates on the issue, bishops from Eastern states have consistentl y been the strongest advocates of keeping Ascension as a holy day of obligation on Thursday, while those from Western states have heavil y favored moving it to Sunday.

Israel to op en p ilgrimag e site

JERUSALEM (CNS) — For the year 2000, the Israeli Civil Administration plans to open what Israel claims is the traditional baptismal site of Jesus along the Jordan River. The site, which is still dotted with land mines from a 1967 military conflict with Jordan , has unti l now been opened to the public onl y three times a year. Part of the area has been cleared of land mines, and barbed-wire fences clearl y mark the path leading to the river.

No electronic sacraments

WASHINGTON (CNS) — No sacrament can be received by electronic communication , the U.S. bishops ' Secretariat for the Liturgy has said. It said liturgical celebrations depend on "the physical presence of the gathered faithful " and "require the physical presence of the bishop, priest, deacon or the approved presiding minister." The secretariat said it had received "several inquiries " on the topic.

MercySisters bach Sister Gramich

BALTIMORE(CNS) — The Baltimore regional community of the Sisters of Mercy has declared its "support for and solidarity with Sister Jeannine Gramick and the School Sisters of Notre Dame," In a statement approved unanimously at their regional conference, the Mercy Sisters said they were "profoundly saddened" by the recent Vatican decision to bar Sister Gramick permanently from the gay and lesbian ministry she has engaged in for the past 28 years. "It is our hope and prayer that this action will be successfully appealed," they said.

couples." Religion can be a bonding force in marriage, but "unmanaged relig ious differences " can be a major source of marital breakup, the study said. The 220-page stud y, "Ministry to Interchurch Marriages," was published in Jul y. It is the result of a three-year research project by the Center for Marriage and Family of Jesuit-run Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. Michael G. Lawler, direc tor of the center and a professor of theology at the university, headed the project.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Three years ago a U.S. bishops ' committee described the Promise Keepers phenomenon as a "wake-up call" for Catholics to form Catholic men 's ministries.

Now a new report says such Catholic ministries are "mushrooming." Catholic men "are meeting together in large and small groups , sharing their burdens , listening to each other 's stories and celebrating the Eucharist," it says. The 10-page report , "Catholic Men 's Ministries ," was sent to the U.S. bishops in a joint effort of the Committee on Marriage and Family and the Committee on Evangelization of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Top rotectp riest-p enitent relation

UNITED NATIONS (CNS) — The Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court concluded Aug. 13 with a provision for the confidentiality of priestpenitent communication in its rules. As the commission began its session at U.N. headquarters in New York, inclusion of the provision seemed in doubt , even thoug h Vatican officials thought recognition of the confidentiality of the confessional was secured in Rome last year.

Iraqi sanctions said 'killing '

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq, supported by the U.S. government, are killing his people — especiall y children and the poor, sick and elderly — said Chaldean Archbishop Djibrael Kassab of Basra , Iraq. In an interview with Catholic News Service, Archbishop Kassab also spoke of Iraq is killed in allied bombings, his efforts to provide basic humanitarian services in a shattered society, and plans for a visit by Pope John Paul II"'to Iraq possibly in early December.

"It is not (just) my hope, but the hope of all the Iraq i people that if the pope comes to Iraq, the sanctions will be ended. "

AIDS network works on resources 3 I CHICAG O (CNS) — The National Catholic AIDS Network hopes to develop family-centered resources to help parents communicate with their children about AIDS and hel p, children and youths to avoid risk-taking behaviors , according to the president of its board of directors .

Catholic schools on up swing

WASHINGTON (CNS) — During the 1998-99 school year, 36 Catholic schools opened , according to a stu dy by the National Catholic Educational Association. The study is loaded with other statistics , including total Catholic school enrollment , now at 2,648,844 in 8,217 Catholic schools1 nationwide. Catholic school overall enrollment has increased. by 81 ,000 during the past six years.

Create Chiap as peace initiative

MEXICO CITY (CNS) — Mexican bishops launched a new initiative for peace in Chiapas , the state in southern Mexico shaken by armed conflict since 1994. Ei g ht members of the peace commission of the bishops ' conference began a three-day visit to Chiapas Aug. 11 with a call for creation of a new mediation group that would bring federal government representatives together again with the Zapatista National Liberation Army, known by its Spanish acro ny m, EZLN.

Pro-lifers blast repo rt

WASHINGTON (CNS) — A study hypothesizing that the legalization of abortion in 1973 is the main cause for a drop in the crime rate in the 1990s is prompting outrage among prolife leaders. "This is absolutel y the most insidious rationale I have ever heard of for tolerating abortion ," said Joseph Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League, of the unpublished research paper, "Legalized Abortion and Crime. " Gail Quinn , executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Pro-life Activities, called the stud y ' s conclusions "insulting " and said they were based on "tentative assumptions " rather than solid scholarship. The 40-page study

by Steven D. Levitt , professor of economics at the University of Chicago, and John J. Donohue III, a professor at Stanford University Law School , was made available to Catholic News Service in mid-August.

SOA closure effort supp orted

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The national board of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas and the executive council of the AFL-CIO have passed resolutions supporting the closing of the U.S. Army School of the Americas. The resolutions note the training school for Latin American military leaders at Fort Benning, Ga., has been connected to human rights abuses by some of its graduates. The Catholic Daughters and the AFLCIO join 120 U.S. bishops , 19 Latin-American bishops and other reli gious, labor, human rights, veterans and social concern s groups in urging that the school be closed.

Father Marx retires

FRONT ROYAL, Va. (CNS) — Benedictine Father Paul Marx, founder of Human Life International, has retired and resigned from the organization 's board of directors, citing health reasons. The Aug. 15 announcement signaled an end to Father Marx 's leadership of the organization he founded in 1981. Benedictine Father Matthew Habiger assumed the presidency in 1994 and succeeded Father Marx as chairman in December 1998. Redemptorist Father Richard Welch is current president. Human Life International describes itself as the world's largest pro-life and pro-family educational apostolate, with 60 chapters in the United States and a network of international branches and affiliates in 89 countries.

Interchurch marriages need help

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Death toll rises in Indonesia

AMBON, Indonesia (CNS) — Clashes between Muslim and Christian mobs reportedly left more than 100 people dead in Ambon , capital of Indonesia 's Maluku province , in midAugust. A dozen people were reportedly killed in overnight battles Aug. 13 and 14. Army troops were deployed to quell the groups — which were armed with swords , spears and bows and arrows. More than 400 deaths h ave been attributed to such battles since the start of the year.

Loot church, leave relic

ROME (CNS) —Thieves looting a Rome church grabbed a stone puiported to hold Christ 's miraculous footprint , but left it behind because it was too heavy. Police said the burglars, unaware of the significance of the marble relic , left it lying on the floor of the Church of St. Sebastian. Instead, they carted off a metal container in which it was displayed and other valuables Aug. 6. The alleged footprint marked the spot where legend holds that St. Peter, on his way out of ancient Rome, was said to have met Christ , asking him: "Domine quo vadis?" or "Lord , where are you going?"

Chinese laity defy warning

HONG KONG (CNS) — Despite a government warning, 4,000 Catholics in eastern China bid farewell to an underground priest who suffered from a tonic spasm for 13 years but kept celebrating Mass every day until he died. Father Matthias Chen Xizhi of Wenzhou Diocese died Jul y 23 in a Catholic 's home in Wenzhou at the age of 85, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. The tonic spasm, in which rigidi ty persists for a long period , kept the priest 's arms permanentl y crooked in front of his breast as though in an embrace.

Greek Orthodox p relate resig ns

NEW YORK (CNS) — After three years of growing turmoil and division in his church , Archbishop Spyridon resigned Aug. 19 as Greek Orthodox archbishop of America.

The Associated Press reported that Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople appointed as a successor Metropolitan Demetrios of Vresthena , 71, — a bishop from Greece widely described as the onl y non-American capable of restoring peace. Archbishop Spyridon , in a letter announcing his resignation , defended his three-year rule and attacked his opponents, who by the end included all five metropolitan bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church in the United States.

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KNOCK , Ireland (CNS) — Irish , President Mary McAleese, in an address to pilgrims at Ireland' s national Marian shrine, cautioned that secular antici pation over the new millennium has "drowned out" the importance of marking the 2,000th anniversary of Christ 's birth. The president noted that many are suffering "millennium overkill ," partl y because "most public attention seems to have focused on festivities and monuments — on the face rather than on the substance of the event." Pilgrims gathered for the annual novena at Our Lady of Knock Shrine packed the basilica Aug. 18.

O RDINARY T IME Come , Holy Spirit , upon Church of Santa Rosa Following is the excerpted homily delivered Aug. 22 at Santa Rosa 's St. Eugene Cathedral by Archbishop Levada.

In his Letter to the Ephesians, St. Paul writes about the Church of Christ in words as applicable to us today as they were that first generation of Catholic Christians. He says, "You are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone. Through him, the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord" (Eph 2:19-21).

In my first public homily as interim apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Santa Rosa, I want to address Bishop Ziemann's resignation from the perspective of faith. The media asks for candor and accountability. I have given my pledge. But my first responsibility is to reflect with you on the spiritual significance of this sad event and on the challenges it presents to us as Church .

The whole Church is affected by Bishop Ziemann's behavior, especially this part of the flock of Christ which we call the Diocese — the "particular Church" — of Santa Rosa. Of course the Church will survive. We have Christ as our "capstone" and guarantee the building will not fall.

In today's Gospel we have heard once again that dramatic encounter between Jesus and Simon Peter which conveys in such a striking way Jesus, love for the Church, to give it a visible shepherd and a foundation on solid rock. The Church' s foundation , as it is narrated in the text of St. Matthew's Gospel, is solidly grounded in Peter's confession of faith: "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God." And Jesus responds, "You are the rock on which my Church is built."

My message to you today is to call us all to a renewed love of the Church following Jesus' own example. I call us to a renewed commitment to the Church, the Bride of Christ, which he has endowed with so many rich spiritual gifts....

It is through the Church that God's saving word is preached day in and day out. This is the good news we hear — that all of us, regardless of our present spiritual condition — are called to the same salvation won for us by Christ, to be sharers in the holiness of God's own life made ours through sanctifying grace.

It is through the Churc h that Christ 's most precious gift of the Eucharist becomes our daily bread and all the other sacraments including the sacrament of the forgiveness of sins are offered to us.

What I would stress today is that this Church, the Bride of Christ that we are called to love as Jesus does, is also a community made up of saints and sinners. It is precisely this Church made up of us that we must love — the Church the Second Vatican Council calls a "pilgrim people" because it is composed of people still on their way to holiness of life, people always in need of deeper conversion and growth.

The fact that this diverse assembly of Jesus' disciples is

afflicted with failures and faults should not cause us to love the Church less, but rather invite us to love it more, and to help us appreciate its gracious message of salvation and means of holiness that are offered to all.

With St. Paul we too know our humanity is fragile and weak.

"We have this treasure (Christ in us] in vessels of clay" (2 Cor 4: 7). Does this mean we have to sin? Not at all, no matter how prone we are to do so, or how much we are tempted. St. Paul gives us the assurance he himself received from Christ: "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor. 12:9).

The challenge we face is to draw deeply on the gifts of faith we have received from Christ in the Holy Spirit, and to overcome the temptations we experience to our faith. On an occasion such as this, the Church wonders why her prayer at the ordination of a priest has run dry: "May he be faithful to the ministry that he receives from you, Lord God, and be to others a model of right conduct." We lament that the prayer of consecration of a bishop has seemed to fall short: "May he be a shepherd to your holy flock, and a high priest blameless in your sight... May he be pleasing to you by his gentleness and purity of heart."

It is a participation in the mystery of the Cross that we are now experiencing, a share in the suffering of Christ in his Body, the Church. And I am sure of this: no one is sharing in that suffering and that Cross now more than our brother bishop and your former shepherd Patrick Ziemann. He has told me again and again of his sorrow, his shame, his guilt. He will no doubt experience in these coming days and years the need to pray again and again the prayer of King David, the Lord's anointed: "Have mercy on me, God, in your goodness; in your abundant compassion blot out my offense.

Wash away all my guilt; from my sin cleanse me." (Psalm 51) The Lord heard the prayer of his servant David. May he hear the prayer of his servant Patrick as well. And may we find it in our hearts to forgive him the scandal he has caused among us through human frailty.

What could be the cause of such a failure by one whom God chose as his anointed shepherd? we may ask. An innate inclination too strong to resist? A vow of celibacy impossible to keep?

The answer of faith is no different from the assurance Christ gave to St. Paul for you: "My grace is sufficient for you."

We know already from our own experience as sinners what the answer to our question is. We rationalize. We think it is only for once. We think God is asking too much of us. We cry that our burdens are too heavy.

But God's grace, given especially through prayer and the sacraments, in particular the sacrament of penance and reconciliation, is ready....

The most important thing to me at present is f or us as Church in the Diocese of Santa Rosa not to let the scandal of this tragedy harm the faith and the faithful lives of those of us who have Christ as our Good Shepherd. We must keep him at the center of our lives.

Archbishop William J. Levada Scandal in the theological sense means putting a stumbling block in another's path, being the cause of another 's falling into sin. Are there those among us, within our Catholic community or within the community at large, who will find in the bishop's fall from grace an opportunity to flee from the demands of faith , to give in to the temptations of their own lives? It would be surprising if it were not so.

