September 19, 2003

Africa in crisis Archdiocesan delegation goes to Tanzania, Uganda, visits Sudanese refugees

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By Evelyn Zappia “Africa is in a terrible state. Almost every country has some sort of conflict or horrible war. Once you visit the people and listen to their stories the issues become a matter of urgency,” said George Wesolek, director of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

This sad observation was made following Mr. Wesolek’s return from a 14-day trip to Uganda and Tanzania – July 28 to Aug. 11.

Accompanying Mr. Wesolek on the journey to Africa were Father John Jimenez, Parochial Vicar at San Francisco’s Church of the Visitation, Deacon Sal Alvarez of the Diocese of San Jose’s Human Rights Commission, Sister of St. Therese Godbertha Muganda of Tanzania, and Sudanese Advocate Silvestro Bakhiet.

“The five-member delegation was part of our response to the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ December 2002 statement titled, A Call to Solidarity with Africa,” said Mr. Wesolek.

In that document, the U.S. Bishops state: “We stand in solidarity with the Church and the peoples of Africa, to recognize and support their courageous commitment to peace, justice and reconciliation. We encourage the Catholic community in the United States to contribute its diverse talents and gifts to the continent’s causes of justice, peace and integral development.”

Another reason for the strong interest in visiting Africa, Mr. Wesolek said, was the plea for help to the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns from the many Africans living in the Archdiocese.

In response to these appeals, the Archdiocese of San Francisco organized “African Voices,” an event held at Holy Name Church San Francisco in June. The event brought together local Africans and gave them an opportunity to be the voices for their people and explain the issues that are plaguing their people.

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George Wesolek, director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns visits with youth in Tanzania orphaned by the African AIDS epidemic. The youth are cared for by the Sisters of Saint Therese of the Little Flower, an all-African religious order.

Celebrating 100 years Filipino gifts of faith, family and celebration

By Patrick Joyce Filipino Catholics celebrating one hundred years in the Archdiocese of San Francisco responded enthusiastically to a call to use their unique gifts to help create a multicultural church in “a world increasingly divided politically, economically, culturally.”

“We are asked to be signs, instruments of communion . . . to show the world that communities are able to live in harmony and peace,” Bishop Luis Antonio Tagle told several hundred people attending the celebration of “A Journey of Faith: 100 Years of Filipino Presence” at St. Mary’s Cathedral Sept. 13.

In welcoming people to the daylong session of speakers, workshops, prayer and liturgy, San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada spoke of Filipino contributions: “their faith, their deep devotion to the church and our Blessed Mother, their sense of family and of celebration ... I rejoice with all of you that God has given us the grace to build up the Body of Christ, the church. Your gifts are gifts that our society and our church need.”

Bishop Tagle, head of the Diocese of Imus, Cavite, in the Philippines and a member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission, mixed theological insights with personal stories.

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- with a taste for Philly and South Jersey fare including scrapple and another Sunday morning favorite, Taylor’s Pork Roll. We’ve uncovered a scrapple source – my local Safeway carries it frozen – but still no luck on the Taylor’s ham….Happy 55 years married to Eva and Mario Martini of the Portola District’s St. Elizabeth Parish; Beverly and Gus Franzella of St. Gregory Parish, San Mateo and Olympia and John Di Micheli of Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, San Francisco. Thanks to

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Pope, physically fading, crisscrosses Slovakia with message of hope new identity the contribution of your rich Christian tradition,” he said. The pope, who suffers from a neurological disease believed to be Parkinson’s, was able to pronounce only a few lines of the text himself, and a Slovak priest read the rest.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (CNS) — On a trip that taxed his “Do not be satisfied with the sole quest for economic fading physical powers, Pope John Paul II crisscrossed Slovakia advantages. Great affluence in fact can also generate great to celebrate liturgies, beatify two 20th-century martyrs and offer poverty,” the pope said. people inside and outside the church a message of hope.

In a veiled reference to a recent legislative battle over He had trouble delivering that message personally, howevabortion, the pope asked Slovakia to respect “human life in er. Weakened by infirmity, he had to let others read long secall its expressions.” tions of his prepared speeches and homilies during the Sept.

After meeting with civil authorities, the pope rode a 11-14 visit. He could not stand or walk, and his difficulties left popemobile 30 miles past well-wishers and roadside many wondering if the pope would continue to travel. shrines to visit a cathedral in the ancient city of Trnava.

The centerpiece of the pope’s visit was a closing Mass The pope traveled to Slovakia’s heartland Sept. 12, celebratin Bratislava to beatify Bishop Vasyl Hopko and Sister ing Mass in the packed main square of Banska Bystrica. In a serZdenka Schelingova, both of whom died after suffering mon, he urged the country’s Catholics to preserve the institution years of prison and torture from communist authorities. of marriage and family values in their rapidly changing society.

Assisted at every turn and wheeled on a mobile throne, When his first words in Slovakian rang out in a strong the 83-year-old pontiff celebrated the liturgy before an estiPope John Paul II grimaces as he attempts to voice, the crowd broke into smiles and applause. mated 100,000 people in the city’s Petrzalka suburb, read his homily at an outdoor Mass Sept. 13 in “Parents must educate their children to a correct freedom, so planned decades ago as a model — and churchless — Roznava, Slovakia. The pontiff's four-day trip to as to prepare them to respond properly to God’s call. The family neighborhood by the communist regime.

Slovakia taxed his fading physical strength. is the nursery where the little plants, the new generations, are In a sermon read in part by Slovak Cardinal Jozef nurtured. In the family the future of the nation is forged,” he said.

Tomko, the pope said Bishop Hopko and Sister At a Mass in the farming center of Roznava in eastern Schelingova had demonstrated that suffering for the love of her interrogation, she was hung naked and beaten repeatSlovakia Sept. 13, the issue of abortion took on a human Christ, even to the point of martyrdom, can ultimately lead edly, then doused with cold water.

Sentenced to 12 years in prison, she was released after three face. Presented as an offertory gift during the liturgy were to new strength and hope. twin 3-year-old girls who were born conjoined at the waist “Both shine before us as radiant examples of faithfulness years because she had cancer and died a few months later.

The pope said that by promoting the two on the way to and successfully separated a few months after birth. in times of harsh and ruthless religious persecution,” he said.

Carrying dolls and holding onto their mother’s hand, “Both faced up to an unjust trial and an ignoble condemna- sainthood he wanted to remind Slovakians young and old Lucia and Andrejka Tothova walked up the altar steps for a tion, to torture, humiliation, solitude, death. And so the cross of how the faith withstood the test of persecution.

“I thank God because you have been able to safeguard, blessing and a paternal pat on the cheek from the pope. became for them the way that led them to life, a source of foreven in difficult times, your fidelity to Christ and to his church.

In spotlighting Lucia and Andrejka, local church leaders titude and hope, a proof of love for God and man,” he said.

As the stories of the newly beatified were read aloud, And I exhort you: Never be ashamed of the Gospel,” he said. stressed the joy their mother would have missed if the girls Among the many young people attending the Mass, sev- had been aborted. Proposed legislation in Slovakia would the crowd listened in attentive silence, standing shoulder to eral said the beatification had brought the martyrs’story to extend the time of legal abortion to the 24th week of pregshoulder against a chilly wind. nancy in cases of serious birth defects.

Blessed Hopko, an Eastern Catholic bishop stubbornly their attention for the first time.

“People like this are an inspiration to us. It is an imporIn a sermon addressed to some 100,000 people assemloyal to the Vatican and uncompromising with the regime, was condemned on charges of subversion and spent 13 tant event, because there is a risk of forgetting the suffer- bled on a hillside on the edge of Roznava, the pope years in prison. He was released in 1964 but continued to ing. Life is easier now,” said 25-year-old Martina preached a simple message, without specifically mentionRadvanyi, who stood with her husband on the edge of the ing abortion. He quoted a local proverb: “Words admonish, suffer the physical and mental effects of his ordeal. examples move,” and said this was the key to living one’s After his death in 1976, medical tests revealed that his vast urban park that hosted the liturgy.

When he arrived in Bratislava Sept. 11, the pope said it faith as a disciple of Christ and an apostle of the Gospel. bones held concentrations of arsenic more than 100,000 Before leaving the country Sept. 14, he offered equally times normal, leading church leaders to conclude he had was important for Slovakia to preserve its Christian heritage and to make religious values felt throughout the continent simple counsel for young people. Saying they were the been slowly poisoned during his ordeal in prison. hope of the country and the “hope of the pope,” he asked Blessed Schelingova was arrested after she helped a when the country joins the European Union next year.

“Dearly beloved, bring to the construction of Europe’s them not to be afraid to become “true friends of Jesus.” priest beaten by authorities escape from a hospital. During

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Hate behind Sept. 11 terror shouldn’t make others hate NEW YORK (CNS) — Cardinal Edward M. Egan of New York said Sept. 11 that the hate of those who destroyed the World Trade Center must not be allowed to make haters out of those who mourned the lives lost there. Celebrating Mass at St. Peter’s Church, the Catholic church near ground zero, the cardinal said those gathered for the service looked for “justice for all guilty of this crime.” But he said they were remembering the loss of life that occurred two years ago “without hate or vindictiveness that might drag us down to the level of those who attacked this city.” Cardinal Egan connected the anniversary of the World Trade Center deaths with the commemoration in the Mass of the death of Christ. Christ accepted his death “without rancor or schemes of vengeance,” and participants in the Mass were called to relive the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, in the same spirit, the cardinal said.

Religious groups urge court to end state school-choice barriers WASHINGTON (CNS) — A college student should not be denied a state scholarship fund simply because he wanted to pursue a theology program, according to a brief filed at the U.S. Supreme Court by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “(The) government may not deny or condition the receipt of a benefit or privilege provided by the state to an individual, in a way that infringes upon an individual’s religious liberty,” said the brief, filed Sept. 8 in the case of Locke vs. Davey, which the court will hear this term. The “amicus,” or friend-of-the-court, brief filed by the USCCB, argues that it is both unconstitutional and religious discrimination to deprive state scholarships to college students who plan to pursue religious studies. The case involves a Washington state theology student, Joshua Davey, who was denied use of an awarded state-funded scholarship in 1999 because he planned to use it to study pastoral ministries and business management at Northwest College, a school affiliated with the Assemblies of God. The state of Washington told Davey he was denied the use of scholarship funds because state law prohibits students who are pursuing degrees in theology from receiving state-funded student financial aid.

Contemplation, social justice both said essential to Catholic college NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (CNS) — A college cannot be called Catholic unless it has “a contemplative side and a social justice dimension,” according to the secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education. Archbishop Giuseppe Pittau, an Italian named to the post in 1998 after an educational career that included many years in Japan, said in a homily Sept. 14 that the two essential aspects of Catholic education must be expressed explicitly by both faculty and students. A Catholic college must first of all maintain the “vertical dimension” of emphasizing “contact with God,” he said. Connected with that, he said, must be the recognition that “to serve is an essential part of being Christian.”

Archbishop Pittau was celebrant and homilist for a Mass that inaugurated a yearlong celebration of the centennial of the College of New Rochelle. Founded by Ursuline Mother

Students, faculty and staff of The Catholic University of America pray during Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Sept. 11. The students gathered for prayer in the afternoon of the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed more than 2,800 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, much like they had the afternoon of the fateful day in 2001.

Irene Gill in 1904, it was the first Catholic college for women in New York state, and its Web site says it is today the “largest Catholic college for women in the country.”

pus.” Each of Girls and Boys Town’s four executive directors have been priests of the Omaha Archdiocese, including the current executive director, Father Val Peter, 68. Father Peter doubles as pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish on the campus, and a retired Omaha archdiocesan priest is in residence at the parish. A Girls and Boys Town statement from John Gillin, the new board chairman, said Archbishop Curtiss had threatened WASHINGTON (CNS) — Ten women, including actresses in writing to resign from the board of trustees if a series Jennifer O’Neill and Melba Moore, stood in front of the U.S. of bylaws changes were not made. Gillin did not speciSupreme Court Sept. 10 to urge women who are thinking about fy the changes in his statement, but said “in essence, the having an abortion to reconsider. All 10 women had undergone archbishop wanted to take virtually complete control of an abortion — some of them multiple abortions — and testified the board, significantly reducing the role and responsito their post-abortion regrets. The women’s appearance was bility of other board members.” part of a new campaign, Silent No More Awareness, to help women with post-abortion healing. The campaign also asks pastors to conduct services in their churches to promote healing for women who have had abortions. The campaign is jointly OTTAWA (CNS) — Canadian bishops have ur ged sponsored by the Catholic organization Priests for Life and the stepped-up lobbying efforts by those opposing a new National Organization of Episcopalians for Life, known as law that would allow same-sex marriages. In a message NOEL. There is a Web site, http://www.silentnomoreaware- released at a news conference in Montreal Sept. 10, the ness.org, with information on the campaign, as well as a toll- bishops said, “Society needs to think long and deeply free telephone number, (800) 395-4357, to help women in cri- before going down this unknown and troubling road.” sis pregnancies. The toll-free line is operated by the National The letter was signed by Bishop Jacques Berthelet of Network of Pregnancy Centers and refers people in crisis preg- Saint-Jean-Longueuil, Quebec, president of the nancies to a pregnancy center near them.

Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Cardinals Jean-Claude Turcotte of Montreal and Aloysius Ambrozic of Toronto. The cardinals are members of the bishops’ Permanent Council. In Canada in July, after court rulings that the traditional definition of marriage breaches the equality provision of the constiOMAHA, Neb. (CNS) — Archbishop Elden F. tution, the federal government referred a proposal to the Curtiss of Omaha has resigned as the chairman of the court to redefine marriage as “the lawful union of two board of Girls and Boys Town. A statement issued from persons to the exclusion of all others.” The Canadian Archbishop Curtiss’ office Sept. 5 said the archdiocese bishops said, “This proposal has resulted in unprece“will not assume the responsibility in the future of pro- dented controversy as it concerns a fundamental social viding one of its priests for the traditional role of exec- and religious institution to which people have profound utive director, the pastor of Immaculate Conception attachment.”

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Vatican works to influence cloning debate at United Nations

Church officials not pleased with outcome of trade meeting

NEW YORK (CNS) — The Vatican is engaged in a major effort to influence a debate on human cloning scheduled to take place during this fall’s meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. A U.N. working group exploring proposals to write an international convention on cloning will meet Sept. 29-Oct. 3, and possibly seek General Assembly authorization to move ahead with drafting a convention or some other legal instrument. Most governments favor a ban on reproductive cloning, but the key issue is whether international law should go further to rule out, as the Vatican advocates, all forms of human cloning.

Opponents of a total ban argue that cloning for biomedical research could lead to cures for diseases which currently are incurable and that so-called “therapeutic” cloning should be allowed. Some countries, France and Germany prominent among them, say a ban on reproductive cloning could be enacted quickly, and so should be undertaken first, with further steps left till later.

BHUBANESWAR, India (CNS) — The conviction of the murderers of an Australian missionary and his two sons in India was a sign that “a sense of justice and fairness is still prevalent in the country,” said a spokesman for the Indian bishops. Divine Word Father Babu Joseph, spokesman for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, said the court has done justice in a case that attracted international attention, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

He said the long-awaited verdict would send “a signal” that the law and justice will prevail. On Sept. 15 an Indian court convicted 13 people in the 1999 murder of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two sons. Staines and his sons, Philip, 9, and T imothy, 7, were burned to death in their vehicle after being attacked by a group of suspected Hindu militants. Judge Mahendranath Patnaik found Ravindra Kumar Pal and 12 others guilty of the crime. One man was acquitted for lack of evidence. Sentencing was scheduled for Sept.

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tion that would extend the time of legal abortion to the 24th week of pregnancy in cases of serious birth defects. In spotlighting Lucia and Andrejka, church leaders stressed the joy their mother would have missed if the girls had been aborted.

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MEXICO CITY (CNS) — Church officials and Catholic groups said the collapse of international trade talks amid a rift between rich and poor countries was a “lost opportunity.”

“Trade is an important tool to help solve poverty,” said Paul Cliche, a delegate to the meetings from the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace. The World Trade Organization’s fifth ministerial conference, held in Cancun, Mexico, ended Sept. 14 without any agreement.

Developed nations refused to make substantial reductions in agricultural subsidies, and developing nations refused to accept new rules on foreign investment. Farmers in poor countries said they cannot compete with food imports from the United States and European Union, where governments give producers billions of dollars of subsidies each year.

Representatives from the Holy See had urged delegates to take action to help struggling farmers across the world.

Accused Geoghan killer explains motive in letter to Catholic paper WORCESTER, Mass. (CNS) — In a letter to the Worcester diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Free Press, the man accused of the Aug. 23 slaying of John J. Geoghan at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley claimed the killing was meant to show the world that child predators must be dealt with more stringently. The letter writer, who identified himself as Joseph L. Druce, said the sex offenders he has spoken to in prison never showed remorse, “only gloating and reminissing over past victims.

That was my motivation.” The letter included numerous misspellings and other errors. The writer also expressed his ROZNAVA, Slovakia (CNS) — Throughout Pope John sorrow and sent his “sincere and heartfelt apology” to Paul II’s four-day trip to Slovakia, the debate over abortion simmered in the background. But at a papal Mass in the farm- Catherine Geoghan, sister of the deceased, for her loss, ing town of Roznava, the issue took on a human face. although he said “she’ll probley not forgive me.” To mail Presented as an offertory gift at the Sept. 13 liturgy were twin correspondence from the correctional center, a prisoner 3-year-old girls who were born conjoined at the waist and suc- must give the letter to a corrections officer, who verifies cessfully separated a few months after birth. Carrying dolls that the name on the letter is the same as that of the prisonand holding onto their mother’s hand, Lucia and Andrejka er handing in the letter for mailing, according to Justin L. Tothova walked up the altar steps for a blessing and a paternal Latini, director of public affairs for the Massachusetts pat on the cheek from the pope. The unusual gesture at the Department of Correction. nationally televised Mass was the local church’s way of personalizing the abortion debate in Slovakia, where action is pending on legislaMelita Tothova walks with her 3-year-old twin daughters, Lucia and Andrejka, after greeting Pope John Paul II during Mass Sept. 13 in Roznava, Slovakia. The girls, born conjoined at the waist, were successfully separated a few months after birth.

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Cardinal urges Senate to move partial-birth abortion ban to president

By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Six months after the Senate approved the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act by a 64-33 vote, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities urged senators to move the legislation on to President Bush by eliminating what he called an “extraneous” provision in support of Roe vs. Wade.

Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, who resigned in July as archbishop of Philadelphia, said the “sense of the Senate” provision added as an amendment to the bill was “the one remaining obstacle to enactment of this much-needed legislation.”

Proposed by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the amendment states that the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe vs.

Wade decision “was appropriate and secures an important constitutional right” and “should not be overturned.”

“The fact that this provision is opposed by many members of Congress and the president, and has already delayed final passage of this widely supported legislation, is reason enough to remove it,” Cardinal Bevilacqua wrote in a Sept. 12 letter to the senators.

“More importantly, central claims in the resolution are question-begging and false, even in the eyes of

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judges and legal scholars who favor the public policy created by Roe,” he added.

The Harkin amendment is the only diff e r e n c e between the Senate version of the legislation and the version passed by the House June 4 by a 282-139 margin.

Usually differences are resolved in conference committee, but some senators have demanded further debate and a separate vote on sending the bill to conference committee.

