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Blessing of Marin Catholic High School’s Chapel of St. Francis.

“A community of faith” Marin Catholic dedicates new school chapel By Jack Smith Marin Catholic High School rang in the new school year from a new bell tower and a new chapel with the blessings of Archbishop William J. Levada. Along with priests from throughout Marin and others with strong ties to the school, Archbishop Levada celebrated a Mass of the Holy Spirit on September 5 to welcome students back to school and to bless the centerpiece of Marin Catholic’s master plan to renew its facilities. Student Body President Chelsea Bialla welcomed the Archbishop, priests, alumni, benefactors, students and faculty who packed the gymnasium for the opening Mass. She said the occa-

sion was an opportunity to affirm that at Marin Catholic “We are first a community of faith and then a place of learning,” a theme reiterated by the other speakers. Father Tom Daly, president pro-tempore, said the new chapel dedicated to Saint Francis and the Bell tower and plaza forming the center of campus “allows us to be reminded of our place of prayer.” Marin Catholic is “first and foremost” centered in faith, he said. Addressing the students, Archbishop Levada remarked that of the various Marin County pastors concelebrating with him “not all of them are young.” He noted that Marin Catholic’s president, MARIN CATHOLIC, page 9

Archbishop Levada blesses bell tower

Poor escape some cuts in state budget, more to come By Patrick Joyce California’s poor have escaped some of the deepest cuts proposed in negotiations during the state’s budget crisis but the budget finally approved still will hit hard this year - and social justice advocates fear that life will be even tougher next year.

See local Catholic Charities/CYO PAGE 17 “We’re experiencing the first installment of the cuts now, but we know that there is still a $10 billion hole in the state budget and some major decisions have been deferred

until next year,” Rick Mockler, executive director of Catholic Charities of California, said. “We’re only experiencing a portion of the impact. Our leadership around the state is very nervous about the second shoe: when it’s going to drop and who is going to get squished by it.” The biggest impact of reduced spending for the poor this year will come in three areas: child care, MediCal and naturalization services, Mr. Mockler said, and child care services for the poor may be cut even more, once the federal budget is approved. STATE BUDGET, page 17

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Faith formation conference . . 3

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Concern for environment. . . 10

Boston abuse settlement . . . . 8

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the Religious Education Department is also a Prendie Charlie Chaplin’s, Smile and My Fair Lady’s On the Street alum, class of 1971. While I’m at it, happy anniversary to Where You Live. Choir director is Teri Marconi. Pattianne O’Malley, my Accompanist is Dorothy Bieniek. School supplies forthis sister and brother-in-law’s study year were gathered for students of San Francisco’s daughter, Conor’s cousin De Marillac School as part of a Senior Ministry outreach and my wonderful niece program at Notre Dame. Participants included Annemarie who celebrated three years Cota, Elena Abbott, Lisa Benitez, Jessica Lira, Nia of marriage with her husReate-Galarza, Christina Abbott, Diane Brady, Peggy band Rich on S e p t . Brady, Janet Abbott…Students recognized at Mercy by Tom Burke 2nd….Welcoming back High School, Burlingame for achievements during the grads is Our Lady of 2002-03 school year included Nicole Michelle Dalton, Elementary Sister Mary Gabriel Award for Excellence in As a fan of class reunions of all kinds, I’m happy to Angels Sportsmanship; Loubna Noor Qutami, Sister Amy Bayley report that Starof Sea Academy grads from 1963 are gath- School, Burlingame comits 75th Leadership Award; Lauren Joe, Mother M. Baptist Russell ering forty years later Sept. 27th at the United Irish memorating Service Award; Christina Michelle Wong, Board of Cultural Center. I especially liked how classmates have anniversary on Sept. 18th a Mass of Directors Award for academics; Jillian Joan Jweinat, been encouraged to “bring cameras or video equipment to with Gail Chastain with Mercy High School Principal’s Award for General record this historic event” and “any memorabilia you’d like Thanksgiving to share.” Puttin’ the shindig together are Jo Ellen Archbishop William J. Levada presiding. “Please join us Excellence….Gail Chastain, a member of the faculty at Applebaum Shaw, Irene Boutourlin Stofan, Donna in our celebration,” said Carol Meshinsky, principal, to all Mercy High School, San Francisco for 30 years, will Bucedi Traverso, Kathy Clifford, Pat Daly Hansen, grads, former students and friends. Carol is grateful to all visit Armenia next month as part of an excellence in teachBarbara Drake, Judy Hansen Weld, La Verne Johnson who are helping “ and there are many,” she said. Among ing program. The English and history teacher joins 35 eduthose assisting with the Mass, reception cators chosen from a national slate of entrants. Mercy, SF Fahey, Kate McBride, and such are Caroline Romeo, mom of English teacher, Mark Botti, has been honored with the Caitie O’Shea. As one 4th grader Christopher and who is lookin’forward to 2nd grader, Christina, and a 35th reunion in 2004, Ed Kennedy whose son thanks always to those Edward is in 2nd grade. If who take on the work of you’re interested in helping or these affairs creating a otherwise being part of the wonderful space for old action, call (650) 343friends and desk neigh9200….There is an effort bors to chat about now afoot to gain wide release for a and then. Please know new film about St. Therese of that we who are kept Lisieux said Geri Trevaskis, from helping by distance of St. Gregory Parish, San – my lot – or other reaMateo, and she asks your supsons and just show up for port. Evidently, if the distributhe good time are truly in tors receive enough evidence your debt. I’m going to that people will view the film, recommend the memorathey will finance its release bilia idea to my reunion Winners of last year’s Excellence Awards in writing at Mercy into mainstream theatres. Geri committee. I think I can High School, Burlingame were from left: Emily Gregory, Wendy says to go to www.theresescrounge up an old Runyon, Gina Rinaldi, Lauren Macadaeg. movie.com and vote yes on Failure Warning or Therese: Ordinary Girl, Extraordinary Dorothy Wright Award for Teaching Excellence from lunch token somewhere She also asks your San Jose State University…. It only takes a moment to let among my stuff of yes- Notre Dame Spirit Choir: Top: Angela Lauber. Soul. terday. Let me take this Middle from left: Angela Harrington, Lauren prayers….Apologies to Archdiocesan us know about a birthday, anniversary, special achieveArchivist Jeff Burns who I placed at the ment, or special happening in your life. Just jot down the time, too, to wish a Russell, Cecille Almeda, Karen Villanueva. Bottom from left: Melissa Fisher, Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley basics and send with a follow-up phone number to On the happy birthday to my Maggie Maunheim. and not the Franciscan School of Street Where You Live, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. sister Patty Guarini Theology where he is a professor of You can also fax to (415) 614-5633 or e-mail, do not send who leaves the mid-50s on Sept.18th. Patty, the oldest of us five Burkes and the Church History……. Spirit Choir members from Notre attachments, to tburke@catholic-sf.org. In all cases be sure only lass, lives with her husband, Pat, in suburban Philly, Dame High School, Belmont entertained residents of to include that follow-up phone number. Photos can only just down the block from her alma mater, Archbishop Sunrise Assisted Living in San Mateo during the past be returned if a SASE is included with the mailing. You Prendergast High School. Mercy Sister Maureen Roe of school year. The program included popular songs such as can reach Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634….

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Faith Formation Conference – Sept. 27 Workshops for parish, school and adult religious educators By Tom Burke Catholics set on their journey of faith, those still adjusting their spiritual compasses, and those helping others on their way can benefit from the upcoming Faith Formation Conference at San Francisco’s Marriott Hotel September 27. The daylong symposium is sponsored by the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and the Office of Pastoral Ministry of the Diocese of San Jose. The conference follows in the footsteps of what has been known as the annual Religious Education Institute. The aim of the conference is “to get 2,000 people from the two dioceses who really get inspired and energized to invite people to be disciples of Jesus,” said Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director of the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The focus audience, she noted, is “anybody involved in faith formation including the person in the pew looking for some new ideas or to get re-invited to their faith.” Though now bearing a new name, the mission of the day remains the same, Sister Celeste said. “The purpose is to form leaders in faith formation whoever they may be,” Sister Celeste said. “In earlier years, we were looking at faith formation mainly for school age children. I think now we are looking at all ages including youth and adults. All of these people need to have their faith strengthened.” The workshop topics were chosen in

light of the “four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church,” Sister Celeste said, naming them as the Creed, the Sacraments, life in Christ, and Prayer. “ We tried to design workshops that would fit those four elements because those four elements make up how we impart the faith to people. We also tried to weave in the hopes we might have as Church in the twenty-first century — such as the hope that we’ll be better disciples, that people will want to join us, that people will decide to stay in the Church and participate in the Church, that people will find value in being here and be able to proclaim that.” Sister Celeste said both Archbishop William J. Levada of San Francisco, and Bishop Patrick J. McGrath of San Jose “were very willing to say ‘Let’s do this

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together, it will be a great way to celebrate.’” Archbishop Levada is scheduled to preside and Bishop McGrath concelebrate a day ending Mass at the conference. A b o u t 25,000 children and youth — pres c h o o l through high school — study in parish-based religious education programs in the Archdiocese. Teaching the a f t e r- s c h o o l and weekend classes are 2,300 catechists, “99 percent of whom are volunteers,” Sister Celeste said. S i s t e r Celeste said she is happy to share the mission of teaching the faith to children and youth with the Catholic schools in the Archdiocese, which have an enrollment of approximately 28,000 students. Adult religious education programs have been established at more than 60

percent of parishes in the Archdiocese, including small faith communities and the School of Pastoral Leadership in the mix, Sister Celeste said. There also is an ongoing effort “to begin youth ministry programs in all of the parishes and developing formation teams for them,” she added. The Faith Formation Conference will offer a “special youth track,” she pointed out. “We say youth are the future of the Church but they really are the Church. They are a part of us right now.” The conference also will feature a special series of workshops in both Spanish and Vietnamese languages. On Sunday, September 21, catechists in the Archdiocese will be recognized as part of Catechetical Sunday, an annual celebration in the context of Mass where teachers of the faith are prayed for and commissioned in their roles. The Faith Formation Conference is taking place in September so it will not conflict with a larger and similar springtime event in Anaheim that draws “30,000 to 40,000 people from around the nation,” Sister Celeste said. The hotel site for the conference allows room for the anticipated 2,000 attendees and offers proximity to public parking and major public transportation including BART and Caltrain. For information about the Faith Formation Conference, which offers work shops in English and Spanish as well as two in Vietnamese, contact the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry at (415) 614-5650.

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Bishop Gregory reaffirms celibacy in response to Milwaukee petition MILWAUKEE — Changing the discipline of clerical celibacy would not assure increased vocations in the Catholic Church, according to Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Bishop Gregory’s comments came in an Aug. 29 letter addressed to Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of Milwaukee. The letter, made public Sept. 4, was in response to the Aug. 16 letter signed by 163 priests of the Milwaukee Archdiocese and mailed to Bishop Gregory. In that letter, the priests urged that “diocesan priesthood now be open to married men as well as to celibate men.” Bishop Gregory wrote, “The vitality of the church in the United States today owes much to the tens of thousands of priests who in previous generations were and today are faithful to the commitment of chaste celibacy and who have found it to be a powerful spiritual means to draw closer to Christ.” The Milwaukee priests said their primary motive for seeking a change in the church’s discipline on celibacy was based on their “pastoral concern that the Catholic Church needs more candidates for the priesthood, so that the church’s sacramental life might continue to flourish.”

Palestinian children run for cover after an Israeli missile struck a house in the densely populated area of Gaza City Sept. 6 in the Gaza Strip. Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was slightly wounded in the attack. Israel has killed 11 members of the militant group Hamas and four civilians in helicopter gunship strikes since Aug. 21.

of Iraq immoral. They argued that U.S. forces should be withdrawn immediately, turning transitional control over to the United Nations. They also argued that the war and the ongoing occupation are draining resources that ought to be going to health, education, housing and other domestic needs.

story was so obsessively covered resulted in unnecessary damage to the bishops and the entire Catholic community.” He said not all media deserve criticism and he acknowledged that “media organizations are complex operations” with decisions made at several levels. “However,” he said, “as this story was too often reported, molesters whose careers of preying on children had already been brought to a close several years before were treated as ‘breaking news.’”

ment leaders, more than 900 leaders of U.S. Catholic nuns mourned the growing death toll in Iraq and sharply criticized U.S. actions there. “The use of armed force by the United States in a pre-emptive strike has invited violent response and civil unrest,” they said. “The lack of postwar planning and the massive destruction of the Iraqi infrastructure and social order raise grave questions of moral responsibility.” The statement was released Sept. 5 from the national headquarters in Silver Spring of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The LCWR members, who represent some 76,000 Catholic sisters across the country, approved it during their annual assembly Aug. 21-25 in Detroit. The statement noted that “there are numerous contributing causes to the climate of violence which continues in Iraq.” They said, “From our life of faith and service, we have learned that peace is not achieved through physical force. Peace prevails where peace has been learned, met, experienced, modeled.”