It is for this reason I count it so important for us to pray to the Holy Spirit to help us ...to be witnesses of firm faith and models of right conduct for our brothers and sisters, especially our young people whose faith and life values are still being formed in the challenging environment of our secular society. .. .1 want to repeat my message: love the Church, and pray for the Church. Pray to the Holy Spirit , as Mary and the apostles did on the Pentecost, for a new outpouring of his gifts for the Church , for this particular Church of Santa Rosa. Let us pray for healing for those who have been wounded or abused, for strength for those who are weak, for that full measure of love which will enable us to "bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ" (Gal. 6:2).

Let us invoke the Holy Spirit as well for guidance and wisdom in every facet of the long process of discernment which will provide this particular Church with her new bishop May our prayer help us prepare a place in our hearts... for the bishop who will come to be your new shepherd....

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On May 17 members of Crossroads met with Archb ishop William J. Levada at Mission Dolores Basilica where he presided at a Mass before members of the student group began their walk across the United States to protest abortion, euthanasia and other assaults on human life. Back from left: Andrew Daub, Archbishop Levada , Valerie Sharp and Father Maurice McCormick , pastor of Mission Dolores Basilica; front from left: Father Peter West, Rhiannon Dick, unidentified student, and David Regan. The students successfully complete d their 3,400-mile walk on Aug. 14 in Washingto n,D.C, coincidentally the day Archbishop Levada led an archdiocesan pilgrimage of 400 people to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception there. Along their route, students delivered pro-life talks to parishes, school and community groups and gave interviews to national and local media. The group complete d their journey by reciting the rosary on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court (photo at right), then walking to the U.S. Capitol. The students said they walked the last steps, covering 4,400 feet,to draw attention to the estimated number of abortions performed each day in the United States. "It was our little way of being symbolic of the 4, 400 babies who will die today across the nation," said Steve Sanborn who established Crossroads in 1995.

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Priests from the Phili pp ine Province of Bohol gathered at Vallombrosa Center in Menlo Park during the last week of Jul y.

AH of the priests serve in assignments away from their homeland including 10 who work in parish ministry in the Archdiocese; one who is a member of the Vatican di plomatic corps and several who minister in Canada.

This is their 14* annual convocation and the second at Vallombrosa. Other sites have included Houston , Las Vegas, New York, Chicago, Toronto and San Diego. The week includes prayer, guest speakers, tours of local parishes and sights, and a closing dinner dance attended by more than 400 people who have come to know the priests through the years.

Speaking to the priests this year were Las Vegas Bishop Daniel Walsh and San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John Wester.

"Bohol is a small island biessed with many vocations ," said Father Floro

U.S.A., all studied at Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary in the Philipp ines which will be the location of next year's reunion in honor of the school's 50"' anniversary.

"It's a very forti fying time for us," Father Arcamo said , adding 35 of the 40 member priests, including Most Reverend Antonietto Cabajog, Auxiliary Bishop of Cebu and a cousin of Father Tungol , were expected at Vallombrosa.

Other Bohol priests serving in the Archdiocese are Fathers Rolando Caverte, parochial vicar, Mater Dolorosa Parish , South San Francisco; Charito Suan , parochial vicar, Church of the Epi phany, Felix Namocatcat, parochial vicar, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City ; Jed Sumampong, parochial vicar , St. Augustine and Jonathan Paala, parochial vicar, St. Monica.

Father Tungol said Bohol continues to give "priests to the world" with at least five being ordained each year.

Arcamo , pastor , St. Mark Parish , Belmont , one of five pastors in the Archdiocese hailing from Bohol.

Others are Fathers Eugene Tungol , St. Augustine , South San Fran-cisco; D o m i n g o Orimaco, Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon At priests' reunion at Vallombrosa Center late last month were, Bay; Manuel front from left: Father Eugene Tungol , Father Floro Arcamo , Curso , Our Lady Msgr. John Pernia , Father Jed Sumampong; back from left: of Mercy, Dal y Father Charito Suan, Father Rolando Caverte, City and Msgr.

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Philippine president offers legislative role to bishops (CNS) — MANILA , Philippines Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato said President Joseph Estrada offered the country 's bishops five seats on a body of economic experts he is forming to draft an agenda for constitutional change.

The bishop , who takes over the presidency of the Catholic Bishops ' Conference of the Philipp ines Dec. 1, met with Estrada and other government officials in mid-August concerning Estrada 's plan to amend the 1987 Phili ppine Constitution. The bishops ' conference has opposed (he proposal.

Auxiliary Bishop Teodoro Bacani of Manila , Bishop Carlito Cenzoi. of the apostolic vicariate of Tabuk , and Bishop Francisco Claver of the Bontoc-Lagawe apostolic vicariate , also attended the meeting in the presidential office in Manila.

"My impression is that (Estrada) is quite sincere in wanting to limit the changes to the economic articles of the constitution ," Archbishop Quevedo told UCA News Service, based in Thailand.

The president told the bishops he would

reserve five seats for the bishops on a commission of 20 economic experts to study defects in economic provisions of the constitution and to recommend changes , the archbishop said.

The bishops have rallied against constitutional change, believing the movement had been intended to extend the term of office of former President Fidel Ramos.

Estrada is pushing for a constituent assembly aimed at constitutional economic reforms "to sharpen the country 's global competitiveness and transform it into a magnet for forei gn investments and jobs in the reg ion," said a news release from his office.

Archbishop Quevedo said the bishops asked officials at the meeting for guarantees that legislators would not pursue a political agenda once Congress had convened a constituent assembly.

"Estrada said each member (of the assembly) would si gn a covenant restricting the agenda to that proposed by the economic experts. When he said that the people will just have to trust their legislators, we were skeptical ," the prelate said.

Archbishop Quevedo said the bishops had

hoped the meeting would discuss specifics of Estrada 's planned change and answer questions about protection for small Filipino entrepreneu rs.

Church leaders had also hoped to hear how the government planned to protect the welfare of poor Filipinos in a global economy, he said.

The bishops ' president-elect said none of the officials who gave presentations at the meeting mentioned protecting the poor until the bishops raised questions. None of the officials gave specific answers, he added.

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The archbishop said the bishops maintained that investors, rather than seeking constitutional change, are more interested in better infrastructure, less red tape, elimination of corruption and improvement in law and order.

Estrada , he said, countered that amending the constitution is required to avoid court challenges based on the 1987 constitution.

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Priest Retirement Fund Collection to be Sept. 26 The annual Priests' Retirement Fund collection has been scheduled Sept. 26 for all parishes of the Archdiocese, according to the Office of Stewardship and Development which oversees the appeal.

There are currently 54 retired priests in the Archdiocese.

"Funds fro m this collection and the Archbishop 's Annual Appeal help give our priests a choice of living at a parish where they once served, living with family, or spending their golden years at the Serra Clergy House, Nazareth House or St. Anne's Home," a spokesperson for the office said.

Parishes will distribute educational information about the collection.

Italian Catholic Federation p lans 75th anniversary The Italian Catholic Federation (ICF) will celebrate its 75th anniversary, Sept. 3-6, when the ICF's annual convention at the Embarcadero Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Francisco is expected to draw over 2,000 delegates, members and guests.

A special heritage exhibit will include photos and memorabilia from the ICF history. The convention will also feature music, cooking exhibitions and events of historical and cultural interest.

On special exhibit will be "Una Storia Segreta," (The Secret Story), which documents violations of ItalianAmerican civil rights during World War II. A gala banquet will be held Saturd ay evening at the Hyatt Regency Ballroom. The banquet will honor the reci p ient of ICF's Pope John XXIII Award, the Federation 's highest award presented annually to a lay individual who best exemplifies the humanitarian spirit of the late pontiff. This year's honoree is Mary Ann Wright of Oakland , selected for her charitable work among the poor, hungry and needy.

One of the highlig hts of the annual convention will include a concelebrated Mass , set for St. Mary 's Cathedral at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 5. Principal celebrant will be Archbishop William J. Levada, who will be joined by Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles.

Also concelebrating will be Bishop Gerald R. Barnes of San Bernardino; Bishop Step hen E. Blaire of Stockton; Bishop Tod D. Brown of Orange; Bishop John S. Cummins of Oakland; Bishop Sylvester Ryan of Monterey; Bishop Daniel L. Ryan of Springfield, II.; Bishop Joseph M. Sartoris of Los Angeles; Bishop Phillip F. Stealing of Reno, Nev.; Bishop John T. Steinbock of Fresno; and Bishop Gabino Zavala of Los Angeles.

Joining the bishops in concelebrating the Mass will be Msgr. E. James Petersen, chap lain of the ICF Central Council and Msgr. Charles J. Durkin , archdiocesan Chaplain of ICF, as well as chap lains and pastors of the many branches of the Federation.

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Students — Tomorrow 's Leaders," it has been Total parish goal for the Archdiocese is $10 milannounced that the five parishes involved in an lion, which when added to $20 million being sought initial "p ilot " p hase of the from foundations , corporate Catholic school tu ition endowdonors , and individual s, would ment campaign went well beyond increase by $30 million the their financial targets.

Archdiocese 's current $5 million The five raised nearly $1.6 endowment for Catholic school million — more than 230 percent tuition assistance. of targets, according to campaign Funds raised in excess of the officials. target amounts remain in the When including an extraordiparishes, officials said. nary matching gift of $500,000 At Holy Angels "over target" received through San Francisco 's funds will be used to help finance its Church of the Epiphany Parish, new science lab for the parish the five actually more than tripled school. At Epiphany, the campaign their initial targets. Even excludfunds are being used to renovate the ing the large gift , Epiphany existing convent into expanded exceeded its $243,165 goal by school facilities. raising $613,635 (252%).

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Young adult office es tablished a young adult continues to be undercatechized , that 's a choice."

She cited "plenty of opportunities " to rectif y the situaThe first director of the Archdiocese's new Office of Young Adult Ministry says her department 's goals are still tion , including attending "Fall Fest ," reading the in development as she busily seeks answers to two critical Catechism of the Catholic Church , partici pating in questions: what is already happening for parishioners aged RENEW, and enrolling in Bible study classes or the 18 to 40, and what do the various young adult populations School of Pastoral Leadershi p.

She also mentioned instruction in the sacraments, such need most?

In her groundbreaki ng position, San Rafael Dominican as pre-marriage and pre-baptism classes. She added young Sister Christine Wilcox said she will coordinate services adults who serve as lectors, greeters, eucharistic ministers for a diverse group: single or married , divorced or and members of parish pastoral councils also receive widowed , with or without children , life-long or just- instruction in the faith .

Sister Christine pointed to herself as a "re-entry" entering Catholics.

Catholic. Raised Catholic, her family left the The definition of "young adult " is Church when she was young, she said. She "more fluid than it sounds," Sister Christine attended Mass again at the invitation of a explained during an Aug. 17 interview in college friend , who now jokes Sister Christine her office, adding that it would be unrealistic "is a much better Catholic" than she. to expect the new office "to be responsible Sister Christine worked as a volunteer for meeting all of the needs." She said she coordinator for young adult ministry at is developing the new position "by doing a ASU"s Newman Center. "Doing that kind of whole lot of listening." ministry deepened my faith ," she said.

Young adult ministry has existed at First of the "plenty of opportunities " for individual parishes, such as Burl ingame's young adults is Fall Fest '99, scheduled for Our Lady of Angels and San Francisco 's Oct. 23 at University of San Francisco. The St. Dominic, St. Gabriel , .St. Vincent de new office did not plan the event, but Sister Paul , and St. Kevin. However, this is the Sister Christine Wilcox Wilcox is helping promote it. firs t time the Archdiocese has had a formal This will be Fall Fest's third year. Called "Faith for the office for young adults. Sister Christine sees it as a clearinghouse for information and a link to other ministries, Future," the day-long conference and dinner-dance will feature Auxiliary Bishop John Wester, Father David M. such as marriage and family life.

"Young adults are critically addressing all aspects of Pettingill, Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan, USF's Campus their lives," Sister Christine stated. "That's what makes Ministry Director Maureen Pryor, and others .

"Fall Fest shows how young adults wanted something," them young adults. They are asking, 'What does it mean to be human? A citizen? A child of God?' They ask 'Why are Sister Christine said. "It shows they were willing to gel out there and make it happen." we here?' and very importantly, Ts this all there is?'"

Sister Christine's first major assignment will be to locally The graduate of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff coordinate for World Youth Day 2000 in Rome, Italy. The and Arizona State University in Tempe said she does not annual trek is scheduled for next Aug. 6-21 for Catholics at when working with young adults. avoid difficult topics "Secular society teaches either/or. It's one thing or it's least 16 years old. The Holy Father founded World Youth Day the other," the 34-year-old former English teacher in 1984.

"This year's focus for Worid Youth Day is young adults," explained. "I don't believe that. If someone comes to me with questions, I'll share what I know and I'll listen to what Sister Christine explained. "The understanding of 'youth' worldwide is much older than we consider it. It's age 18 to 35 they know."

When asked whether young adults have received or 40 in other languages and cultures. World Youth Day is insufficient Catholic instruction, Sister Christine said, actually World Young Adult Day." Sister Christine may be "It's a shame if young adults are undercatechized and if contacted at (415) 565-3600, ext. 2045.