“Some senators’ insistence on this amendment is but the latest indication of a hardening of their hearts and minds on the most controversial and unwarranted Supreme Court decision in recent memory,” Cardinal Bevilacqua said in his letter.

He said most Americans and 30 state legislatures support ending the partial-birth abortion procedure, but they have been thwarted by court decisions permitting such abortions.

“In a representative democracy, our elected representatives in Congress cannot ignore these developments indefinitely,” the cardinal wrote. “Here and now, they should not continue to delay a long-awaited ban on the brutal killing of children emerging from the womb, by insisting on an endorsement of the very court deci-

sion that has led some in our society to practice and defend such killing.”

As defined in the legislation, a partial-birth abortion is any abortion in which the baby is delivered “past the navel ... outside the body of the mother” before being killed. The bill allows partial-birth abortions when necessary to save the mother’s life.

The Senate was to begin debate Sept. 15 on whether to omit the amendment or send the bill to conference committee. If the amendment is deleted in conference committee, both the House and Senate must again vote on the legislation before it is sent to the president.

“President Bush, 70 percent of the public, and four Supreme Court justices say there is no constitutional right to deliver most of a living baby and then puncture her head with a scissors,” said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, in a statement.

“But in the Stenberg vs. Carhart ruling in 2000, five Supreme Court justices said that Roe vs. Wade guarantees an abortionist’s right to perform a partial-birth abortion whenever he chooses,” he added. “We hope that by the time this ban reaches the Supreme Court, at least five justices will be willing to reject such extremism in defense of abortion.”

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Bishop’s spokeswoman on life speaks at Saint Mary’s

By Jack Smith Cathleen Cleaver, the U.S. bishops spokesperson on pro-life issues, discussed progress and challenges in the struggle against abortion during the Annual Public Policy Breakfast at Saint Mary’s Cathedral on September 4. More than 100 Catholic lay leaders, religious and priests attended the meeting and breakfast sponsored by Archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concern.

Director of the office, George Wesolek, said the gathering is an opportunity to bring Catholic leadership together to talk about advocacy and public policy from a Catholic perspective. “It is incumbent upon Catholics to be in the public square, to work for good things, to work for justice, to work for peace and work for the unborn,” he said.

In introducing the abortion topic, Wesolek called it “the preeminent social justice issue of our time.” He also thanked Archbishop William J. Levada for his “leadership and support of work in Catholic social teaching.”

Archbishop Levada thanked the diverse group of leaders for attending including representatives from Catholic Charities whom he called “the Church’s feet on the ground” reaching out to serve the needs of the poor and those who are in need of care and outreach. He reflected that in Catholic teaching “implementing the vision of Christ and the sermon on the mount does not allow us to be strangers to any need; to any human value.” The Archbishop led prayer and asked God to “guide our efforts to promote the sanctity of human life.”

The keynote speaker, Cathleen Cleaver, began by relating the stories of Norma McCorvey and Bernard Nathanson, which, she said, demonstrate the cracks developing in the foundation of the U.S. abortion movement.

Norma McCorvey was pregnant for the third time in 1969. Poor and unmarried, she sought help from two lawyers in Texas, falsely telling them that she was pregnant because of rape. The lawyers suggested they could help her get an abortion which was illegal in Texas at that time.

Before her case was settled, McCorvey had her child and put it up for adoption. “It was years later, sitting at her dining room table, listening to the news, that she heard her case announced by the U.S. Supreme Court,” Ms. Cleaver said.

Roe v. Wade had now made abortion legal in all fifty states.

McCorvey, identified as Jane Roe in the case, felt “overwhelmed . . . she didn’t think her case was going to be a cause,” Ms. Cleaver said. Depressed, suffering from drug and alcohol addiction and after attempting suicide, McCorvey decided to “give in to her celebrity,” as the woman behind Roe and began working at an abortion clinic.

McCorvey had no medical training and she performed various jobs at the clinic. Cleaver said McCorvey refused, however, “to lie to the women, even though she was asked to, or to handle the tissue” from abortions assembled in a

Ms. Cleaver said these are stories the abortion lobby does not want Americans to hear. “The very foundation of the prochoice movement really are these two people and that foundation has begun to crack. These two people not only became pro-life, but they’ve both become Catholic,” she said.

Ms. Cleaver also spoke of other positive recent developments. She said there has been a dramatic change in the way people view abortion. “The humanity of the child is something people understand today in ways they did not 20 years ago,” she said. This is largely due to the popularity of new technologies allowing people to view the child in utero.

Fewer abortions are occurring, “1.3 million currently, versus 1.6 million in the early 1990s.” More people identify as pro-life, despite the perversion of the word by the media, she said.

People identifying themselves as pro-choice or pro-life are evenly split at 46 per cent, she said, versus 60 percent prochoice and 33 per cent pro-life a few years ago.

Younger people are becoming decidedly more pro-life, she said. According to a 2001 Gallup poll, 18-29 year olds are more pro-life than any other age demographic aside Cathleen Cleaver from over 65. This is reflected in memberships of activist back room and stored in a freezer for later pick up. organizations, where pro-choice groups are rapidly aging After a while, McCorvey began to realize “how degrading and the reverse is true of pro-life groups. abortion was to women,” Cleaver said. She saw the money The biggest success is the passage this year of the Partial going straight to the doctors pockets and the exploitation of Birth Abortion Ban by congress. Ms. Cleaver said that while women. McCorvey was quoted saying “You see the body other legislative victories only affected the margins of the parts, you see the women’s cries and you can’t keep lying to debate, this act “will be the first restriction of an abortion proyourself.” McCorvey is now opposed to abortion and has cedure in 30 years,” when it is signed by the President Bush. founded the pro-life organization, Roe No More.

The balance of politics continues to change as well, with In the 1960s, two men, Larry Laden and Dr. Bernard 34 of 50 new house members in the last election being proNathanson, founded the National Alliance to Repeal life, five of seven new female members pro-life and eleven Abortion Laws, later the National Abortion Rights Action of fifteen new Catholic members prolife.

League (NARAL). Laden “was motivated by fears of popThere are great challenges despite this success, howevulation growth,” Cleaver said. Dr. Nathanson was the er, she said. “People understand the humanity of the child . director of the New York City Center for Reproductive . . so what gives?” The greatest remaining problem is that Sexual Health. Abortion was legal in New York at the time “our country has swallowed the false notion that abortion and Nathanson ran the world’s largest abortion clinic. is good for women,” she said.

During his tenure, Nathanson presided over 60,000 aborThe abortion movement has trumpeted the slogan protions, including the abortion of his own child, Cleaver said. choice, “but in reality, women choose abortion as a last It was Nathanson who convinced leaders of the feminist resort.” Family, friends, and society line up against women movement to make abortion a women’s issue. When Betty and support no other options, she said. “This is a serious abanFriedan wrote “The Feminine Mystique,” abortion was not donment of a woman in a time of her greatest need, and if we included. “Abortion was not part of the program,” Cleaver abandon her, she abandons her child. That’s how it works. said. Nathanson convinced Friedan and others that in order to “Pro-choice is a lie because so many women have an aborachieve career advancement and pay equity, “you have got to tion because they feel they have no other choice,” she said. remove from your employers certain problems,” Cleaver As an alternative, she said we must truly respond to Pope explained. “Nathanson told them, ‘You have got to control John Paul II’s call to live in “radical solidarity” with a woman in your fertility if you are going to be equal with men in the work- need. Giving a woman $500 and turning your back and leaving place’,” Cleaver said. Nathanson and Laden also coined the her with the repercussions is not radical solidarity, Cleaver said. tremendously successful “pro-choice” slogan, Cleaver said.

She suggested truly living and acting as if “women Nathanson turned against abortion in the late 1970s and deserve better” than abortion, by truly helping in crisis and is now a well known pro-life advocate. being in “radical solidarity.”

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Women chancellors changing dynamics of church leadership

By Jason Pierce Catholic News Service DALLAS (CNS) — The offices of church leadership are still a mostly male domain, but they’re gradually becoming less so, according to statistics compiled by the Texas Catholic, newspaper of the Dallas Diocese.

Women hold top posts in almost one-fourth of the 205 Catholic archdioceses and dioceses in the United States.

Fifty women are chancellors, the highest “ecclesiastical” — or decision-making — office a layperson can hold in the church. This position is variously ranked second or third in authority after the bishop in a diocese.

Under church law, each diocese must have a bishop, a vicar general and judicial vicar, all of whom must be priests; as well as a chancellor and a chief financial officer, both of whom may be lay people. The number of top officials in a diocese depends on the size of the diocese.

The number of women who are chancellors increased almost 66 percent from 10 years ago, according to the 2003 Official Catholic Directory.

The office of chancellor evolved from the practice in the early church of appointing an official to sign and preserve the letters of the bishop. Today, that job consists of “gathering, arranging and safeguarding the acts of the diocesan curia.”

However, over the last century, bishops have come to rely on their chancellors to make administrative decisions on their behalf, rather than serve simply as record-keepers.

According to data from the most current directory, out of 205 U.S. dioceses, 50 have women with the title of “chancellor.” Of those 50 women, 28 are religious sisters.

(Nuns and religious brothers are considered lay people.)

Also, 26 dioceses have women who hold the title of “vice chancellor” or “assistant chancellor.”

Laymen are the chancellors in 13 dioceses, and priests serve the 142 other dioceses. In 1993, there were 31 women chancellors in the 201 dioceses and archdioceses in the United States. Only six were not religious.

Linda Bearie has served as chancellor of the Diocese of San Jose since 1996.

Among the larger dioceses with women chancellors are Dallas; Rockville Centre, N.Y.; Orange, Calif.; and San Bernardino, Calif. The Archdiocese of Newark, N.J., and the Diocese of Oakland also have women chancellors.

Sheila Garcia, assistant director of the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that until 1983 only clerics were allowed to hold “ecclesiastical office.” That year, the Vatican decided to allow women to hold those positions, notably in tribunal offices and administration, including chancellor,

often second only to the bishop in the hierarchy of a diocese.

She said an increasing interest among the laity in working for the church has created a pool of potential lay candidates for ecclesiastical jobs. Many are people with backgrounds in law, accounting or other professions who come to work for the church as a second career.

“We have a lot of lay people who are in that situation,” she said. “To the bishops’ credit, they recognize this, and we see bishops taking advantage of this.”

Mary Edlund, chancellor of the Diocese of Dallas, was one of those people. In 1979, Edlund left her career as a microbiologist and came to work for the church. After serving in several posts for the Dallas Diocese — including associate director of religious education, director of pastoral planning and vice chancellor — she was appointed chancellor in 1998.

Christine Taylor, chancellor of the Seattle Archdiocese, said the women chancellors are highly professional and bring fresh perspectives to the job.

“If you expect women to bring a touchy-feely side to this type of position, you’ll be disappointed, because I don’t think they bring that at all,” she said. “They bring a different way of looking at the situation and they find more creative ways to deal with it.”

Their style of management “is not more pastoral, conservative or more linear; it’s just different,” she said. “You add this kind of ‘let’s try this instead’attitude.”

Different operational styles make for better managed dioceses, Edlund said.

Linda Bearie, chancellor of the Diocese of San Jose, Calif., said the relational management style is nothing new to the church, but it is forgotten.

“I think that the church is more relational than hierarchical. That’s how I operate as chancellor — it’s not heavyhanded, it’s not hierarchical, it’s not ‘you’re going to do this because I say,’” Bearie said.

Women tend to be more process-oriented and collaborative in their styles, she said. “One is not better than the other. It is simply a different way of approaching it.”

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Prayer service at Catholic church marks opening of U.N. session

By Tracy Early Catholic News Service NEW YORK (CNS) — The annual prayer service at Holy Family Church in New York before the opening of the U.N. General Assembly was marked this year by expressions of concern for losses in the terrorist attack on U.N. offices in Baghdad.

Held Sept. 15 at the Catholic church whose parish territory includes the U.N. area, the service drew members of the U.N. staff, representatives of governmental missions to the United Nations and others with a special interest in U.N. affairs, as well as Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish clergy.

The Baghdad incident, which occurred Aug. 19, took the lives of 22 U.N. personnel, including Sergio Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian who in June had taken a leave from his post as the Geneva-based U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to head the U.N. mission in postwar Iraq.

Cardinal Edward M. Egan expressed “heartfelt sympathy” to U.N. leaders in the congregation still mourning the deaths brought by “the horror of Aug. 19.”

Delivering a meditation focused primarily on the prophet Micah’s vision of a time when swords would be turned into plowshares, the cardinal condemned the killing of U.N. workers who were devoting their lives to the realization of that vision.

In welcoming participants to the church, Father Robert J. Robbins, pastor, noted that in the Catholic calendar the day was the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, and said the experience of Mary in seeing her son killed by senseless violence had been shared by “mothers of Israel and mothers of Palestine.”

“The members of the United Nations family shared in this experience most recently in Baghdad,” he said, adding that those “sent to work for peace and reconstruction” became victims of senseless violence.

Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s U.N. nuncio, who co-sponsored the service with Cardinal Egan, also called in his remarks for remembrance of the U.N. victims in Baghdad.

“We entrust them into the hands of a loving God, and pray that the peace for which they lived, worked and died may soon be realized,” the nuncio said.

In a brief response at the conclusion of the service, Annan referred to the Baghdad attack as “a blow so brutal and barbaric that we are still struggling to comprehend it.”

“Colleagues, who were in Iraq with no other mission than to help its people build a better future, were taken

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from us, from their families and from the people they were working to assist,” he said.

The secretary-general said the loss was “almost impossible to take in,” and that “many of us” would remember this Aug. 19 as “the darkest day in our lives at the United Nations.”

As in previous years at the service, Annan, a native of Ghana who is from a Protestant background, asked members of the congregation to pray for the United Nations, for “our lost colleagues” and “for the rest of us that we may find the right way forward.”

“I ask you to pray for Iraq and for the whole family of nations, that their people be allowed to live in dignity, freedom, justice and peace,” he said.

Cardinal Egan began his remarks by declaring that “the United Nations has come to mean more to us in the last few years than any of us may ever have imagined.”

Calling it “a treasure,” he said that “we must embrace it and support it, and we must pray for it and its work as we are doing this evening.”

As in previous years, the nuncio read a statement from Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, conveying the greetings of Pope John Paul II and his prayers for “the divine blessings of wisdom, joy and strength” to be U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, with wife Nane, given to members of the General Assembly. attends a prayer service at Holy Family Church in New Noting the 40th anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s encyclical, “Pacem in Terris,” Cardinal Sodano said the York prior to the opening of the 58th session of the U.N. pope “echoes the prophetic conviction of his predecessor” General Assembly Sept. 15. During the service New that world peace can be achieved “if the ethical values of York Cardinal Edward M. Egan referred to the world solidarity between the world’s peoples, respect for human organization as a "treasure" that must be embraced and dignity and commitment to the moral principles of truth, supported. "We must pray for it and its work," he said. justice, love and freedom find embodiment.”

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Africa crisis . . .

■ Continued from cover “The event was very successful,” said Mr. Wesolek.

For example, he said it brought an awareness of the ministry of the Sisters of St. Therese of the Little Flower in Tanzania. As plans for the delegation’s journey moved forward, Tanzania was considered an important destination to witness the ministry of the allAfrican Sisters who care for thousands of AIDS orphans.

Sister Godbertha Muganda, currently studying at USF offered to host the tour of the Sisters’ ministry where she will return after studying in the U.S. Everything looks different once people visit Africa and see for themselves the dire state its people endure day after day observed Sister Godbertha. She welcomed the opportunity to show the delegation the important work that is being done - needs to be done - in order for her people to survive.

“The poverty in Africa is pandemic, famine in certain parts is still going on, and the worst crisis of all is the AIDS epidemic,” said Mr. Wesolek. “Millions of children are being orphaned because that whole generation is literally being wiped out.”

“The Sisters are doing tremendous work,” said Mr. Wesolek, who described the unique orphanage ministry.

The children do not live in orphanages. They live in the village of their birth with an appointed guardian, who may be a relative. The Sisters work closely with the village chiefs and elders to keep harmony in the culture with a very tight knit community.

“It is the elderly and the grandparents who are there left with the children,” said Mr. Wesolek. “For example, we saw a grandfather who could be 81, who had five lit-

From left Sister Godbertha Muganda, Deacon Sal Alvarez, U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Jimmy Kolker, George Wesolek, Silvestro Bakhiet.

tle grandchildren with him. He was the sole provider, and he was blind and unable to do much at all.”

“Through the Sisters’ work, the children are still members of the village and still members of the community,” said Mr. Wesolek.

The children report daily to one of 16 learning centers that the Sisters have founded for the education of the children. Carpentry and tailoring are some of the

A St. Therese Sister pays a visit to an elderly guardian of several young AIDS orphans.

skills taught. The Sisters also work closely with the local primary school that teaches grades one through seven and has an enrollment of 700 pupils. The ministry is performed within the boundaries of Kashozi and Mugana Catholic parishes.

It is estimated that Tanzania has 1.5 million orphans and at least 75 percent of this number is found in AFRICA CRISIS, page 11

Father John Jiminez prayed with Sisters in remembrance of the millions who have died of AIDS in Africa.

Submission or slavery Fighting for the rights of Christians in Sudan “Being a child and Christian in Sudan today gives you “We, the Christians in Southern Sudan have zero not release the pressure of Islamic law on the only two choices, follow Islamic principles or be a slave,” lives,” he said. Food is difficult to come by, there is Christian people.” said Silvestro Akara Bakhiet, a member of the delegation no medical treatment and no educational opportuniIt is extremely difficult for Sudanese seeking that visited Africa in conjunction with the Archdiocesan ties. “The Islamic government in Khartoum does not refuge. They leave because they have no food, eduOffice of Public Policy and Social Concerns. allow us to express our faith, instead they impose cation, or health care and end up in refugee camps in Following Islamic principles ensures you will be Islamic law on all the Christians.”

Northern Uganda with little more. Until recently, fed. It also means you must attend nine members of Mr. Bakhiet’s family Islamic school, and eventually join the were in such camps. m i l i t a r y, and fight your Christian ‘The Islamic government in Khartoum does not allow When he came to the U.S. Mr. brothers and sisters in Southern Sudan.

Bakhiet worked tirelessly as a hotel Failure to follow Islamic law means us to express our faith, instead they impose Islamic desk clerk on Sixth Street in San your life is worthless, according to Mr. Francisco to earn enough money to get Bakhiet. his family out of the refugee camps. law on all the Christians.’

– S i l v e s t ro Bakhiet Mr. Bakhiet arrived in the United “With the support of friends and States on March 11, 1997 and received staff of St. Mary’s Cathedral,” Mr. his asylum approval on January 10, 1998. “I mainly “The Christians have one principle — that we are Bakhiet has founded a non-profit org a n i z a t i o n came to America to have a chance to address the fighting for the next generation. And we are fighting “Pagri” which tries to address the needs of the tragedies my people in Sudan face today,” he said. not because we need to fight, but for our rights and Southern Sudanese from Pagri Village currently livMilitary dictatorships favoring an Islamic oriented freedom as any other nation fought,” he said. ing in Uganda refugee camps. government have dominated national politics since He praises the American government, “It is a gov“The churches in Sudan are the only hope for the Sudan’s independence from the United Kingdom in ernment that affords its people freedom, education Christians,” he said. They are working with the inter1956. In all but 10 of these years (1972-82), Sudan and the right to make a living.” He hopes that one national community and trying to bring peace in has been embroiled in a civil war. It is estimated that day, these gifts will be realities for his Sudanese peoSudan. “They are also attempting to bring health and during this tragic period, war and famine related ple. education to the people. And they are appealing to effects have led to more than two million deaths, and “But there will be no change in Sudan under the American churches to work with them side-by-side displaced more than four million people.