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Peoria bishop asks Catholics, religious hit U.S. actions ‘What will it take to get us mad?’ Women SILVER SPRING, Md. — In a statement to U.S. govern-

PEORIA, Ill. — In a passionate call to defend the faith that drew sustained applause at an outdoor Mass on Peoria’s riverfront Aug. 24, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky declared contemporary culture is “at war with Jesus Christ” and asked Catholics, “What will it take to finally get us mad?” “Will you tolerate the holiest things of our religion on a daily basis being mocked and ridiculed on TV, in the press and in the movies?” he asked the crowd of 800 worshipping under a tent on the grounds of the city’s annual Irish festival. Noting that “even the most blessed and glorious mother of God becomes a joke for comedians and sports writers,” Bishop Jenky challenged Catholics to “rise up and become more militant about what you say you believe.” He said, “Jesus asks each and every one of us today, ‘Are you with me or against me? Are you in my company a confessing member of my holy church, or would you prefer to sell me out to a world that is going straight to hell?’”

Iraqi war opponents call for end of U.S. occupation, plan march WASHINGTON – Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit would like to see his fellow bishops and other religious leaders “lead the charge” to end the U.S. military occupation of Iraq, but in September that scenario seemed unlikely. Bishop Gumbleton, the U.S. hierarchy’s most persistent pacifist, led off a panel of activists who called for an immediate end to the occupation at a press conference in Washington Sept. 3. The press conference was called by International ANSWER — Act Now to Stop War and End Racism. The coalition of opponents of the U.S. war in Iraq is coordinating a national protest march in Washington Oct. 25 in the hope of sparking a groundswell of populist opposition to what they called the continued U.S. military occupation of Iraq. Bishop Gumbleton and others called the U.S. invasion

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WASHINGTON — ACatholic schools official described as “good news” the recent approval of a school voucher initiative for the District of Columbia by a U.S. Senate committee and the full House of Representatives. Oblate Father William Davis, assistant secretary for Catholic schools and public policy for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’Department of Education, has been monitoring the voucher legislation closely. He said the narrow victory in the House (205-203) Sept. 5 does not open the door for federal approval of other voucher plans. The priest said the legislation for D.C. vouchers was separate from other voucher initiatives and noted, “We won’t get the votes for other scholarship programs.” But he was quick to acknowledge that a victory for D.C. vouchers is certainly a step in the right direction. “It’s progress,” he told Catholic News Service Sept. 5.The $10 million voucher program plan approved by the House will provide $7,500 to at least 1,300 low-income District of Columbia students to attend the school of their choice.

National Advisory Council gives direction on bishops’ deliberations WASHINGTON (CNS) — You probably don’t know it, but for the past 35 years the U.S. bishops have had a National Advisory Council to offer help and direction on issues the bishops expect to face at their own twice-yearly meetings. The council has about 55 members — about the same size as the bishops’ own Administrative Board. The council meets the weekend prior to Administrative Board meetings so that the council’s input is fresh in their minds, and as current as possible for the Administrative Board, which is charged with BRIEFS, page 5

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Briefs . . . ■ Continued from page 4 shaping the agenda for the bishops’spring and fall meetings. National Advisory Council members believe their advice has been taken by the bishops. Adriana Vlasic of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., who was chairwoman-elect of the National Advisory Council during its Sept. 4-7 meeting in Washington, pointed to last year’s “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” as a document on which the council’s work had an impact. “That played an important role for the information the bishops received,” she said.

Pope urges Catholic families to pray rosary for peace CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — As the Year of the Rosary moved into its final phase, Pope John Paul II encouraged Catholic families to pray the rosary for peace in the home and in the world. Addressing several hundred visitors at his summer residence outside Rome Sept. 7, the pope prayed to Mary to help Christians “rediscover the rosary as a simple but very profound prayer.” He said, “When it is recited well, the rosary leads one into the living experience of the divine mystery and brings to hearts, families and the whole community that peace which we need so much.” On Oct. 16, 2002, the pope proclaimed the special year when he signed his apostolic letter, “Rosarium Virginis Mariae” (“The Rosary of the Virgin Mary”). The pope said he was looking forward to one of the final events planned to highlight the rosary: a visit to a Marian sanctuary at Pompeii in southern Italy Oct. 7.

Archbishop of Canterbury to meet with pope Oct. 4 VATICAN CITY— Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, will have his first meeting with Pope John Paul II in early October at the Vatican. The Oct. 4 meeting, which was organized immediately after Archbishop Williams’ Feb. 27 enthronement, coincides with a service at which the archbishop formally will install English Bishop John Flack as his new representative to the Vatican and director of the Anglican Center in Rome. Archbishop Williams’ Oct. 2-5 visit to Rome and to the Vatican will take place less than two weeks before a gathering he has convoked of the primates who head the 38 churches that make up the Anglican Communion. The archbishop called the meeting following the Aug. 5 election of the

Rev. Gene Robinson as the Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, making him the first openly gay man to be elected head of a diocese belonging to the Anglican Communion. The election was controversial within the U.S. Episcopal Church as well as within the Anglican Communion; some leaders expressed fears of a schism. Archbishop Williams called the Oct. 15-16 meeting of the Anglican primates to discuss ways to “preserve our respect for one another and for the bonds that unite us.”

Polish bishops call for steps to head off economic crisis WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s bishops have called for steps to head off a social and economic crisis. “Grave tensions are being caused by widespread unemployment, spreading corruption, the lack of vision and in many cases will to resolve current human problems,” the bishops said. “We call on those responsible for the fate of Poland to be guided above all in thoughts and actions by the common good, not by the egotistic interests of individuals and social or political groups,” said a late-August statement. The statement followed increasing labor unrest as well as a spate of corruption scandals affecting Polish politicians. It said Poland’s predominant Catholic Church would help the poor but stressed that social and economic solutions were “a task above all for competent state structures.”

Pope encourages Indian bishops to proclaim Christ, spread Gospel CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope John Paul II encouraged bishops in India to proclaim Christ and spread the Gospel in a country where the church represents less than 2 percent of the population. In a speech Sept. 6, the pope said a good example of modern missionary enthusiasm was Mother Teresa of Calcutta, whom he will beatify in October. He made the remarks the day after the sixth anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa, who cared for the destitute and dying in one of India’s poorest neighborhoods. “The Apostle Thomas, St. Francis Xavier and Mother Teresa of Calcutta are but a few of the outstanding examples of the missionary zeal which has always been present in India,” the pope said to a group of Indian bishops making their “ad limina” visits to report on the status of their dioceses. “It is this same spirit of evangelization which continues to give the faithful of your country the desire to proclaim Jesus Christ, even when faced with extreme hardship,” he said.

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Vatican diplomat appeals for nuclear test ban treaty VIENNA, Austria — The community of nations has the ability and must find the courage to rid the world of nuclear weapons, a Vatican diplomat said. Trying to ensure peace by holding on to the threat of nuclear weapons “cannot be the type of peace we seek for the 21st century,” said Msgr. Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s undersecretary for relations with states. The diplomat represented the Vatican at the Sept. 3-5 meeting in Vienna of the international conference on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Msgr. Parolin told delegates that Pope John Paul II sent him to Vienna “to renew his appeal for a common and generous effort for peace and security.” Global ratification and enforcement of a ban on testing nuclear weapons would contribute to preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and eventually to nuclear disarmament, which would enhance international peace and security, he said.

Bishop suggests lay women be allowed to hear confessions LONDON — An English bishop has suggested that Catholic lay women should be allowed to administer the sacrament of reconciliation. Auxiliary Bishop Vincent Malone of Liverpool said there might be circumstances in which it was more appropriate for a woman to give absolution than a man. In a new book, “Healing Priesthood: Women’s Voices Worldwide,” the bishop compared the confessional to a medical practice, where patients are routinely given the choice between a male and a female doctor, and he asked whether the time had come to offer Catholic women a similar choice of confessor. The bishop also questioned whether the church should continue to keep lay men and women from administering the sacrament of anointing of the sick. Bishop Malone insisted that he did not want his comments to provoke an acrimonious debate.

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Pope says religions must help restore shattered hopes for peace By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY(CNS) — When the twin towers in New York fell after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, many people’s hopes for a future of peace also fell, Pope John Paul II said. “Peace cannot be built on mutual ignorance, but on dialogue and encounter,” the pope said in a message to a Sept. 7-9 interreligious meeting on peace sponsored by the Rome-based Sant’Egidio Community. The meeting in Aachen, Germany, was the community’s 17th international gathering designed as a follow-up to Pope John Paul’s 1986 gathering of religious leaders in Assisi, Italy. In 1986, the pope said, “the world was still divided in two blocks and oppressed by the fear of nuclear war. Seeing how urgent was the need people felt to once again dream of a future of peace and prosperity for all, I invited believers from the world’s diverse religions to gather in prayer for peace.” Unfortunately, the pope said, the yearning for peace expressed at the Assisi gathering was not acted upon quickly or carefully enough. “In these years too little has been invested to defend peace and to support the dream of a world free from wars,” he said. Instead, the pope said, too many leaders chose the path of developing special interests and spending money on other priorities, particularly on military weapons and machinery. “In a few days we will remember the tragic attack on the twin towers of New York,” he said in the message read to the gathering Sept. 7 and released at the Vatican the next day. “Unfortunately, together with the towers, many hopes for peace also seem to have crumbled,” Pope John Paul wrote. War, conflict and terrorism continue to sow death and fear, he said. Meetings such as those sponsored by Sant’Egidio offer a realistic response, the pope said. They show the power of prayers for peace and demonstrate the willingness of religious believers and nonbelievers to get to know each other and to work together to overcome tension. “In a divided world, which is increasingly pushed toward separations and particularities, there is an urgent need for unity,”

Pope John Paul II smiles as a child is held up to him at the end of his Sunday blessing in the courtyard of the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo in Italy Sept. 7. The pope Sept. 11 traveled to Slovakia -- his 102nd foreign trip since his election in 1978.

he said. “People of different religions and cultures are called to discover the way of encounter and dialogue.” The more people get to know, understand and respect each other, he said, the more able they will be to “disarm the violent and call them back to reason and respect.” Pope John Paul told the leaders of the world’s major Christian communities and churches that he prayed efforts to promote Christian unity would increase. “The scandal of division can no longer be supported; it is a repeated ‘no’ to God and to peace,” he said. Addressing the Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and other non-Christian leaders present, the pope encouraged increased efforts to recognize each other as children of the same God

Economic Policies need moral base By Catholic News Service CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) — National economic policies that consider only the final balance sheet cannot create the peaceful climate necessary to promote the prosperity of an entire country, Pope John Paul II said. Bolivia’s “serious and prolonged financial crisis” has been hardest on the country’s poorest citizens, he said Sept. 8 during a meeting with Bolivia’s new ambassador to the Vatican, Valentin Abecia Baldivieso. Economic reforms, the pope said, must have “a human and moral basis” that respects the dignity of each individual, the importance of the family and the creation of a society marked by full participation. To narrow the gap between rich and poor

and reduce social tensions, governments must work for social justice, promote solidarity and offer education and health care, especially to the poorest people, he said. And the nation’s citizens must be encouraged to contribute to the process by upholding the values of “honesty, austerity, responsibility for the common good, solidarity, a spirit of sacrifice and a culture of work,” Pope John Paul said. In promoting Christian values and the good of every citizen, he said, the Catholic Church in Bolivia has encouraged a national dialogue to overcome “the delicate and conflictive social situation.” “This dialogue must exclude every form of violence in its various expressions and help build a more human future with the collaboration of all,” the pope said.

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and to promote mutual respect. “The world needs peace,” he said. “With the weapons of prayer and of dialogue we will walk on the path toward the future,” the pope said. Andrea Riccardi, the founder of Sant’Egidio, told the gathering, “There is too much pessimism around us, and it is presented as realism.” He encouraged the religious leaders to “have the courage to spark the hope of our world, to have the courage to make it dream, to dream of peace, which is the most beautiful and realistic dream of humanity.” Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, the former chief

Ashkenazi rabbi of Israel, told the gathering that he is “more pessimistic than 10 years ago” about the hopes for peace in the Holy Land. However, he said, the fact that Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders from the region continue to dialogue and to participate in gatherings like the Sant’Egidio meeting means that some hope still exists. “Everything can be resolved by talking and dialoguing,” he said, “but if someone starts shooting, you cannot talk.” The Middle East peace process will not go forward until acts of terrorism stop and both sides begin talking to each other again, the rabbi said.