The third annual Fall Fest conference for young adult Catholics, titled "Faith for the Future," will be held Oct. 23 at the University of San Francisco.

Scheduled keynote speaker for the day-long event, San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester will address the theme of "Proclaiming Jubilee."

Participants can take part in three workshop sessions, liturgy, and a dinner dance, say planners.

"It's an exciting day where building bridges and learning from each other takes a natural course," said Vicki Otto, a member of the pastoral staff St. Raphael Parish, San Rafael.

The School of Pastoral Leadership (SPL) inspired Fall Fest, she said, explaining that after attending young adult ministry courses at SPL, several students wanted to continue the bond created by the SPL environment.

Presentation Sister Monica Miller, Fall Fest '99 events coordinator, "became our mentor," said Otto.

"Sister spearheaded the grassroots concept of a daylong conference for young adults. Her spirit and determination embodied all of us to know what it 's like to be in the Church and part of the Church. The first Fall Fest began because of a grant from the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael. It's been growing ever since."

Fall Fest '99 will offer a variety of workshops including "Top Ten Reasons to Be Catholic," "Friendship, Intimacy and Sexuality," "Examined Life: Finding God in All Things ," "Re-Confirming Your Faith: Re-membering the Church ," "A Want Ad for the Future: Lay Ministry in the Church."

Fall Fest '99 coordinators will be working in collaboration with the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Office of Young Adult Ministry.

Fee for Fall Fest '99 is $35 for the day (9:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.), $45 after Oct. 1. Volunteers are needed for a variety of committees. For further information, visit web site: www.fall-fest.org; e-mail: fall_ @juno.com or call the Fall Fest hotline (4 15) 675-5900.

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Parental notification

Catholic, J ewish young adults plan third Tribes' meet

Initiative camp aign supp orted by Catholics Residents of California will soon have the opportunity to sign a petition for a state constitutional amendment that would require physicians to notify parents before performing abortions on minors. Catholic bishops and the California Catholic Conference have voiced support for the initiative.

Secretary of State Bill Jones recently authorized proponents of the initiative to begin collecting signatures, according to a memo from the California Catholic Conference in Sacramento.

A total of 670,816 signatures of registered voters must be collected by Jan. 6, 2000, for the measure to appear on the fall ballot , or at any special statewide election held prior to the general election.

The Parental Notification for Abortion measure would amend the state constitution so that no abortion could legally be performed on an unemancipated minor until the physician notifies her parents or legal guardians. It mandates at least 48 hours notice prior to the abortion.

The rationale of the initiative reads, in part , 'The people find that there exists a compelling and important state interest in protecting minors, in fostering the family structure and preserving it as the primary social unit , and in protecting the rights of parents and children. A minor faced with medical , psychological and emotional decisions like abortion , with serious and lasting consequences, is better able to make full y informed choices with open communication with her parents. Currently, a pregnant minor as young as 13 or 14, can now obtain an abortion without any notification to her parents whatsoever.

"Further," it states, "parents who are aware that their minor daughter is considering an abortion, or has had an abortion, are better able to secure for her the best medical attention. Parental consultation regarding abortion is desirable and in the best interest of the minor."

The initiative 's accompany ing statute would authorize monetary penalties and damage claims for violations of the law. In addition , the statute would permit a minor to confidentially petition juvenile court for a notification waiver in the event of proven physical or sexual abuse by a parent or guardian.

California Catholic Conference of Bishops Executive Director Ned Dolejsi said the bishops "think very favorably about the initiative." He pointed out, "It 's parental notification, rather than parental consent."

"The California Catholic Conference is in support of this initiative," Associate Director David Pollard told The Tidings newspaper of Los Angeles.

"It 's an attempt to ri ght a wrong that has been written into law and that has reflected an attitude about family and parental communication that has existed for some time now. I think we've been tearing the foundation out from under marriage and family for years." "(A sixteen-year-old) girl can 't be given an aspirin by a school nurse," Pollard said, "and yet the same

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Respect Life Office, hailed the proposed amendment as The evening's agenda will include discusan important family life issue. sion of the sacrament of reconciliation and the "It encourages parents to have communication with Jewish Holy Days of Atonement. their minor children ," said Buckley, who pointed out This is the third meeting of the faiths coorparents have the responsibility to know if their daughter dinated by the interfaith young adult group p lans invasive surgery. "You don 't leave a 14-year-old "Two Tribes." An initial gathering, looking alone with this huge decision." generally at the "Jewish and Catholic Young Citing another advantage, Buckley said that when a Adult Experience," took place in April and another, which looked at traditions of prayer, physician sends a letter to her parents, "the girl doesn 't took place in July. ' feel she is going into the lion s den all by herself. Very More than 50 young adults have attended often , when parents have knowledge of the situation , each of the previous dialogues. At least that they generally want to help their children." number are expected for next month's get Buckley said that states with parental notification together, said Mary Jansen, an associate in the amendments have seen a marked decrease in abortions.

Young Adult Ministry Office of the The California Catholic Conference memo reports Archdiocese and a founding member of Minnesota and Nebraska both have notification laws "Two Tribes."

The group also sponsored a fundraiser on and have experienced a 34 and 39 percent reduction, Aug. 26 to help a Sacramento synagogue respectivel y, in aborti ons. Minnesota had a 27 percent the library it recently lost to an replace drop in teen pregnancies. 's fire. arsonist A national study commissioned by The Consortium For information, call (415) 553-6503. of State Physicians Resource Councils also showed abstinence education is taking hold, reducing teen pregnancy and abortion rates throughout the United States.

Chris Lyford , director An Evening Series Sponsored by the School of Pastoral Leadership of the Family Life Belief in God Office, said his depart" , Thursday, September 2 O.P. Fr. Steve Maekawa ment , in conjunction with the Respect Life Belief in Jesus Christ Office, will take a lead Thursday, September 9 Fr. James Alyward role in facilitating Belief in the Church signature gathering.

Barber, Thursday, September 16 S.J. Fr. Michael For more information about the notification 761 Hilary Drive @ Rockdale Drive, Tiburon St. Hilary Church: initiative or to request petitions, call (toll-free) 7:30-9:00 PM All Welcome No Charge (877) 203-0066.

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Priests serving the Archdiocese celebrate jub ilees Msgr. John J. Kenny, 70 Years

Father Joseph P. O'Reilly, 60 years Father Simeon Chang, 50 years

A native of Ireland.

Msgr. Kenny was ordained on June 6, 1929 and named monsignor by Pope Paul VI in 1976. He has served in areas presentl y and no longer a part of the Archdiocese having been a parochial vicai at St. Leo in San Jose; St. Anthony and St. Jarlath in Oakland and St. Cecilia. He was the founding pastor of St. Anne's in the East Bay 's Brentwood. He became pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Belmont in 1951 and retired there in 1981.

A native San Franciscan , Father O'Reilly was ordained on June 3, 1939. He has served as a parochial vicar at Mission Dolores; St. Philip; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay ; Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City and St. Margaret Mary, Oakland. He is also a former associate director of cemeteries for the Archdiocese. He has been pastor of St. Anthony, Menlo Park; St. Agnes and St. Stephen , where he now lives and from where he retired in 1987.

Born in China , Father Chang was the ordained for Trappist community on April 4, 1949 and came to the Archdiocese to become a diocesan priest in 1975.

His first and onl y assignment here was as parochial vicar at St. Monica Parish where he served , and now makes his home, from 1976 until retiring in 1993.

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40 Years Father Peter McDonald Born in Ireland, Father McDonald was ordained on June 14, 1959 and came to the Archdiocese in 1974. Pastor of St, Anselm, Ross, since 1982, he previously served as a parochial vicar at St. Emydius; Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Daly City and St. Anselm.

Msgr. Ignatius Wang Director , of the archdiocesan Office of the Propagation of the Faith , Msgr. Wang was born in China and ordained on Jul y 4, 1959. He came to the Archdiocese in 1974.

He has served as a parochial vicar at St. .Veronica, South San Francisco; St. Victor, San Jose; St Matthew, San Mateo and St. Kevin. He was pastor of St. Francis of Assisi in North Beach, today the Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, from 1982-92. A canon lawyer, Msgr. Wang has also assisted in the Tribunal of the Archdiocese. He resides at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in the Sunset District. Named a monsignor by Pope John Paul II in 1989, Msgr. Wang is also chancellor pro-tem of die Archdiocese.

Msgr. John F. Rodriguez A native of Spain, Msgr. Rodri quez was ord ained on June 5, 1959 and came to the Archdiocese in 1978. He was named monsignor by Pope John Paul II in 1989.

He has served as a parochial vicar at St. Mary Cathedral and as pastor of St. Finn Barr Parish. He was named administrator of Menlo Park's St. Denis in 1991 becoming pastor in 1992, his current post.

Msgr. Rodriquez brother is Father Jose Rodriguez, pastor, St. Charles of Borromeo Parish , San Francisco.

Father Arturo Albano Currently parochial vicar at Holy Angels Parish, Colma, Father Albano came to the Archdiocese in 1979 from his native Philippines. Before beginning his ministry at Holy Angels in 1995, Father Albano served as a parochial vicar at St. Leo, San Jose; St. Luke, Foster City ; Our Lady of Perpetual Hel p, Daly City ; Mater Dolorosa , South San Francisco and St. Patrick , San Francisco. In addition to English , Father Albano is fluent in Spanish and Tagalog.

Father Stephen H. Howell President of Juni pero Serra High School , San Mateo, Father Howell is a native San Franciscan , ordained on May 18, 1974.

Father Howell graduated from Serra and the University of San Francisco and spent several years teaching in San Francisco schools before entering the seminary in 1970.

He served as a parochial vicar at St. Timothy, San Mateo before joining the Serra faculty in 1975. He was named president in 1978.

Father Gregory G. Ingels Father Ingels spent much of his boyhood in San Anselmo before entering the seminary as a high school freshman in 1958.

He was ordained on May 18, 1974.

He has served as a parochial vicar at St. Raymond , Menlo Park and St. Charles, San Carlos, but the greater part of his priesthood has been dedicated to canon law and hi g h school teaching. He was a member of the faculty at Marin Catholic High School for five years and has practiced canon law for more than 10 years with the Tribunal of the Archdiocese and as a canon law advisor to the Archbishop. He is also a former chancellor of the Archdiocese.

Father Thomas Parenti Pastor, St. Brendan Parish , since 1998, Father Parenti was ordained on May 18, 1974. Born in San Francisco, Father Parenti has served as parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; St. Raphael', San Rafael; and St. Anne of the Sunset. He was a member of the faculty at Marin Catholic High School when he was named pastor of St. John the Evangelist in 1988.

He was pastor of St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, from 1994-98.

Capuchin Fathers Evangelist Kelly, Michael Mahoney and Bertram Mulligan at Jubilee Mass at Our Lady of Angels Parish , Burlingame in June.

Capuchin Franciscans Father Evangelist Kelly, 50 years Born in Ireland , Father Evangelist Kelly entered the Capuchin Order in 1940 and was ordained on June 16, 1949. He has served in California and Oregon parishes and schools and was vice provincial of his community from 1968-74.

A former pastor of Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Father Kelly has served as a parochial vicar there since 1997. He'll begin retreat work in Southern Californi a in September.

Father Bertram Mulli gan, 50 years A native of Ireland, Father Bertram Mulligan entered the Capuchin Order in 1941 and was ordained on June 16, 1949.

A former pastor of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame, he has also led parishes

Father Paul Rossi A San Rafael native where he has been pastor of St. Raphael for the past two years, Father Rossi was ordained on May 18, 1974.

Previously, he taught high school at both Marin Catholic and Serra and served as a parochial vicar at St. Elizabeth; St. Cecilia; St. Paul; St. Robert, San Bruno, and St. Patrick, Larkspur. He was pastor of St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish, Sausalito, from 1994-97. He is also a former director of the Newman Center at San Francisco State University.

in Southern California and Oregon. He has been retired and in residence at his community 's St. Francis of Assisi Friary in Burlingame since 1991.

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Father Michael Mahoney, 25 years Born in Ireland , Father Micheal Mahoney. entered the Capuchin Order in 1964 and was ordained on June 9, 1974. â&#x20AC;˘He has served in the Archdiocese for 15 years as a parochial vicar at Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame, from 1978-84 and as pastor of that Peninsula community from 1991 to the present. He was also Capuchin postulant director at their Richmond District house in 1984 and 1985.

Other service has been as a prison chaplain from 1974-78 and pastor of a Southern California parish from 1985-91.

Father Heribert Duquet, 60 years A native of France, Father Heribert Duquet was ordained for the Parish Foreign Mission Society in 1939.

During World War II he was imprisoned for five years in a German prison camp. Upon his release he became a missionary in Singapore, later serving in Canada. From 1966 to 1977 he served as procurator for his community with the responsibility of visiting all Paris Foreign Mission Society locations around the world.

In 1977, he came to live at St. Cecilia Parish where today continues as the regular presider at the 6:30 a.m. weekday Mass and brings Communion and friendship to the sick at residences, hospitals and care facilities.

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San Rafael Dominicans celebrate 70 years

Father Michael Ribotta , 50 years

Father Aloysius Pestun, 40 years

Born in Ital y, Father Michael Ribotta entered the Salesians in 1939 and was ordained on June 29, 1949.