Islamic government of Khartoum,” he said, “it will for the peace process,” he said.

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Coffee, soap and the ‘Body of Christ’ Intimacy and relationship foster true solidarity I was, to say the least, stunned. I had difficulty controlling my emotions and tears, already fragile from the The most moving gift I received on our recent visit whole experience of that day. I bowed to him and to Uganda and Tanzania was given to me by an old and thanked him in my newly learned Swahili, “Asante. very poor man in a village near the town of Bukoba in Asante Sana.” (Thank you. Thank you very much.)

Tanzania.

Then he was gone.

I was helping to distribute simple items to these As I reflect on that moment, I realize that it was an destitute people with the Sisters of St. Therese whose event of great intimacy and brotherhood for me. It was mission is to minister and care for children who had an opening for a vision of a connection to a world and been orphaned by the deaths of their parents due to experience that was totally foreign to me. Later, one of AIDS. The old man was the grandfather of some of the Sisters explained the significance of the event in the these orphans, now the sole provider for five children at tribal culture. Hospitality is deeply engrained in their the end of his life. In a country where the average culture and when one comes for a visit, it is customary income is about a dollar a day for a young person, his to give coffee to drink that is grown locally. The gesture little family literally had nothing. I had just given him a also has a deeper significance in that two people may bar of soap. Yes, soap. He and about two hundred oth- give coffee beans, sometimes along with a drop of their ers, orphans and their elderly caretakers, had waited blood, to symbolize a new intimate, family relationship. five hours for a bar of soap, some pencils and notebooks I had been made a brother to a man that I had just given for the children. The Sisters, a poor order of native a bar of soap.

Africans, had nothing else My coffee beans are to give them although next to me where I can see they did support a simple No economic aid and food and them each day. They are a health clinic and some metaphor and a symbol of vocational training for the medicine should be given without the meaning and purpose orphans. of our trip to Africa. We So with my heart that foundation of relationship. went to forge links of solburning and my emotions i d a r i t y, to remind ourflashing from despair to This is what Pope John Paul II selves that we are truly humiliation to incredulity brothers and sisters to a and even guilt, I gave this world that is far, far away; man a bar of soap. He means by “solidarity.” to a world that is mired in looked at me with an a misery of AIDS, war, immense sad dignity, reached into his pocket and took and poverty that is hard for us to imagine. These simple out a small pouch. From the pouch he extracted about a brown beans also tell me each day that I was blessed dozen coffee beans and, with great ceremony, of fered with a great gift given by a hospitable, generous and them to me. He bowed as he did so and with a smile of joyful people. Now, the gift of the bar of soap and espejoy took my hand in both of his. cially the gift of the coffee beans will always remind me

By George Wesolek

Africa crisis . . .

■ Continued from page 10 Bukoba where HIV/AIDS was first detected in Tanzania and where a portion of the Sisters’ ministry is located.

Kibale Village is one of 15 villages where the Sisters minister to the orphans and those with HIV/AIDS. Much of their time is spent fighting the related diseases to which the HIV/AIDS patients are especially vulnerable, such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, malaria, skin and respiratory infections.

Kibale is also where the Sisters started a small plantation farm for orphans. The young children are given three to ten coffee plants to care for, so they can earn “pennies” to buy kerosene, pencils and other small items.

After leaving Tanzania, the delegation members traveled to Uganda where much of their time was spent at one of the Adjumani refugee camps. “There are approximately 185,000 refugees from Sudan living in Uganda camps,” said Mr. Wesolek.

The AIDS orphans throughout Tanzania seek the refuge of the St. Therese Sisters’ learning centers.

“We listened to many stories,” he said. Many refugees are abducted by a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) “where the leader, many people say, is a psychopath. He gets his troops for his army by abducting children from 7-12 years old. Girls, at that young age, are used as sex slaves. Boys are indoctrinated, given guns and put into his army.”

In recruitment, the LRA forces young kidnapped children to brutally massacre another child, which eff e c t i v e l y bans the child from their native community for life, according to the custom of the native Ugandan Achole tribe where violence against another is forbidden.

“We listened to the painful stories of these children,” said Mr. Wesolek.

Thousands of Sudanese refugee children and local Ugandan children of the villages fear abduction and fill the public streets at night hoping to be safe.

They have been labeled “night children,” said Mr. Wesolek.

The delegation also visited the local offices of Catholic Relief Service in Uganda where a number of programs have been developed to help the plight of these “night children,” including vocational projects where the orphans learn trades.

“What you have in north Sudan is a very strong Islamic government, and in the south is a Christian community. That’s basically how it is aligned in terms of fighting, but it is much more complicated than that,” said Mr. Wesolek.

The delegation expressed their concern for the issues to the American Ambassador of Uganda, Jimmy Kolker, during a two-hour “working meeting” with him. “The Ambassador was very supportive, and very open, but his hands are tied,” said Mr. Wesolek.

While in Kampala, Uganda, the San Francisco delegation also met for two hours with Bishops of the Conference of Sudanese Bishops.

The San Francisco delegation is gathering the information they learned through their fact-finding mission, and writing a detailed report with recommendations, which will be given to local congressional representatives and the House International Affairs Committee.

An elderly man is the sole support for his five grandchildren orphaned by AIDS.

of the core relationships so important to our “helping” these poor people.

No economic aid and food and medicine should be given without that foundation of relationship. This is what Pope John Paul II means by “solidarity.” It is not the cold writing of a check and the flash of sympathy over the plight of the less fortunate. It is the understanding and experience of the simple truth — we are brothers and sisters in the human family. In theological terms, we are the Body of Christ, and if one the members is hurt or in pain or need, then we all suf fer. Once we understand that truth, action on behalf of justice and charity for these people becomes an urgency and commitment in our lives.

“We did not clearly understand how serious the delegation was being taken by those who wanted to tell us their stories of suffering. It overwhelmed us,” said Deacon Alvarez. “We are compiling our report with a zeal that has been given to us by our friends we made in Tanzania and Uganda.”

“There is a lot we can learn from the Catholic Church in Africa,” said Father John Jimenez, such as “strong faith, simplicity of life, and common sharing of resources.”

“There is a tremendous need in Africa,” said Mr. Wesolek. “These are not just people over there who are somebody to be pitied or sympathetic with, they are our brothers and sisters.”

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Catholic San Francisco

September 19, 2003

Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Filipinos enter a new era The Filipino community of the Archdiocese of San Francisco held impressive events this past weekend as they celebrated a “Journey of Faith” that began 100 years ago. Filipinos now have entered a new era, in which the difficulties of the past serve as a platform for the future – a future that retains the Filipino values of family, devotion and hospitality and builds on the potential for a broadened influence in public life.

During the past century, the Filipino presence in the Archdiocese has grown from a small number of immigrants to a throng of second-, third-, and fourth-generation Filipino-Americans representing more than 20 percent of the Catholic population in the present three-county Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Like Irish, Italian and other immigrants before them, Filipinos held the least-wanted jobs when they, mostly men, first arrived in some numbers in the 1920s. Some worked as migrant farmers in Salinas and Stockton (then part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco), while others took service jobs in San Francisco as busboys, dishwaters and cooks.

In 1924, Archbishop Edward J. Hanna began outreach to the growing population of Filipinos with the establishment of the Filipino Catholic Club, which assisted immigrants from the Philippines in finding housing and work.

Noemi Castillo, director of Ethnic Ministries for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and a national figure in this field, has noted that the Church’s Filipino ministry reached out to Filipino farm workers who were deeply involved in the fight for social justice in the 1960s. They led the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, which Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta joined in 1965.

In that same year, the U.S. Congress passed an immigration law allowing the reunification of families and large waves of immigration from the Philippines and other Asian countries began.

Twenty years ago, the Archdiocese established the Office of Filipino Catholic Affairs, and from this grew a pastoral plan for promoting Filipino culture and expressions of faith, while at the same time encouraging active involvement and participation in parish life.

By 1980, there were about 60,000 Filipinos in the Archdiocese, mainly in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. Today there are more than 100,000 Filipinos in the three counties of the San Francisco Archdiocese, the vast majority of them Catholic.

Unlike the “national” churches of a prior time that served as welcoming points for Irish, German, Italian, Mexican, French and other immigrant groups, the Filipino Catholics represent a portion of the parishioners of many parishes.

Addressing hundreds of Filipinos at the Filipino Centennial Day conference, San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada spoke of Filipino contributions to the local Church: “their faith, their deep devotion to the church and our Blessed Mother, their sense of family and of celebration.”

He added, “I rejoice with all of you that God has given us the grace to build up the Body of Christ, the Church. Your gifts are gifts that our society and our church need.”

Visiting Bishop Luis Antonio Tagle echoed a similar theme.

Filipino Catholics have much to give, he said. Acknowledging that his list was not complete, the bishop cited four special gifts of his people: a person-oriented view of life, an unusually expansive emphasis on family, a deep spirit of devotion and the “culture of poverty.”

“Filipinos,” he said, “look at the world through the prism of human beings and human relationships,” a trait that shows itself in “our renowned Filipino hospitality.”

He added, “We know how to treat people gently. God doesn’t forget this. That is why God can be gentle with us. This is good news in a world slowly moving into forgetfulness of human beings, a world in which people are transformed into objects, like commodities.”

The Filipino-Americans who constitute one fifth of the Catholic population of the Archdiocese of San Francisco bring many gifts to our local Church. In this they share in common the bringing of gifts by the sons and daughters of earlier waves of immigrants from Europe and current immigrants from Mexico, Latin and South America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Through these examples, we learn again the lesson that out of many we are one – that while we are of many backgrounds, we are one Church in Christ.

MEH

Formation in Faith I want to take this opportunity to thank you and Tom Burke for the fine article regarding the Faith Formation Conference (formally known as Religious Education Institute) on September 27, 2003 at the SF Marriott helping to celebrate our 150 years of being an Archdiocese. Tom was able to help people see the importance of such of an event for all catechists - religion teachers in the Archdiocese.

As Church we do need well-trained teachers of religion. This event helps make this possible.

The conference certainly is not limited to teachers of religion. Parents as well as those interested in nurturing faith can find many workshops. We in the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry appreciate the fine coverage of the upcoming event. With Catholic San Francisco and this event all can grow in their understanding of faith today.

Sr. Celeste Arbuckle, SSS San Francisco

A last gasp?

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Misguided proposition As a member of a Mendicant Order, and an employee of a hospital founded by the Sisters of Mercy to serve the poor and our brothers and sisters who are disenfranchised, I embrace and applaud Sister Bernie Galvin’s “misguided compassion” (letters – Sept. 12).

The Lord does, indeed, hear the cry of the poor and acts upon it through vessels like Sister Bernie. While I certainly support providing treatment to those in need of it, the simple truth of the matter is that the demand far exceeds the supply.

Proposition M will not resolve that.

But the Sister Bernies of the world will continue to make life a little less painful for those who are in need by reserving judgment and not painting everyone with the same brush.

Brother George Cherrie, OFM, Conv.

San Francisco

L E T T E R S

I write to express my profound disappointment with Catholic San Francisco’s last issue dealing with the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith’s views on legitimization of homosexual persons who strive for supportive committed relationships. I found the views of the CDF to be mean, ignorant, arrogant and totally void of the inclusiveness of Jesus, our role model in all things. I can only imagine the hurt and pain this has caused the thousands of loyal and committed gay and lesbian Catholics right here in our own Archdiocese of San Francisco. It is shameful and hypocritical that only those views of the most conservative Catholics are given credibility while Catholics with other points of view are dismissed week after week in every issue you publish.

Father Edward Lambro, a Catholic priest in Paterson, N.J., recently wrote a letter to the National Catholic Reporter in which he expresses his view that “Jesus had a great deal to say about many issues; however, he said nothing about same-sex, or for that matter, opposite sex marriage. Actually he does not appear to have any ‘official’ position on sex at all.”

He further states that “the newest ecclesiastical gay bashing (and that’s just what it is) is not about orthodoxy, preserving the faith for future generations or reflective of the will of Christ. It is about fear, prejudice and the last gasp of an institution not merely in crisis, but rather in catastrophe.” I share this view, as do millions of Catholics around the globe.

To add insult to injury, the column by George Weigel in your last issue unleashed a mean and vicious attack against our Anglican brothers and sisters. This was very sad and unfortunate that you chose to print his attack against the Anglican Communion after so much sincere effort has been put forth by our own former Archbishop Quinn and our present Archbishop Levada to build bridges toward the goal of unity with the Anglicans, who by the way, consider themselves just as “catholic” as we Roman Catholics. To quote Father Lambro again, “the Anglican Communion proved itself again to be insightful, courageous and true to the gospel message of inclusion” referring to the recent decision of the

Letters welcome

Episcopal Church in America to consecrate the first openly gay Bishop. Homosexuality is not a choice. It has been a human condition as long as history has been recorded. Double standards in our Church hurt Catholic credibility in the eyes of the world and it especially hurts the many gay and lesbian Catholics right here in our own San Francisco Churches.

P.S. I know you will not print this letter because you allow only the most fundamentalist, far-right Catholic opinions to be expressed in Catholic San Francisco. This is a shame and it falls far short of the teachings of Vatican II in every conceivable way.

Christopher J. Smith San Francisco

Rights not marriage

Reverend Gerald Coleman in his recent article, “The Homosexualizing of Society,” criticizes the recent Supreme Court Decision invalidating a Texas anti-sodomy law with these words, “The Court has now made the gay-right cause ‘a basic civil rights issue’, opening the door to the legalization of same-sex marriages in the United States.”

This characterization is unfair and an attack upon the integrity of the Court. The Court’s ruling specifically stated that its decision “did not involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter.” It did state, “The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives. The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime.”

If homosexual conduct is a sin in the eyes of the Church, so be it. Homosexuals can confess and be forgiven. If some forms of heterosexual sex are sins by Church standards, the perpetrators can also confess and be forgiven.

The State must not enact criminal laws, arrest people, put them in prison, and ruin their lives because of their ethnicity, religious beliefs or private sexual conduct.

I caution Father Coleman not to get overly anxious over the Court’s decision and to predict dire results for society. I believe that marriage is a Sacrament and should be protected by the laws of the land, as that between a man and a woman. I also believe that the civil rights of homosexual partners should be protected.

Father Coleman and the Catholic press just might be (I hope inadvertently) bearing false witness against certain of its neighbors through some of these recent articles.

As Father Coleman rightly quotes the Catechism, the Church calls on all persons to “gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.”

Robert Brown Redwood City

Datebook’s uses God bless you on your great work. As a result of our listing in Datebook, the Autumn Group of St. Mary’s Cathedral received many inquiries and greatly increased participation in a recent trip. On behalf of the Autumn Group, thank you, again.

Sister Esther McEgan, RSM St. Mary’s Cathedral

September 19, 2003

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The Catholic Difference

Interim measures - Pastoral Life Directors Thanks to the changing demographics of the American priesthood and the failures of vocation recruitment in some dioceses, “Pastoral Life Directors” - lay women, lay men, or religious sisters who take responsibility for parishes without a full-time priest-pastor - will become a familiar feature of Catholic life in many parts of the United States over the next decade. As bishops and other diocesan planners consider making more use of these “PLDs,” they might want to ponder the Swiss experience carefully. It strikes me as a cautionary tale.

A brilliant young Polish friend of mine spent much of the last semester studying international law at the University of Fribourg. Interested in exploring Catholic life in the French-speaking Swiss cantons near the university, he discovered that PLDs are in wide use. Most of these PLDs have masters’ degrees in theology. They’re paid quite comfortable salaries. And some of them, at least, seem to have developed very odd ideas of the Church - and of themselves.

The most striking example? In one Swiss parish run by a PLD, the Mass is celebrated on one Sunday each month by a visiting priest. On the other Sundays, the PLD “presides” at a service of the Word, which is followed by a brief communion service using pre-consecrated hosts. One Sunday last year, the local bishop happened to show up in the parish. The PLD informed the bishop that he would not be permitted to say Mass, as a “Eucharistic Sunday” hadn’t been scheduled for that day. She, the PLD, would take the

service, which the bishop was welcome to attend if he liked. So there was no celebration of the Eucharist in that parish on that Sunday, despite the availability of a priest.

What’s wrong with this picture? Just about everything, I’m afraid. The PLD in question evidently placed more value on her prerogatives as “presider” than on her people’s celebrating the Eucharist. The bishop acquiesced in his degradation. The people didn’t rise up and demand that the bishop be allowed to celebrate Mass. I know they don’t play much baseball in Switzerland, but wherever you are, three strikes and you’re out. One can only wonder what notion of “Catholic” is operating in a parish where all three of these extraordinary things happen simultaneously.

And the cautionary tale? It’s not to avoid PLDs at all costs. That’s both irresponsible and alarmist. Until God blesses the Church in the United States with more vocations to the priesthood, PLDs are going to be a necessity in some circumstances. And many will do excellent jobs. What this Swiss mess suggests is that it’s critically important that everyone be on the same page about what PLDs are and mean.

It must be clear to everyone - the local bishop, the local priests, the pool of candidates for the position of Pastoral Life Director, the parish councils asked to accept a PLD - that PLDs are an interim solution until normal pastoral structures, meaning a resident priest-pastor, can be re-established in a parish.

Sure, there are things priest-pastors do today that could be done just as well, and arguably better, by lay Catholics. By the same

token, however, everyone involved in the PLD phenomenon has to understand that pastoral leadership and governance in the Catholic Church are, in normal circumstances, functions of the ordained priesthood.

If some parties don’t George Weigel understand that, what’s virtually inevitable here is something akin to what’s happened around Fribourg. Pressures to regard PLDs as the norm, rather than the exception, will intensify. Priests will be further marginalized (and demoralized). Vocation recruitment will be commensurably more difficult. The American temptation to think of “the Church” as the local congregation, period, will be even more difficult to resist.

Calling PLDs an “interim solution” isn’t a put-down; it’s a frank description of Catholic reality. In fact, I’d suggest that anyone who takes “interim” as a put-down is automatically disqualified to be a Pastoral Life Director. Parishes are Eucharistic communities governed in a Eucharistic context.

That’s why priest-pastors are crucial. And that’s something everyone making decisions about PLDs ought to understand.

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

Evangelization

Watch your language!

Watch your language! Have you ever heard a parent or an older sibling say this to someone, usually, an adolescent? I have.

I can remember my older brother self-righteously correcting my brother on one particular occasion when he used an expression that was not considered appropriate in the presence of his younger sisters! The language we use speaks volumes about who we really are. I am not referring to a language such as English, Spanish or French. Rather, I am referring to the expressions that creep into every day usage as we express ourselves in normal conversation. When we express ourselves verbally we are giving our listeners clues to who we are and how we think. I believe that as Catholic Christians this can be very important.

I invite you to become aware of how you express yourself in the ordinary circumstances of life. Let’s look at a few examples. When you are frightened or shocked about something what is the first thing you say? Many times I have heard someone say, “Oh my God!” Hopefully, that person is consciously calling on God for help. Or perhaps it is just an empty expression. Another one is “Thank God!” How often have you said this when you are feeling relief about something? Do you really mean that when you say it? Have you ever noticed how the listener reacts to your use of God’s name or references to your Catholic faith in your conversations or expressions?