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Dalai Lama honored at USF Tibetan leader joins interfaith service, offers teaching on peace By Evelyn Zappia The crowd of 2000 in St. Ignatius Church arrived hours early to witness the presentation of an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters to the 14th Dalai Lama by the University of San Francisco on Sept. 5. When His Holiness emerged from a side door, his engaging smile immediately grabbed the hearts of the audience who gave him a standing ovation. Although surrounded by many dignitaries on the altar, including the former Archbishop of San Francisco, John R. Quinn, and 24 local representatives of world religions, all eyes were on the spiritual and political leader of six million Tibetans at the interfaith service. The exiled Tibetan leader displayed childlike enthusiasm that exhibited his great interest in every part of the celebration. He swayed back and forth in his chair to the music, turned around frequently chatting with others, and demonstrated a great sense of humor in his acceptance speech. He warned the University officials he might not be the student they are led to believe of him. “I am a very, very lazy student,” he said. “Most of the time, I would waste it.” His outreach to the audience highlighted his reputation for profound simplicity. “My brothers and sisters, we are all the same. There is no difference. We are born the same, and we die the same. And we all hope for happiness.” He reaffirmed his lifelong commitment, “I will continue to pursue my struggle, which is to campaign for peace.” At an afternoon teaching session, the Dalai Lama received a standing ovation from the nearly 5,000 USF students who jammed Memorial Gymnasium, as the University’s President, Father Stephen Privett, S.J., introduced His Holiness as “a simple monk from Tibet who has become the world’s treasure.” Father Privett also earned loud applause when he announced to the students, “As of this date, you are all classmates of the Dalai Lama.” In keeping with his belief that “we are all the same,” the Dalai Lama began the forum by poking fun at himself and a famous audience member. “I am 68 years old now, and things are beginning to ache,” he said, as he pointed to his knees, then his arm. “But I imagine this is the same for

14th Dalai Lama at Saint Ignatius Church after receiving honorary degree

major movie stars,” as he tilted his head in the direction of actor Pierce Brosnan of James Bond fame, sitting in the front row. He spoke of the importance of “practicing compassion” for others. “Your concern for others has benefits,” he said. “Take serious your inner quality,” he said, but he warned, only focusing on yourself “can make you miss an important experience.” Perhaps the importance of this gentle man’s existence is represented somewhere in the tears of joy demonstrated by USF’s new Tibetan student, Dawa Dorjee, upon meeting His Holiness. Dawa was smuggled out of his native Tibetan village at nine-years-old and raised by “housemothers” in a children’s

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Boston Archdiocese agrees to settle with hundreds of victims By Jerry Filteau Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Less than six weeks after becoming head of the Boston Archdiocese, Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley has reached the largest financial settlement in U.S. church history with hundreds of victims of sexual abuse by Boston priests. “This is an important agreement. ... I hope that all the victims will choose to participate,” said Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Bishop Gregory and Archbishop O’Malley were in Washington for a meeting of the USCCB Administrative Committee when news of the settlement broke the after-

noon of Sept. 9. Archbishop O’Malley was not immediately available for comment. The settlement — for up to $85 million covering 542 lawsuits — came at the end of several days of intense negotiations in Boston between lawyers for both sides under a mediator, including a long session on Sunday afternoon and evening in which the archbishop personally participated. It surpassed the $31 million settlement that victims of ex-priest Rudy Kos received from the Dallas Diocese in 1998 and the $25.7 million the Archdiocese of Louisville recently agreed to pay to settle 243 lawsuits. “Certainly a monetary settlement is only part of the process of healing,” Bishop Gregory said. “That is why the archdiocese will continue to offer psychological counseling to victims,” he added. The costs of

Memorial Mass for children who died before or soon after birth A memorial Mass for babies who died before, during or shortly after birth will be celebrated at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery at 11:00 a.m. on September 20. Father Robert Cipriano, pastor of St. Rita Parish, and other priests of the archdiocese will concelebrate. This year ’s memorial will include a healing liturgy for mothers, family and friends mourning the death of babies lost because of miscarriage, still birth, death at birth, abortion or who died very young. “The ceremony will reflect on the child’s union with God and their state of eternal joy,” according to Mary Ann Schwab, coordinator of Project Rachel. “It is offered to grieving parents as an occasion for healing and remembering.” The Mass will be held near the Statue of Rachel

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Building with respect for the environment Presentation Retreat Center building in Los Gatos goes “green” By Sharon Abercrombie Hardhats and shovels have become familiar parts of the ambience surrounding groundbreaking ceremonies. But at Presentation Retreat Center’s June 17 event marking the beginning of a new dining room and a visitors’ welcoming center, the props included strawbale “chairs,” as well. The Sisters made certain these rectangular-shaped bales were available for every guest — including San Jose Catholic Bishop Patrick McGrath. Strawbale is a sustainable building material formerly used throughout much of the world, until people began using timber, which has since decimated most of the planet’s forests. Strawbale, however, unlike wood, naturally provides insulation against the cold in winter and the heat in summer. Today it is making a comeback in architectural circles with ecological leanings. It has claimed center stage at Presentation, because the Center is going green. The project will cost seven million dollars, and the Sisters have already raised $3.8 million through an ongoing capital campaign fund drive.

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director, “the building will teach and model environmental sustainability in an unobtrusive way.” She hopes that the 10,000 retreatants who visit the center each year will be moved to take Presentation’s vision back to their communities with such key questions as: “Why can’t our building recycle bottles, paper and cans? ….Why can’t we move into passive solar energy instead (l-r) Sister Rosemary McKean, Ms. Mary McCullough of depending on ozone layer-destroying fosand Sister Patricia Marie Mulpeters sil fuels? Why can’t we compost to build pesticide-free earth for growing our tomaThe walls of the new building will be made from the toes and roses?” tightly baled straw. Other eco-friendly features will Ms. McCullough and the Sisters emphasize that include passive solar components such as photovoltaic these inquiries can become doorways leading into deep panels and a living roof with green plants. There will spiritual practice for healing the earth. The new buildalso be a recharging station for electric passenger and ing as envisioned at Presentation can become a teaching utility carts, an organic garden and expansion of the vehicle, a foray into ecological catechesis – a reminder existing compost system. that every part of Creation is sacred and interconnected. A pond and seasonal creek will supply irrigation Stated simply: when humans trash the land, the water, water sources and allow for biodiversity; vegetated and the air, they and their children ultimately pay for it swales will allow site runoff to filter back into the land- in the form of disease, starvation, species extinctions, scape. Furnishings will be made from certified wood air pollution, poverty and war. The Presentations are the (not clear-cut from Old Growth forests) or recycled latest women’s religious community to espouse a prefmaterials. erential option for the earth as part of their congregaThe visitor center will feature a small cut-away “truth tional charism. window,” where people will be able to see the straw bale This focus naturally dovetails with Presentation inside the walls and learn about its environmental friendli- Center’s chief mission: Education combined with spiriness. In the words of Mary McCullough, communications tuality, says Sister Patricia Marie Mulpeters, director.

What better way than to mix the two with ecological consciousness, she says. In recent years, “green” has gradually become the favorite color for her community’s ongoing ministry. It was probably always there in the Sisters’ collective unconscious, anyway. How could it be otherwise? Presentation sits on former Ohlone land. For thousands of years, these first peoples inhabited the Santa Cruz Mountains. Earth consciousness did not cease when the First Peoples scattered, were murdered by settlers, or else absorbed by the California Mission system. In 1909, earth consciousness reemerged once again, with the arrival of Dr. Ernest Rogers, a naturalist from the East Coast. Dr. Rogers founded Montezuma Boys’ School on Bear Creek Drive. Montezuma was an environmental-based school for kids from ages six to 18. During the 1950’s the Sisters purchased the land from Rogers and converted it into a novitiate. In 1971, when vocations dwindled, the Sisters moved the novitiate back to their motherhouse in San Francisco and transformed the Los Gatos buildings into a retreat center. But the Montezuma energy has remained, all these years. There are photos of Rogers and his students in the front hall of the main building. One of the retreat cottages has become a photographic museum of memories – kids building canoes, kids swimming…. …Ernest Rogers with an ocelot cuddled in his lap, a small wild bird perched atop his hand. A Native drum hangs invitPRESENTATION, page 11

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Sisters gladly honresource assessored the senior’s ment team to help last wish. develop their edu■ Continued from page 10 In 1998, the cational focus. The ingly on the wall, silently beckoning to be played once community began team, trained by again around a campfire. a discernment Jesuit Father Nano Nagle, foundress of the Presentation Sisters process. The Alfred Fritsch, an 225 years ago, is also a major part of this rich mix of Sisters invited environmentalist traditions, Sister Patricia Marie said. The community’s prominent ecolowho works in the current move towards environmental sustainability car- gists to speak to Appalachian hills ries out Nano’s vision of service, 21st century style, she them. Cincinnati of Kentucky, elaborated. Charity Sister designed a 10-year Irish born Nano “had a deep love of God and the Paula Gonzales, a plan for educating desire to see that everyone could know God and experi- pioneer environcenter visitors, ence that love, and deep compassion for the poor and mental educator “linking the plan frustration over their oppression,” said Sister Patricia was one of them. to our congregaMarie. Sister Paula cont i o n ’s mission ”Translated into today’s terminology, we would say ducts workshops statement.” that Nano’s two passions related to spirituality and all over the world. Thanks to inforaddressing deep social issues of her day.” One of the During the early mation provided by pressing social issues of today, of course, is widespread 1980’s, the plucky the team, the environmental devastation. nun and a group of Sisters learned Presentation Center in Los Gatos. So how could the Sisters help educate people about friends organized a about the United the enormity of this problem and what could they do to series of Saturday States Green begin making changes? Sometimes opportunities arrive morning community flea markets to raise funds so they Building Council (USGBC). The group has a rating scale in strange guises, and that’s what happened at could build a passive solar house from an old chicken for new or renovated buildings called Leadership in Presentation Center. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake coop on her order’s property. Back then, especially in Energy and Environmental Design, (LEED), which is a caused considerable damage to the Center’s numerous the conservative Mid-West, such projects were practi- common standard of measurement and promotes integratbuildings, which sit on 264 acres. At the time, the sis- cally unheard of. During her talk, Sister Paula reminded whole-building design practices. LEED also recogters responded by making emergency repairs, but they ed the Presentation Sisters that contemporary humanity nizes environmental leadership in the building industry; knew that eventually, more extensive remodeling would is stuck in its self-centered destructive adolescent stage stimulate green competition, and raises consumer awareeventually have to happen. and needs to grow up. Coming into maturity means car- ness of green building benefits, such as lower heating and In recent years, as they began discussing remodeling ing for the earth once again, the way the technology- cooling bills, and ways to change the building market. options, the sisters recalled memories of Dr. Rogers and free ancient peoples did. The new welcoming center and dining facility is the Ohlone people. Sister Patricia Marie and her retreat As a part of their discernment, the Presentations also using the LEED guidelines and when it is completed, staff remembered ongoing feedback from visitors. brought in Catholic writer and peace studies teacher at the building will be one of the first LEED certified Says Sister Patricia Marie: “I discovered amazing Antioch College in Ohio, Patricia Mitsche, founder of buildings in Santa Clara County. Daniel Smith and things simply by listening to the people who came to the Global Education Associates. She reminded the sis- Associates, a green architectural firm in Berkeley has us. They absorbed a ters that “environ- been hired to oversee the project. sense of God’s mental justice isn’t It is expected to be completed by summer of 2004. presence, no matter just about trees. It As the Sisters move into the actual details of construchow they defined is about every- tion, they’ve come up against some unwelcome news. God and they went thing.” They have discovered their environmental project will away feeling tranOne of their cost anywhere from 15 to 25 percent more than a conquil and peaceful. own sisters, ventional building does. “ We began to R o s e m a r y But they are going ahead, anyway. Sister Patricia think that the gift McKean, chair of Marie’s determined mantra is, “we’re as green as we of Presentation their justice com- can be.” She voices the hope that 20 years from now, Center is not primittee, and a mem- “green buildings will be the law.” After all, she adds, marily in programs, ber of the leader- “who ever would have thought we’d ever get a disabilbut in the healing ship team, arranged ities act passed to make buildings and sidewalks handipower of its natural for a representative capped accessible, but we did.” b e a u t y, the goodfrom the Silicon Mary McCullough adds a final reflection: “The ness of our welValley To x i c s Catholic Church hasn’t been getting such good publicicoming staff, and Coalition to speak ty lately. But what we are doing here at Presentation the simplicity of to the sisters about Center is the real Good News. 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September 12, 2003

Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of San F By Brother Lawrence Scrivani, SM he Catholic school is the largest single institution built by Bay Area Catholics and the one most likely to come to mind among non-Catholics as the public face of the Church. Even with its numbers somewhat diminished from its peak a generation ago, it still impresses with its size and reputation. Of all the efforts undertaken by Catholics, their attempt to operate schools best reveals the bigger picture of Catholic relations with the surrounding culture.