The priest, who holds a doctorate in education , has devoted his ministry to the teaching apostolate, serving as teacher and princi pal at Salesian schools in New Jersey and California. He was an associate superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco from 1976-78.

He now lives in retirement at Sts. Peter & Paul Parish in San Francisco's North Beach.

Born in Slovakia , Father Aloysius Pestun entered the Salesians in 1946 and was ordained on June 13, 1959.

Father Pestun has ministered as teacher, librarian and parish priest at several California locations including Salesian High School in Richmond and Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in San Francisco's North Beach.

Since 1996, he has been a parochial vicar at Corpus Christi Parish , San Francisco.

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Jesuit Father Edwin J. McDermott, 50 years Father McDermott, who came to San Francisco with his famil y when he was six , entered the Jesuits in 1936 and was ordained in 1949. The St. Ignatius College Preparatory alumnus has served 20 years in Jesuit high schools , including San Jose's Bellarmine , and in 1970 became the first director of the Jesuit Secondary Educational Association. In 1978, Father McDermott became part of the University of San Francisco 's acclaimed Institute for Catholic Educational Leadershi p.

Jesuit Father Robert F. Curran, 25 years A San Francisco native , Father Curran entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1964 after graduating from San Jose's Bellarmine Preparatory and completing his freshman year at Gonzaga University.

He is a civil attorney with a degree from UC Davis School of Law and has been legal counsel to USF since 1983.

Hundreds of famil y, friends , co-workers and well-wishers gathered at a Jul y 24 Mass at St. Raphael Church in San Rafael to celebrate the ministries of Dominican Sisters of San Rafael marking jubilees this year.

Following the liturgy a garden reception was held at Dominican Convent in San Rafael.

Serving in the Archdiocese for nearly 150 years, the Dominican Sisters have among many other ministries founded Dominican College (original ly College of the Holy Rosary) in 1889.

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Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle (Paulists) Father Charles Albright, 50 years A native of Colorado, Paulist Father Charles Albright entered the Paulists in 1942 and was ordained on May 3, 1949 at his community 's mother church , St. Paul the Apostle in New York City.

Campus ministry has been the thrust of Father Albri ght 's work and , in addition to his years at UC Berkeley, he has served at schools including UC Santa Barbara, University of New Orleans and Clemson University. He now lives in retirement at Old St. Mary 's Cathedral in San Francisco.

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Father Edward Maher, 50 years Paulist Father Edward Maher, who made his first promises as a Paulist in 1943 and was ordained on May 3, 1949, began his association with the community as a boy at Good Shepherd Parish in New York City.

The heart of Father Maher 's ministry has been preaching. He has served at parishes across the United States and with, at least, two Paulist Mission Bands. He has been in residence at Old St: Mary 's Cathedral in San Francisco since 1993.

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"A year of workshops couldn 't accomplish the evangelization that was done on the three-day pilgrimage," said Noemi Castillo, who directs the Office of Ethni c Ministries which organized the pilgrimage.

"So many of this country's cultural tensions could be eliminated as witnessed by the multicultural gathering in D.C. that came together as a representation of one people of God , sharing faith , music and common hopes and dreams. " The multicultural theme was picked up the first evening in an address to the pilgrims by Bishop Nicolas DiMarzio , chairman of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops ' Committee on Migra tion and Refugee Services.

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After an introductory narrative that describes the 20oi-maybe-more-year dialogue between Church authorities and the two religious, the Notification states: "Given the failure of the repeated attempts of the Church's legitimate authorities to resolve the problems presented by the writings and pastoral activities of the two authors, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is obliged to declare for the good of the Catholic faithful that the positions advanced by Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent regarding the intrinsic evil of homosexual acts and the objective disorder of the homosexual inclination are doctrinall y unacceptable because they do not faithfully convey the clear and constant teaching of the Catholic Church in this area."

Release of the text in the United States was accompanied by public assurances from several high-ranking Church officials that the Notification was not to be seen as pulling the carpet from under outreach to the gay and lesbian community. On the contrary, they said, Christ's work and healing must be promulgated within the gay and lesbian community.

Unfortunately, the Notification has been received, has been interpreted , has been felt by many — inside and outside the gay community — as hurtful , heartless, or even homophobic. In a real sense, too much of the criticism — from within and without the Church — has been as nonpastoral and ill-informed as it claims the Notification to be.

One cannot help but hope the dialogue on this sensitive and important matter might be positivel y advanced if those who live, work and minister within the gay and lesbian "world" would even more courageously reach out to the larger Church. Within the gay community itself, this could become a model of Christian "conversation" as its members themselves disagree on many of the issues addressed in the Notification — the need for chastity, the definition of homosexual, etc.

By the same token, one cannot help but wonder how the same dialogue might mature and blossom if those uncomfortable, uninformed or just uninterested would seek paths of understanding into the "world" of the homosexual person — avoiding becoming one-book or one-talk-show "experts".

Based on respect and candor, these genuine possibilities exist in this Archdiocese in a way not possible in most other places in the world. We have a large, articulate gay population. We have a tradition of tolerance and forbearance. We have access to institutions , experts and energy.

We as a local Catholic community repeatedly underscore the importance of racial, ethnic and cultural unity — of creating the family of Christ. Let's be sure we include everyone. DMY (Note: The text of the CDF Notification is available at the Web site: http://\vww.necbMcc.org/comm/archives/99-171b.htm)

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On behalf of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, I am writing to thank the faithfu l of the Archdiocese of San Francisco for your very generous contribution of $89,596.70. This support reflects your strong commitment to help ing the poor hel p themselves to create better lives and stronger communities.

Through your generous support of the Catholic Campaign , CCHD-funded projects are activel y involved in creating job s, supporting families and children , building affordable housing, and encourag ing selfsufficiency. CCHD and funded groups strive to "help people help themselves" through many activities, including: • Congregation-based organizations that address the full range of neighborhood renewal: housing, jobs, education , and solutions to crime.

• Organizing centers for legal immigrants that confront unfair employment prac- t ¦ tices. The centers affirm the dignity of each person by working to ensure that employers do not take advantage of lower-skilled workers, but pay them what they are due.

• Child care cooperatives in inner cities that nurture young children , create living-wage jobs , and provide parents a safe and loving environment for their children.

In his 1999 World Day of Peace message, Pope John Paul II looked toward the new millennium and challenged us all to reach out to our brothers and sisters, reminding us that promoting human dignity is essential to the common good oi society.

The people of San Francisco have responded generously to the Hol y Father's challenge . This contribution represents a 32 percent increase over last year's gift. Many thanks to your clergy, religious and laity for this increase which is essential to meeting the needs of the poor.

Father Robert J. Vitillo Executive Director, CCHD Washington, D.C, (Ed. note: the archdiocesan 1999 Campaign for Human Developmen t collection is scheduled for Masses of Nov. 21.)

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In your Aug. 13 edition you put a picture of a log with the so-called p icture of Christ on it. Enclosed is a photo I took that I believe you might find interesting. As you can see, this is a chalice image. A strange thing about this log is that the next day I went to see it again and the outline of the chalice was not there .

Your Catholic San Francisco is getting better all the time , and I congratulate you. I have one suggestion. Your "books , film , music , radio , TV" reviews are not that clear and could use some revision and improvement. Another comment: The Aug. 13 dep iction of the Assumption of Mary, a contemporary glass piece from Lourdes , France , is not the best choice. Mary must have a face!

Ada Duner San Rafael

'Greatly saddened '

The Sisters of Mercy, Burlingame Reg ion , concur with (he statement of the Leadershi p Conference of Women Religious (July 30, page 16) on the termination of the ministries of Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent to the gay and lesbian communities. We, too, are greatl y saddened by the decision of the Vatican Congregation (for the Doctrine) of the Faith. We strongly believe in the importance of outreach to these communities and in the value of these ministries as Sister Gramick and Father Nugent had carried them out over many years. As an expression of our conviction that the ministries should continue, we are sending a donation to the School Sisters of Notre Dame to the fund their Baltimore Province has established for gay and lesbian outreach.

Judy Carle, RSM Diane Grassilli, RSM Corita Burnham, RSM Marian Clare Valenteen, RSM (Regional Leadership Team, Burlingame Regional Community, Sisters of Mercy )

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Your "Attack upon one" editorial is troubling because it compares disagreement with Mormon Church activities - on behal f of the Knight Initiative, which the Catholic Church supports - with the arson and fire bombings of synagogues in Sacramento. Lawyers I know, of vary ing personal persuasions , have suggested that Mormon activity is not a violation of church-state boundaries , and, given the sophisticati on of the Mormon organization , is not likely to become one.

While criticism of Mormon actions may be in error, it is a terrible trivialization to compare such criticism to, among other atrocities, the burning of 5,000 books in the library of Congregation B' nai Israel in Sacramento , not to mention the terrorization of innocent children and adults.

Barbara Berman San Francisco

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Church not 'lounge '

The Roman Catholic Church is not a lounge for unrepentant sinners , particul arl y those who demand that their cherished sin is not sin at all. The Church is in the business of leading sinners to repentance , not making it more comfortable for them. These souls should be encouraged to refute their fallacious ideology and repent of their sins before it's too late.

Eternal damnation is a very real prospect for those who think they can beat around the bush with God, who think somehow they can negotiate with God in the matter of their sexual peccadilloes. Letter-writers like Mr. Lenartz (July 30) should come to Jesus and admit they are sinners and apolog ize for their weaknesses and ask forgiveness. The sin is not being a homosexual , but in denying that homosexual acts are sinful.

Steven Catalano Manteca LETTERS, page 16

Guest Commentary.

Celibacy: sexual dysfunction? kingdom and the Church , and to do all of this (5) for the sake of charity (this last point strongly emphasized in the pontificate of John Paul II).

A critical criterion for a happy and authentic celibate life is whether or not the priest is truly living a life of charity toward others. This virtue falters and sometimes fails when the first four aspects of the meaning celibacy are put in j eopardy.

In making this commitment (which makes the assumption that one in fact is capable of this level of responsibility/engagement), the priest promises a chaste lifestyle in which he clearly witnesses to the Church' s belief that " ... when human sexuality is not regarded as a great value given by the creator, the renunciation of it for the sake of the kingdom of heaven loses its meaning."

(John Paul II, Familiaris Consortia, 1981. No. 16) In other words, chastity is lived happily in a celibate JL he media spotlight has recently turned our commitment only when the priest authentically values attention to the Diocese of Santa Rosa in light of clergy human sexuality and honors his own sexuality wisely and with integrity and holiness-of-life. misconduct which ranges over many years.

In making this level of commitment, priests need to In some reporting and media analysis, certain research and clinical opinions are cited (for example, grieve what they are losing in this promise: for example, a Richard Sipe 's Sex, Priests and Power: Anatomy of a family; children and grandchildren; genital sex. Priests Crisis) which seem to conclude either obliquely or direct- who have not properly grieved these types of loses at times ly that there is a "systemic problem " in the clergy which is mi ght act out inappropriatel y in some attempt to "capture '' fundamentall y caused by celibacy, a "condition" which what has been lost.

A priest is a "celibate-at-heart " when this process leads to inappropriate sexual activity, sexual "secrets," and of grieving has taken place. In my experience, this widespread sexual dysfunction.

As a priest and seminary rector, I would like to voice process is a "fact" in the life of the vast majority of a contrary opinion . I disagree with this indiscriminate priests and it is thus wrong and irresponsible to claim analysis and its generally sweeping negative critique of that the majority of priests are living a sexually dysfunctional life.

Catholic priests.

Jesus taught that there are some who choose to live First of all, what is celibacy? Celibacy sustains certain critical components: it 's (1) a commitment (2) not to celibately (see Ml 19:12) but this ability/gift has not been many, (3) to live chastely (4) for the sake of Jesus and his g iven to everyone. Sulpician Father Raymond E. Brown

Father Gerald D. Coleman

comments that this is a "demand [which] the world regards as impossible."

1 believe that the reason why priests are so much a target of criticism when inapprop riate sexual behavior does happen is that "the world" indeed sees this commitment as virtuall y impossible, and thus the failures prove the conviction.

We must believe that Jesus would not offer this gift/lifestyle if it were not a possibility. Seminarians and priests must carefully understand and safeguard this gift , then, believing that if celibacy is a treasure given to us, then with honest prayer and needed dialogue (for example, with a spiritual director, a therapist, fellow priests with their bishop), Jesus will sustain what he gives.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church wisely teaches: "The presence of Christ in the minister is not to be understood as if the latter were preserved from all human weaknesses, the spirit of domination , error, even sin.. .|Some] acts of the minister leave traces that are not always signs of fidelity to the Gospel and consequently can harm the apostolic fruitfulness of the Church." (No. 1550) It is for this reason that Jesus does not accept Peter 's rather juridical analysis that we should forgive "seven times," (Mt.. 18:21) but rather we should forgive indefinitely. Christian forgiveness, then, is to imitate the unlimited range of God's forg iveness. In fact, the parable of the unforgiving servant (Mt. 12:23-35) invokes divine judgment on those who refuse to forgive.

By-and-large priests are a superb group of dedicated ministers of the Gospel. We should not allow sweeping charges of dysfunction to cloud over this true reality.