Recently as I was driving to work listening to the news there was an item about a local golf course being re-opened

and one of the persons interviewed mentioned that he wanted to play there on re-opening day so that he could “baptize it, so to speak.” This told me that this man was a Christian because he knew that “to baptize” is to give “new life.”

Obviously, this concept is part of his experience. When the concepts of our Faith and the Gospel message are close to the surface of our consciousness they will tend to become part of our everyday use of language. However, this will not happen unless we are consciously aware of how our faith life affects us and it will not bear much merit unless we are expressing ourselves with full awareness. In other words, when we say such things as, “God bless you,” when we hear someone sneeze, we can say it as an automatic response or we can say it as a prayer for that person, calling on God to bless the sneezer with good health. It all depends on our intention when we use the phrase.

Of course, use of language goes much deeper. Our words can influence outcomes in a very serious way. Sometimes at work and in social situations topics come up that impinge on our faith practices. For example when we are discussing political or social justice issues what we say as an “off the cuff” remark may influence the listeners thinking and could have serious repercussions in local, state or federal government. During these times it is very important that we “watch our language.” What we say in the heat of discussion or argument can influence others for good or

evil. When we speak from a faith perspective we can deepen the listener’s faith.

I am sure we are all aware of the influence of radio campaigning during times of political elections. In spite of ourselves we are influenced by what the Sister candidates say. They are Antonio Heaphy getting a message across with their words. We too get messages across with our words. When we speak we express ourselves and our philosophy and we influence others all day long.

As disciples of Jesus we have an obligation to proclaim the Gospel message, the Good News of Salvation. We are given countless opportunities to do this daily. Our commentary on life’s situation can put our listeners in touch with the bigger picture. God is present in every situation of our lives. It is our responsibility to be consciously aware of this, even in our use of language!

Presentation Sister Antonio Heaply is director of the Office of Evangelization for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Spirituality

From self-protection to being food for the life of the world Recently I heard an interview on the radio with a bishop from a large American diocese. At one point he was asked: “As the leader of a large diocese today, what do you consider as your single most important task?” The bishop, a sincere and prayerful man, answered: “To protect the faith.”

For effect, I would like to contrast his answer with one that I once heard from Cardinal George Basil Hume when he was faced with essentially the same question. Asked by a journalist in Belgium in 1985 what he considered to be the most important task facing the church, he replied: “To try to help save the planet.”

These are different answers. Which runs closer to Jesus?

Jesus, in defining his meaning and ministry, said: “My flesh is food for the life of the world.” We can easily miss what’s really contained in that. Notice what he’s not saying.

Jesus isn’t saying that his flesh is food for the life of the church or for the life of Christians — albeit we, believers, get fed, too, and, indeed, generally get fed first, but the ultimate reason why Jesus came was not simply to feed us.

His body is food for the life of the world and the world is larger than the church. Jesus came into the world to be eaten up by the world. For this reason, he was born in a manger, a feeding trough, a place where animals come to eat, and it’s for this reason that he eventually ends up on a table, an altar, to be eaten by human beings. Jesus came not to defend himself,

the church, or the faith, but as nourishment for the planet.

We need to keep that horizon always in front of us as we journey through a time of anti-ecclesial and anti-clerical sentiment.

Today the church, its teachings, and its clergy are often under siege, sometimes for good reasons but many times because of ideology and bias. In the Western world today, the only intellectually-sanctioned bias is that against Roman Catholicism and Evangelical Protestantism. To be bigoted here is not interpreted as intolerance or as being narrow-minded. Rather, it’s seen as the opposite, a sign that one is enlightened and liberal.

The danger in that is not that the church will somehow collapse, but that the church, us, will become too defensive, too self-protective, lose the vulnerability that Jesus demonstrated and asks for, and instead see the world as an enemy to be fought rather than as a precious body to which we are asked to give our lives.

The first task of the church, no matter the difficulty, is not to circle the wagons and defend itself. Even when the world doesn’t welcome what we have to offer, we’re still asked to give ourselves over to it as food.

It’s easy to lose that perspective, especially in a time of disprivilege, and so it’s important that we recall the reason why the church exists.

The church exists not as an end in itself. But we exist as a church, too, to be food for the life of the world, to be eaten up as

nourishment by everyone, including those outside our own circles. As Cardinal Hume put it, our real reason to be is beyond our own lives. Ultimately the church is not about the church; it’s food for the world.

That, of course, doesFather n’t mean the church shouldn’t have an interRon Rolheiser nal agenda. It’s valid, too, to turn inward sometimes. In order to be a body that can be nourishment for the world, the church needs to generate, foster, and protect its own life. We can’t give life if we haven’t got any.

Church life exists to build up a body, but that body exists not for itself, but for the world. Our task as church, especially today, is not to defend ourselves or even to carve out some peace for ourselves against a world which sometimes prefers not to have us around. No. Like Jesus, our real reason for being here is to try to help nourish and protect that very world that’s often hostile to us.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.

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Catholic San Francisco

September 19, 2003

Edward Le Breton “Friend and Protector” of Saint Anne’s Home house owned by the Lazard brothers. Originally retail merchants and importers, Lazard Frères had expanded their firm On Saturday morning, March 19, 1910, the Little Sisters into domestic and foreign banking and Edward was fortunate of the Poor at St. Anne’s Home gathered to pray around a to rise to the position of chief clerk at a time that the firm was dying man. The man who lay in the Bishop’s Parlor on Lake gaining national and international prominence.

Not all French banks in San Francisco were as successful. In Street was one of the most generous and devoted Catholic laymen of the first half-century of the San Francisco 1879, Edward joined other members of the French Community Archdiocese. His sudden, but peaceful death closed a life of to recapitalize the French Savings & Loan Society, which had business success, civic involvement and devotion to the declared bankruptcy the previous year. Edward used much of the income he earned from his job at Lazard, his personal real Church, the Jesuits and the Little Sisters of the Poor. estate investment and management business and his As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the many fiduciary appointments in the French comArchdiocese, it is important to remember the munity to make and increase his investment in many lay men and women who contributed the French Savings & Loan. In 1887, at age their time, talent and treasure and made pos35, he became president of the bank. sible the spiritual, educational and social As a banker, Le Breton was consermission of the Archdiocese. Edward Le vative. His bank provided a solid, conBreton’s record of devotion to and finantinuous rate of return to his customers cial support for Catholic institutions who were drawn largely from the make him a fitting representative of French community. He invested his the laity who for 150 years have supdepositors’ money carefully in San ported the clergy, religious and instiFrancisco real estate mortgages and tutions of the Archdiocese. stocks and bonds in the booming Edward Joseph Le Breton was railroad business. As a result, born in September, 1852, in the French Savings & Loan survived gold mining camps along the the periodic panics and financial American River near today’s city of downturns which marked San Folsom. His parents, with thousands Francisco banking in the late 19th of others, had come from the far corcentury. ners of the globe to Northern As an alumnus of St. Ignatius, California during the early days of Edward was generous in his time and the Gold Rush. His father was born donations to St. Ignatius Church and on a small French-owned island in the Universities of San Francisco and the Indian Ocean and his mother was Santa Clara. Having a special devothe daughter of an English planter tion to St. Anne, the patron saint of who settled in Brazil. After losing Edward Joseph Le Breton Brittany, he donated a statue of the most of their property in one of the many fires which devastated Gold Rush San Francisco, the mother of Mary to the new Jesuit church on Hayes Street. He Le Bretons moved to the primitive mining camps near also continued his father’s real estate investment and manSacramento. There, in the mud, violence and hunger of the agement business. From time to time, Edward found opportunities to help Archbishop Patrick Riordan and the make-shift tent city, Edward was born.

After spending two years in the Gold Country, the Le Religious of the Sacred Heart in Menlo Park in their often Breton family returned to San Francisco. There, they found complicated property transactions. He also worked closely that the flourishing French community of San Francisco with his sister, Marie Le Breton de Laveaga, when she built afforded more opportunities for financial and social success. Edward’s father built a successful real estate and investment business and, in 1863, he enrolled his 11-yearold son Edward in the new Jesuit school, St. Ignatius College, on Market Street. There, the young Le Breton received a solid, classical education, won many prizes for his academic achievements and acted in the theatricals presented at the annual graduation exercises. Through all this, Edward forged a lifelong devotion to the Society of Jesus.

Edward and his older brother Albert spent three academic years with the Jesuits. In 1867, Albert apprenticed with a local attorney and Edward transferred to what was then called City College. There, he studied a business curriculum until, in 1868, his parents took him, his brother and his sister Marie to Europe for the Grand Tour. The Le Breton boys studied in Dresden and Paris before returning to San Francisco in late 1871. Nearly 21, Edward obtained a series of jobs in French business and banking firms, until he settled at the banking

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the original Santa Maria Church in Orinda, and represented his family at the dedication by Archbishop Riordan as Marie lay dying in San Francisco.

However, it is as the friend and benefactor of the Little Sisters of the Poor throughout California and the builder of the original St. Anne’s Home on Lake Street that Le Breton is most remembered.

Shortly after the Little Sisters of the Poor arrived in San Francisco in February, 1901, the French banker visited St. Joseph’s Home on Howard Street. “I will be your friend and protector,” he told the Little Sisters. There was a clear tie between the French Le Breton and the Little Sisters, whose order was founded in France by Blessed Jeanne Jugan, who was from Brittany herself. The banker shared the Little Sisters’ emphasis on prayer, especially to St. Joseph, and his deep devotion to his parents prompted him to support wholeheartedly the Little Sisters’mission to the elderly poor.

His gifts of flowers, food, clothing and money soon became a regular feature of life at the Home. From the beginning, Christmas gifts to every man and woman in the Home from Le Breton accompanied the holiday dinner. He regularly visited the Home each week on Wednesday and Saturday to see what could be done or what was needed by the Little Sisters and the residents.

Recognizing that the Home was already crowded, Le Breton told the Little Sisters that he would donate $100,000 to purchase the land for and build a new Home. With typical business acumen, Le Breton purchased several lots on Lake Street next to the Army Presidio and, on April 28, 1902, he joined the Little Sisters at the groundbreaking.

Le Breton managed every part of the construction process. He selected the architect, corrected the plans to afford more comfort for the residents, argued with the City about the electric lines for the elevator and negotiated with the subcontractors. With the residents, he worked on the landscaping and he continually insisted that he would pay for every single expense related to the new Home. Relying in part on the intercession of St. Joseph, a special patron of the Little Sisters, Le Breton even supervised the digging of the well on the property, a source of water which became critical after the 1906 earthquake. His sole conditions for all his contributions were that the Home be dedicated to St. Anne and that, over the main door, would be a dedication

San Francisco groundbreaking, April 28, 1902.

Archbishop Patrick Riordan blesses the cornerstone, July 26, 1902.

“In Honor of My Father and Mother”.

In 1904, at the cost of more than $350,000, all paid by Le Breton, St. Anne’s was ready for occupancy. Shortly thereafter, the banker wrote to the Bishop of Los Angeles, offering to build and pay for another Little Sisters Home in Southern California.

This Home, also dedicated to St. Anne, opened in 1908.

Constructing and furnishing the Los Angeles Home cost the banker another $400,000. His $750,000 in donations to the Little Sisters was hailed as an outstanding example of Christian charity. As one Little Sister wrote, “This man understands Charity.”

He also understood the power of prayer. When one of the Little Sisters fell ill, he led the residents in prayer to Our Lady, promising that he would build a Lourdes grotto on the ground of St. Anne’s Home and sponsor an annual procession in honor of Mary. The Little Sister recovered and, in 1904, Le Breton paid for the construction of an exact replica of the grotto at Lourdes on Mount St. Anne behind the Home. The first Lourdes procession took place on December 8 that year and has become a tradition followed for nearly a hundred years. Today, the Knights and Dames of Malta bring the sick and the elderly to the Lourdes grotto every year to pray to Our Lady just as Edward Le Breton did.

In the meantime, Le Breton sold his bank to the new EDWARD LE BRETON, page 17

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St. Anne’s Home on Lake Street in 1904.

Edward Le Breton . . .

■ Continued from page 16 French American Bank and, after several years as its president, retired to have more time for philanthropy.

Archbishop Riordan asked him to serve on the Board of Trustees of St. Patrick’s Seminary and he was considered for selection as one of the first lay Directors of the Catholic Humane Bureau, the forerunner of today’s Catholic Charities. He also continued his regular donations to both St. Anne’s Homes, where he and his brother Albert began the tradition of serving the residents a special meal on St. Joseph’s Day each year. This tradition also continued long after his death and brought Archbishops, priests, businessmen and members of San Francisco’s Police and Fire Departments and many lay men and women to the Home to serve the poor.

Although he never married, Edward was devoted to the three children of his deceased sister Marie and, as guardian, took into his home the orphan son of a friend and business acquaintance. Ever a proponent of Jesuit education, Le Breton sent his ward to St. Ignatius High School and, later, to Santa Clara University. He was a daily communicant at the 6:30 morning Mass at St. Anne’s and lived a quiet life on Pierce Street, near St. Dominic’s church.

Le Breton always sought to remain in the background.

He only relunctantly and humbly allowed his charity to be recognized by the Little Sisters. He once said, “All is for the glory of God and the benefit of the elderly poor. I don’t want to have any reward in this life.” On the other hand, he saw little merit in leaving good deeds until after death. “It is more meritorious,” he observed, “to make during life a

sacrifice of whatever you possess.”

It was not surprising to find the retired banker at St. Anne’s for the morning Mass on St. Joseph’s Day, March 19. Although he was scheduled to attend a court hearing that day, he was anxious to discuss with the Little Sisters another project. Tradition holds that he planned to assume the responsibility for building the Little Sisters Home in Oakland, his third such undertaking.

As he prepared to leave, Le Breton suffered a massive stroke. The Little Sisters, residents and doctors who surrounded him recognized that nothing could be done, and Le Breton himself was resigned, in true Christian fashion, to God’s will. He said, “I went to Confession last night and to Communion this morning. I am ready.”

His last request was to die surrounded by the prayers of those who lived in the house he had built in memory of his parents. “If I die now, I die in good hands and among the Little Sisters and the old folks whom I love.”

Le Breton was not alone in noting the strange act of Providence that he should die on the feast of St. Joseph in the building which was his greatest monument.

One of the Little Sisters wrote that the death of their friend and protector encouraged all who saw it to persevere in their own lives his example of charity and devotion to the elderly poor.

Today, a picture of Edward Le Breton hangs near the main entrance of the new St. Anne’s Home on Lake Street. His memory has been kept alive by the Little Sisters, residents, benefactors and volunteers of St. Anne’s nearly a century. The Monitor in 1910 wrote a fitting summary of his life and work.

Mr. Le Breton was not like many philanthropists who give money and are content. He gave his heart to the work or succoring and caring for the aged poor.

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The Lourdes Grotto at St. Anne’s Home.

Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Joseph McGucken at a Jubilee celebration at the Los Angeles Home.

Lauding Le Breton as someone who frequented the sacraments, venerated God and His saints, while being an “upright and active American citizen,” the newspaper urged its readers to “live the Christian life, as did this man.

Let us revere his memory and emulate his kindly acts.”

John H. McGuckin, Jr. is General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Union Bank of California. He is a lawyer by vocation and an historian by avocation. He is currently at

The oldest photo of residents and Little Sisters in San Francisco.

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Filipino . . .

■ Continued from cover His hour-long talk, received with applause and laughter, linked the teachings of the Second Vatican Council to the lives and faith of Filipinos in the archdiocese.

“Christus Dominus,” the council document on the life and ministry of the bishop, uses “the image of gathering,” to describe the local church, the bishop said. “It is a people that is gathered. We are not called individually. We are called with others . . . It is the Spirit of Jesus that gathers.”

Vatican II identifies four central elements of “a particular church or a diocese: a people assembled by the Holy Spirit, by the word of God, by the Eucharist and the other sacraments and by the ministers, especially the bishop,” he said.

“These are the four elements . . . in any community, anywhere, that deserves the name of church,” Bishop Tagle said. “You may be in India, you may be in Indonesia, you may be in Sweden, you may be here in San Francisco, but anywhere you go if you find a community called church, hopefully you will find the four elements: the work of the Spirit, the word of God, the Eucharist and apostolic ministry.”

“The Spirit that works in Manila is hopefully the same Spirit at work here in San Francisco. The word of God that is proclaimed in Manila is the same Word of God proclaimed here. The Eucharist that is celebrated here, the body and blood of Christ, is the same Eucharist, that happens in Manila. And it is the same ministry, the one episcopacy, sent to serve, that we find hopefully in San Francisco and in Manila . . . . The church is universal precisely because we hold the elements in common.”

Those theological concepts do not exhaust the description of the local church, Bishop Tagle said, because, “The church can never be an abstraction.”

“We cannot find the Word of God floating up there in the air . . . . the Eucharist that is floating up there in the air . . . The church is a gathering of men and women who receive the Spirit, who listen to and receive the Word of God. . . who gather around the table of the

Word and the table of the Body and Blood of Christ.

The church is men and women serving one another.”

“When we focus on men and women it is necessary to bring in their personalities, their temperaments, their moods, their foods, their habits, their mysteries, their traditions, their cultures. At this point, the universal church acquires a local face,” he said. “We bring who we are to the church.”

“The church becomes truly local . . . because we bring our gifts, our traditions, our individual values,” Bishop Tagle said. “Local churches need to be places of communion in a world where cultures usually clash,” he said.

People from a variety of cultures need to “gladly and generously offer their gifts. Without their offering of their gifts, then the local church is impoverished . . . .”

Filipino Catholics have much to give, he said.

Acknowledging that his list was not complete, the bishop cited four special gifts of his people: a person-oriented view of life, an unusually expansive emphasis on family, a deep spirit of devotion and the “culture of poverty.”

“Filipinos,” he said, “look at the world through the prism of human beings and human relationships,” a trait that shows itself in “our renowned Filipino hospitality.”

To a burst of laughter, he said, “We reserve the best of everything for our guests. Our children are starving but not the guests.”

“We know how to treat people gently,” Bishop Tagle said. “God doesn’t forget this. That is why God can be gentle with us . . . . This is good news in a world slowly moving into forgetfulness of human beings,” a world in which people are “transformed into objects, like commodities.”

“In every culture, the family is special,” he said, but for Filipinos it takes on an added dimension. “The family is our nuclear community, and how big that nuclear community is. It’s not just your parents and your siblings,” Bishop Tagle said, recalling that on his visit to San Francisco, people from his own province approach him as if he is a member of their family.

To an audience that included many immigrants, the bishop said, “We live for family, migrants especially.

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The afternoon Barrio Fiesta held at St. Mary's Cathedral began with traditional Filipino cultural dance presentations. Later, Father Editho Mascardo of the Diocese of Stockton took the opportunity to sing a song with audience members. Father then asked for audience participation to follow his dance movements as he introduced a song about the Lord. The results brought laughter, joy, and a standing ovation from the crowd.

Filipino presence and ministry come of age

By Patrick Joyce The impact of Filipinos on the Catholic Church in America has grown so much that ministry “to Filipinos” has been transformed into ministry “with Filipinos,” said Cecile Motus, ethnic coordinator for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, at a Filipino Centenary conference workshop at St. Mary’s Cathedral Sept. 13.