1850 to 1915 — Predominance of Local Initiative The beginning of the Catholic school as we think of it dates to the Gold Rush, when everything in California was made over again. After the easily found gold was exhausted early in the 1850s, disappointed prospectors settled down to seek a normal living. They were forced to invent a new society from the resources at hand. And with this Gold Rush society roaring all around them, the Catholic schools sprang into being without the direction of a central authority. Pastors and religious orders acting in response to the desire of Catholic parents founded the first Catholic schools. The beginning of this story is difficult of exact determination. Which was the first Catholic school in the Archdiocese of San Francisco? Mission Dolores parish claims to have begun a school in 1852. However, St. Patrick’s parish downtown claims 1851 for the two schools it once operated on a lot that faced Market Street where today the Sheraton Palace Hotel stands. These were St. Patrick’s School for Boys and St. Vincent’s School for Girls, both taught by the Sisters of Charity. There is an old advertisement from 1849 for a parochial school at St. Francis of Assisi parish, but this may have been more the expression of a hope than a reality. It is known for fact that the Sisters of the Presentation began a school of their own in that parish in 1854, though it was not supported by the parish. At least seven religious orders can claim pioneer foundations in some Bay Area county during the 1850s. These include the Dominican men and the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael in 1850; the Jesuits of Santa Clara and the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1851; the Sisters of Charity, the Sisters of the Presentation, and the Sisters of Mercy all in 1854 at San Francisco. Finally, in 1855, the Jesuits again, this time in San Francisco with St. Ignatius Academy. The public schools began operating in San Francisco in 1851. But their first efforts were rudimentary. Throughout the 1850s, private schools were significant partners with public schools. In recognition of this fact, the state law that created the public school system in 1851 allowed for subsidies to denominational schools. In 1853, three Catholic schools in San Francisco received public funds. For awhile there was a competition between the private schools and the public schools. Then, in 1855 after only two years, the legislature stopped the subsidies to religious schools. The anti-Catholic “Know Nothing” Party controlled the legislature from 1854-1856. Beginning with 1856, the pub-

lic schools in San Francisco dropped Bible reading and daily prayers to remove an obstacle to attendance by Jewish and Catholic families. Some scholars have interpreted this move to be an effort to attract families away from their denominational schools. There certainly existed at this time an element that wished to have a system of “common schools” as a way of Americanizing the immigrant. By the late 1860s the public schools pulled ahead decisively in their ability to attract pupils. During the 1850s, the private schools had held about 30% of the total student population, but by 1860 they dropped to 26%, and by 1870 it would be 20%.

The original Saint Rose Academy, 1862. When Catholic schools were denied public funds they did not close, but simply grew less slowly compared to the public schools. The Catholic schools had to rely once again on their usual means of support such as fairs, donations from rich Catholics, subsidies from parishes, and most importantly the donated services of religious orders. During the 1860s, the public schools moved from rented rooms to newly built brick buildings, and this served to attract more students. Similarly St. Ignatius Academy and Presentation Convent School moved into new brick buildings. New Catholic schools were added at Mission Dolores, Saint Joseph’s parish (at Tenth and Howard Streets), Saint Rose parish, at the French and the German parishes, and by the Sisters of the Presentation. More significantly, Archbishop Alemany took the big step of establishing his own high school and college. In July of 1863, he dedicated the new campus of St. Mary’s College (built of brick of course), on the southern outskirts of San Francisco (near where Alemany Blvd and Mission Street intersect today). The college provided a high school curriculum for boys under the direction of diocesan priests and lay professors. Unfortunately, Archbishop Alemany’s college, lacking the donated services of a religious order, entered financial straits very soon. After several fruitless attempts to secure an order of male religious for it, the

Presentation Sisters lecture outdoors following the devastation of the 1906 quake and fire.

Brothers of the Christian School save the college from bankrup another central high school in Francisco, again he found hims for the planning, funding and op Because of these efforts, Ca private schooling in San Francisc behind the public schools in the they could accommodate. The p in another way as well. In the 18 sciences to their curriculum. Ca gated to add them (though some science education). Thus the pat future. Relatively well-funded p and Catholic schools would stru to remain credible alternatives. I lacked the resources to be of m inability to obtain public subsid religious orders would be indisp With separate schools being Catholics bothered? One suspec but evidence suggests that they religious and moral. Strong amo the moral as well as intellectual this was a conviction that for m to be in the context of religion secularizing their instruction in a “common school” where all co useful occupations. Some schola an important factor since so ma

1905 chemistry classro for whom religion and ethnicit many parents hoped fondly tha station in life for which educa meant that besides religious a needed to be academically cred Widespread among the Amer viction that the Catholic school w could become American witho motivation of the religious teac of the men’s orders teaching in t had been newly founded or re-e suffered loss from the de-Christi The saintly founders of these or the propagation of the faith and a society growing ever more a being said, there were none the accept to enter a teaching order purpose for that order. The sam The fact that each school h local enterprise by a parish or by in common from one school Catholic doctrine. This lack of c The schools charged different t opened and closed on different d competition to recruit paying pupils into grades and the curricu toms of the order conducting the good of Catholics as a whole wa The faculties of the various scho ative consequences. In their own In September of 1894, Siste Francisco under the title of Cath actions resulted from this meeti was almost a necessity that all th

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rancisco C) arrived in 1868 just in time to When the archbishop attempted , this time in downtown San igated to the Christian Brothers n of “Sacred Heart College.” schools grew as a percentage of despite this fact, they fell farther of the total student population of competition began to be felt he public schools introduced the schools without them felt oblilic schools had been pioneers in as set that would remain for the schools would set the standards find some way to keep up so as struggle, the archdiocese simply nancial help to its schools. The ant that the donated services of e for the foreseeable future. d to maintain, one wonders why the motivations were complex centered essentially in matters tholic parents was the desire for ation of their children. Allied to ducation to be successful it had while, the public schools were o draw religious minorities into molded into good citizens with e argued that ethnic identity was holics parents were immigrants

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Sacred Heart College. e mutually reinforcing. Finally, children would rise to a higher as seen as indispensable. This ral rigor, the Catholic schools attract students. bishops at this time was the conkey to rearing a generation that sing to be Catholic. As for the rders, it is worth noting that all hdiocese during the 1800s either hed since 1815. All of them had g zeal of the French Revolution. ad put high among their objects servation of Christian morals in c and morally licentious. This many reasons why a man might ad nothing to do with the stated be said for women religious. been started as an independent order, meant that there was little another except the teaching of mon features had disadvantages. on fees (some were free). They . Some of them engaged in open dents. The system for dividing m of studies depended on the cushool. There was concern that the orly served by this arrangement. were not unaware of these negy they attempted to take steps. m ten religious orders met in San eachers’ Institute. Two important st, the Sisters concluded that it hial schools should use the same

method for dividing students into grades and that this system should parallel the one used by the local public schools. Toward this end, seven Sisters were assigned to draft a uniform syllabus. Second, the Sisters decided that the Baltimore Catechism was too hard for younger children and so they began a project to compile a simple book of religious instruction well enough illustrated to attract young children. The nine Sisters assigned to this project were to collaborate with Father Peter C. Yorke, who was appointed to the task by Archbishop Patrick Riordan. The catechism project would prove to be quite successful resulting in a series of texts published under the editorship of Fr. Yorke. The uniform syllabus and grading project was not immediately successful. That had to wait for further initiative from the archdiocese. The Catholic Teachers’ Institute continued annually till at least 1899. Then came the disastrous earthquake of 1906. A number of schools downtown were completely destroyed. Some of the suburban schools suffered serious damage. The years immediately after the earthquake were ones of rebuilding and expansion. There was little energy to spare for the teachers’institutes.

1915-1940 — Beginning of Formal Archdiocesan Coordination Finally, it fell to Archbishop Hanna in 1915, to appoint Fr. Ralph Hunt as the first superintendent of schools, who was “…empowered to act with full authority in school matters, subject to the Archbishop’s approval.” He resumed the teachers’ institutes in 1916 and then from 1918 afterward transformed them into a summer school program conducted by professors from the Catholic University of America. In 1929 this program developed into an extension program of the Catholic University so that participating teachers could earn college credit. Father Hunt created a “Scholastic Council” composed of experienced teachers from the various orders; the archbishop invested this council with legislative powers in purely scholastic matters. The council acted to standardize textbooks and grade structure. During his first year in office Father Hunt began the collection and annual publication of attendance statistics. He asked each school to adopt common dates for opening and closing the school term and for holiday observances; but since compliance was voluntary not all schools co-operated. It was more correct to speak of the Catholic schools in the archdiocese as a system of schools rather than as a school system. This system was a blend of initiatives from the localities met by those from the archdiocese. The Catholic school of this era was a basic, practical operation with minimal overhead and a lot of flexibility. The most common configuration was a parish-supported complex from grades 1 to 8, usually

for both boys and girls. Lay teachers were present but rare (perhaps about 1 in 50) because they were more costly. When conditions allowed, a school might add a so-called “high” program or maybe a “commercial” program beyond the eighth grade. Regular subjects such as English and arithmetic were intensified in these post-eighth grade classes, while other subjects were added such as bookkeeping, typing, algebra, geometry, mechanical drawing, and laboratory science. The high course was intended as preparation for college, while the commercial course was intended as preparation for business employment. High or commercial departments were added to a parish school if there were enough applicants to support them and if there were no nearby options. Sometimes the proximity of a girls’high at a convent school would mean that a parish needed only to provide perhaps a commercial program for boys. Throughout the archdiocese in 1915, for example, there were forty-one high school programs; eight open to boys only, twenty-four open to girls only, and seven that were co-educational. Only three of these high school programs were free of attached elementary grades. These were Sacred Heart College (for boys), Saint Ignatius High School (for boys) and Presentation High School (for girls); all three were in San Francisco. Growth in high school enrollment climbed steadily from 1915 till the Great Depression adding about one thousand students every three years. Saint Elizabeth High School in Oakland opened in 1921 and Saint Mary’s College High in Berkeley in 1926. In 1925 Father James McHugh succeeded to the office of superintendent. One of his first efforts was the standardization of tests. Then in 1927 the use of selected basic textbooks became mandatory in the elementary schools of the archdiocese. In March of 1929, the archbishop appointed a school board of seven priests including the superintendent. Its first official act was the publication of a common code of policies. Later that same year in July, Father James H. Long became the third superintendent. Only months later came the stock market crash of 1929 and the gradual sinking of the country into the Great Depression. Catholic school attendance during the depression years stagnated rather than declined. Elementary school enrollments remained around 21,500 with slight annual fluctuations until 1935, after which year steady growth resumed. High school enrollments similarly stagnated around 5,900 with slight annual fluctuations till 1936, after which they resumed steady growth. In 1931 two high schools were opened in the areas of the archdiocese outside San Francisco. They were Holy Names Central High School in Oakland and Mercy High School in Burlingame. The opening of Holy Names CATHOLIC SCHOOLS, page 16

Catholic San Francisco

September 12, 2003

Spend an hour

An Appeal to Conscience Does Not Cross the Line By Daniel Avila In August, my wife, daughter and I took our summer vacation in the Midwest to visit family and friends, returning to our birthplace. The quickest route to Indiana from Boston follows Interstate 90, a smooth but boring way home. Boring is good when getting there sooner is paramount. Yet miles of toll road interrupted only by refueling stops at look-alike service plazas deaden the mind, causing more wear on the spirit. Sometimes arriving fresh means arriving a bit later by taking the next exit and seeing where that leads. Using this exit strategy on our trip was serendipitous. We found our way to Punxutawney, PA, to see Phil the groundhog; to the Lucy and Desi Museum in Jamestown, NY, the birth place of Lucille Ball; and to the Abraham Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, IN. I loved the Lincoln museum but more importantly my wife and 11 year old daughter, though not history buffs, loved it too. Its interactive exhibits captured our attention and kept us all engaged. Lincoln asserted that there is no right to do wrong. As president, Lincoln moved slowly to right the wrong of slavery—too slowly in the opinion of many abolitionists. I learned at the museum that Lincoln even reversed a decision by a military officer in one of the border states to free all the slaves there. How could a politician who abhorred slavery move to reinstate it? Lincoln argued that the timing was not right. He feared losing the border states to the secessionist South as a reaction. He bided his time, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and oversaw to its successful end a war that eventually freed all of the slaves. Lincoln’s pragmatism is a far cry from the stance of politicians who profess personal disagreement with certain private choices but then propose and vote for laws endorsing those choices. Unlike Lincoln’s tactical caution, their “personally opposed” tack is logically and morally incoherent. Just before I left for vacation, the Vatican issued a statement opposing laws recognizing same sex marriage and urging Catholic politicians to reaffirm traditional marriage. Some Catholic politicians reacted in dismay. Remarks such as “the Church is making an inappropriate crossing of the line by instructing politicians,” were common. One Congressman told the press that he believed the Church’s position is contrary to “what Jesus’ life was all about. . . . I get a very different message of what Jesus was teaching me than what the church seems to be representing.” The recent Vatican statement on same sex marriage must be read in conjunction with the Doctrinal Note issued earlier this year. There, the Vatican explained that “[b]y its interventions in [public policy debates], the Church’s Magisterium does not wish to exercise political power or eliminate the freedom of opinion of Catholics regarding contingent questions. Instead, it intends—as is its proper function—to instruct and illuminate the consciences of the faithful, particularly those involved in political life, so that their actions may always serve the integral promotion of the human person and the common good. . . . It is a question of the lay Catholic’s duty to be morally coherent, found within one’s conscience, which is one and indivisible.” So the Vatican’s later statement on gay marriage was an appeal to conscience, not to authority, and was directed not to all politicians but to those calling themselves Catholic. It was not a bid for political control, but a reminder for Christians that even politics must be morally coherent. If it is out of bounds for a religion’s leaders to seek to inform the consciences of that religion’s adherents then we would have to count Rev. Martin Luther King among the offenders. Take for example Rev. King’s 1956 sermon entitled “Paul’s Letter to American Christians.” Speaking as if he were reading a letter from St. Paul “concerning the responsibilities laid upon you to live as Christians in the midst of an unchristian world,” Rev. King admonished his Christian audience “to keep your moral advances abreast with your scientific advances.” He told them that “although you live in the colony of time, your ultimate allegiance is to the empire of eternity.” He advised them that “if any earthly institution conflicts with God’s will it is your Christian duty to take a stand against it.” Did Rev. King’s appeal to the consciences of the Christian faithful and his pointed reference to their moral duty as Christians cross the line too? As for those politicians who rely on their supposed private revelations from Jesus (“what would Jesus do?”)—they are free to communicate that to the public. However, if a politician claims to be a Catholic, he or she is not free to mischaracterize Catholic teaching. The Vatican’s statement on same sex marriage leaves no doubt as to the substance of the Church’s official policy on a heated topic. Now no Catholic can claim in good conscience that the Church’s position was not clearly described or argue that one’s own differing beliefs qualify as doctrine. The Church has a right to clarify its own moral stance. Daniel Avila is Associate Director of Policy & Research at the Massachusetts Catholic Conference.