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

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The truth, of course'

George Weigel \__-t RACOW — It 's 7 o'clock of a midsummer's Sunday evening, but inside the Basilica of the Holy Trinity, the Dominican priory church in Cracow 's old town, it 's

standing room only.

University students in jeans and T-shirts fill every pew and hundreds of folding chairs. The overflow sits on the great marble staircase leading up to the sarcophagus of St. Hyacinth, and on the steps of the few confessionals that aren't in use sacramentally.

The liturgy is beautiful: Taize chant is led by a small student choir and everyone sings; the proper prayers of tire Mass are sung by the celebrant in a sonorous Polish; the p iety is so intense that you can feel it.

Something is clearly happening here, something more than the fulfillment of the Sunday obligation.

A friend , bowled over by his first experience of one of these student Masses a few years ago, asked the Dominican prior, Father Miroslav Pilsniak, "What are they all here for?"

Father Miroslav smiled and said, "The truth , of course."

He was not being ironic.

Ten days in Cracow in mid-July reinforced my conviction that those who expected a rapid collapse of high-octane Catholicism in Poland in the aftermath of the communist crackup are going to be disappointed for the foreseeable future.

The seminaries remain full; religious orders of men and women continue to attract new recruits; popular piety seems as vigorous as ever, with vast seasonal pilgrimages still coming to Czestochowa 's Jasna Gora ("Bright Mountain") monastery of the Black Madonna and to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, a vast outdoor Holy Land shrine whose 40-odd chapels and winding paths cover more than a dozen kilometers of woodland west of Cracow.

Mass attendance is high, confessionals have lines outside them every day, and the Catholic press is flourishing.

The pope 's marathon visit to his homeland in June was a triumph; even the previously critical secular press went out of its way to praise John Paul as a man of reconciliation and a moral compass for Poland 's future.

Thus the great Polish experiment — testing whether a democratic state and a prosperous, market-oriented economy can be built on the foundations of an intact Catholic culture — bids fair to continue well into the 21st century.

Polish Catholicism is not without problems: a certain complacency among some clergy; a few bishops who find the temptation to be direct political actors almost irresistible; seminaries whose intellectual standards need tightening.

The Church will face a major challenge in the next 10 years as Poland's rural population inevitably shrinks, because of a long-overdue rationalization of Polish agriculture. (One bishop has already responded to the challenge evangelically — and addressed his see city's acute

housing problem — by creating a Catholic buildi ng trades school in his diocese to train a new generation of carpenters, electricians, masons, and plumbers from youngsters who would otherwise have drifted into unemployment and away from the Church after leaving their family farms.)

There are, in short, no guarantees about the future.

But it seems very unlikely that Poland will replicate the experience of Spain and Portugal (where radical secularization quickly followed political liberalization) or Ireland (where the Church's long-deferred encounter with modernity, combined with weak and frightened leadership, has led to disintegrating piety and empty Catholic institutions).

Poland's democracy is strong, but stability and democratic "normality" haven't led to the abandonment of Catholic practice. Neither has Poland's reconnection to contemporary intellectual life, and, so far, neither has Poland's exposure to the more toxic elements of Western popular culture (especially those coining from Germany, whose television makes American prime time look tame by comparison).

The youth ministries like those conducted for Jagiellonian University students at the Dominican Priory in Cracow are perhaps the greatest sign of hope for the future. This is the first generation of Poles in centuries who can reasonably anticipate living their lives in freedom and prosperity. They are not abandoning Catholicism en masse; they're in church in droves. You can 't avoid getting caught up in the fervor of their youthful faith.

And you can 't help thinking that my friend, the prior, was exactly right when he suggested that the Church was a magnet for the young because the Church is the bearer of the truth. If you preach it, they will come.

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

International RENEW team

S haring dai ly faith with others to be workshops ' theme Presentation Sister Antonio Heaphy, director of the archdiocesan Office of Evangelization/RENEW, adding that the team will also offer parishes a strategic plan for moving into action. Sister Heaphy said the workshops are being offered as a way for parishes to begin working with the U.S. bishops ' plan for evangelization — "Go and Make Disciples."

The sessions are open to everyone, not just those who are involved in Small

The international serv ice team from RENEW 2000 will be conducting four workshops , titled "Share Your Faith ," throughout the San Francisco Archdiocese in September for "everyday Catholics eager to live and share their spirituality out loud," according to planners.

Designed for persons of all ages, the user-friendl y, no-cost workshops will help partici pants better understand evangelization by providing easy, natural ways for faith sharing in daily life , said

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Love f or abandoned

It was with inexpressible sadness I read the harsh directive from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith suddenly ending the lifetime work of two religious whom I have admired for many years. I waited to write this letter because I needed to reflect on the mystery of the Catholic social justice from my own experience.

About 25 years ago, I became involved in some of the ministry of Mother Teresa and I also attended several workshops given by Sister Jeanine Gramick and by Father Bob Nugent where boundless love, compassion and faithfulness to Catholic doctrine were tau ght. Mother Teresa began by picking up the abandoned dying in India; while Sister Jeannine and Father Bob were involved with frequentl y abandoned , suicidal young in the U.S. All three began by bringing human dignity to people who were mostly pariahs in our society. All three were filled with the love and compassion of Jesus Christ. One is being talked about (and rightly so) for sainthood. The other two are condemned.

I am praying the Vatican will reconsider its decision and that the good works of Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent will be allowed to go on.

Patricia Trippet San Carlos

Intrinsically evil?

As a lifelong Catholic I am deeply troubled by the Vatican's past and recent pronouncements calling homosexual acts "intrinsically evil" and the homosexual orientation "an objective disorder '.' This only serves to contribute to the climate of fear of, and hostility towards, gay and lesbian persons. It does nothing to discourage the acts of violence committed against our brothers and sisters.

Nowhere in the Gospels does Jesus mention homosexuality. However, one could say he also was silent about slavery, rape, child and spousal abuse, incest and pedophilia, terrible crimes that cause great

suffering. In Mt 26 Jesus condemns all forms of violence. He specificall y warned us in Mt 25 that our salvation is dependent on our response to the hungry, the naked, the sick and those in prison .

Many of us will agree with Father (Gerald) Coleman that "gay persons are often generous and giving of themselves " {Catholic San Francisco, July 30) and with Father John Dietze n that "To say that such persons (homosexuals) have set aside God, are not reconciled in their physical makeup and block God's grace to others is at best rash judgment and furthermore simply does not fit experience" (Catholic San Francisco, Aug, 13). Therefore one must conclude that homosexuals are just as likely to respond to Jesus ' call to nonviolence and compassion as are heterosexuals, Is the homosexual lifestyle "intrinsically evil"? Jesus does not answer that question .

In practice many homosexual relationships are committed, loving and lifeaffirming. Should the Church not be more careful in what and whom it condemns?

I pray the Vatican will cease its use of inflammatory statements. May they encourage Catholics to accept and welcome our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, recognizing that like us they are children of God, deserving our love and respect.

Lorraine Burtscher Foster City

Love, not judg e

I was deeply troubled to read the Vatican has ordered Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent to end their ministry to our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters.

On the Sunday following this announcement, the first reading at Mass was from the Book of Wisdom: "But though you are master of might, you judge with clemency, and with much lenience you govern us: And you taught your people, by these deeds, that those who are just must be kind." (Wis 12:18,19) The Gospel for the Sunday was the parable of the weeds being sown among the wheat. When the slaves came and asked their master if he wanted them to pull up the weeds, he replied, "No, if you pull up

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Women s rights, especially in prisons in the United States, are the focus of this

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the weeds, you might uproot the wheat along with them."

At the little church in the Sierras that I attended, a missionary priest who ministers to the Mayan Indians in Mexico gave the homily. The point he made is that Our Lord is telling us that it isn 't only that we might accidentally pull up the wheat, but often we can 't tell the weeds from the wheat. He said that, in the 16,h century, the Spanish Catholics considered the Mayan people to be weeds and treated them ruthlessly. After living among them for many years, he considers the Mayan Indians to be wheat. He finds them to be a caring, compassionate, and family-oriented people.

These are adjectives I think apply to many of my homosexual friends especially those who are in long-term , committed, loving relationships.

It is troubling the Vatican wants us to throw onto the weed heap homosexuals, married Catholics who practice birth control, divorced and remarried Catholics, married priests, women who aspire to climb out of their box, and so on.

Let us instead listen to Mother Teresa who said, "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

Teresa A. Walker San Carlos

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May we call your attention to a "typo " in our website address? We'd be grateful if you would publish a correction so that if your readers want to see our cards and justice messages on the net, they'll have the right address. The website is as follows (please note the dash between "site " and "ology"): www.siteology.coin/snjmjusticecards. Catholic San Francisco has proved to be a significant contribution to the life of our Archdiocese.

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Christine McQuiston 's Aug. 13 response to my Jul y 30 letter regarding the article, "Walking the labyrinth ," is filled with inaccuracies. Although no reference to Grace Cathedral was made either in the article or my letter, Ms. McQuiston writes that I criticized the "labyrinth at Grace Cathedral ." Even more disconcerting is her assertion I condemned "any expression of faith that is not dogmaticall y Catholic or Orthodox ."

I said instead that onl y the Catholic and Orthodox churches have the Real Presence in their consecrated hosts.

Finally, she declares I said calling God "Mother " is New Age trash and tries to shame me b y quoting Pope John Paul 1 , "God is more mother than father." This belies my real statement that the current Verditas labyrinth workshops promote , "worship of God Mother, the goddess, the all holy in creation " — which is obviously New Age contradiction of the dogma of the triune God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

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Time wisely invested Almost daily my daughters fashion their playtime around the stories they have been read . When I was reading the children The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the girls were Laura and Mary for months , making "soup " with weeds they plucked fro m the garden and calling "Pa" to come and eat. While in the midst of Heidi , they were Heidi and Clara, of course. And during The Little Princess, my five-year-old became the indomitable Sara Crewe.

How pliable and absorbent are the imaginations of children. I first took real notice of this several years ago when I came across a pile of decapitated Lego men. At the time, my sons were the ages my daughters are now, and I JL he other day my three-year-old daughter came run- had been reading them the legning to me with tears rolling down her cheeks. "What 's ends of King Arthur, many of which end with a bad guy losing his head. wrong, honey?" I asked, pulling her onto my lap.

Even though the boy s are 9 and 11 now, they still "Oh, she ' s all ri ght ," her big sister answered, entering the room. "We were just playing that you were dead ." spend their free time creating imaginative scenarios. As I write this column , they are outside digging trenches Dead? How charming.

With a question or two, I learned the girls had been for their green plastic army men to reenact some pivacting out scenes from some Grimm's fairy tales, which I otal b attle of World War II. The Second World War has often read aloud to them. They were pretending their been a favorite topic of theirs ever since 1 read them a mother had died and a wicked stepmother was forcing well-crafted children 's book about the heroic evacuathem to do all of the housework. For a moment the make- tion of Allied troop s under fire at Dunkirk.

Observing my children at play, I am glad we jettibelieve became frightfully real for my younger daughter. 1 guess the dust and clutter around here can be pretty scary. soned our television set. We did not make a high-

minded decision to live without television. We simply moved , in a downwardly mobile fashion , from a house in the suburbs to a flat in the city and no longer had room for our stone-age, console-style set. We had intended to replace it with an updated , space-efficient model, but we never did. We discovere d the joys of reading instead.

Reading literature and history with my children is so enjoyable and enriching for all of us th at I now regret the countless hours of my own youth that I wasted on Grihgan s Island and other insipid shows. Even television at its very best is second-rate compared with a great book.

But watch, when my kids grow up and move out on their own, they probably will burn their books and acquire a floor-to-ceiling screen with surround-sound. "We 're making up for lost time , Mom" they 'll say.

And I will laugh at them, confident their time spent with Robert Louis Stevenson and Frances Hodgson Burnett and George Washington and Joan of Arc was not at all lost , but wisely invested indeed.

Observing my children at p lay, I am g lad we

Vivian Dudro

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Is there a tomb of the Virgin Mary?

Q. Our Catholic paper printed an ad by the Israel Ministry of Tourism. Among other things, it says that in Jerusalem you may visit Mary 's tomb. I believe in the Assumption and feel Mary had no need of a tomb. Did she die ? Did she have a tomb? Was she buried ? Am I misunderstanding something? (Florida) A. There is on the south / west side of Jerusalem , on the hill called Mount Zion , a church named the Dormition ('falling asleep") of the Virgin As you probably know, Christians fre quently referred to death as sleep awaiting the resurrection.

The church's background goes back 1,500 years, particularly to a series of fifth-century writings historians collectively refer to as the Transitus Mariae, the passage of Mary.

Christians wanted to know more about the death of the mother of Jesus, and these works, which are highly inventive and largely fictitious, apparentl y responded to that desire.

They describe Mary 's last hours in detail , how her death was foretold, how the apostles miraculously gathered around her, how Christ took her soul to heaven while the apostles buried her body in the valley of Jehosaphat (presumably nearby), how the Holy Spiri t intervened when Jews ttied to burn her body, how after some time her body was assumed into paradise, and so on.

Sometime in the 600s, writers began referring to a church in the garden of Gethsemane as marking the tomb of the Blessed Virgin.