Over the past 100 years, the Filipino presence in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and throughout the United States has grown from a few single men, many of whom did not go to church, to 1.6 million Catholics who fill their parish churches, said Ms. Motus, who works in the bishops’ Office of Pastoral Care for Migrants and Refugees in Washington, D.C. There are approximately 100,000 Filipinos among the 450,000 Catholics in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Filipino ministry focuses on “culture and traditions and passing them on to the younger generation,” Ms. Motus said.

“We want to transmit not just our culture but our faith. We also want to share our gifts through Filipino ministry, not keep our gifts to ourselves. So we become givers as well as receivers in this country.”

“Unity among Filipinos means reaching out to establish connections and solidarity with each other,” she said, but the outreach should include others. “Enrich your culture.

Celebrate with Europeans, Hispanics, Asians and everyone else in the parish.”

Filipino ministry “gives us a chance to gather and grow in the faith, to strengthen the faith of families and to evangelize the inactive and the unchurched. Integration is a big challenge for immigrants. Some relax the practice of their faith and don’t go to church as often as they did. Some abandon their faith. If no one reaches out to them, they drift away.”

A family in Florida that joined a Baptist church is an example of this drift and of the way to reverse it, she

said. A Catholic Filipino reached out and told the family the diocese was having a Simbang Gab celebration, a Filipino pre-Christmas novena of Masses. The family went to the celebration and “returned to their Catholic roots as Filipinos,” she said.

There are now 1.8 million Filipinos in the United States, about 85 percent of them Catholics, Ms. Motus said, and unlike the single working men of a century ago, they are active in the church. “We bring the gift of our presence,” Ms. Motus said. “We fill the churches. We bring gifts of leadership and devotions.”

In parishes, Filipinos are filling a variety of ministries, as lectors and music ministers, and other Filipinos are proud to see them in these positions, she said.

In seemingly small ways, parishes need to adapt to Filipino culture, she said. “What will make Filipinos answer an invitation? Not just an announcement in a bulletin.

Filipinos say they need to be invited three times. You need to follow up personally at least with a phone call.”

On the national level, she said, “Bishops are growing more aware of the need for Filipino ministry and many dioceses and parishes are celebrating Filipino devotions including Simbang Gab.” “The first organized movement of Filipinos began in 1903. These were men to be trained in the United States to establish a government in the Philippines,” she said.

This migration followed the U.S. victory in the Spanish American War in 1898 and its taking control of the Philippines from Spain.

Even before this “first wave” of migration, Filipinos had settled in the United States. “The first migrants had worked on Spanish galleons in Mexico and jumped ship in 1763 because of the brutal treatment,” Ms. Motus said. “The descendants of these ‘Manila men’are still in Louisiana.”

Other Filipinos came to California in the 19th century while it was still part of Mexico, and in the early years of the

20th century, more came to Hawaii and California as farm workers and to Alaska to work in canneries.

“The first Filipino ministry helping these newcomers began in Stockton, then part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, 70 years ago.” Ms Motus said. “The first programs to help Filipino immigrants were housing and jobs and organizing workers. There was a lot of discrimination and prejudice against our people. The law prohibited Filipino men from marrying white women, and they could not earn property.”

The migrants were mostly single men who didn’t go to church, she said, with a ratio of men to women of 33 to one on the West Coast.

The second wave of migrants came following World War II when Filipinos who had served in the American Armed Forces during the war came here with their wives and children. With the coming of families, “Filipinos were now seen not only in church on Sunday but they became active in the church,” she said.

In 1965, immigration barriers were lowered and a third wave, including many professionals, arrived. The fourth wave came as immigration policies were changed to allow Filipinos living in the United States to be reunited with their families.

“Beyond the first 100 years, where do we put our effort?”

Ms. Motus asked. “Learn, live, share and celebrate, but before you give you must know what you are giving. Learn your faith, live your faith, share your faith with your children and the parish community. Share your Filipino culture with your children,” Ms. Motus told those attending the workshop.

“It’s OK to be Filipino. Sing Filipino songs at Mass. It need not be a Filipino Mass but you can include Filipino elements.”

Her ministry has been called “pastoral care for Filipinos” Ms. Motus said. “Now it is pastoral care with Filipinos. We are not a problem to be solved.”

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Ailing Filipino cardinal retires; Lipa archbishop to head Manila

By John Norton Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II accepted the resignation of Cardinal Jaime Sin, the ailing archbishop of Manila, Philippines, who reached retirement age of 75 at the end of August.

In a Sept. 15 statement, the Vatican also said the pope named 71-year-old Archbishop Gaudencio B. Rosales of Lipa as the new head of the Manila Archdiocese.

Cardinal Sin, the leading churchman in the Philippines for nearly 30 years, undergoes daily dialysis treatment for a kidney ailment and was hospitalized briefly in March following a minor stroke. At a Mass in late July, his voice was faint and he had to be supported by two priests to move around the altar.

Over the years, the cardinal was an outspoken commentator on public life in the Philippines, one of two majority-Catholic nations in Asia. He played a leading role in the 1986 “people power” movement that sent former President Ferdinand Marcos into exile.

Born Aug. 31, 1928, in New Wa s h i n g t o n , Philippines, he was ordained a priest at age 25. He was

Filipino . . .

■ Continued from page 18 You suffer on account of family . . . . It is for the family that many people are able to bear the loneliness and the suffering of being a migrant.”

Filipinos find self-esteem not in the workplace but in the family, he said. “The family is the source of our stability . . . . No amount of accomplishment can give a Filipino a sense of self, of security and self-confidence.

Self esteem comes from belongingness, the sense of being at home, being accepted.”

This approach to life is “good news” for a world obsessed with competition, Bishop Tagle said. Success in the world “does not give us happiness . . . Stability, self confidence comes from being rooted in family,” he said.

The Filipino gift of devotion, Bishop Tagle said, includes not only traditional religious devotions but also the kind of devotion he feels for his 30-year -old watch, a high school graduation gift from his parents.

named a bishop in 1967 and was appointed to head the Diocese of Jaro in 1972. Two years later, Pope Paul VI transferred him to the Archdiocese of Manila.

Cardinal Sin is one of five prelates worldwide who were named cardinals by Pope Paul and are still under 80, and thus eligible to vote in a papal conclave.

The new archbishop of Manila, Archbishop Rosales, served as a Manila auxiliary bishop from 1974 to 1982.

He has headed the Lipa Archdiocese for nearly 11 years and previously served for a decade as bishop in the Diocese of Malaybalay. He is president of the Commission for Clergy of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.

Archbishop Rosales was among initiators of a national seminary formation program that is currently being finalized by the seminaries commission, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. His clergy commission recently finalized ethical guidelines for the conduct of priests, earlier referred to as the protocol on priestly misconduct.

Archbishop Rosales will take control of an archdiocese much smaller than that headed by his predecessor, as five new dioceses have been split off from the Manila Archdiocese in the past year.

While even they encourage him to get a new one, the bishop refuses to replace the watch. “I am devoted to it . . . It is not just a wristwatch. Keeping it is my way of paying tribute to my parents who had so little money that they could not pay cash for the watch but had to buy it on credit.

“Devotion comes from the heart, we are devoted to God; we are devoted to family, to community. This is good news, because in our world of scientific objectivity, the heart is not listened to. We need to put the heart again into the world.”

Finally, the bishop said that the poverty of the Philippines enables its people to express gratitude and feel compassion in a way the affluent cannot.

“Gratitude is a wonderful trait of people who know they are poor. If you are rich, you are not grateful, because you think everything is a fruit of your labor . . . . If you are poor everything is a blessing. Every sunrise is a blessing. Every drop of rain on the parched earth is a blessing . . . Because we are poor we can be compassionate. It is easier for us to understand the sufferings of others.”

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Food & Fun 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. Acommemoration 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: Rummage Sale benefiting Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, 3255 Folsom St., SF, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the church hall.

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 (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: AKaleidoscope, 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 by Sept. 22 at (415) 706-5947.

Oct. 4: Harvest Fest benefiting St. Matthias Parish Pre-school, Canyon Rd. off Cordeleras, Redwood City from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. The arts and crafts fair features “20 local vendors who sell their wonderful and creative homemade items,” said Mary Ornellas, school director. “It’s a fun-filled day for the entire family.” Also featured are a bake booth, food booth, silent auction and raffle. Children’s game area and Cosmo Jump, too. Call (650) 367-1320.

Oct. 4, 5: Monet, Merlot and Music, a benefit art auction and wine tasting benefiting the charitable programs of the St. Pius Parish Women’s Club, 1100 Woodside Rd off Valota, Redwood City. Saturday event begins at 6:30 p.m. with fine wine and hors d’oeuvres and music from the Scott Foster Jazz Trio. Tickets $25.

Art auction, free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. with items including lithographs, oil paintings and more from Regency Fine Art. First time art buyers and seasoned collectors are encouraged to attend. Dayafter sale on Sunday from 9 a.m. – noon. “This promises to be a lively, fun event,” said Debra Thompson. Call (650) 361-1710.

Oct. 4: Rites commemorating feast of St. Francis of Assisi at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF including blessing of the animals and evening Jazz Mass featuring the Jazz Mass Ensemble of the Diocese of Monterey and the Gospel Choir of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, SF. Call (415) 567-2020.

Oct. 5: St. Peter’s Elementary School will celebrate its 125th anniversary as a Mission District landmark and legacy with a Mass of Thanksgiving at 2 p.m. followed by a reception. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester will preside, with St. Peter’s pastor, Father Fabio Medina concelebrating. Everyone invited. Call (415) 647-8662.

Oct. 10, 11, 12: Fiesta commemorating the 227th anniversary of San Francisco’s Mission Dolores. Begins Fri. at 6 p.m. and continues Sat. 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. and Sun. 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Silent auction, family-style spaghetti and chicken dinners, game booths, international food, and Mission Café Sports Bar in the school auditorium. Benefits Mission Dolores Elementary School. “It’s all for a great cause, so come out and join the fun,” the school said. Call (415) 621-8203.

Oct. 19: St. Thomas the Apostle continues celebrations of its 80 Years of Serving God and Community with a liturgy at 11 a.m. honoring those who entered the priesthood or religious life from the Richmond district parish. Couples married there will be honored Nov. 16th. The parish school, Religious Education program and Chinese School graduates will be remembered on

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Sept. 20: ADay of Prayer and Healing from Abuse with Jesuit Father Bernie Bush beginning at 9:30 a.m. and ending with Healing Liturgy at 3 p.m. Also includes conferences, meditation, quiet time. “May this day be one of love and healing for you as you are embraced by the love of your God and one another.” $15 fee/no one excluded who cannot afford this.

Contact Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506.

Mercy Center 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. For fees, times and other offerings, call (650) 340-7474 or www.mercy-center.org.

Oct. 2,3: Men’s Golf Retreat with pro Jeff Leavitt and experts in meditative prayer including Jesuit Father Tom Hand. Retreat is suitable for those at all levels of meditative experience including beginners.

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Capuchin Father John De La Riva, parochial vicar at Our Lady of Angels Parish, takes a whack at the “pinata mascot” of the Annual Fall Fiesta benefiting Our Lady of Angels School taking place Sept. 19 and 20 on the school campus at 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame. Holy Jalapeno!!! Celebrate with rompin’ rides, game booths, festive food, and mingling mariachis. It’s a “hand-clapping, feet-stomping weekend,” said publicity chair, Laura Elmore. Fri, 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat. 2 – 11 p.m.

Alumni night Friday features line dancing. Call (650) 343-9200.

Dec. 7. Parishioners and friends from then and now are invited. Call (415) 387-5545.

Oct. 19: Happy 50th birthday to auxiliary of Mt. St. Joseph – St. Elizabeth, SF. Big birthday party commemorates the occasion from 2 – 6 p.m.. Cocktails and bountiful hors d’oeuvres. $50 donation benefits the children and families of Mt. St. Joseph – St. Elizabeth. Call (415) 587-1439 or (415) 386-1135.

Prayer Opportunities/Lectures 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) 7176428 or (415) 614-5572. Use cemetery’s main gate and follow signs. Sponsored by Rachel Ministry of the Archdiocese and the Cemeteries Department.

Sept. 25 - Oct. 30: World Religions seminar with Philip Novak of Dominican University of California at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 3 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley. Thursdays at 7 p.m. Fee of $50 covers all presentations. Call (415) 388-4190.

Oct. 3: 1st Fri. Mass of the Sacred Heart at St. Cecilia Church, 17th Ave. and Vicente St., Sf with rosary at 7 p.m. and Mass at 7:30 p.m. Father Joe Landi will preside.

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.

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.

Social Justice/Family Life 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) 568-3018.

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) 2214269 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.

1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan.

Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

2nd Fri. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica. Call Deacon Peter Solan at (650) 359-6313.

2nd Fri. at 7:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., SF. Call Laura McClung at (415) 362-1075.

3rd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley. Call Dean Miller at (650) 631-2882.

1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Catherine Rondainaro at (415) 713-0225.

Single, Divorced, Separated Sept. 27: Gala Anniversary Dinner of Separated and Divorced Catholics ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco beginning at 6:30 p.m. at L’Olivier Restaurant, SF. Tickets $40 per person. Call Jack at (415) 566-4230.

Sundays, Oct 12 – Nov. 23: Divorce Recovery Course, 7 p.m., O’Reilly Parish Center, 451 Eucalyptus, San Francisco. $45 fee includes materials. “Provides a chance to understand the emotional journey begun with the loss of a marriage,” said Separated and Divorced ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco sponsor of the sessions. Call Susan at (415) 752-1308 or Vonnie at (650) 873-4236.

Oct. 24 - 26: Beginning Experience weekend at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Time is “designed to be a powerful, positive growth experience’ and help those suffering significant loss “move on to the future with renewed hope.” Call Nicole at (408) 578-5654, Alan at (415) 584-2861 or Ward at (415) 821-3390.

Nov. 15: San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester will preside at a Mass of Thanksgiving at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Mill Valley at 1 p.m.

Pot luck reception follows. Call Pat Harder at (415) 492-3331.

Separated and Divorced support groups meet 3rd Sat. at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, call Pat at (415) 492-3331; and 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452.

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By Jayme George Paramount and MTV Films have teamed up to give audiences their answer to the gun-toting, action-packed bombs that stunk up the theatres this summer— a little family fun called “The Fighting Temptations” starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyonce Knowles.

The film centers on Gooding as Darrin Hill, a junior advertising executive with money and career problems galore, who is faced with the challenge of leading his homet o w n ’s gospel choir to contest winning stardom.

Not so subtle comparisons are made early on between Darrin and F. Scott F i t z g e r a l d ’s Jay G a t s b y, both are men from humble beginnings who have lied and cheated their way to success.

Both the film and Gooding’s character are supported by a flimsy plot line that has played itself out in a million different ways before it got to this movie. Darrin is driven by money and the attractive Knowles, as the outcast single mother, to turn the group of unlikely misfits into a spectacular gospel choir. Conveniently the movie skips over any kind of explanation of how a man with no musical experience could accomplish such a feat.

In the meantime, the film gives the audience the feeling that they are watching an

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Director Jonathan Lynn clearly wants the movie to have important moral messages such as “be true to who you are” and “find value in people, not in material things.” So to convey these messages he practically bludgeons the audience over the head with them.

Fortunately for Darrin, no real hardships befall him on the way to discovering these important lessons.

Because this is a family film, Darrin will not meet the same end as his role model, the doomed Jay Gatsby. In the end, all the cheating, lying, and criminal charges are totally forgotten to make way for much cheerier things. There will be weddings and babies and prizes! People who used to hate each other will suddenly share warm smiles. The only way there could be more love in this film is if the Care BearsTM came down to sing a song about candy-flavored kisses.

Perhaps the only redeeming quality in this film is the appearance of Gospel and R&B stars such as Faith Evans, Melba Moore, and the O’Jays in some toe-tapping musical numbers. But overall, this film earns an unsatisfactory C-.

This film is rated PG-13 for mild profanity and suggestive sexual remarks.

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By Evelyn Zappia “Africa is in a terrible state. Almost every country has some sort of conflict or horrible war. Once you visit the people and listen to their stories the issues become a matter of urgency,” said George Wesolek, director of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

This sad observation was made following Mr. Wesolek’s return from a 14-day trip to Uganda and Tanzania – July 28 to Aug. 11.

Accompanying Mr. Wesolek on the journey to Africa were Father John Jimenez, Parochial Vicar at San Francisco’s Church of the Visitation, Deacon Sal Alvarez of the Diocese of San Jose’s Human Rights Commission, Sister of St. Therese Godbertha Muganda of Tanzania, and Sudanese Advocate Silvestro Bakhiet.

“The five-member delegation was part of our response to the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ December 2002 statement titled, A Call to Solidarity with Africa,” said Mr. Wesolek.

In that document, the U.S. Bishops state: “We stand in solidarity with the Church and the peoples of Africa, to recognize and support their courageous commitment to peace, justice and reconciliation. We encourage the Catholic community in the United States to contribute its diverse talents and gifts to the continent’s causes of justice, peace and integral development.”

Another reason for the strong interest in visiting Africa, Mr. Wesolek said, was the plea for help to the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns from the many Africans living in the Archdiocese.

In response to these appeals, the Archdiocese of San Francisco organized “African Voices,” an event held at Holy Name Church San Francisco in June. The event brought together local Africans and gave them an opportunity to be the voices for their people and explain the issues that are plaguing their people.

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George Wesolek, director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns visits with youth in Tanzania orphaned by the African AIDS epidemic. The youth are cared for by the Sisters of Saint Therese of the Little Flower, an all-African religious order.

Celebrating 100 years Filipino gifts of faith, family and celebration

By Patrick Joyce Filipino Catholics celebrating one hundred years in the Archdiocese of San Francisco responded enthusiastically to a call to use their unique gifts to help create a multicultural church in “a world increasingly divided politically, economically, culturally.”

“We are asked to be signs, instruments of communion . . . to show the world that communities are able to live in harmony and peace,” Bishop Luis Antonio Tagle told several hundred people attending the celebration of “A Journey of Faith: 100 Years of Filipino Presence” at St. Mary’s Cathedral Sept. 13.

In welcoming people to the daylong session of speakers, workshops, prayer and liturgy, San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada spoke of Filipino contributions: “their faith, their deep devotion to the church and our Blessed Mother, their sense of family and of celebration ... I rejoice with all of you that God has given us the grace to build up the Body of Christ, the church. Your gifts are gifts that our society and our church need.”

Bishop Tagle, head of the Diocese of Imus, Cavite, in the Philippines and a member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission, mixed theological insights with personal stories.

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INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION News in Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Pro-life talk at St. Mary’s. . . . 7 Senior Living. . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9 Women Chancellors. . . . . . . . 8 St. Anne’s Home . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Pope, physically fading, crisscrosses Slovakia with message of hope new identity the contribution of your rich Christian tradition,” he said. The pope, who suffers from a neurological disease believed to be Parkinson’s, was able to pronounce only a few lines of the text himself, and a Slovak priest read the rest.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (CNS) — On a trip that taxed his “Do not be satisfied with the sole quest for economic fading physical powers, Pope John Paul II crisscrossed Slovakia advantages. Great affluence in fact can also generate great to celebrate liturgies, beatify two 20th-century martyrs and offer poverty,” the pope said. people inside and outside the church a message of hope.