In these dark nights of the soul for the Church, one idea to combat the evils of our day is adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Many parishes are adding adoration on a regular basis. I would like to advise your readers of the San Mateo County Nocturnal Adoration Society as a alternative to parish adoration. We are a lay Catholic society, priests and religious are welcome, that meets the second Saturday of each month between the hours of 9:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. in groups for an hour each. We meet at the chapel of St. Matthew’s Church in San Mateo, which has been recently beautifully remodeled. The hour consists of both silent meditation and read prayers. For people who are not sure whether they want to be involved on a parish level, or on a weekly basis, we are a great alternative. Fulfilling Christ’s request that we watch one hour with Him will, if done faithfully, change a person’s life. For those who might be interested in trying our society, you can contact me for more information by sending email to firenze5@aol.com. We do have a pamphlet that I would be more than happy so send to anyone interested. Stephen Firenze San Mateo

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such biased coverage from the mass media. I might have hoped for better from you. Hayden Townsend San Francisco

More on caption Regarding the Catholic San Francisco cover photo and caption on August 29. Will we now see a front page photo of the coffin of a Palestinian child killed by action of the Israeli government using weapons manufactured in the United States? I think it is inaccurate and unfair to say that the bus bombing in Israel (as terrible as that was) had broken the cease fire. The killing of Palestinians had continued throughout. Paul Crudo San Francisco

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On the front page of your August 29 issue you show a large photo of a funeral of a woman and her infant son killed in the August 19 bus bombing in Jerusalem. the caption says “they were among the 20 people killed ... ending a seven-week truce.” If you had done a little investigating you would have found that there was no truce on the part of the Israelis. The invasions of settlements and towns with killing of Palestinians; the miserable check-points; the Jewish settlements all continued without let-up. I expect

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Misguided compassion

Sister Bernie Galvin, Director of Religious Witness, in her public statements continues to demonstrate her misguided compassion by suggesting that persons should be permitted “to beg for a little change in order to survive in San Francisco.” (San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 1) Most panhandlers need treatment, not spare change. Many suffer from substance abuse, or mental illness. Others are predators who mostly accost women, particularly seniors. These panhandlers are neither poor nor are they ill; they are aggressive grifters and they need to be stopped. Proposition M calls for a diversion program to identify candidates for treatment, and clear definitions of restricted behavior and law enforcement. Mike DeNunzio San Francisco

Fr. Carter’s appeal I would like to add some comment on the article in the August 29 issue. I refer to the story about Father Daniel Carter. It is very apparent that Fr. Carter did follow the rules in contesting the allegations against him. His claim was followed by the Independent Review Board saying the “allegations” were not sustained. It does appear that going through the normal procedure, as outlined by the Church, is not enough. Dan DeLorenzo San Bruno Ed. Note: As reported in Catholic San Francisco, Archbishop Levada reinstated Fr. Carter as pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary parish in order to assist him in restor ing his good name and reputation, which had been impugned by the allegation against him. Father Carter’s reassignment was based on factors unrelated to the allegation.

Cornelius

died 253

Feast– September 16 Elected pope following the violent persecution of Emperor Decius, this Roman priest held the chair of Peter for two years. His opponents included Novatian, the first antipope. Novatian refused to pardon those who denied Christ during the persecution. Pope Cornelius favored another approach; lapsed Christians could return to the faith after performing penance. A church synod supported the pope and Novatian was excommunicated. The persecution began anew in 253 and the pope was banished to Civitavecchia, where he died a martyr.

Saints for Today

September 12, 2003

Catholic San Francisco

The Catholic Difference

Pope John who? It’s an old habit in American presidential politics: when your campaign is going sour, attack the Vatican. The KnowNothings tried it with some success in the 1840s. James G. Blaine famously failed to distance himself from a supporter’s attack on “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion” in 1884 — and lost to Grover Cleveland by a hair. Now, in the oddities of history, it’s a Catholic of Irish descent who’s taking a similar tack. The day after the Vatican released a statement which taught that Catholic legislators have a moral obligation to oppose gay “marriage,” Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) blew his well-coifed stack. “Kerry raps Pope,” ran the full-page headline in the Boston Herald. As, indeed, the senator did. “It is important not to have the Church instructing politicians,” a “fuming” senator said. “President Kennedy drew that line very clearly in 1960 and I believe we need to stand up for that line today.” So the Pope had “crossed the line.” But whose line? Perhaps Senator Kerry should be reminded that the name of the Pope is “Pope John Paul,” not “Pope John Fitzgerald.” And what line? However much it may have dampened anti-Catholic bigotry during the 1960 campaign, John F. Kennedy’s address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association hardly constitutes a definitive Catholic statement on Church and state — or on the relationship between a conscience formed by Catholic understandings of moral truth and American democracy. Not only did the Kennedy speech fail to note that religion — Jewish and Christian conviction

— informs and sustains the religious tolerance of the vast majority of Americans. He also bypassed any discussion of the relationship between democratic politics and civic virtue. Kennedy’s eloquence - “...If this election is decided on the basis that 40,000,000 Americans lost their chance to be President on the day they were baptized, then it is the nation as a whole that will be the loser in the eyes of Catholics and nonCatholics around the world, in the eyes of history, and in the eyes of our own people...” — probably blunted the fangs of bigotry among some fever swamp Protestants in 1960. But it did little to advance the national debate on the relationship between religiously-grounded moral values and American public life.As Senator Kerry evidently reads him, John F. Kennedy was the prophet of what Father Richard Neuhaus has called the “naked public square” — an American public arena in which no one’s religiously-informed moral judgments have a place. Senator Kerry’s outrage also smacks of the opportunistic. Would Senator Kerry have charged that the Pope had “crossed the line” if the Vatican had said that a vote in favor of re-segregating America’s restaurants and schools would be “gravely immoral”? Very unlikely. Would Senator Kerry object to the Vatican informing Catholic politicians that a vote in favor of repealing minimum-wage laws was “gravely immoral”? Would Senator Kerry object to a Vatican document proposing that Catholic politicians had a moral obligation to protect the environment?

Of course not. Whatever else it may or may not have been intended to communicate, Senator Kerry’s displeasure appealed to several core Democratic constituencies crucial to his quest for the George Weigel presidency: gay activists; secularists who champion the naked public square; liberals who believe that “liberty” means the unfettered expression of personal willfulness, as long as it’s “between consenting adults” and “no one gets hurt.” That’s the debased notion of liberty that underwrites the abortion license — and only a bear of very little brain would think that that issue wasn’t lurking in the background of Senator Kerry’s blast at the Vatican. Senator Kerry argued that “Our founding fathers separated Church and state in America.” That’s true and it isn’t. The Framers wisely forbade any federal establishment of religion — a national state Church. They did this to foster the free exercise of religion, not to create a public arena shorn of religiously-informed moral arguments. The “wall of separation” is Thomas Jefferson’s interpretive (and tendentious) metaphor, not the Constitution’s text. Surely a serious candidate for President should know that much.

Family Life

Coping with back-to-school anxiety “I’m talking with your new teacher tomorrow,” I said. “Anything you want me to find out?” Gabe frowned. “I’m mostly wondering about finding stuff.” “What stuff?” “Stuff like, where are the bathrooms?” Gabe starts fourth grade at a new school this fall, his second in two years. Gabe’s worries are more concrete than mine. He worries about finding the bathroom, getting to the lunchroom, and knowing where to line up in the morning. I worry about finding my place in a new group of parents, learning a new routine, and whether Gabe will be happy and do well. It’s tough—on both of us—to be new. One early August afternoon, we drove up to explore his new school. The long hallway was empty and still, so different than it would be a few weeks later. A custodian left his mop and came over to greet us. “Gabe’s coming here this fall,” I explained. “He’ll be in Ms. W’s class.” “She’s in Room 140,” he said. “I’ll unlock it for you.” Desks were stacked to one side. Cubbies lined a side

wall. Blackboards anchored each end. Gabe’s eyes were drawn to the five new computers at the front of the room. Except for the computers, it looked a lot like the classroom I went to fourth grade in. We left the room and turned right into the hall. Gabe slipped his hand into mine. “There’s the bathroom,” I said. “And look, there’s a drinking fountain.” We stopped in front of a poster of the school rules: Polite, Respectful, Independent manager, Do my best, Everyone working cooperatively. “That seems pretty easy,” said Gabe, sounding relieved. “Not anything different than normal school stuff.” We went into the cafeteria, then peeked into the gym next door. Farther down the hall, we entered the library. Gabe pulled a book about outer space off the shelf and checked the reading level. “The sticker that shows the zone is on the back,” he said. “At my other school, the sticker was on the end of the book.” Adoor led to the computer lab. “Wow. Look at all these new computers!” The technology levy was paying off at last. Gabe touched a mouse gently. His eyes glowed. “I hear Ms. W. likes to have the kids use computers,” I told him. “You’ll be good at that.”

We went out on the playground and studied the numbers painted on the blacktop. “Here’s 140. This is where you’ll line up.” We walked around to the front of the school. “Seen enough?” “Yeah. Let’s go Christine Dubois home.” In a few short weeks, we’d be back. September is a season of new challenges and new promises. It’s never easy to leave our familiar ruts. But God has always called people into something new. Abraham left Haran, the Israelites left Egypt, the early Christians left Jerusalem and took their faith to the world. Adjusting to a new school will be a challenge, but the rewards will be worth it. We’ll make new friends, learn new things, grow through new experiences. Most of all, we’ll gain a renewed trust that, wherever we are, the Lord will help us find everything we need.