During the fifth , sixth and seventh centuries the feast of the Dormition on Aug. 15 was established in various parts of the Christian world, honoring not especially her death , but all her prerogatives as our Lord' s mother, including her glorification in body and soul.

More than 1,000 years ago, the title of that celebration was changed to the Feast of the Assumption.

The crypt in the church of the Dormition in Jerusalem , which is in the care of German Benedictines , contains a magnificent sculpture of Mary lying peacefully in death. But no one there today

hints that it is the location of Mary 's tomb or even that there is a tomb.

Did Mary actually die? The question has been controverted for centuries. But while there is this long popular tradition about her death, we don 't really know.

Certainly the Church has not said authoritatively one way or the other.

When Pope Pius XII defined the dogma of the Assumption in 1959, he detailed much of the long history of belief in the Blessed Virgin's assumption, but in the solemn definition itself he avoided entirely the point about her death.

He said simply that Mary, "having completed the course of oi her ner earthly i life" (in Latin: expleto terrestris vitae cursu), was taken body and soul into heavenly glory. That 's where the matter rests.

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(North Carolina) A. The Catholic Home Study Service is an evangelization program published by Liguori Press, for many years one of the outstanding Catholic publishers in the United States.

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LITURGY & SCRIPTURE Lessons from Italy: Sunday free for service The Monte Sacra section of Rome is nestled in the bend of the Aniane River over which an ancient Roman fortified bridge stands guard . Maple and mimosa trees line boulevard and cobblestone alleys, alike. From early morning, the motorinos dart among shoppers at the colorful and fragrant outdoor market near Piazza Sempione, across from the espresso bar and fresh pasta store. Water gushes from small fountains on every corner.

The parish church at the heart of it all is named for the Guardian Angels. For four years recently it was my parish home: a lively, energetic community that loved to pray together, to sing, celebrate the sacraments, build community, and serve the poor. And they especially knew how to keep Sunday holy.

Two particular patterns made a lasting impression on this transplanted Californian about how Sunday was lived in Rome: the almost total absence of business on Sunday and generous service to those in need.

The first time 1stepped out, thinking I'd just pick up some milk, see if my pictures W&K ready, buy some extra notepaper - what a surprise! Sunday in Rome was not business as usual. The stores were shuttered, the streets quiet. Centers of life instead were the parish church and those few shops offering items needed for family gatherings: the bakery selling pastries to bring when visiting and the family-style trattoria for the Sunday evening pizza.

How accustomed I had become to the convenience of Sunday commerce - open 24 hours. The Italians reminded me every week that Sunday was set apart.

There were six days for business, but Sunday was literally a holy day, a feast day to be spent with the parish community in worship of the Father through Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit and to be spent with family and friends.

The second pattern for Sunday living that the Romans were committed to can be described as the

Sister Sharon McMillan, SND works of justice and mercy. With Sunday unencumbered by business and commercial obligations, parishioners were free to give of their time to those in need. Skilled laborers repaired the homes of poorer parishioners, students tutored other students, attorneys counseled, physicians attended the sick. Part of Sunday 's holiness consisted of bringing the reign of God a bit closer for those most in need.

Does this example of the works of justice and mercy contradict Sunday without business? Not at all. You'll remember that for the first four centuries Sunday was a workday and the Sabbath (Saturday) was the day of rest.

Sunday was primarily the day of joy in Jesus ' resurrection, the day the Christian community gathered together and celebrated the Eucharist, thus encountering the risen Lord truly in their midst. Sunday as a day of rest is a later concept, assuring workers at least one day that might be free from their usual labor and thus free to be made holy.

Once when Jesus was accused of working on the

Sabbath when he had healed someone , he responded that his Father went on working and so did he. We Christians too work as Christ 's Body in the world perhaps especially on the Lord's Day: visiting the sick, the imprisoned , the lonely - offering whatever skills we have in service to those in need, doing the works of justice and mercy as a particularly Christian way to keep Sunday holy.

I find it very challenging to live Sunday as the Lord 's Day beyond Sunday Mass. How do I make the entire day holy? Not shopping is a big first step for me. It 's so tempting and so convenient to leave shopping until Sunday. We are very blessed at the seminary to celebrate a festive Sunday Evening Prayer together. It 's a beautiful and simple way to mark the other end of the day with worship before a leisurely Sunday dinner with everyone gathered, when we can take the time to share stories, listen, laugh before the demands of the coming week overtake us.

And the works of justice and mercy? I think especially of those eucharistic ministers who bring the Body of Christ to those unable to come to Mass, of those who call or visit family as well as the extended family of those in prison, nursing homes, in isolation of any kind, of those who teach religion on Sunday, who lead the children 's liturgy of the word, of those who bring food and consolation to the grieving.

Let me close with one more wonderful Italian custom. The greeting we'd exchange after Mass was not "Have a nice weekend" but "Buona Domenica " - "Have a good Sunday ."Have a good Sunday of joy, worship, family and community, justice and mercy.

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

If I knew then what I know now...

"If I knew then what I kn ow now." These word s come readily to the lips of anyone who has quite blithely pursued a career, entered a marriage, received ordination , or joined a parish organization or truly j oined a parish community. They reveal the speaker to be a sadder but wiser person. They imply that human experience has disclosed to them harsh realities which, if known at the point of embarkation, might have prevented the journey but now imply a realistic relaxation into the demanding present situation. These words, today 's liturgy of the Word tells us, describe the Church composed of genuine disciples of Jesus.

We have no difficulty identifying with the plight of Jeremiah (our first reading). What a promising career the Lord promised him at the outset: "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have set you this day over nations and kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant." (Jer 1:910) But once the prophet began to speak the Word he received, he, the speaker, became as unpopular as the message he delivered: "Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage is my message; the word of the Lord has brought me derision and reproach all the day."

That is why the prophet feels "fooled" and "tricked"

by God. The initial vision of his prophetic ministry has received a reality check that is quite painful: "You duped me, O Lord , and I let myself be duped; you were too strong for me, and you triumphed." What can the prophet do now because he has come thus far into his ministry which means so much to him and into the Word which controls him? He will keep on going: "I say to myself, I will not mention him, I will speak in his name no more. But then it becomes, like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it." Sadder and wiser, the prophet will continue on the path the Lord chose for him, knowing it will cost him dearly, willing to pay the price, empowered by the Word driving him from within.

It is such sadder and wiser disciples that Jesus would create out of his would-be followers. As we listen

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Jeremiah 20:7-9; Psalm 63; Romans 12:1-2; Matthew 16:21-27

Father David M. Pettingill to Matthew today, we call to mind that Jesus is founding his Church. Last Sunday we heard : "You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church ." (Mt 16:18) We likewise recall that Jesus is responding to Peter 's incredible act of faith: "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God." (16:16), which Jesus considers the result of his Father 's action, "Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven." (16:17) We recall finall y that our Gospel selection precedes the fourth great sermon in Matthew, the sermon on the Church (Chapter 18).

What then creates this Church Jesus is "abuilding"?

What contribution do disciples make to maintain this Church? Jesus tells his disciples he is a dead man and will be a vindicated one. He has healed the sick and so made enemies; he has forgiven sinners and so made enemies; he has taken meals with the marginalized and so made enemies; he has reinterpreted the Law and so made enemies. These enemies will bring him to grief, and God will bring him to vindication. At the heart of his life is self-donation, which God vindicates. "Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suf-

fer greatl y from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised."

Peter, in need of more revelation from Jesus' Father in heaven, cannot hear this: Why should the Church be produced by such pain, rejection , and ultimatel y death?

He learns that this is God's "thinking" and it holds true for disciples as well. Church communities flourish only when Jesus ' vindicated self-donating love drives their members, when the Spirit of Jesus moves them to "lose " their lives for Jesus' sake, when they heal, forgive, hosp itably include, and outreach; when they willingl y pay the price to live out the values of the "kingdom of the heavens." Such a transformation produces a worshipping community whose lived-out discipleship precedes and prolongs the worship at God' s table: as Roman s (our second reading) puts it, "I urge you...b y the mercies of God , to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice , holy and p leasing to God, your spiritual worshi p."

There is nothing like being "duped" by an expert . If we gave up at the "then," what a wretched "now" we would have. But with the real trials and sufferings of our ministry we have Church, produced and maintained by Jesus and us , Church (to paraphrase Keats), all we have on earth and all we need to have.

Questions for RENEW 2000 small group communities: 1. How much a part does the parish community p]ay in your life? What have you suffered to be part of it?

What gifts do you offer it?

2. What areas of your parish life are in need of reconciliation? What can you do to invite inactive Catholics to return?

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Two young girls peer through the fence of their home where they stay, unattended, during the day while their parents work. The girls were among the many indigenous peoples who populate Villalobos , a make-shift community on the outskirts of Guatemala City. They were visited by a contingent of students from St. Ignatius Preparatory School including (at right,from left) Lucia Lainez, Beth Suman, Darcy Rogers , Marie Shin and Kate Bowler, here, doing laundry.

First-person reflection An immersion into justice and joy in Guatemala

By Tara Carr Six young women who are seniors at St. Ignatius College Preparatory School this fall — Kate Bowler, Lucia Lainez, Lauren Maroevich, Darcy Rogers, Marie Shin and Beth Suman — accompanied by two adult leaders, Michael Colyer and Tara Carr, traveled to Guatemala in June for two weeks, part of a faith-based "immersion" program sponsored by the school.

"Immersion" connotes a plunge — a plunge into refreshing, awakening, life-giving waters — to emerge anew. We, the local delegation, intended to deepen understanding and experience of God's presence and plan by listening to and talking with Guatemalans who have endured 36 years of torturous civil war and yet persevere, hoping for a future of freedom and acknowled ging the importance of their relationships with God. Upon our arrival in Guatemala City, St. Ignatius ' team met with a variety of Church, student, labor, non-governmental and governmental organizations to explore the process of peace and struggle for human rights in Guatemala , particularly since the si gning of the Peace Accords in 1996.

Sister Frances Dunn funeral Aug. 16 A former administrator at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital died Aug. 11 at age 90. St. Joseph of Orange Sister Frances Dunn , a California native , was known for her business acumen , kindness , and leadership in seeking social justice.

A funeral Mass was held for Sister Dunn Aug. 16 in the Motherhouse Chapel of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange.

A graduate of Mills College in Oakland , Sister Dunn served as chief administrator of four hospitals: Santa Rosa Memorial , St. Joseph of Orange, St. Luke Pasadena , and Children ' s Hospital of Orange County.

"As a leader at St. Joseph Hospital and in our religious community, Sister Frances had an open door policy," commented fellow Sister Maura Judge.

"She was there to listen to people 's needs and problems. If she could solve a problem, and she often could , she always did."

Born on June 9, 1909, in Monrovia, Calif., the oldest of five children , Frances Dunn entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange in 1931, She served as the community 's general superior and held leadership roles in the California Hospital Association , the Hospital Council of Northern California and of Southern California, and the California Conference of Catholic Hospitals.

Sister Dunn also sought social justi ce in the form of health care for those in need.

fair housing, housing for the homeless, and justice for farm workers. She picketed in support of Cesar Chavez.

Her sister, Jane Kennelly of Redwood City, and her brother, Edward Dunn of Irvine, survive her. Sister Dunn 's community asks that in lieu of flowers , donations be made to "Sisters of St. Joseph for Ministries ," 480 S. Batavia , Orange, Calif.

Among those to speak with us were widows from CONAVIGUA, an organization of women whose husbands, sons, brothers, and fathers, have "disappeared"; campesino organizers from the United Farmerworker Committee (CUC); the adjunct procurer of human rights; student leaders of the University Student Association (AEU) of San Carlos University; and Diputado Amilcar Mendez, a recently elected congressional representative with a history as a human rights advocate.

After this basic primer on Guatemala, our group journeyed east to the Caribbean coast to Puerto Barrios to meet with workers and workers ' families in the banana p lantations, to tour the plant and fields , and to observe the banana harvesting process. Our dusty, rambling ride there on a school bus with school children and campesinos served as an introduction to the reality of life in the bananeras. Again, we were met with warmth and an open reception by people eager to share their lives with us and curious about our reasons for visiting.

Upon our return to the capital, we connected with the Missionaries of San Carlos Scalibrini, whose ministry is to migrants. The Scalibrinis operate a church, natural medicine clinic , and day care on the outskirts of Guatemala City called Villalobos II. Villalobos II is a community of migrants who have made their journey to Guatemala in search of better employment , their families, and/or political freedom and refuge from repression.

The community claimed its parcel of land seven years ago when individuals from nei ghboring areas decided they wanted to create a safe , family-oriented nei ghborhood , and are still battling for full rights to the land from the government. For the next four days we lived , ate, played, and walked with several families from the colonia , sharing intimate details and stories of their lives. A catechist showed us the nei ghboring colonia whose residents have only recently settled there and are building their homes wall by wall, as

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they have the matenals of concrete and cmderblocks, from the present conditions of cardboard and wooden planks. We celebrated a Mass with the community in their parish hall and participated in the parish youth group meeting, play ing games to bridge the language barrier and praying together for continued and increased understanding between us and in thanksgiving for our meeting.

The family visits were a pinnacle of our stay in Guatemala, where we lived a different pace of life, with more time spent in community and as family, a lesson we can activel y bring back with us and experiment with how to incorporate into our lives. Observing the behavior and interaction of the Guatemalan people was a lesson in how to engage authentically and more full y with the people in our own lives.