In a veiled reference to a recent legislative battle over He had trouble delivering that message personally, howevabortion, the pope asked Slovakia to respect “human life in er. Weakened by infirmity, he had to let others read long secall its expressions.” tions of his prepared speeches and homilies during the Sept.

After meeting with civil authorities, the pope rode a 11-14 visit. He could not stand or walk, and his difficulties left popemobile 30 miles past well-wishers and roadside many wondering if the pope would continue to travel. shrines to visit a cathedral in the ancient city of Trnava.

The centerpiece of the pope’s visit was a closing Mass The pope traveled to Slovakia’s heartland Sept. 12, celebratin Bratislava to beatify Bishop Vasyl Hopko and Sister ing Mass in the packed main square of Banska Bystrica. In a serZdenka Schelingova, both of whom died after suffering mon, he urged the country’s Catholics to preserve the institution years of prison and torture from communist authorities. of marriage and family values in their rapidly changing society.

Assisted at every turn and wheeled on a mobile throne, When his first words in Slovakian rang out in a strong the 83-year-old pontiff celebrated the liturgy before an estiPope John Paul II grimaces as he attempts to voice, the crowd broke into smiles and applause. mated 100,000 people in the city’s Petrzalka suburb, read his homily at an outdoor Mass Sept. 13 in “Parents must educate their children to a correct freedom, so planned decades ago as a model — and churchless — Roznava, Slovakia. The pontiff's four-day trip to as to prepare them to respond properly to God’s call. The family neighborhood by the communist regime.

Slovakia taxed his fading physical strength. is the nursery where the little plants, the new generations, are In a sermon read in part by Slovak Cardinal Jozef nurtured. In the family the future of the nation is forged,” he said.

Tomko, the pope said Bishop Hopko and Sister At a Mass in the farming center of Roznava in eastern Schelingova had demonstrated that suffering for the love of her interrogation, she was hung naked and beaten repeatSlovakia Sept. 13, the issue of abortion took on a human Christ, even to the point of martyrdom, can ultimately lead edly, then doused with cold water.

Sentenced to 12 years in prison, she was released after three face. Presented as an offertory gift during the liturgy were to new strength and hope. twin 3-year-old girls who were born conjoined at the waist “Both shine before us as radiant examples of faithfulness years because she had cancer and died a few months later.

The pope said that by promoting the two on the way to and successfully separated a few months after birth. in times of harsh and ruthless religious persecution,” he said.

Carrying dolls and holding onto their mother’s hand, “Both faced up to an unjust trial and an ignoble condemna- sainthood he wanted to remind Slovakians young and old Lucia and Andrejka Tothova walked up the altar steps for a tion, to torture, humiliation, solitude, death. And so the cross of how the faith withstood the test of persecution.

“I thank God because you have been able to safeguard, blessing and a paternal pat on the cheek from the pope. became for them the way that led them to life, a source of foreven in difficult times, your fidelity to Christ and to his church.

In spotlighting Lucia and Andrejka, local church leaders titude and hope, a proof of love for God and man,” he said.

As the stories of the newly beatified were read aloud, And I exhort you: Never be ashamed of the Gospel,” he said. stressed the joy their mother would have missed if the girls Among the many young people attending the Mass, sev- had been aborted. Proposed legislation in Slovakia would the crowd listened in attentive silence, standing shoulder to eral said the beatification had brought the martyrs’story to extend the time of legal abortion to the 24th week of pregshoulder against a chilly wind. nancy in cases of serious birth defects.

Blessed Hopko, an Eastern Catholic bishop stubbornly their attention for the first time.

“People like this are an inspiration to us. It is an imporIn a sermon addressed to some 100,000 people assemloyal to the Vatican and uncompromising with the regime, was condemned on charges of subversion and spent 13 tant event, because there is a risk of forgetting the suffer- bled on a hillside on the edge of Roznava, the pope years in prison. He was released in 1964 but continued to ing. Life is easier now,” said 25-year-old Martina preached a simple message, without specifically mentionRadvanyi, who stood with her husband on the edge of the ing abortion. He quoted a local proverb: “Words admonish, suffer the physical and mental effects of his ordeal. examples move,” and said this was the key to living one’s After his death in 1976, medical tests revealed that his vast urban park that hosted the liturgy.

When he arrived in Bratislava Sept. 11, the pope said it faith as a disciple of Christ and an apostle of the Gospel. bones held concentrations of arsenic more than 100,000 Before leaving the country Sept. 14, he offered equally times normal, leading church leaders to conclude he had was important for Slovakia to preserve its Christian heritage and to make religious values felt throughout the continent simple counsel for young people. Saying they were the been slowly poisoned during his ordeal in prison. hope of the country and the “hope of the pope,” he asked Blessed Schelingova was arrested after she helped a when the country joins the European Union next year.

“Dearly beloved, bring to the construction of Europe’s them not to be afraid to become “true friends of Jesus.” priest beaten by authorities escape from a hospital. During

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Hate behind Sept. 11 terror shouldn’t make others hate NEW YORK (CNS) — Cardinal Edward M. Egan of New York said Sept. 11 that the hate of those who destroyed the World Trade Center must not be allowed to make haters out of those who mourned the lives lost there. Celebrating Mass at St. Peter’s Church, the Catholic church near ground zero, the cardinal said those gathered for the service looked for “justice for all guilty of this crime.” But he said they were remembering the loss of life that occurred two years ago “without hate or vindictiveness that might drag us down to the level of those who attacked this city.” Cardinal Egan connected the anniversary of the World Trade Center deaths with the commemoration in the Mass of the death of Christ. Christ accepted his death “without rancor or schemes of vengeance,” and participants in the Mass were called to relive the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, in the same spirit, the cardinal said.

Religious groups urge court to end state school-choice barriers WASHINGTON (CNS) — A college student should not be denied a state scholarship fund simply because he wanted to pursue a theology program, according to a brief filed at the U.S. Supreme Court by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “(The) government may not deny or condition the receipt of a benefit or privilege provided by the state to an individual, in a way that infringes upon an individual’s religious liberty,” said the brief, filed Sept. 8 in the case of Locke vs. Davey, which the court will hear this term. The “amicus,” or friend-of-the-court, brief filed by the USCCB, argues that it is both unconstitutional and religious discrimination to deprive state scholarships to college students who plan to pursue religious studies. The case involves a Washington state theology student, Joshua Davey, who was denied use of an awarded state-funded scholarship in 1999 because he planned to use it to study pastoral ministries and business management at Northwest College, a school affiliated with the Assemblies of God. The state of Washington told Davey he was denied the use of scholarship funds because state law prohibits students who are pursuing degrees in theology from receiving state-funded student financial aid.

Contemplation, social justice both said essential to Catholic college NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (CNS) — A college cannot be called Catholic unless it has “a contemplative side and a social justice dimension,” according to the secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education. Archbishop Giuseppe Pittau, an Italian named to the post in 1998 after an educational career that included many years in Japan, said in a homily Sept. 14 that the two essential aspects of Catholic education must be expressed explicitly by both faculty and students. A Catholic college must first of all maintain the “vertical dimension” of emphasizing “contact with God,” he said. Connected with that, he said, must be the recognition that “to serve is an essential part of being Christian.”

Archbishop Pittau was celebrant and homilist for a Mass that inaugurated a yearlong celebration of the centennial of the College of New Rochelle. Founded by Ursuline Mother

Students, faculty and staff of The Catholic University of America pray during Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Sept. 11. The students gathered for prayer in the afternoon of the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed more than 2,800 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, much like they had the afternoon of the fateful day in 2001.

Irene Gill in 1904, it was the first Catholic college for women in New York state, and its Web site says it is today the “largest Catholic college for women in the country.”

pus.” Each of Girls and Boys Town’s four executive directors have been priests of the Omaha Archdiocese, including the current executive director, Father Val Peter, 68. Father Peter doubles as pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish on the campus, and a retired Omaha archdiocesan priest is in residence at the parish. A Girls and Boys Town statement from John Gillin, the new board chairman, said Archbishop Curtiss had threatened WASHINGTON (CNS) — Ten women, including actresses in writing to resign from the board of trustees if a series Jennifer O’Neill and Melba Moore, stood in front of the U.S. of bylaws changes were not made. Gillin did not speciSupreme Court Sept. 10 to urge women who are thinking about fy the changes in his statement, but said “in essence, the having an abortion to reconsider. All 10 women had undergone archbishop wanted to take virtually complete control of an abortion — some of them multiple abortions — and testified the board, significantly reducing the role and responsito their post-abortion regrets. The women’s appearance was bility of other board members.” part of a new campaign, Silent No More Awareness, to help women with post-abortion healing. The campaign also asks pastors to conduct services in their churches to promote healing for women who have had abortions. The campaign is jointly OTTAWA (CNS) — Canadian bishops have ur ged sponsored by the Catholic organization Priests for Life and the stepped-up lobbying efforts by those opposing a new National Organization of Episcopalians for Life, known as law that would allow same-sex marriages. In a message NOEL. There is a Web site, http://www.silentnomoreaware- released at a news conference in Montreal Sept. 10, the ness.org, with information on the campaign, as well as a toll- bishops said, “Society needs to think long and deeply free telephone number, (800) 395-4357, to help women in cri- before going down this unknown and troubling road.” sis pregnancies. The toll-free line is operated by the National The letter was signed by Bishop Jacques Berthelet of Network of Pregnancy Centers and refers people in crisis preg- Saint-Jean-Longueuil, Quebec, president of the nancies to a pregnancy center near them.

Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Cardinals Jean-Claude Turcotte of Montreal and Aloysius Ambrozic of Toronto. The cardinals are members of the bishops’ Permanent Council. In Canada in July, after court rulings that the traditional definition of marriage breaches the equality provision of the constiOMAHA, Neb. (CNS) — Archbishop Elden F. tution, the federal government referred a proposal to the Curtiss of Omaha has resigned as the chairman of the court to redefine marriage as “the lawful union of two board of Girls and Boys Town. A statement issued from persons to the exclusion of all others.” The Canadian Archbishop Curtiss’ office Sept. 5 said the archdiocese bishops said, “This proposal has resulted in unprece“will not assume the responsibility in the future of pro- dented controversy as it concerns a fundamental social viding one of its priests for the traditional role of exec- and religious institution to which people have profound utive director, the pastor of Immaculate Conception attachment.”

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Vatican works to influence cloning debate at United Nations

Church officials not pleased with outcome of trade meeting

NEW YORK (CNS) — The Vatican is engaged in a major effort to influence a debate on human cloning scheduled to take place during this fall’s meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. A U.N. working group exploring proposals to write an international convention on cloning will meet Sept. 29-Oct. 3, and possibly seek General Assembly authorization to move ahead with drafting a convention or some other legal instrument. Most governments favor a ban on reproductive cloning, but the key issue is whether international law should go further to rule out, as the Vatican advocates, all forms of human cloning.

Opponents of a total ban argue that cloning for biomedical research could lead to cures for diseases which currently are incurable and that so-called “therapeutic” cloning should be allowed. Some countries, France and Germany prominent among them, say a ban on reproductive cloning could be enacted quickly, and so should be undertaken first, with further steps left till later.

BHUBANESWAR, India (CNS) — The conviction of the murderers of an Australian missionary and his two sons in India was a sign that “a sense of justice and fairness is still prevalent in the country,” said a spokesman for the Indian bishops. Divine Word Father Babu Joseph, spokesman for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, said the court has done justice in a case that attracted international attention, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

He said the long-awaited verdict would send “a signal” that the law and justice will prevail. On Sept. 15 an Indian court convicted 13 people in the 1999 murder of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two sons. Staines and his sons, Philip, 9, and T imothy, 7, were burned to death in their vehicle after being attacked by a group of suspected Hindu militants. Judge Mahendranath Patnaik found Ravindra Kumar Pal and 12 others guilty of the crime. One man was acquitted for lack of evidence. Sentencing was scheduled for Sept.

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tion that would extend the time of legal abortion to the 24th week of pregnancy in cases of serious birth defects. In spotlighting Lucia and Andrejka, church leaders stressed the joy their mother would have missed if the girls had been aborted.

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MEXICO CITY (CNS) — Church officials and Catholic groups said the collapse of international trade talks amid a rift between rich and poor countries was a “lost opportunity.”

“Trade is an important tool to help solve poverty,” said Paul Cliche, a delegate to the meetings from the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace. The World Trade Organization’s fifth ministerial conference, held in Cancun, Mexico, ended Sept. 14 without any agreement.

Developed nations refused to make substantial reductions in agricultural subsidies, and developing nations refused to accept new rules on foreign investment. Farmers in poor countries said they cannot compete with food imports from the United States and European Union, where governments give producers billions of dollars of subsidies each year.

Representatives from the Holy See had urged delegates to take action to help struggling farmers across the world.

Accused Geoghan killer explains motive in letter to Catholic paper WORCESTER, Mass. (CNS) — In a letter to the Worcester diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Free Press, the man accused of the Aug. 23 slaying of John J. Geoghan at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley claimed the killing was meant to show the world that child predators must be dealt with more stringently. The letter writer, who identified himself as Joseph L. Druce, said the sex offenders he has spoken to in prison never showed remorse, “only gloating and reminissing over past victims.

That was my motivation.” The letter included numerous misspellings and other errors. The writer also expressed his ROZNAVA, Slovakia (CNS) — Throughout Pope John sorrow and sent his “sincere and heartfelt apology” to Paul II’s four-day trip to Slovakia, the debate over abortion simmered in the background. But at a papal Mass in the farm- Catherine Geoghan, sister of the deceased, for her loss, ing town of Roznava, the issue took on a human face. although he said “she’ll probley not forgive me.” To mail Presented as an offertory gift at the Sept. 13 liturgy were twin correspondence from the correctional center, a prisoner 3-year-old girls who were born conjoined at the waist and suc- must give the letter to a corrections officer, who verifies cessfully separated a few months after birth. Carrying dolls that the name on the letter is the same as that of the prisonand holding onto their mother’s hand, Lucia and Andrejka er handing in the letter for mailing, according to Justin L. Tothova walked up the altar steps for a blessing and a paternal Latini, director of public affairs for the Massachusetts pat on the cheek from the pope. The unusual gesture at the Department of Correction. nationally televised Mass was the local church’s way of personalizing the abortion debate in Slovakia, where action is pending on legislaMelita Tothova walks with her 3-year-old twin daughters, Lucia and Andrejka, after greeting Pope John Paul II during Mass Sept. 13 in Roznava, Slovakia. The girls, born conjoined at the waist, were successfully separated a few months after birth.

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Cardinal urges Senate to move partial-birth abortion ban to president

By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Six months after the Senate approved the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act by a 64-33 vote, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities urged senators to move the legislation on to President Bush by eliminating what he called an “extraneous” provision in support of Roe vs. Wade.

Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, who resigned in July as archbishop of Philadelphia, said the “sense of the Senate” provision added as an amendment to the bill was “the one remaining obstacle to enactment of this much-needed legislation.”

Proposed by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the amendment states that the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe vs.

Wade decision “was appropriate and secures an important constitutional right” and “should not be overturned.”

“The fact that this provision is opposed by many members of Congress and the president, and has already delayed final passage of this widely supported legislation, is reason enough to remove it,” Cardinal Bevilacqua wrote in a Sept. 12 letter to the senators.

“More importantly, central claims in the resolution are question-begging and false, even in the eyes of

Sept. 21 TV program features spirituality theme Becoming more deeply aware of God in us; exploring the idea that full human development cannot take place without a vital relationship with God; and looking at practical ways to strengthen our spirituality — are some of the topics in a lively conversation between Mercy Sister Marguerite Buchanan and host Maury Healy on the “For Heaven’s Sake” TV program, which airs Sunday, Sept. 21 at 6:30 a.m. on KRON-Channel 4.

judges and legal scholars who favor the public policy created by Roe,” he added.

The Harkin amendment is the only diff e r e n c e between the Senate version of the legislation and the version passed by the House June 4 by a 282-139 margin.

Usually differences are resolved in conference committee, but some senators have demanded further debate and a separate vote on sending the bill to conference committee.

“Some senators’ insistence on this amendment is but the latest indication of a hardening of their hearts and minds on the most controversial and unwarranted Supreme Court decision in recent memory,” Cardinal Bevilacqua said in his letter.

He said most Americans and 30 state legislatures support ending the partial-birth abortion procedure, but they have been thwarted by court decisions permitting such abortions.

“In a representative democracy, our elected representatives in Congress cannot ignore these developments indefinitely,” the cardinal wrote. “Here and now, they should not continue to delay a long-awaited ban on the brutal killing of children emerging from the womb, by insisting on an endorsement of the very court deci-

sion that has led some in our society to practice and defend such killing.”

As defined in the legislation, a partial-birth abortion is any abortion in which the baby is delivered “past the navel ... outside the body of the mother” before being killed. The bill allows partial-birth abortions when necessary to save the mother’s life.

The Senate was to begin debate Sept. 15 on whether to omit the amendment or send the bill to conference committee. If the amendment is deleted in conference committee, both the House and Senate must again vote on the legislation before it is sent to the president.

“President Bush, 70 percent of the public, and four Supreme Court justices say there is no constitutional right to deliver most of a living baby and then puncture her head with a scissors,” said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, in a statement.

“But in the Stenberg vs. Carhart ruling in 2000, five Supreme Court justices said that Roe vs. Wade guarantees an abortionist’s right to perform a partial-birth abortion whenever he chooses,” he added. “We hope that by the time this ban reaches the Supreme Court, at least five justices will be willing to reject such extremism in defense of abortion.”

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Bishop’s spokeswoman on life speaks at Saint Mary’s

By Jack Smith Cathleen Cleaver, the U.S. bishops spokesperson on pro-life issues, discussed progress and challenges in the struggle against abortion during the Annual Public Policy Breakfast at Saint Mary’s Cathedral on September 4. More than 100 Catholic lay leaders, religious and priests attended the meeting and breakfast sponsored by Archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concern.

Director of the office, George Wesolek, said the gathering is an opportunity to bring Catholic leadership together to talk about advocacy and public policy from a Catholic perspective. “It is incumbent upon Catholics to be in the public square, to work for good things, to work for justice, to work for peace and work for the unborn,” he said.

In introducing the abortion topic, Wesolek called it “the preeminent social justice issue of our time.” He also thanked Archbishop William J. Levada for his “leadership and support of work in Catholic social teaching.”

Archbishop Levada thanked the diverse group of leaders for attending including representatives from Catholic Charities whom he called “the Church’s feet on the ground” reaching out to serve the needs of the poor and those who are in need of care and outreach. He reflected that in Catholic teaching “implementing the vision of Christ and the sermon on the mount does not allow us to be strangers to any need; to any human value.” The Archbishop led prayer and asked God to “guide our efforts to promote the sanctity of human life.”

The keynote speaker, Cathleen Cleaver, began by relating the stories of Norma McCorvey and Bernard Nathanson, which, she said, demonstrate the cracks developing in the foundation of the U.S. abortion movement.

Norma McCorvey was pregnant for the third time in 1969. Poor and unmarried, she sought help from two lawyers in Texas, falsely telling them that she was pregnant because of rape. The lawyers suggested they could help her get an abortion which was illegal in Texas at that time.

Before her case was settled, McCorvey had her child and put it up for adoption. “It was years later, sitting at her dining room table, listening to the news, that she heard her case announced by the U.S. Supreme Court,” Ms. Cleaver said.

Roe v. Wade had now made abortion legal in all fifty states.