Spirituality

Spirituality and the Second Half of Life When Nikos Kazantsakis was a young man he interviewed an old monk on Mount Athos. At one stage he asked him: “Do you still struggle with the devil?” “No,” the man replied. “I used to, but I’ve grown old and tired and the devil has grown old and tired with me. Now I leave him alone and he leaves me alone!” “So your life is easy then,” Kazantsakis asked, “no more struggles?” “Ah, no,” replied the monk, “it’s worse. Now I struggle with God!” Someone once quipped that we spend the first half of our lives struggling with the devil (and the Sixth Commandment) and the second half of our lives struggling with God (and the Fifth Commandment). While that captures something, it’s too simple, unless we define “the devil” more widely to mean our struggles with the untamed energies of youth — eros, restlessness, sexuality, the ache for intimacy, the push for achievement, the search for a moral cause, the hunger for roots, and the longing for a companionship and a place that feels like home. It’s not easy, especially when we’re young, to make peace with the fires inside us. We need to establish our own identity and find, for ourselves, intimacy, meaning, selfworth, quiet from restlessness, and a place that feels like home. We can spend 50 years, after we’ve first left home, finding our way back there again. But the good news is that, generally, we do get there. In mid-life, perhaps only in late mid-life, we achieve something the mystics call “Proficiency,” a state wherein we have achieved an essential maturity — basic peace, a sexuality integrated enough to let us sleep at night and keep commitments during the day, a sense of self-worth, and an essential

unselfishness. We’ve found our way home. And there, as once before the onset of puberty, we’re relatively comfortable again. We’d like to be young again, but we don’t want all that disquiet a second time. Like Kazantsakis’ old monk, we’ve grown tired of wrestling with the devil and he with us. So where do we go from there, from home? T.S. Eliot once said, “Home is where we start from.” That’s true again in mid-life. The second half of life, just like the first, demands a journey. While the first half of life, as we saw, is very much consumed with the search for identity, meaning, self-worth, intimacy, rootedness, and making peace with our sexuality, the second half has another purpose, as expressed in the famous epigram of Job: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I go back.” Where do we go from home? To an eternal home with God. But, to do that, we have first to shed many of the things that we legitimately acquired and attached ourselves to during the first half of life. The spiritual task of the second half of life, so different from the first, is to let go, to move to the nakedness that Job describes. What does that entail? From what do we need to detach ourselves? First, and most importantly, from our wounds and anger. The foremost spiritual task of the second half of life is to forgive — others, ourselves, life, God. We all arrive at mid-life wounded and not having had exactly the life of which we dreamed. There’s a disappointment and anger inside every one of us and unless we find it in ourselves to forgive, we will

die bitter, unready for the heavenly banquet. Second, we need to detach ourselves from the need to possess, to achieve, and to be the center of attention. The task of the second half of life is to become the Father quiet, blessing grandparRon Rolheiser ent who no longer needs to be the center of attention but is happy simply watching the young grow and enjoy themselves. Third, we need to learn how to say goodbye to the earth and our loved ones so that, just as in the strength of our youth we once gave our lives for those we love, we can now give our deaths to them too, as a final gift. Fourth, we need to let go of sophistication so as to become simple “holy old fools” whose only message is that God loves us. Finally, we need, more and more, to immerse ourselves in the language of silence, the language of heaven. Meister Eckhart once said: “Nothing so much resembles God as silence.” The task of mid-life is to begin to understand that and enter into that language. And it’s a painful process. Purgatory is not some exotic, Catholic doctrine. It’s a central piece within any mature spirituality which, like Job, tells us that God’s eternal embrace can only become fully ecstatic once we’ve learned to let go.

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allowed four parishes in Oakland to discontinue their high and commercial departments thus reducing the burden on parish resources. In 1935, Saint Joseph’s parish in Alameda opened a boys’ high to complement its girls’ high. The Brothers of Mary (Marianists) conducted the boys’ high while the Notre Dame Sisters conducted the girls’high. This is pretty much how things remained for the decade from 1935 to 1945, while the world weathered the effects of the Great Depression and World War II.

1940 to 1963 — Great Age of the Central Diocesan High School The general prosperity after World War II combined with the explosive population increase in California had its effect on all aspects of life including the Catholic school. The twenty-year period from 1945 to 1965 was the golden age of Catholic school expansion, and the symbol of this era was the state of the art central high school. Between 1945 and 1965, Catholic high school enrollment increased 145% from 8,700 students to 21,400. To accommodate the “baby-boomer” generation, the archdiocese opened four central high schools in major population centers. These were Riordan High School for boys in San Francisco (1949), Marin Catholic High School for boys and girls (1949), Bishop O’Dowd High School for boys and girls in Oakland (1951), and finally Archbishop Mitty High School for boys in San Jose (1964). In addition, religious orders opened eight high schools of their own. These were Mercy High School in San Francisco (1952), St. Francis High School in Mountain View (1955), Mother Butler in San Jose (1958), Salesian High in Richmond (1960), Presentation High School in San Jose (1962), Carondelet High School and De La Salle High School both in Concord (1965), and Moreau High School in Hayward (1965).

Monsignor Leo Powelson in class at Saint Patrick’s, circa 1950. ratio in 1968 was 28:1. Even had the boom in religious vocations continued beyond 1968, the lay teacher would have remained a growing presence in the Catholic school. During this twenty-year golden age, a heady ambience permeated Catholic education. The archdiocesan school office took great pride in the conspicuous material improvements in Catholic education. Similarly, the teaching orders exuded confidence in their swelling numbers, and growing professionalism. Catholic schools were achieving a respectable showing relative to the public schools, and a growing respect from the normative culture. A clear horizon offered a seemingly endless expansion of the prevailing pattern. Alas, events were not to conform to expectations.

pupil per month. By 1985, that figure had risen to $100. Since then it has continued to rise. Along with the increase in tuition there has developed a steady increase in the percentage of non-Catholics among the student bodies. The absence of the religious orders raises a question for the long term about how the Catholic school will retain its faith commitment. Beginning around the 1980s, Catholic schools entered in a new way into public controversy about education policy. Some sectors of opinion proposed the Catholic school as a model for reversing the decline of general public education in the United States. The proponents of decentralization of schools

1963 to 1973—Time of Contestation

Planning the construction on Marin Catholic High School. This post-war expansion affected the composition of faculties as well. The most important longterm trend was the increasing participation of lay teachers, which occurred even as religious orders enjoyed unprecedented expansion of their own numbers. To give an idea of the numbers involved; in 1935 the ratio of religious teachers to lay teachers was fifty-to-one; whereas by 1968, the ratio was oneto-one. This amounted to a revolution. The lay teacher had never previously been an important player in the Catholic school picture. But by 1968, the lay teacher was ascendant in a way that would soon become dramatic. This turnabout of importance was not at first the result of diminishing numbers of religious, but of the increasing numbers of schools and of the declining student to teacher ratio required during the postwar period. For example, had the religious tried to staff all the new schools without the help of lay teachers, the ratio of students to teachers by 1968 would have been 48:1. With lay teachers, the actual

Around 1963 there began a chain of events that shook the faith of many and that culminated around 1968 with the collapse of religious and priestly vocations. Important segments of Catholic leadership among both laity and clergy came to openly doubt the worth of separate schools as a way of preparing young Catholics for life. Innovations in pedagogy, curriculum and religious doctrine introduced into the traditional Catholic school, fostered polarization among faculties and disturbed many parents. Some religious orders began increasingly to withdraw from teaching to enter social work. Just as the lay teacher was becoming the mainstay, those in the high schools voted to affiliate with the American Federation of Teachers and subsequently went on strike in November and December of 1971. The strike was as bitterly contested as it was unprecedented. A rival union formed among the non-strikers to challenge the AFT group in a federally supervised election. The headlines in the daily paper made clear to all that things were changing in the Catholic schools. The decade from 1963 to 1973 severely shook the notion of the Catholic school that had been familiar to every generation since the 1860s.

1973 to the Present—New Equilibrium With time, outward calm returned to Catholic school campuses. Adjustments were made gradually throughout the 1970s and 1980s to continue the schools as the percentage of teaching religious declined steadily. By necessity, the schools have taken on a new ambience. Community social service, usually required, is an important element. Enrollment changes reflect the demographic movement of Catholic populations from inner city cores to suburban new towns. This shift was addressed by consolidating schools in the urban core and by expanding capacity in the suburbs. Similarly, the ethnic composition has changed to reflect the growing proportion of Asians and Hispanics in the general population. A slow, long-term decline in enrollment is attributed to the increasing costs of tuition. For example, in 1965 the elementary tuition averaged about one dollar per

Boys in line – Mission Dolores School, 1958. claimed to find evidence for their position in the performance of Catholic schools especially in depressed inner-city neighborhoods and among the most disadvantaged ethnic groups. But before Catholics could say “We told you so,” opposing scholars renewed the attack on Catholic schools as completely atypical institutions that can teach Americans nothing of relevance to providing public education. So the old picture reasserts itself in new ways. Despite all the changes to the basic Catholic school since the Gold Rush, it continues to be the institution most likely to represent Catholics to the broader culture and the most likely to create controversy by the very fact that it survives. By the very fact of their continued existence, the Catholic schools in the archdiocese remain vital and important institutions with an influence beyond their staid appearance.

This is one in a year-long series of articles marking the 150th anniversary of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Jeffrey Burns, archdiocesan archivist and author of a history of the Archdiocese, is coordinating the series.

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Local Catholic Charities CYO trying to reverse falloff in giving By Patrick Joyce San Francisco’s Catholic Charities CYO has survived the state’s budget crisis with few cuts but the newly reunited agency still faces challenges from declines in contributions from corporations, foundations and individual donors. “We are fortunate to have escaped with not too much of an impact at the state level. We have lost only one state contract for $27,000,” said Tim O’Keefe, associate executive director. “But we have also lost $303,000 in federal contracts, $13,000 in local contracts and $182,00 in foundation grants.” Mr. O’Keefe said those losses should be seen in the context of the agency’s $35 million budget, which includes $20.1 million in government contracts, $7.7 million in program fees and $5.7 million in fund raising. Mr. O’Keefe cited three reasons for the agency’s success in a difficult year: “the great credibility with local, state and federal government” that Executive Director Brian Cahill has established over long years in private and public social services, and “our efficiency and the quality of our services - all helped to keep us from losing additional government contracts during this budget cycle.” A more troubling problem for Catholic Charities CYO than government funding is a “dramatic falloff in donations from individuals, corporations and foundations, a nearly 60 percent reduction over the last four years,” Mr. O’Keefe said. “Some of it is because of the recession, some from the scandal in the Church,” he said These contributions dropped steadily from a high of $6.8 million in 1999 to a low of $2.9 million in fiscal year 2003, which ended June 30. The falloff in contributions comes at a time when total giving to private charities nationwide rose by one percent last year - to $241 billion, including a five percent increase for religious charities, he said. “We are hoping to reverse this trend in 2004,” Mr. O’Keefe said, “by more actively and effectively communicating to the community our gospel-driven mission of

State budget . . . ■ Continued from cover Some supporters of the budget cuts compare the state’s financial problems with those of a family. Mr. Mockler said that is a false analogy. “When the family budget is tighter because we have less income, the children are the ones we do everything to protect,” he said. “But when it comes to state or federal budgets, oftentimes the poor are the first target for cutbacks.” This approach ignores the economic realities of California, Mr. Mockler said. “The people we serve are the ones who least benefited from the economic boom of the ‘90s. Research by the California Budget Project shows that over the ‘90s there really was not a noticeable increase in salaries for the working poor, even while salaries for the more affluent spiked up dramatically,” he noted. CHILD CARE Child care funding was reduced by $130 million in the budget. The budget includes lower payment rates to child care providers and reduced funding for after school programs. The lower provider rates mean that poor families “will have less access to any providers, let alone quality providers,” Mr. Mockler said. In addition, the budget diverts some job training funding to child care, leaving less money for job training, counseling and support services for new workers. “That’s the story of the state budget - moving money between pots,” Mr. Mockler said. The impact on child care may be greater when the federal budget is approved. The House of Representatives already has passed legislation increasing the work requirement for welfare recipients from 30 hours a week to 40 hours, Mr. Mockler said. At the same, Congress is reducing funding for child care. “For single mothers with small children, the new work requirement is onerous,” he said. “Even if the monthly check that a family receives for welfare doesn’t change, the amount of income they have is going to be severely impacted. They will be forced to spend more for child care because mom’s going to be away at work.” MEDI-CAL Not only does the budget cut some MediCal services for the poor but it also reduces by five percent the amount the state pays doctors and other health care providers. That is smaller than the 15 percent proposed by Governor Gray Davis but it will still hurt the MediCal program and the six million poor people it serves, according to the California Medical Association. Mr. Mockler agrees. “Lower provider rates drive doctors out of the MediCal program,” he said. “Reimbursement rates are not competitive now, and some doctors are ready to get out all together. These cuts will be another reason for more doctors to leave.”

the new merged agency, which is to serve and advocate for the poor, the sick, the distressed, children, youth, families, immigrants and seniors, regardless of their faith.” Catholic Charities receives contributions from its annual parish appeal, but Mr. O’Keefe said, “We do not receive any money from the Archdiocese and we give no money to the Archdiocese. Archbishop Levada is chairman of our board, but we stand on our own as the social service arm of the Church in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties.” “We have been able to offset funding cuts and fundraising shortfalls by becoming more efficient,” Mr. O’Keefe said. “Catholic Charities and CYO formally merged this summer, but our management teams were merged in the summer of 2000. By having a single management team our overhead dropped, resulting in a total savings of $2.5 million over the last three years. We are now one of the largest and most efficiently run social service agencies in the state. Our administrative overhead is only 10 percent, with only four percent devoted to fund raising. Eighty-six percent goes to programs.”