We headed west for Lake Atitlan , in the western highlands of Guatemala. For two days we explored the village of Santiago Atitlan , the majority of whose inhabitants speak an indigenous language and , men and women alike, dress in traditional clothing. Swimming in the lake with local children, we could only communicate with gestures , expressions , laughs—a lesson in the power of body language. A priest from Oklahoma, Father Stanley Rother, was assassinated here in 1981 for his work with the native people, and we concluded our time here with a visit to his memorial. Priests from Father Rother 's native diocese continue to minister in this parish.

We ended our pilgrimage and immersion filled with a greater, lived understanding of the Gospel imperative to "welcome the stranger ," as we were overw helming ly welcomed. Our challenge is: how to bring it back?

St. Ignatius additionall y runs "immersions " to El Salvador, Northern Ireland, and San Francisco 's Tenderloin.

(Tara Carr is a staff member of the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns.)

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School of Pastoral Leadership The School of Pastoral Leadership will offer its fifth year of classes beginning Sept. 21. En addition to the opportunities named below,titles include "Christianity: An Introduction to the Catholic Faith," and a course in bible study. For more information, fees and registration materials call Joni Gallagher at (415) 242-9087.

Sept. 21-Oct. 26 (Tuesdays): "Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home," with Jesuit Father Bernie Bush at St. Gregory Parish, 2715 Hacienda St., San Mateo from 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Sept. 22-Dec. 15 (Wednesdays): "To Comfort Those Who Mourn," a consolation ministry course promoting an awareness of grief and the needs ol grieving people as well as lessons in visiting the sick with Barbara Elordi, M.A., M.F.C.C. at Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan St., SF from 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Sept. 22-Oct. 27 (Wednesdays): "Early Christian Spirituality," with Sister Mary Ann Donovan and Franciscan Father Joseph Chinnici at Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan St., SF from 7:30 9:30 p.m.

Sept. 23-Oct. 28 (Thursdays): "The History and Spirituality of Church Music," with Gerald Holbrook at St. Hilary Parish, 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon from 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Oct. 9: "How to Raise Good Children," a day-long parenting conference at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF with Michael Riera, Ph.D. and Dominican Sister Mary Peter Traviss.

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

Sept. 24 - 26: "Reflections Within the Womb of God," a weekend retreat for women led by Holy Cross Father Ken Silva and a retreat team including Sister Toni Longo.

Oct. 23-24: "Finding Christ Within and Without," an overnight retreat focusing on growth in Christ among the challenges of living the faith in contemporary times. Led by Father Tom Timmins.

MARIANIST CENTER 22622 Marianist Way, Cupertino. For fees and times, call (408)253-6279.

Sept. 14: "Meaning and Work" a look at the importance of meaning in our work and how spirtuality contributes to it with Mercy Sister Pat Galli.

Sept 23: "Goals in Ministry: What are We trying to Achieve?" and "Facilitating Growth."

Datebook Peter 's Boys School is planning a 50th reunion. If you were a member of that group, call Louise Johnson at (650) 358-0303 or Betty Robertson at (415) 731-6328.

SL Vincent de Paul Elementary School celebrates 75 years in October. Graduates, former students, teachers are asked to call (415) 563-5949 .

Social Justice/Advocacy Aug. 30: "Right to Die: The Opponents," the other side to assisted suicide at the Commonwealth Club,595 Market St., SF 4:45 p.m. reception; 5:30-6:30 p.m. program. $10. Call (415) 597-6705 for reservations or the Respect Life Office at (415) 565-3672 for background.

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

Ongoing Sessions: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish at the Parish Center, Fulton and James St., Redwood City, Thurs., 6-7:30 p.m. Call (650) 366-3802.

Our Lady of Angels Parish, 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame; 1st Mon. 7-9 p.m. Call (650) 347-7768. St. Gabriel Parish, 40th Ave. and Ulloa, SF; 1st & 3rd Tues., 7-9 p.m. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

St. Hilary Parish, 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon; 1st & 3rd Wed., 3-4:30 p.m. Call Sister Colette at (415) 435-7659.

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

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

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

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

Oct 12: "God at Work" looks at our call to cooperate in the ongoing mystery of creation.

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

SepL 11: "Dreams: Uncovering Our True Nature" with Mercy Sister Marguerite Buchanan SepL 24-26: "Encountering Mary: Opening to the Healing Power of the Divine'-Kathy Denison helps retreatante experience Mary as a haven of compassion rather than an unapproachable model of perfection.

Sept. 27: "Autumn Day of Prayer"-As the crispness of Autumn is felt, Mercy Sister Suzanna Toolan helps retreatants step back and reflect upon their own harvesting.

Take PrayerAround the Cross 2nd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Presentation Sisters Motherhouse Chapel, Turk and Masonic, SF. Call Sister Monica Miller, PBVM at (415) 751-040 and at 7:30 p.m. at St. Luke Parish, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City. Call (650) 345-6660.

3rd Tues. at 8:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., SF. Call Delia Molloy at (415) 563-4280 .

1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. Call Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan at (650) 340-7452.

1st Thurs. at 5:30 p.m. at Old St. Mary's Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, SF. Call (415) 288-3809.

Ecumenical& ¦tnterreligiom Dec. 1-4: "A Call to Oneness, A Conference on Compassion and HIV Disease" at Most Holy Redeemer Parish, 100 Diamond St., SF, sponsored by the Multicultural AIDS Resource Center of California. Call (800) 871-6688.

72 Hours is an interfaith peace-building project set to take place on Dec. 31, 1999 and Jan.1-2, 2000. People of faith are invited to mobilize their communities around five specific actions including a Peace Vigil and Call to Political Leaders. For information, call (415) 561-2300.

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Sept. 18: Marin Catholic High School's 50th Anniversary Celebration and Gala. $19.49 ticket includes appetizers, open bar and entertainment, 6 p.m.-midnight. Call (415) 461-9434.

Sept. 18: St. James School, SF celebrates the 75th anniversary of its current school building. All who attended St. James are asked to contact Marie Driscoll at (415) 642-6130 or by fax at (415) 642-9727.

Sept 25-26: 100th anniversary of UC Berkeley's Newman Hall. Events include barbecue, prayer and brunch. Call (510) 848-7812.

San Francisco's Archbishop Riordan High School celebrates 50 years in 1999-2000. School is in search of alumni and Riordan memorabilia for display as well as volunteers for upcoming activities. Call (415) 586-9190.

Nov. 6: St. Paul Elementary, Class of '54. Call Dennis Creedon at (650) 692-9979.

The Class of 1950 from St Peter's Academy and SL

Sept 18: "Hearth Fair" at St. Rita Parish, Fairfax , 10 a.m.-4 p.m., includes blood pressure check, guest speakers, screenings. Call Madeline Testa at (415) 459-7118.

Aug. 29: Ministry Sunday Pancake Breakfast after 7, 9 and 11 a.m. Masses at St. Anthony of Padua Parish, 1000 Cambridge St., Novato. Adults $2/Children $1/$5 family. Call (415) 883-2177.

Sept 11: St. Robert Elementary School celebrates its 50th anniversary with Mass at 4:30 p.m. followed by buffet dinner and open house in Hennessey Hall.

Alumni, former students and their families are encouraged to attend. Call the school at (650) 583-5065 or the Parish Office at (650) 589-2800.

Sept. 17: "Celebrating the Events of the 20th Century," a silent auction and dinner benefiting scholarship fund of Presentation Academy alumnae at Presentation Convent, 2340 Turk Blvd., SF beginning at 5:30 p.m. $35 per person. Call (415) 751-1245.

Sept 20-21: Overnight "Reno Fun Trip" arranged

by St. Thomas More Church community. $50 before rebates from casino coupons. Must reserve by Sept6. Call Mel Penna at (650) 755-8713 or Nancy Manion at (415) 333-2798.

Sept 25: "Feast by the Light of the Autumn Moon," an evening celebrating the culinary arts of China and benefiting St. Mary's Chinese Schools and Art Center campaign. Call (415) 929-4695.

Sept 25-26: 15th Annual Sonoma Waves to Wine Tour benefiting Multiple Sclerosis Society. Two day trek begins and ends at Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa. Fee $35. Call (510) 268-0572for details.

Oct. 16: Annual "Lake Walk" fundraiser sponsored

by Catholic Charities' Little Children's Aid Junior Auxiliary. For information, e-mail connie@synergistech.com.

Knights of Columbus of the Archdiocese meet regularly and invite new membership. For information about Council 6.15, call Tony Blaiotta at (415) 6610726; Dante Council, call Vito Corcia at (415) 5644449; Mission Council, call Paul Jobe at (415) 3336197; Golden Gate Council, call Mike Stilman at (415) 752-3641.

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

Oct 22: Archbishop William J. Levada is guest speaker at Irish Cultural Center. Call Leo Walsh at (650) 365-6184. __

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various artists at 3:30 p.m. Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213.

Sundays in September: Concerts at St. Francis of Assisi Shrine by various artists at 4 p.m. following sung vespers at 3 p.m. Sept 21: Vocal and instrumental Baroque ensemble; Oct. 15: "St Francis of Assisi - A story of Encounters" with music, images, text, Columbus and Vallejo, SF Call (415) 983-0405.

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

May 2000: St. Dominic's Young Adults Group invites people in their 20s and 30s on a Jubilee Pilgrimage to Italy. Walk in the footsteps of great Christian saints in Milan, Bologna, Siena and other cities. Call Maria Vickroy-Peraita at (415) 776-0588.

Volunteer Opportunities The Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns offers volunteer opportunities in social justice, respect life, advocacy and other areas. Call (4.5) 565-3673.

Help special needs children with The Learning Tree Center, a non-profit organization that will train, supervise and provide ongoing feedback to you in a unique home-based program. Learn how to share energy, enthusiasm and acceptance. Call Arlene (415) 457-2006.

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

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

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

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

in Parish Center Chapel, (415) 334-4646. St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, Fri., 9:30 a.m.

- 5 p.m. Our Lady of Loretto Church, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, Fri. 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., 1st Fri. 9:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Sat. St. Bruno Church, 555 W. San Bruno Ave., San Bruno, 24 hours everyday, Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel. St. Francis of Assisi Shrine, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, SF, Fri. following 12:15 p.m. Mass until 4:15 p.m. 2nd Sat. at St. Matthew Church, One Notre Dame Way, San Mateo with Nocturnal Adoration Society of San Mateo County.

Call Lynn King at (650) 349-0498 or Jim McGill at (650) 574-3918 for times. Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, daily from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Call (650) 322-1801.

Family life Introductory sessions of Seton Medical Center's Natural Family Planning program will be held through this fall.. The office also offers educational programs for youth on topics including the changes that occur during puberty and the responsibility of relationships.

Health educators are also available to speak about NFP, infertility, adolescent sexuality, preparing for pregnancy, perinatal loss and drug abuse in pregnancy. Call (650) 301-8896.

Retrou vaille, a program for troubled marriages, has upcoming weekends.

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

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

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

Upcoming events include: Aug. 29: Mass at Star of the Sea Church, Sausalito and walk to Alta Mira Restaurant for lunch and/or Pack a lunch and bring a blanket and chair for a free concert by "Pride and Joy." For information about "Beginning Experience," a group assisting those experiencing loss to move with hope, call (415) 616-6547. Call (415) 673-2200.

Lectures/ Classes/Exhibits

California Pacific Medical Center is always in need of volunteers. Call (415) 750-6038.

Aug. 28: Monthly breakfast meeting of Catholic Business Network at St. John of God Parish, 5th and Irving St., SF at 11 a.m. A new organization helping Cathoic business people get to know one another. Call Majdi Alamat , chairperson , at (650) 377-8893.

Catholic Charities' St. Joseph Village needs volunteer facilitators for its new TGIF program. Call Andrea Brady at (415) 575-4920, ext. 255. Volunteers are also needed for the computer lab. All levels of computer experience welcome. Call Kristen Rauda at (415) 575-4920, ext. 223.

Sept. 21: Jesuit Father John Schlegel, USF president, will speak on "Catholic Education in the Catholic University" at monthly luncheon of St. Thomas More Society at Banker's Club, top of Bank of America Building, 555 California St. $25. For reservations, call Carroll J. Collins at (415) 781-4365.

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

Through Nov. 14: "The Treasury of St. Francis Assisi," includes 70 rare works of art, many from the time of the great saint, at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 34th and Clement St., SF. Tues.Sun., 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Adufts $8/Seniors $6/Youth $5/under 12 free. Call (415) 863-3330.

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

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

San Mateo County's Volunteer Center: call (650) 342-0801. For San Francisco Volunteer Center, call (415) 982-8999.

Laguna Honda Hospital, SF is in need of volunteers to serve as eucharistic ministers, lectors and chapel escorts at Tues. and Sun. morning Masses.

Call Sister Miriam at (415) 664-1580, ext. 4-2422.

NCADA (National Council on Alcholism and other Drug Addictions) needs in-office and 24 hour help line volunteers to perform challenging and rewarding tasks. Training and ongoing supervision provided. Call Deacon Chuck McNeil (415) 296-9900

Prayer/Devotions SepL 25: "Introduction to Centering Prayer," 10 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Jerome's Convent, 310 San Carlos St., El Cerrito. Call Coralis Salvador at (415) 543-8338.