McCorvey, identified as Jane Roe in the case, felt “overwhelmed . . . she didn’t think her case was going to be a cause,” Ms. Cleaver said. Depressed, suffering from drug and alcohol addiction and after attempting suicide, McCorvey decided to “give in to her celebrity,” as the woman behind Roe and began working at an abortion clinic.

McCorvey had no medical training and she performed various jobs at the clinic. Cleaver said McCorvey refused, however, “to lie to the women, even though she was asked to, or to handle the tissue” from abortions assembled in a

Ms. Cleaver said these are stories the abortion lobby does not want Americans to hear. “The very foundation of the prochoice movement really are these two people and that foundation has begun to crack. These two people not only became pro-life, but they’ve both become Catholic,” she said.

Ms. Cleaver also spoke of other positive recent developments. She said there has been a dramatic change in the way people view abortion. “The humanity of the child is something people understand today in ways they did not 20 years ago,” she said. This is largely due to the popularity of new technologies allowing people to view the child in utero.

Fewer abortions are occurring, “1.3 million currently, versus 1.6 million in the early 1990s.” More people identify as pro-life, despite the perversion of the word by the media, she said.

People identifying themselves as pro-choice or pro-life are evenly split at 46 per cent, she said, versus 60 percent prochoice and 33 per cent pro-life a few years ago.

Younger people are becoming decidedly more pro-life, she said. According to a 2001 Gallup poll, 18-29 year olds are more pro-life than any other age demographic aside Cathleen Cleaver from over 65. This is reflected in memberships of activist back room and stored in a freezer for later pick up. organizations, where pro-choice groups are rapidly aging After a while, McCorvey began to realize “how degrading and the reverse is true of pro-life groups. abortion was to women,” Cleaver said. She saw the money The biggest success is the passage this year of the Partial going straight to the doctors pockets and the exploitation of Birth Abortion Ban by congress. Ms. Cleaver said that while women. McCorvey was quoted saying “You see the body other legislative victories only affected the margins of the parts, you see the women’s cries and you can’t keep lying to debate, this act “will be the first restriction of an abortion proyourself.” McCorvey is now opposed to abortion and has cedure in 30 years,” when it is signed by the President Bush. founded the pro-life organization, Roe No More.

The balance of politics continues to change as well, with In the 1960s, two men, Larry Laden and Dr. Bernard 34 of 50 new house members in the last election being proNathanson, founded the National Alliance to Repeal life, five of seven new female members pro-life and eleven Abortion Laws, later the National Abortion Rights Action of fifteen new Catholic members prolife.

League (NARAL). Laden “was motivated by fears of popThere are great challenges despite this success, howevulation growth,” Cleaver said. Dr. Nathanson was the er, she said. “People understand the humanity of the child . director of the New York City Center for Reproductive . . so what gives?” The greatest remaining problem is that Sexual Health. Abortion was legal in New York at the time “our country has swallowed the false notion that abortion and Nathanson ran the world’s largest abortion clinic. is good for women,” she said.

During his tenure, Nathanson presided over 60,000 aborThe abortion movement has trumpeted the slogan protions, including the abortion of his own child, Cleaver said. choice, “but in reality, women choose abortion as a last It was Nathanson who convinced leaders of the feminist resort.” Family, friends, and society line up against women movement to make abortion a women’s issue. When Betty and support no other options, she said. “This is a serious abanFriedan wrote “The Feminine Mystique,” abortion was not donment of a woman in a time of her greatest need, and if we included. “Abortion was not part of the program,” Cleaver abandon her, she abandons her child. That’s how it works. said. Nathanson convinced Friedan and others that in order to “Pro-choice is a lie because so many women have an aborachieve career advancement and pay equity, “you have got to tion because they feel they have no other choice,” she said. remove from your employers certain problems,” Cleaver As an alternative, she said we must truly respond to Pope explained. “Nathanson told them, ‘You have got to control John Paul II’s call to live in “radical solidarity” with a woman in your fertility if you are going to be equal with men in the work- need. Giving a woman $500 and turning your back and leaving place’,” Cleaver said. Nathanson and Laden also coined the her with the repercussions is not radical solidarity, Cleaver said. tremendously successful “pro-choice” slogan, Cleaver said.

She suggested truly living and acting as if “women Nathanson turned against abortion in the late 1970s and deserve better” than abortion, by truly helping in crisis and is now a well known pro-life advocate. being in “radical solidarity.”

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Women chancellors changing dynamics of church leadership

By Jason Pierce Catholic News Service DALLAS (CNS) — The offices of church leadership are still a mostly male domain, but they’re gradually becoming less so, according to statistics compiled by the Texas Catholic, newspaper of the Dallas Diocese.

Women hold top posts in almost one-fourth of the 205 Catholic archdioceses and dioceses in the United States.

Fifty women are chancellors, the highest “ecclesiastical” — or decision-making — office a layperson can hold in the church. This position is variously ranked second or third in authority after the bishop in a diocese.

Under church law, each diocese must have a bishop, a vicar general and judicial vicar, all of whom must be priests; as well as a chancellor and a chief financial officer, both of whom may be lay people. The number of top officials in a diocese depends on the size of the diocese.

The number of women who are chancellors increased almost 66 percent from 10 years ago, according to the 2003 Official Catholic Directory.

The office of chancellor evolved from the practice in the early church of appointing an official to sign and preserve the letters of the bishop. Today, that job consists of “gathering, arranging and safeguarding the acts of the diocesan curia.”

However, over the last century, bishops have come to rely on their chancellors to make administrative decisions on their behalf, rather than serve simply as record-keepers.

According to data from the most current directory, out of 205 U.S. dioceses, 50 have women with the title of “chancellor.” Of those 50 women, 28 are religious sisters.

(Nuns and religious brothers are considered lay people.)

Also, 26 dioceses have women who hold the title of “vice chancellor” or “assistant chancellor.”

Laymen are the chancellors in 13 dioceses, and priests serve the 142 other dioceses. In 1993, there were 31 women chancellors in the 201 dioceses and archdioceses in the United States. Only six were not religious.

Linda Bearie has served as chancellor of the Diocese of San Jose since 1996.

Among the larger dioceses with women chancellors are Dallas; Rockville Centre, N.Y.; Orange, Calif.; and San Bernardino, Calif. The Archdiocese of Newark, N.J., and the Diocese of Oakland also have women chancellors.

Sheila Garcia, assistant director of the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that until 1983 only clerics were allowed to hold “ecclesiastical office.” That year, the Vatican decided to allow women to hold those positions, notably in tribunal offices and administration, including chancellor,

often second only to the bishop in the hierarchy of a diocese.

She said an increasing interest among the laity in working for the church has created a pool of potential lay candidates for ecclesiastical jobs. Many are people with backgrounds in law, accounting or other professions who come to work for the church as a second career.

“We have a lot of lay people who are in that situation,” she said. “To the bishops’ credit, they recognize this, and we see bishops taking advantage of this.”

Mary Edlund, chancellor of the Diocese of Dallas, was one of those people. In 1979, Edlund left her career as a microbiologist and came to work for the church. After serving in several posts for the Dallas Diocese — including associate director of religious education, director of pastoral planning and vice chancellor — she was appointed chancellor in 1998.

Christine Taylor, chancellor of the Seattle Archdiocese, said the women chancellors are highly professional and bring fresh perspectives to the job.

“If you expect women to bring a touchy-feely side to this type of position, you’ll be disappointed, because I don’t think they bring that at all,” she said. “They bring a different way of looking at the situation and they find more creative ways to deal with it.”

Their style of management “is not more pastoral, conservative or more linear; it’s just different,” she said. “You add this kind of ‘let’s try this instead’attitude.”

Different operational styles make for better managed dioceses, Edlund said.

Linda Bearie, chancellor of the Diocese of San Jose, Calif., said the relational management style is nothing new to the church, but it is forgotten.

“I think that the church is more relational than hierarchical. That’s how I operate as chancellor — it’s not heavyhanded, it’s not hierarchical, it’s not ‘you’re going to do this because I say,’” Bearie said.

Women tend to be more process-oriented and collaborative in their styles, she said. “One is not better than the other. It is simply a different way of approaching it.”

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Prayer service at Catholic church marks opening of U.N. session

By Tracy Early Catholic News Service NEW YORK (CNS) — The annual prayer service at Holy Family Church in New York before the opening of the U.N. General Assembly was marked this year by expressions of concern for losses in the terrorist attack on U.N. offices in Baghdad.

Held Sept. 15 at the Catholic church whose parish territory includes the U.N. area, the service drew members of the U.N. staff, representatives of governmental missions to the United Nations and others with a special interest in U.N. affairs, as well as Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish clergy.

The Baghdad incident, which occurred Aug. 19, took the lives of 22 U.N. personnel, including Sergio Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian who in June had taken a leave from his post as the Geneva-based U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to head the U.N. mission in postwar Iraq.

Cardinal Edward M. Egan expressed “heartfelt sympathy” to U.N. leaders in the congregation still mourning the deaths brought by “the horror of Aug. 19.”

Delivering a meditation focused primarily on the prophet Micah’s vision of a time when swords would be turned into plowshares, the cardinal condemned the killing of U.N. workers who were devoting their lives to the realization of that vision.

In welcoming participants to the church, Father Robert J. Robbins, pastor, noted that in the Catholic calendar the day was the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, and said the experience of Mary in seeing her son killed by senseless violence had been shared by “mothers of Israel and mothers of Palestine.”

“The members of the United Nations family shared in this experience most recently in Baghdad,” he said, adding that those “sent to work for peace and reconstruction” became victims of senseless violence.

Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s U.N. nuncio, who co-sponsored the service with Cardinal Egan, also called in his remarks for remembrance of the U.N. victims in Baghdad.

“We entrust them into the hands of a loving God, and pray that the peace for which they lived, worked and died may soon be realized,” the nuncio said.

In a brief response at the conclusion of the service, Annan referred to the Baghdad attack as “a blow so brutal and barbaric that we are still struggling to comprehend it.”

“Colleagues, who were in Iraq with no other mission than to help its people build a better future, were taken

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from us, from their families and from the people they were working to assist,” he said.

The secretary-general said the loss was “almost impossible to take in,” and that “many of us” would remember this Aug. 19 as “the darkest day in our lives at the United Nations.”

As in previous years at the service, Annan, a native of Ghana who is from a Protestant background, asked members of the congregation to pray for the United Nations, for “our lost colleagues” and “for the rest of us that we may find the right way forward.”

“I ask you to pray for Iraq and for the whole family of nations, that their people be allowed to live in dignity, freedom, justice and peace,” he said.

Cardinal Egan began his remarks by declaring that “the United Nations has come to mean more to us in the last few years than any of us may ever have imagined.”

Calling it “a treasure,” he said that “we must embrace it and support it, and we must pray for it and its work as we are doing this evening.”

As in previous years, the nuncio read a statement from Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, conveying the greetings of Pope John Paul II and his prayers for “the divine blessings of wisdom, joy and strength” to be U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, with wife Nane, given to members of the General Assembly. attends a prayer service at Holy Family Church in New Noting the 40th anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s encyclical, “Pacem in Terris,” Cardinal Sodano said the York prior to the opening of the 58th session of the U.N. pope “echoes the prophetic conviction of his predecessor” General Assembly Sept. 15. During the service New that world peace can be achieved “if the ethical values of York Cardinal Edward M. Egan referred to the world solidarity between the world’s peoples, respect for human organization as a "treasure" that must be embraced and dignity and commitment to the moral principles of truth, supported. "We must pray for it and its work," he said. justice, love and freedom find embodiment.”

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■ Continued from cover “The event was very successful,” said Mr. Wesolek.

For example, he said it brought an awareness of the ministry of the Sisters of St. Therese of the Little Flower in Tanzania. As plans for the delegation’s journey moved forward, Tanzania was considered an important destination to witness the ministry of the allAfrican Sisters who care for thousands of AIDS orphans.

Sister Godbertha Muganda, currently studying at USF offered to host the tour of the Sisters’ ministry where she will return after studying in the U.S. Everything looks different once people visit Africa and see for themselves the dire state its people endure day after day observed Sister Godbertha. She welcomed the opportunity to show the delegation the important work that is being done - needs to be done - in order for her people to survive.

“The poverty in Africa is pandemic, famine in certain parts is still going on, and the worst crisis of all is the AIDS epidemic,” said Mr. Wesolek. “Millions of children are being orphaned because that whole generation is literally being wiped out.”

“The Sisters are doing tremendous work,” said Mr. Wesolek, who described the unique orphanage ministry.

The children do not live in orphanages. They live in the village of their birth with an appointed guardian, who may be a relative. The Sisters work closely with the village chiefs and elders to keep harmony in the culture with a very tight knit community.

“It is the elderly and the grandparents who are there left with the children,” said Mr. Wesolek. “For example, we saw a grandfather who could be 81, who had five lit-

From left Sister Godbertha Muganda, Deacon Sal Alvarez, U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Jimmy Kolker, George Wesolek, Silvestro Bakhiet.

tle grandchildren with him. He was the sole provider, and he was blind and unable to do much at all.”

“Through the Sisters’ work, the children are still members of the village and still members of the community,” said Mr. Wesolek.

The children report daily to one of 16 learning centers that the Sisters have founded for the education of the children. Carpentry and tailoring are some of the

A St. Therese Sister pays a visit to an elderly guardian of several young AIDS orphans.

skills taught. The Sisters also work closely with the local primary school that teaches grades one through seven and has an enrollment of 700 pupils. The ministry is performed within the boundaries of Kashozi and Mugana Catholic parishes.

It is estimated that Tanzania has 1.5 million orphans and at least 75 percent of this number is found in AFRICA CRISIS, page 11

Father John Jiminez prayed with Sisters in remembrance of the millions who have died of AIDS in Africa.

Submission or slavery Fighting for the rights of Christians in Sudan “Being a child and Christian in Sudan today gives you “We, the Christians in Southern Sudan have zero not release the pressure of Islamic law on the only two choices, follow Islamic principles or be a slave,” lives,” he said. Food is difficult to come by, there is Christian people.” said Silvestro Akara Bakhiet, a member of the delegation no medical treatment and no educational opportuniIt is extremely difficult for Sudanese seeking that visited Africa in conjunction with the Archdiocesan ties. “The Islamic government in Khartoum does not refuge. They leave because they have no food, eduOffice of Public Policy and Social Concerns. allow us to express our faith, instead they impose cation, or health care and end up in refugee camps in Following Islamic principles ensures you will be Islamic law on all the Christians.”

Northern Uganda with little more. Until recently, fed. It also means you must attend nine members of Mr. Bakhiet’s family Islamic school, and eventually join the were in such camps. m i l i t a r y, and fight your Christian ‘The Islamic government in Khartoum does not allow When he came to the U.S. Mr. brothers and sisters in Southern Sudan.

Bakhiet worked tirelessly as a hotel Failure to follow Islamic law means us to express our faith, instead they impose Islamic desk clerk on Sixth Street in San your life is worthless, according to Mr. Francisco to earn enough money to get Bakhiet. his family out of the refugee camps. law on all the Christians.’

– S i l v e s t ro Bakhiet Mr. Bakhiet arrived in the United “With the support of friends and States on March 11, 1997 and received staff of St. Mary’s Cathedral,” Mr. his asylum approval on January 10, 1998. “I mainly “The Christians have one principle — that we are Bakhiet has founded a non-profit org a n i z a t i o n came to America to have a chance to address the fighting for the next generation. And we are fighting “Pagri” which tries to address the needs of the tragedies my people in Sudan face today,” he said. not because we need to fight, but for our rights and Southern Sudanese from Pagri Village currently livMilitary dictatorships favoring an Islamic oriented freedom as any other nation fought,” he said. ing in Uganda refugee camps. government have dominated national politics since He praises the American government, “It is a gov“The churches in Sudan are the only hope for the Sudan’s independence from the United Kingdom in ernment that affords its people freedom, education Christians,” he said. They are working with the inter1956. In all but 10 of these years (1972-82), Sudan and the right to make a living.” He hopes that one national community and trying to bring peace in has been embroiled in a civil war. It is estimated that day, these gifts will be realities for his Sudanese peoSudan. “They are also attempting to bring health and during this tragic period, war and famine related ple. education to the people. And they are appealing to effects have led to more than two million deaths, and “But there will be no change in Sudan under the American churches to work with them side-by-side displaced more than four million people.

Islamic government of Khartoum,” he said, “it will for the peace process,” he said.

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Coffee, soap and the ‘Body of Christ’ Intimacy and relationship foster true solidarity I was, to say the least, stunned. I had difficulty controlling my emotions and tears, already fragile from the The most moving gift I received on our recent visit whole experience of that day. I bowed to him and to Uganda and Tanzania was given to me by an old and thanked him in my newly learned Swahili, “Asante. very poor man in a village near the town of Bukoba in Asante Sana.” (Thank you. Thank you very much.)

Tanzania.

Then he was gone.

I was helping to distribute simple items to these As I reflect on that moment, I realize that it was an destitute people with the Sisters of St. Therese whose event of great intimacy and brotherhood for me. It was mission is to minister and care for children who had an opening for a vision of a connection to a world and been orphaned by the deaths of their parents due to experience that was totally foreign to me. Later, one of AIDS. The old man was the grandfather of some of the Sisters explained the significance of the event in the these orphans, now the sole provider for five children at tribal culture. Hospitality is deeply engrained in their the end of his life. In a country where the average culture and when one comes for a visit, it is customary income is about a dollar a day for a young person, his to give coffee to drink that is grown locally. The gesture little family literally had nothing. I had just given him a also has a deeper significance in that two people may bar of soap. Yes, soap. He and about two hundred oth- give coffee beans, sometimes along with a drop of their ers, orphans and their elderly caretakers, had waited blood, to symbolize a new intimate, family relationship. five hours for a bar of soap, some pencils and notebooks I had been made a brother to a man that I had just given for the children. The Sisters, a poor order of native a bar of soap.

Africans, had nothing else My coffee beans are to give them although next to me where I can see they did support a simple No economic aid and food and them each day. They are a health clinic and some metaphor and a symbol of vocational training for the medicine should be given without the meaning and purpose orphans. of our trip to Africa. We So with my heart that foundation of relationship. went to forge links of solburning and my emotions i d a r i t y, to remind ourflashing from despair to This is what Pope John Paul II selves that we are truly humiliation to incredulity brothers and sisters to a and even guilt, I gave this world that is far, far away; man a bar of soap. He means by “solidarity.” to a world that is mired in looked at me with an a misery of AIDS, war, immense sad dignity, reached into his pocket and took and poverty that is hard for us to imagine. These simple out a small pouch. From the pouch he extracted about a brown beans also tell me each day that I was blessed dozen coffee beans and, with great ceremony, of fered with a great gift given by a hospitable, generous and them to me. He bowed as he did so and with a smile of joyful people. Now, the gift of the bar of soap and espejoy took my hand in both of his. cially the gift of the coffee beans will always remind me

By George Wesolek

Africa crisis . . .

■ Continued from page 10 Bukoba where HIV/AIDS was first detected in Tanzania and where a portion of the Sisters’ ministry is located.

Kibale Village is one of 15 villages where the Sisters minister to the orphans and those with HIV/AIDS. Much of their time is spent fighting the related diseases to which the HIV/AIDS patients are especially vulnerable, such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, malaria, skin and respiratory infections.

Kibale is also where the Sisters started a small plantation farm for orphans. The young children are given three to ten coffee plants to care for, so they can earn “pennies” to buy kerosene, pencils and other small items.