“This is significant,” Mr. O’Keefe said. “Before the 1990s, the program was fully funded by state reimbursement. It is now dramatically underfunded - by $800,000 a year. We have had to make up that deficit by fundraising.” The agency does receive annual increases from the state for some programs, Mr. Michelini, said but “they rarely match our increased expenses. For example, the state’s cost of living increases for staff don’t match our actual payroll increases.” Catholic Charities finances are complicated by an issue that has captured the attention of candidates in the recall campaign: the state’s soaring workers compensation costs. “Our costs this year are $1 million,” Mr. O’Keefe said. “Last year they were $750,000. We have been seeing increases of 20 to 30 percent a year over the past few years, even though we have a relatively low number and cost of claims.” “In addition, the City of San Francisco requires that we pay health insurance and certain other benefits for full and parttime workers. We now pay 35 percent or more in benefits for some employees in our residential facilities due to high workers compensation costs but we receive a maximum reimbursement on many government contracts of only 25 percent.” Over the last year, the 800employee agency eliminated 14 In addition to cuts this year, Catholic Charities CYO positions and reduced hours for 10 positions. “These were will lose $400,000 in state funding in June 2004, Controller very difficult and painful staffing reductions but we had no Tony Michelini said. At that time, a three-year contract that choice given the reductions in government funding and the the agency had hoped to have renewed will end. drop-off in fundraising,” Mr. O’Keefe said. “The money comes from the Supportive Housing “For many of our clients, we are their last hope, the final Initiative Act (SHIA) and funds two residential programs for safety net where government or society in general has forpeople suffering from HIV/AIDS including the only facility gotten or abandoned them,” he said. “Without us, thousands in San Francisco for women and children suffering from of hot meals for homebound elderly would not be served HIV/AIDS,” Mr. Michelini said. The $400,000 represents each month, hundreds of children of low income families one-third of the agency’s $1.2 million in state contracts. would not have anywhere to go for day care, dozens of famAlongstanding problem for the agency is state funding for ilies would otherwise be on the streets without shelter. St. Vincent’s School for Boys in San Rafael. At the school, “With over 30 programs in behavioral health care, rental Catholic Charities CYO staff members work to turn around the assistance, housing, immigration, and residential treatment lives of children who have been severely abused, physically, facilities. to name just a few, we offer a broad range of sexually and emotionally. The state’s reimbursement rate was social services in addition to our CYO youth services which frozen through most of the 1990s. Three small adjustments of serve thousands of elementary school-age children. We are less than three percent each were made in 1999, 2000 and extremely dependent on government contracts and the gen2001, only to be followed by a new freeze that is still in effect. erosity of our donors to continue to provide these services.” Primary care doctors now receive $20 for a MediCal societies that don’t have democratic traditions, so they don’t patient visit, about one third of what they receive from pri- know what it means to be a citizen in a democratic society.” vate insurance and not enough to cover the overhead costs Cuts in government programs for the poor are only part of for their offices, some doctors say. About 40 percent of the problem for Catholic Charities agencies in California. doctors surveyed by the medical association last year said “Our private donors, because of the recession, simply don’t they would drop out of the program if rates were reduced. have the resources to continue giving at the rate they had been Three-quarters said they would further limit the number of up until a couple of years ago,” Mr. Mockler said. In addition, MediCal patients they serve. state and local governments are requiring Catholic Charities HOSPITALS AVOID CUTS and other private agencies to provide bigger subsidies for While doctors will see lower rates, “Hospitals avoided services they offer through contracts with the government. direct cuts this year, but they may feel some indirect cuts,” Tom “We’ve had cases where we’ve had to just let go of conMcCaffery, senior vice president of the Alliance of Catholic tracts because the state wanted us to offer a service but we Health, said, “Our concern is looking at next year’s budget cri- simply didn’t have the resources to subsidize it at the level the sis. I read stories about $8 billion to $10 billion in structural state was expecting,” Mr. Mockler said. “We feel the state has deficits, the same problem as this year. When they are looking an obligation to offer these services and shouldn’t be looking for places to cut, they look in the place with the most spending to churches to subsidize this work. We like to reserve our outside of education - health and human services.” donor funds for parish-based services as much as possible.” Mr. McCaffery sees two areas that may be hit next year. Sixty percent of Catholic Charities funding comes from “There could be a scaling back in MediCal,” he said. “This government. The next largest percentage is from clients, for year, the governor presented a list of cuts in benefits that services such as counseling, with fees on a sliding scale, are optional under federal Medicaid law. Those included based on need. Private donations and foundation support hospice care, non-emergency hospital transportation, supply the rest of the money. optometry, and physical therapy. None of those benefits CATHOLIC RESPONSE were cut this year but they could be targeted next year.” Mr. Mockler encouraged Catholics to fight for programs Another possible target is a “funding stream for hospi- that serve the poor. “As people of faith, the first step is taktals that care for a disproportionately large number of ing a personal interest ourselves, whether it’s through our MediCal and uninsured patients,” Mr. McCaffery said. parish, or local community organizations that are serving “The idea behind this funding is that we want to keep these the poor and helping families at risk,’ he said. Catholics hospitals open so there will be somebody to serve the poor. should also realize that they have a “political and civic County hospitals and private hospitals, including Catholic responsibility to communicate with our elected leaders our hospitals are on that list. The state controls the funding values on the issues of the day.” stream and in the budget crisis of the early 1990s it reduced “We need to remember when we are threatened by any its allocation. State officials might be tempted to do the crisis we have a primary obligation to those among us who same thing next year.” are the most vulnerable, children at risk or families at risk NATURALIZATION SERVICES - and not fall prey to easy solutions,” he said. “Californians “A little but important program” that helps legal immi- can be suckers for promises from politicians that we can grants become citizens suffered the hardest hit, Mr. solve all our social problems without any cost to us. In a Mockler said. “The state budget eliminates naturalization recession like this, that just isn’t true - it’s not that easy.” services funding,” he said. “We have the resources to feed everyone who is hungry For nearly 10 years, Catholic Charities and a number of and to provide adequate health care and decent child care other community-based organizations have received state for everyone who lives here. It’s just a copout to say that funding for this program to help legal immigrants become times are tough, that everyone has to cut back a bit. There citizens - teaching them English, helping with paperwork are some living amongst us who are so vulnerable that they and teaching them about American democracy. really don’t have anything more to give up - the people who “This has been a really valuable program,” Mr. Mockler are living in our shelters, struggling to find employment.” said. “Many of our agencies will continue to provide some Catholic social teaching has its roots in the Old limited immigration services but many of the people we Testament tradition belief that the “primary obligation of serve are so poor that they can’t afford to access these serv- society is care for the widows, the orphans, the immigrant,” ices otherwise.” Mr. Mockler said. “Most elected leaders in California are Immigrants often are reluctant to claim their rights even if afraid to do anything that is going to upset a political conthey are legal residents, he said. “Until they become citizens stituency. In this kind of environment, the people with the and get some education in democracy, they are afraid to par- least political power are most readily targeted - the widow, ticipate in their communities, to claim the rightful access to the orphan, and the immigrant. Unless the Church is going police protection or clean water or parks. Many come from to stand up and speak for this group no one will.”

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Agriculture at top of WTO agenda; church gives input at conference By Ioan Grillo Catholic News Service SANTA ISABEL DE TEPETZALA, Mexico (CNS) — Vicente Ramirez’s family has been farming corn in this picturesque village in the heart of rural Mexico for centuries. But with corn prices slumping to 28 cents a pound, Ramirez is afraid he will have to leave the home he loves and look for work elsewhere. “With these prices we can’t even make enough money to feed ourselves,” said Ramirez, a burly farmer who is active in the local corn growers’ cooperative. Ramirez said local growers cannot compete against cheap corn imported from the United States — where farmers are subsidized to the tune of $19 billion a year. A thousand miles away in Mexico’s resort town of Cancun, trade ministers from 146 countries were discussing the situation of farmers like Ramirez who are struggling in the globalized economy. Agriculture was at the top of the agenda of the World Trade Organization’s fifth ministerial conference Sept. 10-14. Catholic groups and church officials went to the meeting to try to persuade policy-makers to support fair trade and sustainable development for millions of farmers living on the brink. “We have to represent the voice of the p o o r,” said Bishop Luc Cyr of Valleyfield, Quebec, who was heading a delegation from the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace. “We need to show solidarity with the

A Mexican farmer sits near a banner protesting policies of the World Trade Organization Sept 9 in the Mexican resort city of Cancun. The organization was meeting in Cancun to nudge its 146 members toward a comprehensive world trade pact by the end of next year. Catholic Church representatives at the meeting urged delegates to support fair trade and sustainable development for struggling farmers.

brothers and sisters who are struggling.” U.S. Msgr. Frank Dewane, undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said representatives from the Vatican would look at the issues of tariff reductions, subsidies and dumping — the practice of selling excess produce in foreign markets at rock-bottom prices. “The Holy See is concerned that farmers in developing countries find it difficult to produce their staple crops,” the native of Green Bay, Wis., said in a telephone interview from Cancun.

Guatemalan bishop says unjust structures force migration north By Stephen Steele Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — During a recent visit to Mexico, Guatemalan Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri of San Marcos said he helped receive the bodies of three young men who died in the Arizona desert while migrating to the United States. Parishioners had taken a collection for the repatriation of the bodies, an enormous expense for the impoverished community in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, he said. But the return of the bodies was essential for the community because of the cultural importance of burying the dead in their place of birth, the bishop added. Despite overwhelming dangers and obstacles, tens of thousands of Central American citizens will continue to migrate to the United States in search of work in order to support their families back home. Bishop Ramazzini said that unjust international economic structures tacitly con-

spire to keep poor countries poor, forcing Central Americans to risk their lives by migrating north. “We are living in an incredibly unjust world,” Bishop Ramazzini said Sept. 5 in Washington. In Guatemala, where up to 80 percent of the population lives in poverty, about 75,000 people attempt to migrate north each year, he said. The bishop said the church continually warns people of the dangers in migration, but he knows the warnings are fruitless. “People take the risk and go north because they have to,” he said. Bishop Ramazzini told some 200 participants in a Washington conference on free trade and rural development that poverty is on the rise in Central America, caused in large part by the unjust policies by international monetary organizations. The Sept. 5 conference was sponsored by a coalition of nongovernmental organizations.

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Analysts predicted it would be tough for ministers to make concrete agreements. Fifteen developing nations — including Mexico, Brazil, India and China — were backing a proposal that ministers agree to an eventual elimination of all farming subsidies. The proposal was recently called “a space odyssey” by European Union Farming Commissioner Franz Fischler, who said the countries sponsoring it should “come back to earth.” “We have to pray that the ministers can work together and make decisions that will benefit the majority of human beings,” said Bishop Cyr.

However, Msgr. Dewane said he was optimistic the meeting could produce some positive results. “The conference is a time of hope. It could help equalize the turf and make poorer countries more competitive,” he said. “The European Union and United States may have begun with a hard bargaining position, but we hope they will become more flexible.” As well as talking with government ministers, church officials were meeting and exchanging ideas with some of the 980 nongovernmental organizations registered at the conference. “The NGOs have the potential to contribute in a positive way and make sure the most pressing issues are on the agenda,” Msgr. Dewane said. Also visiting the resort of Cancun were thousands of protesters intent on shutting down the conference. Groups of anarchists, poor farmers and so-called “globaphobics” said they would march and block roads to prevent ministers from attending meetings. Four years ago in Seattle, protesters clashed with police and helped derail talks at the World Trade Organization’s third ministerial conference. Church officials said they are firmly against violence and hope there would be no confrontations. “Violence only leads to more violence. We need dialogue,” said Father Jose Antonio Sandoval, executive secretary of the social affairs commission of the Mexican bishops’conference. “We trust that the ministers at the meeting will show concern for human beings and not just the market,” he said.

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Church statements on Jews need translating into action, cardinal says By John Thavis Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic Church, in a series of recent studies and pronouncements, has recognized that Christians shared in responsibility for antiSemitism and the attitudes that led to the Holocaust, a leading Vatican official said. Now these reconciliatory gestures from the hierarchy need to be translated into the attitudes and actions of average Catholics, said Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Va t i c a n ’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. Cardinal Kasper made the comments in a long article published Sept. 7 by the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, to mark the fourth European Day of Jewish Culture. Cardinal Kasper said the issue of anti-Semitism was linked to the question of how Christians viewed their own relationship to Jews as the “chosen people” of the Bible. He said it is clear from Scripture that God did not abandon his alliance with the Jewish people and that the church did not “replace” Israel in the divine plan. The Jews were not repudiated by God at the time of Christ’s life and death — but, unfortunately, this notion was widespread among Christians for many centuries, he said. Cardinal Kasper said a 1997 Vatican symposium laid much of the groundwork for the most recent clarification of the church’s teaching. Pope John Paul II, addressing symposium participants, said that in the Christian world “erroneous and unjust interpretations of the New Testament circulated for too long a time about the Jewish people and their presumed guilt, generating sentiments of hostility.” These interpretations “contributed to lulling consciences,” so that “the spiritual resistance of many was not what humanity had the right to expect on the part of disciples of Christ” when the Nazis persecuted Jews before and during World War II, the pope said.