Weekdays: Radio Rosary, 7 p.m., 1400 AM KVTO, includes prayer, meditation, news, homilies. Call (415) 282-0861.

2nd Sun.: Pray for Priests,3:30 p.m. at Star of the Sea Parish, 4420 Geary Blvd. at 8th Ave., SF. Call (415) 751-0450.

Centering Prayer: Mon. 7 p.m.- 8:15 p.m., Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St., SF. Call Sr. Cathy Cahur at (415) 553-8776; Tues. 7:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m., Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd., SF. Call Chuck Cannon at (415) 752-8439; Sat. 10 a.m. -12 noon, St. Cecilia Church, 2555 17th Ave SF. Call Coralis Salvador at (415) 753-1920.

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

Sept 2 through December 2: USF presents free, public one-hour computer classes , with focus on possible Y2K problems, every Thursday, except Thanksgiving Day, in Harney Science Center, Room 232, at 11 a.m. Call (415) 422-6235 or e-mail wells@usfca.edu.

Sept 18: "Endings and Beginnings," an end of the century celebration for women sponsored by Catholic Women 's Network, 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. $35 or $15 for low income includes lunch and prayer shawl. Must register by Sept. 20. Call (408) 245-8663 or e-mail cwn @ catholicwomensnet.org.

Sept 8-Oct 31: "Behold the Woman ," a millennium celebration of Marian images from around the world, noon - 4 p.m. except Mon. and-Fri., Santa Fe Institute, 2320 Dana St., Berkeley. Call (510) 543-2920.

Sept. 1: Gregorian Chant classes at St. Mary Star of the Sea Church, Sausalito. Session is 12 weeks long with one two-hour class from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. each week. Open to anyone interested in learning basics of Gregorian chant. More advanced classes begin Jan. 12, 2000. $100 fee, plus materials. Call Gerald Holbrook at (415) 332-1765.

Sept 21: Former San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn speaks on "Reform of the Papacy: The True Cost of Christian Unity," at St. Raphael Parish, 1104 Fifth Ave., San Rafael, 7:30 p.m. Call (415) 454-5579.

Sept. 22: Unique opportunity to view "The Treasury of St. Francis of Assisi," 6-8-p.m., California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 34th and Clement, SF. Hosted by Archbishop William J. Levada. $35 donation benefits Catholic Charities.

Call (415) 844-4798.

Oct. 1-3: "Empowered By the Spirit Conference" at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, sponsored by Office of Charismatic Renewal, Father Joseph Landi, Liaison to the Archbishop.

Speakers include Father Landi, Father David Pettingill , and Father Jim Tarantino. For registration information call (415) 564-7729.

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Church, 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame , M- F after 8 Sundays in September except Labor Day a.m. Mass until 7 p.m. St John the Evangelist Weekend: Concerts at St. Maty Cathedral featuring Church, 98 Bosworth St., SF, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. M -F

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Dominican Sister Glenn Anne McPhee (left , foreground), superintendent of Catholic schools , shares thoughts with, from left: Steven Faren , principal, St. Philips, San Francisco; Sister Teresa Pallito , principal, St. Catherine of Siena , Burlingame; Cindy

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Setting the tone of the new school year, the 100 attendees reflected on three sentences: What elements should constitute the working relationship between pastors and principals? What opportunities are available for the Catholic school teachers to be more effective formers of faith? How can Catholic elementary schools assist parents to be more effective formers of faith and character?

The sentences provided a springboard for dialogue with a subcommittee of the archdiocesan Council of Priests that is working with Catholic schools: Father Tom Dal y, co-chairperson and Chaplain of Marin Catholic and St. Vincent Schools; Msgr. Bob McElroy, co-chairperson and pastor of St. Gregory, San Mateo; Father Mario Farana, pastor of St. Paul, San Francisco; Father Bill Justice , pastor of All Souls, South San Francisco; Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney, pastor of Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame ; and Msgr. James McKay, pastor of St. Matthew, San Mateo.

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Queen Esther: Gospel music is 'prayer and rej oicing' Annette Lust recently conducted an interview with Queen Esther Ma rrow, founder of The Harlem Gospel Singers. Queen Esther and the Singers will perform in San Francisco 's Theatre-on-the-Square throug h Oct. 3.

Featured at the recent San Jose Jazz Festiva l, the group will travel to Chicago , Philadelp hia, and New York before returning to Europe. Critics in N ew York and Washington, D. C. have acclaimed the group 's work, The Washington Post stating: "The show has the energy of a dozen revival meetings, the powe r of a coup le of locomotives and is vibrantly theatrical. " You performed for the pope.

Yes, I performed for the pope three times—i n Rome , Bologna , and at the Vatican. And while we performed the pope must have enjoyed hearing us because he tapped his feet to the music.

When did you begin the Harlem Gospel Singers?

Eight years ago a German producer asked me to put together a choir performance for a show in Germany for an eight-week gig. It continued for eight years and grew.

We now have 12 singers and six musicians.

Do you consider yourself primarily a Gospel singer?

I sing mainl y Gospel music but I have done secular singing because of having worked with great musicians such as Duke Ellingto n with whom I began by singing here in San Francisco at Grace Cathedral . Duke was the first to discover me and help me evolve as a singer. Mahalia Jackson was my greatest inspiration. Not only was she a tine singer but also a powerful political figure. I wrote a musical about her that was performed on Broadway —

"Trul y Blessed: A Musical Celebration of Mahalia Jackson " and 1 p layed the role of Mahalia in it.

How did Gospel singing originate?

When Africans were brought to this it was country through their work songs and spirituals that they could communicate with one another and relate to Queen Esther Marrow God. It was a way for the slaves to relieve th eir oppression that also gave them hope.

Do you address injustice in your show?

I perform a monologue which depicts the injustice 1 fell when I was a child who got on a bus one day with my grandmother who spoke up when the driver told her to sit in the back area. I also mention Nelson Mandela and others who have spoken up concerning all forms of injustice today.

Do you consider Gospel singing a form of prayer?

Yes, it is a prayer of rejoicing.

Does your show consist of forms other than Gospel?

We are doing traditional and contemporary flavors of jazz , rock, and blues. Our show is a history of gospel from ancient African songs to contemporary jazz , rock ,

and blues. Actuall y jazz , rock , and blues evolved fro m gospel sing ing. The difference is in the lyrics and their meaning and not in the music.

Blues and rock are jazzed up gospel music.

Is Gospel music more appreciated in Europe?

Europeans appreciate and cherish the ori ginal and older and Pope John Paul II Gospel music. It is not old hat to them as to some young people in America.

What are your future plans concerning Gospel singing?

I would like to have a school in Harlem where young peop le learn Gospel music as well as other arts. I would like to give the younger generation a disciplined education that will allow them to have a creative activity and inspire them to continue the legacy of Gospel singing that is an important part of their heritage and of American culture.

Annette Lust is a member of the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle and the Dominican College faculty.

Historic recordings can be pleasant summer treat

By Father Basil DePinto Late summer is the fallow period in musical life. The subscription season and ihe summer festivals are over. There is much scrambling behind the scene as preparations are made for new beginnings in the fall , while on the surface all is quiet.

But music lovers never lose their insatiable appetite for (lie art that stands above all others.

Recorded music does not just fit! in the gap but has come to be a valid form of expression in its own rig ht.

For a century now great recordings have been revealing aspects of music that are indeed present on the page or in performance, but which speak to us with a new urgency in this format. Listening to records offers the possibility of a concentration that is unique and indispensable.

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Everything about this performance reveals it as Gttilini' s conducting is a marvel of suavity and a labor of love, and repeated hearings make it power, each in its proper place. I have a special more and more of a treasure. predilection for the quicksilver pacing of Josef Krips in his Decca (London) recording, and of course he has the incomparable Ccsare Siepi as Father Basil De Pinto is a frequent his Giovanni. But Giulini's warmth and breadth commentator on the Bay Area leave little to be desired. Perfection is not far away fine arts scene. in either case.

On the purel y orchestral side, surel y one of the unforgettable recordings of the stereo era is Bartok' s Concerto for Orchestra played by the Chicago Symphony under Fritz Reiner.

This 1955 performance, especially in its 1986 digital remastering, is a marvel of clarity and precision , qualities The University of always connected with Reiner 's conducting. But as a personal friend of the San Francisco is

Hence the presence in your latest catalogue of 40 versions of La Boheme and two dozen of -Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

Fortunately, among those numbers you can find an excellent sampling of historic recordings.

The best may not be, and often is not, the item hot off the press. Herewith two suggestions: Mozart 's Don Giovanni has been recorded often , but never as well as in 1961 by EMI (then known as Angel records). Under the leadership of Carlo Maria Giulini , a truly all star cast gives an inspired reading of this masterpiece , perhaps Mozart 's greatest work for the theater.

Elizabeth Schwazkop f as Elvira for once leaves mannerisms aside and invests her role with equal measures of desperation and pathos. Joan Sutherland in full flood of her vocal glory is overwhelming in a part that can often seem dull; not here. In the title role Eberhard Wachter is totally persuasive both as romantic hero and abominable cad; for a German, his Italian is practiall y flawless.

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Capsule reviews NEW YORK (CNS) — The following are capsule film reviews from the U.S. Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting.

"Bowfinger " (Universal) Goof y comedy in which a desperate Holl ywood director (Steve Martin) secretl y shoots footage of a top action star (Eddie Murphy) to use in his scifi alien movie, but the star 's paranoid fear of alien invaders complicates the plan. Directed by Frank Oz from Martin ' s script, the movie affectionatel y lampoons Tinseltown pretensions with Martin and Murph y in top form . Comic depiction of a promiscuous starlet , a few crude expressions and an instance of rough language. The USCC classification is A-III — adults.

The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG13 — parents are strongly cautioned some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

"Lucie Aubrac" (October) Fact-based World War II picture begins in 1943 Lyon where a captured resistance leader (Daniel Auteuil) is sentenced to death , but his wife (Carole Bouquet) stakes her life on rescuing him in a daring escape attempt. Writer-director Claude Bern wraps the tragic account of betrayed resistance leaders around the romantic chronicle of a loving wife who risks

"Brokedown Palace" (20th Century Fox) Belabored drama in which two Ohio teen pals (Kate Beckinsale and Claire Danes) vacationing in Bangkok are death in try ing to tricked into transporting heroin , anestrn IV. save her husband. ed and sentenced to 33 years, with scant Subtitles. Some hope of reversal unless an expatriate I c nasty stylized lawyer (Bill Pullman) can find com5 'i i O violence , sexual pelling evidence to prove their innosituations and If cence. An implied sexual encounter, brief nudity, the brief violence, fleeting drug abuse and USSC classificaintermittent profanity. The USCC clastion is A-III — sification is A-III — adults. The MPAA adults. The MPAA rating is PG-13 — parents are strongl y rating is R — cautioned that some material may be restricted. inappropri ate for children under 13.

Comic actors Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy "Stiff Upper "Dick" (Columbia) star in "Bowfinger," Lips" (Cowboy Weak spoof of the Nixon adminisInternational) tration during the Watergate cover-up Strained British bedroom farce in three hi gh school seniors tie their nasty has the President (Dan Hedaya) which an upper-crust English famil y history teacher (Helen Mirren) to her implausibly befriending two dizzy vacations in 1908 Ital y and India hop- bedposts , taking scandalous bedroom high school girls (Kirsten Dunst and ing their effeminate guest (Robert photos of her with the school's drunken Michelle Williams) who eventually Portal) will propose to the marriage- married coach in order to prevent their tumble to what 's happening in the age daughter (Georgina Cates), but being expelled for cheating. As written White House and become the newspaunexpected romances develop and directed by Kevin Williamson , the per source known as Deep Throat. instead . Directed by Gary Sinyor, the smug, emotionally manipulative tale of Directed by Andrew Fleming, the low spoof of genteel literary-style movies self-absorbed adolescents conniving to comedy proceedings turn the era into relies on vul gar comedy in following control a cruel adult is morall y bank- a broad , ultimately tiresome farce silly snobs and their frivolous fancies. rupt in lionizing the teens ' ouUageously involving dumb-and-dumber adolesFleeting violence , implied sexual anti-social behavior. Implied justifica- cents with dim-and-dimmer Watergate encounters , brief nudity, crude refer- tion of criminal acts, an off-screen caricatures. Sexual innuendo , coarse ences, some profanity and an instance sexual , encounter, some violence, humor, drug use, occasional profanity of rough language. The USCC classi- underage drinking and an instance of and an instance of rough language. fication is A-III — adults. Not rated rough language. USCC classification is USCC classification is A-III — by the MPAA. O — morally offensive. MPAA rating adults. The MPAA rating is PG-13 — "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" is PG-13 — parents cautioned some parents strongl y cautioned some (Dimension) material may be inappropriate for material may be inappropriate for Corrosive black comedy in which children under 13. children under 13.

VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR St. Agnes Church is seeking a half-time Volunteer Coordinator for a growing parish in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.

This person will be responsible for a comprehensive parish volunteer and outreach program including periodic assessment of needs, an annual Time and Talent Fair, effective placement methodologies, training of volunteers and facilitation of volunteer supervisor/communication where needed. A self-starting, warm and personable person with some volunteer experience is a necessity. Salary negotiable.

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