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Cardinal Kasper said examples of what the pope was talking about could be seen easily in anti-Semitic articles published by some Catholic magazines in the 19th and 20th centuries. In a major document issued a few months after the 1997 symposium, the Vatican recognized that a “process of repentance” was needed regarding Christian behavior and anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, because, “as members of the church, we are linked to the sins as well as the merits of all her children.” Such repentance needed to be demonstrated in concrete, exemplary acts, Cardinal Kasper said. Pope John Paul did just that during a historic liturgy of atonement in 2000 and in a personal visit the same year to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the holiest site of Judaism, he said. “However, we are all called to participate in this same process of conversion and reconciliation, in inner attitudes, in prayers and in facts,” Cardinal Kasper said.

This new attitude needs to be implemented by the faithful at large and not limited to one-time gestures or documents at the church’s highest levels, he said. Cardinal Kasper said the change in the church’s attitude could be seen by comparing two Vatican statements over the last century. In 1928, he noted, the Vatican defined anti-Semitism as “hatred toward a people at one time chosen by God.” Today, he said, the Vatican would eliminate the phrase “at one time,” making it clear that the covenant between God and the people of Israel has not been abolished. In fact, the cardinal pointed out, Pope John Paul put it this way in his recent post-synodal document on “The Church in Europe”: “There is need for acknowledgment of the common roots linking Christianity and the Jewish people, who are called by God to a covenant which remains irrevocable and has attained definitive fullness in Christ.”

Birthright of San Francisco seeking bilingual volunteers Birthright of San Francisco is looking for bilingual volunteers who speak English and either Spanish, Cantonese or Mandarin. Volunteers would work in the Birthright office providing information and help options to women and girls facing an unplanned pregnancy. Birthright provides caring, non-judgmental support to girls and women who are distressed by an unplanned pregnancy. It offers friendship, emotional support, free pregnancy testing, maternity and baby clothes, and numerous other services. All services are free and confidential. For more information or to volunteer call 415664-9909.

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Food & Fun Sept. 6: Rummage sale!! Our Lady of Fatima Byzantine Catholic Church, 101 20th Ave at Lake, SF. Many unique and special items including antique furniture, records, clothing and lots of miscellaneous. Call (415) 752-2052. Sept. 13: White Elephant Sale at 350 University St., SF, benefiting Alzheimer’s Association Walk in Oct. on Treasure Island. Call (415) 239-6696. Sept. 14: St. Thomas the Apostle continues celebrations of its 80 Years of Serving God and Community with a Homecoming Liturgy at 11 a.m. honoring those who were baptized, confirmed or made first Communion at the Richmond district parish. Rites honoring those who entered the priesthood or religious life from St. Thomas take place Oct. 19th. Couples married there will be honored Nov. 16th. The parish school, Religious Education program and Chinese School graduates will be remembered on Dec. 7. Parishioners and friends from then and now are invited. Call (415) 387-5545. Sept. 15: Second annual Invitational Golf Tournament benefiting Athletic Department of Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont at Peninsula Golf and Country Club in San Mateo. Includes lunch, a round of 18 holes, awards reception, gifts and prizes. Hole-in-one prize is brand new Mercedes Benz. Reserve now! Call (650) 508-3590. Sept. 15: The 11th annual Capuchin Seminarian Golf Tournament takes place at Sharon Heights Country Club, Menlo Park. A shotgun-start begins the18-hole Scramble followed by cocktails and dinner in Our Lady of Angels Parish Hall at 6 and 7:30 p.m. Fee of $225 per person includes golf, cart, tee prizes, lunch, beverages and dinner. Tickets are available for dinner only at $50 per person. Sponsorships are available from $50.. For ticket information and reservations, call Mike Stecher at (650) 342-4680. Sept. 16: Annual San Mateo County Pro-Life Council’s Garden Luncheon, noon, at the home of Mary Henriques, 91 De Bell in Atherton. Guest speaker is Thelma Orias founder of Mary’s House, a facility for “young women with problem pregnancies.” Tickets $20. Call (650) 342-1600. Sept. 16: The Byzantine Theology of the Cross and the Franciscan Saints, a lecture by Father David Anderson at 7:15 p.m. at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405. Sept. 17: Hear the much-acclaimed San Francisco Saxophone Quartet, a concert benefiting the work of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Mill Valley’s Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish. Performance takes place in OLMC church, 3 Oakdale Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Gen. Adm. $20/students $5. Call (415) 388-4404 or 388-0139. Sept. 18: Luncheon of St. Thomas More Society featuring Chad Evans, former director, Spiritual Life Center, St. Agnes Parish, SF. Chad will demonstrate spiritual tools for busy people including a guided meditation and faith sharing. Takes place at noon at the Bankers Club, 52nd floor, Bank of America Building, 555 California St., SF. Tickets $30 members/$40 non-members. Call Stacy Stecher at (415) 433-1400. Sept. 19-20: Holy Jalapeno!!! It’s the annual Fall Fiesta benefiting Our Lady of Angels School, Burlingame on the school campus at 1721 Hillside Dr. Celebrate with rompin’ rides, game booths sizzling tauqerias and mingling mariachis. It’s a “hand-clapping, feet-stomping weekend,” said publicity chair, Lauira Elmore. Fri, 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat. 2 – 11 p.m. Alumni night Friday features line dancing. Call (650) 343-9200. Sept. 20: Lady of Light, a Pageant on St. Clare at St. Boniface Theater, 135 Golden Gate Ave., SF at 2 p.m. Tickets $5 per person or 6 for $25. A commemoration of the life of this great saint who died 750 years ago. Music by the Schola Cantorum of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi. Produced by the St. Francis Fraternity. Call (415) 621-3279 or contact ssclare4000@juno.com. Sept. 20: Screening for Peripheral Vascular Disease at St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan St., SF. If your legs hurt when you work or exercise you should take advantage of this service. Call

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Young Adults Office of Young Adult Ministry: Connecting men and women in their 20s and 30s to the Catholic Church. Contact Dominican Sister Christine Wilcox, (415) 6145595, wilcoxc@sfarchdiocese.org, or Mary Jansen, (415) 614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Sept. 20: Memorial Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, for children who died before, during or shortly after birth. Call (415) 614-5672. Oct. 25: Fall Fest 2003 at USF’s McLaren Center. Why Listen? Why Follow? Hearing God, Making Connections, an all day event featuring keynote talks, exhibits, workshops, liturgy, dinner and dance. Contact Mary Jansen at jansenm@sfarchdiocese or (415) 614-5596.

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See how it all began and how it continues today at San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Medical Center. The hospital’s new historic photography exhibit is now open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the medical center. St. Mary’s, founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1857 on Stockton St., has been at its present site on Stanyan St. since 1967. The Sisters of Mercy established St. Mary’s School of Nursing, the first accredited nursing college in the state, in 1900. It became part of the University of San Francisco in 1959. “There have been many firsts at St. Mary’s but throughout its history it has shown a special concern for the poor,” said information announcing the exhibit. Babies born at St. Mary’s number “more than 100,000,” a spokesperson said. Patients helped are probably in the “hundreds of thousands.” The Sisters of Mercy celebrate their 150th anniversary in 2004. St. Mary’s has announced a free Sept. 20th Screening for Peripheral Vascular Disease. If your legs hurt when you work or exercise you should take advantage of this service. Call (415) 750-5800 to schedule an appointment. (415) 750-5800 to schedule an appointment. Sept. 20: Annual Food Fest and Yard Sale benefiting St. Thomas More Parish, 50 Thomas More Way at Brotherhood Way, SF, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. “Come for great finds and taste the international flavors of our community,” said Kathy Sanford. Call (415) 452-9634. Sept. 22: SF County Council of Catholic Women meet at 7:30 p.m. Speaker is Mark Brumley, vice president, Campion College and president Ignatius Press will discuss the importance of Catholic Education. Call Cathy Mibach at (415) 753-0234. Sept. 27: A Kaleidoscope, the League of the Sacred Heart at St. Cecilia Parish hosts its annual Fall Bingo and Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Raffle, prizes and catered lunch plus opportunities to meet others. Tickets $20. Call katrena Meyer at (415) 706-5947.

Performance/Auditions Admission free unless otherwise noted. Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to the public. Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral at 3:30 p.m. Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) 5672020 ext. 213. Concerts are open to the public. Sept. 15, 22, 29: Golden Gate Boys Choir School,

St. Mary’s Cathedral Choir Room from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Call (415) 431-1137. Boys age 7 to 12 with unchanged voices are welcome to audition. Ongoing: Auditions/rehearsals for the St, Mary’s Cathedral Choir of Boys and Girls. Beginners meet Thurs. 4 – 5 p.m.; advanced singers meet Tues. 4 – 5:30 p.m. No musical experience is necessary. To schedule an audition, contact music director, Christoph Tietze at (415) 567-2020 ext. 213 or ctietze@stmarycathedralsf.org.

Vocations/Prayer Opportunities Sept. 13: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur inaugurate Saturday Mornings of Prayer with Prayer: Creating a Life with God, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. in the congregation’s Notre Dame Province Center Chapel, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont, across from Ralston Hall and on the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 350 or www.SistersofNotre DameCa.org. Sept. 20: Memorial Mass remembering babies who have died and for healing of their families and friends who mourn them at 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Father Robert Cipriano, pastor, St. Rita Parish, Fairfax, will preside. Call (415) 717-6428 or (415) 614-5572. Use cemetery’s main gate and follow signs. Sponsored by Rachel Ministry of the Archdiocese and the Cemeteries Department. Young adults recite the rosary in chapel of St.

Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available from the Office of Marriage and Family Life of the Archdiocese, Chris Lyford, director, at (415) 614-5680. Sat. at 9 a.m.: Pray the Rosary for Life at 815 Eddy St. between Franklin and Van Ness, SF. Call (415) 752-4922. Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends can add to a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 5683018. Seton Medical Center Natural Family Planning/Fertility Care Services offers classes in the Creighton Model of NFP. Health educators are also available to speak to youth and adults on topics of puberty, responsible relationships, adolescent sexuality, the use of NFP throughout a woman’s reproductive life, and infertility. Call (650) 301-8896 Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages. The weekend and follow up sessions help couples heal and renew their families. Presenters are three couples and a Catholic priest. Call Peg or Ed Gleason at (415) 221-4269 or edgleason@webtv.net or Pat and Tony Fernandez at (415) 893-1005.. The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers free adoption information meetings twice a month. Singles and married couples are invited to learn more about adopting a child from foster care. Call (415) 406-2387 for information.

Retreats/Days of Recollection —— Vallombrosa Center —— 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees, times and details about these and other offerings call (650) 325-5614. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, Program Director. Sept. 13: Catholic Christian Morality: Life, Love, Loyalty, Laughter, with Paulist Father Richard Sparks. Looks at “life, love, loyalty, laughter’ as the keys to sound, solid, approachable Catholic morality.

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Going to school Books to help children and parents weather the first few days Reviewed by Jayme George For many children, the first day of school can mean the beginning of life on their own, even if it is only for a few hours a day. The initial shock of separation can be difficult for both parent and child, but there are ways to make the transition easier on everybody. Relating to young children through picture books is a great way to impart important lessons, as well as introducing children to the joys of reading. In “The Kissing Hand,” (Child and Family Press, $16.95) Audrey Penn tells the story of a young raccoon who is anxious about the first day of school. His mother explains all the wonderful things that happen at school, but it is not until she tells him the secret of the Kissing Hand that his fears are assuaged. With a big kiss in the center of the palm, the little raccoon can be reminded all day that his mommy loves him. Illustrations by Ruth E. Harper and Nancy M. Leak bring a warm, comforting quality to this precious book, but beware — the sweetness of the relationship between this mother and child may bring a tear to even the most seasoned storyteller’s eye. For a behind the scenes look at the first day of school, try “Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten” (Puffin, $6.99 ) by Joseph Slate. As Miss Bindergarten prepares her classroom, her students are getting ready for the day, ABC style. Told in rhyme, with colorful illustrations by Ashley Wolff, this ABC book makes even the most mundane aspects of getting ready for school seem more fun. If a child’s biggest problem in school is that he or she is a little too enthusiastic, there is “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse” (Greenwillow Books, $15.99) by Kevin Henkes, which tells the story of a mouse named Lilly who sometimes also is known as “Queen of the World.” Lilly is never shy about expressing herself, especially when it comes to her new purple plastic purse. It plays a spif fy tune and holds a nice shiny quarter, but when Lilly brings it to show and tell her exuberance on the topic gets her into trouble. The relationship between teacher and student is stressed in this story, as well as a parent’s role in helping their child deal with anger, frustration, and even guilt. If school was just about listening to the teacher and doing homework, it would be a lot simpler, but the real problems at school often start with a child’s peers. To better understand a child’s social setting, parents might read “Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls” (Harvest Books, $25.00) by Rachel Simmons and “Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood” (Henry Holt & Co., $16.00) by William S. Pollack. These authors address the issue of how a playground can turn into a “survival of the fittest” situation where you have to choose between becoming a bully or getting bullied yourself. The cruelty that children may have to contend with from their own peers will shape their perceptions of themselves in society for years to

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