After leaving Tanzania, the delegation members traveled to Uganda where much of their time was spent at one of the Adjumani refugee camps. “There are approximately 185,000 refugees from Sudan living in Uganda camps,” said Mr. Wesolek.

The AIDS orphans throughout Tanzania seek the refuge of the St. Therese Sisters’ learning centers.

“We listened to many stories,” he said. Many refugees are abducted by a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) “where the leader, many people say, is a psychopath. He gets his troops for his army by abducting children from 7-12 years old. Girls, at that young age, are used as sex slaves. Boys are indoctrinated, given guns and put into his army.”

In recruitment, the LRA forces young kidnapped children to brutally massacre another child, which eff e c t i v e l y bans the child from their native community for life, according to the custom of the native Ugandan Achole tribe where violence against another is forbidden.

“We listened to the painful stories of these children,” said Mr. Wesolek.

Thousands of Sudanese refugee children and local Ugandan children of the villages fear abduction and fill the public streets at night hoping to be safe.

They have been labeled “night children,” said Mr. Wesolek.

The delegation also visited the local offices of Catholic Relief Service in Uganda where a number of programs have been developed to help the plight of these “night children,” including vocational projects where the orphans learn trades.

“What you have in north Sudan is a very strong Islamic government, and in the south is a Christian community. That’s basically how it is aligned in terms of fighting, but it is much more complicated than that,” said Mr. Wesolek.

The delegation expressed their concern for the issues to the American Ambassador of Uganda, Jimmy Kolker, during a two-hour “working meeting” with him. “The Ambassador was very supportive, and very open, but his hands are tied,” said Mr. Wesolek.

While in Kampala, Uganda, the San Francisco delegation also met for two hours with Bishops of the Conference of Sudanese Bishops.

The San Francisco delegation is gathering the information they learned through their fact-finding mission, and writing a detailed report with recommendations, which will be given to local congressional representatives and the House International Affairs Committee.

An elderly man is the sole support for his five grandchildren orphaned by AIDS.

of the core relationships so important to our “helping” these poor people.

No economic aid and food and medicine should be given without that foundation of relationship. This is what Pope John Paul II means by “solidarity.” It is not the cold writing of a check and the flash of sympathy over the plight of the less fortunate. It is the understanding and experience of the simple truth — we are brothers and sisters in the human family. In theological terms, we are the Body of Christ, and if one the members is hurt or in pain or need, then we all suf fer. Once we understand that truth, action on behalf of justice and charity for these people becomes an urgency and commitment in our lives.

“We did not clearly understand how serious the delegation was being taken by those who wanted to tell us their stories of suffering. It overwhelmed us,” said Deacon Alvarez. “We are compiling our report with a zeal that has been given to us by our friends we made in Tanzania and Uganda.”

“There is a lot we can learn from the Catholic Church in Africa,” said Father John Jimenez, such as “strong faith, simplicity of life, and common sharing of resources.”

“There is a tremendous need in Africa,” said Mr. Wesolek. “These are not just people over there who are somebody to be pitied or sympathetic with, they are our brothers and sisters.”

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Catholic San Francisco

September 19, 2003

Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Filipinos enter a new era The Filipino community of the Archdiocese of San Francisco held impressive events this past weekend as they celebrated a “Journey of Faith” that began 100 years ago. Filipinos now have entered a new era, in which the difficulties of the past serve as a platform for the future – a future that retains the Filipino values of family, devotion and hospitality and builds on the potential for a broadened influence in public life.

During the past century, the Filipino presence in the Archdiocese has grown from a small number of immigrants to a throng of second-, third-, and fourth-generation Filipino-Americans representing more than 20 percent of the Catholic population in the present three-county Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Like Irish, Italian and other immigrants before them, Filipinos held the least-wanted jobs when they, mostly men, first arrived in some numbers in the 1920s. Some worked as migrant farmers in Salinas and Stockton (then part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco), while others took service jobs in San Francisco as busboys, dishwaters and cooks.

In 1924, Archbishop Edward J. Hanna began outreach to the growing population of Filipinos with the establishment of the Filipino Catholic Club, which assisted immigrants from the Philippines in finding housing and work.

Noemi Castillo, director of Ethnic Ministries for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and a national figure in this field, has noted that the Church’s Filipino ministry reached out to Filipino farm workers who were deeply involved in the fight for social justice in the 1960s. They led the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, which Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta joined in 1965.

In that same year, the U.S. Congress passed an immigration law allowing the reunification of families and large waves of immigration from the Philippines and other Asian countries began.

Twenty years ago, the Archdiocese established the Office of Filipino Catholic Affairs, and from this grew a pastoral plan for promoting Filipino culture and expressions of faith, while at the same time encouraging active involvement and participation in parish life.

By 1980, there were about 60,000 Filipinos in the Archdiocese, mainly in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. Today there are more than 100,000 Filipinos in the three counties of the San Francisco Archdiocese, the vast majority of them Catholic.

Unlike the “national” churches of a prior time that served as welcoming points for Irish, German, Italian, Mexican, French and other immigrant groups, the Filipino Catholics represent a portion of the parishioners of many parishes.

Addressing hundreds of Filipinos at the Filipino Centennial Day conference, San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada spoke of Filipino contributions to the local Church: “their faith, their deep devotion to the church and our Blessed Mother, their sense of family and of celebration.”

He added, “I rejoice with all of you that God has given us the grace to build up the Body of Christ, the Church. Your gifts are gifts that our society and our church need.”

Visiting Bishop Luis Antonio Tagle echoed a similar theme.

Filipino Catholics have much to give, he said. Acknowledging that his list was not complete, the bishop cited four special gifts of his people: a person-oriented view of life, an unusually expansive emphasis on family, a deep spirit of devotion and the “culture of poverty.”

“Filipinos,” he said, “look at the world through the prism of human beings and human relationships,” a trait that shows itself in “our renowned Filipino hospitality.”

He added, “We know how to treat people gently. God doesn’t forget this. That is why God can be gentle with us. This is good news in a world slowly moving into forgetfulness of human beings, a world in which people are transformed into objects, like commodities.”

The Filipino-Americans who constitute one fifth of the Catholic population of the Archdiocese of San Francisco bring many gifts to our local Church. In this they share in common the bringing of gifts by the sons and daughters of earlier waves of immigrants from Europe and current immigrants from Mexico, Latin and South America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Through these examples, we learn again the lesson that out of many we are one – that while we are of many backgrounds, we are one Church in Christ.

MEH

Formation in Faith I want to take this opportunity to thank you and Tom Burke for the fine article regarding the Faith Formation Conference (formally known as Religious Education Institute) on September 27, 2003 at the SF Marriott helping to celebrate our 150 years of being an Archdiocese. Tom was able to help people see the importance of such of an event for all catechists - religion teachers in the Archdiocese.

As Church we do need well-trained teachers of religion. This event helps make this possible.

The conference certainly is not limited to teachers of religion. Parents as well as those interested in nurturing faith can find many workshops. We in the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry appreciate the fine coverage of the upcoming event. With Catholic San Francisco and this event all can grow in their understanding of faith today.

Sr. Celeste Arbuckle, SSS San Francisco

A last gasp?

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Misguided proposition As a member of a Mendicant Order, and an employee of a hospital founded by the Sisters of Mercy to serve the poor and our brothers and sisters who are disenfranchised, I embrace and applaud Sister Bernie Galvin’s “misguided compassion” (letters – Sept. 12).

The Lord does, indeed, hear the cry of the poor and acts upon it through vessels like Sister Bernie. While I certainly support providing treatment to those in need of it, the simple truth of the matter is that the demand far exceeds the supply.

Proposition M will not resolve that.

But the Sister Bernies of the world will continue to make life a little less painful for those who are in need by reserving judgment and not painting everyone with the same brush.

Brother George Cherrie, OFM, Conv.

San Francisco

L E T T E R S

I write to express my profound disappointment with Catholic San Francisco’s last issue dealing with the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith’s views on legitimization of homosexual persons who strive for supportive committed relationships. I found the views of the CDF to be mean, ignorant, arrogant and totally void of the inclusiveness of Jesus, our role model in all things. I can only imagine the hurt and pain this has caused the thousands of loyal and committed gay and lesbian Catholics right here in our own Archdiocese of San Francisco. It is shameful and hypocritical that only those views of the most conservative Catholics are given credibility while Catholics with other points of view are dismissed week after week in every issue you publish.

Father Edward Lambro, a Catholic priest in Paterson, N.J., recently wrote a letter to the National Catholic Reporter in which he expresses his view that “Jesus had a great deal to say about many issues; however, he said nothing about same-sex, or for that matter, opposite sex marriage. Actually he does not appear to have any ‘official’ position on sex at all.”

He further states that “the newest ecclesiastical gay bashing (and that’s just what it is) is not about orthodoxy, preserving the faith for future generations or reflective of the will of Christ. It is about fear, prejudice and the last gasp of an institution not merely in crisis, but rather in catastrophe.” I share this view, as do millions of Catholics around the globe.

To add insult to injury, the column by George Weigel in your last issue unleashed a mean and vicious attack against our Anglican brothers and sisters. This was very sad and unfortunate that you chose to print his attack against the Anglican Communion after so much sincere effort has been put forth by our own former Archbishop Quinn and our present Archbishop Levada to build bridges toward the goal of unity with the Anglicans, who by the way, consider themselves just as “catholic” as we Roman Catholics. To quote Father Lambro again, “the Anglican Communion proved itself again to be insightful, courageous and true to the gospel message of inclusion” referring to the recent decision of the

Letters welcome

Episcopal Church in America to consecrate the first openly gay Bishop. Homosexuality is not a choice. It has been a human condition as long as history has been recorded. Double standards in our Church hurt Catholic credibility in the eyes of the world and it especially hurts the many gay and lesbian Catholics right here in our own San Francisco Churches.

P.S. I know you will not print this letter because you allow only the most fundamentalist, far-right Catholic opinions to be expressed in Catholic San Francisco. This is a shame and it falls far short of the teachings of Vatican II in every conceivable way.

Christopher J. Smith San Francisco

Rights not marriage

Reverend Gerald Coleman in his recent article, “The Homosexualizing of Society,” criticizes the recent Supreme Court Decision invalidating a Texas anti-sodomy law with these words, “The Court has now made the gay-right cause ‘a basic civil rights issue’, opening the door to the legalization of same-sex marriages in the United States.”

This characterization is unfair and an attack upon the integrity of the Court. The Court’s ruling specifically stated that its decision “did not involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter.” It did state, “The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives. The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime.”

If homosexual conduct is a sin in the eyes of the Church, so be it. Homosexuals can confess and be forgiven. If some forms of heterosexual sex are sins by Church standards, the perpetrators can also confess and be forgiven.

The State must not enact criminal laws, arrest people, put them in prison, and ruin their lives because of their ethnicity, religious beliefs or private sexual conduct.

I caution Father Coleman not to get overly anxious over the Court’s decision and to predict dire results for society. I believe that marriage is a Sacrament and should be protected by the laws of the land, as that between a man and a woman. I also believe that the civil rights of homosexual partners should be protected.

Father Coleman and the Catholic press just might be (I hope inadvertently) bearing false witness against certain of its neighbors through some of these recent articles.

As Father Coleman rightly quotes the Catechism, the Church calls on all persons to “gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.”

Robert Brown Redwood City

Datebook’s uses God bless you on your great work. As a result of our listing in Datebook, the Autumn Group of St. Mary’s Cathedral received many inquiries and greatly increased participation in a recent trip. On behalf of the Autumn Group, thank you, again.

Sister Esther McEgan, RSM St. Mary’s Cathedral

September 19, 2003

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The Catholic Difference

Interim measures - Pastoral Life Directors Thanks to the changing demographics of the American priesthood and the failures of vocation recruitment in some dioceses, “Pastoral Life Directors” - lay women, lay men, or religious sisters who take responsibility for parishes without a full-time priest-pastor - will become a familiar feature of Catholic life in many parts of the United States over the next decade. As bishops and other diocesan planners consider making more use of these “PLDs,” they might want to ponder the Swiss experience carefully. It strikes me as a cautionary tale.

A brilliant young Polish friend of mine spent much of the last semester studying international law at the University of Fribourg. Interested in exploring Catholic life in the French-speaking Swiss cantons near the university, he discovered that PLDs are in wide use. Most of these PLDs have masters’ degrees in theology. They’re paid quite comfortable salaries. And some of them, at least, seem to have developed very odd ideas of the Church - and of themselves.

The most striking example? In one Swiss parish run by a PLD, the Mass is celebrated on one Sunday each month by a visiting priest. On the other Sundays, the PLD “presides” at a service of the Word, which is followed by a brief communion service using pre-consecrated hosts. One Sunday last year, the local bishop happened to show up in the parish. The PLD informed the bishop that he would not be permitted to say Mass, as a “Eucharistic Sunday” hadn’t been scheduled for that day. She, the PLD, would take the

service, which the bishop was welcome to attend if he liked. So there was no celebration of the Eucharist in that parish on that Sunday, despite the availability of a priest.

What’s wrong with this picture? Just about everything, I’m afraid. The PLD in question evidently placed more value on her prerogatives as “presider” than on her people’s celebrating the Eucharist. The bishop acquiesced in his degradation. The people didn’t rise up and demand that the bishop be allowed to celebrate Mass. I know they don’t play much baseball in Switzerland, but wherever you are, three strikes and you’re out. One can only wonder what notion of “Catholic” is operating in a parish where all three of these extraordinary things happen simultaneously.

And the cautionary tale? It’s not to avoid PLDs at all costs. That’s both irresponsible and alarmist. Until God blesses the Church in the United States with more vocations to the priesthood, PLDs are going to be a necessity in some circumstances. And many will do excellent jobs. What this Swiss mess suggests is that it’s critically important that everyone be on the same page about what PLDs are and mean.

It must be clear to everyone - the local bishop, the local priests, the pool of candidates for the position of Pastoral Life Director, the parish councils asked to accept a PLD - that PLDs are an interim solution until normal pastoral structures, meaning a resident priest-pastor, can be re-established in a parish.

Sure, there are things priest-pastors do today that could be done just as well, and arguably better, by lay Catholics. By the same

token, however, everyone involved in the PLD phenomenon has to understand that pastoral leadership and governance in the Catholic Church are, in normal circumstances, functions of the ordained priesthood.

If some parties don’t George Weigel understand that, what’s virtually inevitable here is something akin to what’s happened around Fribourg. Pressures to regard PLDs as the norm, rather than the exception, will intensify. Priests will be further marginalized (and demoralized). Vocation recruitment will be commensurably more difficult. The American temptation to think of “the Church” as the local congregation, period, will be even more difficult to resist.

Calling PLDs an “interim solution” isn’t a put-down; it’s a frank description of Catholic reality. In fact, I’d suggest that anyone who takes “interim” as a put-down is automatically disqualified to be a Pastoral Life Director. Parishes are Eucharistic communities governed in a Eucharistic context.

That’s why priest-pastors are crucial. And that’s something everyone making decisions about PLDs ought to understand.

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

Evangelization

Watch your language!

Watch your language! Have you ever heard a parent or an older sibling say this to someone, usually, an adolescent? I have.

I can remember my older brother self-righteously correcting my brother on one particular occasion when he used an expression that was not considered appropriate in the presence of his younger sisters! The language we use speaks volumes about who we really are. I am not referring to a language such as English, Spanish or French. Rather, I am referring to the expressions that creep into every day usage as we express ourselves in normal conversation. When we express ourselves verbally we are giving our listeners clues to who we are and how we think. I believe that as Catholic Christians this can be very important.

I invite you to become aware of how you express yourself in the ordinary circumstances of life. Let’s look at a few examples. When you are frightened or shocked about something what is the first thing you say? Many times I have heard someone say, “Oh my God!” Hopefully, that person is consciously calling on God for help. Or perhaps it is just an empty expression. Another one is “Thank God!” How often have you said this when you are feeling relief about something? Do you really mean that when you say it? Have you ever noticed how the listener reacts to your use of God’s name or references to your Catholic faith in your conversations or expressions?

Recently as I was driving to work listening to the news there was an item about a local golf course being re-opened

and one of the persons interviewed mentioned that he wanted to play there on re-opening day so that he could “baptize it, so to speak.” This told me that this man was a Christian because he knew that “to baptize” is to give “new life.”

Obviously, this concept is part of his experience. When the concepts of our Faith and the Gospel message are close to the surface of our consciousness they will tend to become part of our everyday use of language. However, this will not happen unless we are consciously aware of how our faith life affects us and it will not bear much merit unless we are expressing ourselves with full awareness. In other words, when we say such things as, “God bless you,” when we hear someone sneeze, we can say it as an automatic response or we can say it as a prayer for that person, calling on God to bless the sneezer with good health. It all depends on our intention when we use the phrase.

Of course, use of language goes much deeper. Our words can influence outcomes in a very serious way. Sometimes at work and in social situations topics come up that impinge on our faith practices. For example when we are discussing political or social justice issues what we say as an “off the cuff” remark may influence the listeners thinking and could have serious repercussions in local, state or federal government. During these times it is very important that we “watch our language.” What we say in the heat of discussion or argument can influence others for good or

evil. When we speak from a faith perspective we can deepen the listener’s faith.

I am sure we are all aware of the influence of radio campaigning during times of political elections. In spite of ourselves we are influenced by what the Sister candidates say. They are Antonio Heaphy getting a message across with their words. We too get messages across with our words. When we speak we express ourselves and our philosophy and we influence others all day long.

As disciples of Jesus we have an obligation to proclaim the Gospel message, the Good News of Salvation. We are given countless opportunities to do this daily. Our commentary on life’s situation can put our listeners in touch with the bigger picture. God is present in every situation of our lives. It is our responsibility to be consciously aware of this, even in our use of language!

Presentation Sister Antonio Heaply is director of the Office of Evangelization for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Spirituality

From self-protection to being food for the life of the world Recently I heard an interview on the radio with a bishop from a large American diocese. At one point he was asked: “As the leader of a large diocese today, what do you consider as your single most important task?” The bishop, a sincere and prayerful man, answered: “To protect the faith.”

For effect, I would like to contrast his answer with one that I once heard from Cardinal George Basil Hume when he was faced with essentially the same question. Asked by a journalist in Belgium in 1985 what he considered to be the most important task facing the church, he replied: “To try to help save the planet.”

These are different answers. Which runs closer to Jesus?

Jesus, in defining his meaning and ministry, said: “My flesh is food for the life of the world.” We can easily miss what’s really contained in that. Notice what he’s not saying.

Jesus isn’t saying that his flesh is food for the life of the church or for the life of Christians — albeit we, believers, get fed, too, and, indeed, generally get fed first, but the ultimate reason why Jesus came was not simply to feed us.

His body is food for the life of the world and the world is larger than the church. Jesus came into the world to be eaten up by the world. For this reason, he was born in a manger, a feeding trough, a place where animals come to eat, and it’s for this reason that he eventually ends up on a table, an altar, to be eaten by human beings. Jesus came not to defend himself,

the church, or the faith, but as nourishment for the planet.

We need to keep that horizon always in front of us as we journey through a time of anti-ecclesial and anti-clerical sentiment.

Today the church, its teachings, and its clergy are often under siege, sometimes for good reasons but many times because of ideology and bias. In the Western world today, the only intellectually-sanctioned bias is that against Roman Catholicism and Evangelical Protestantism. To be bigoted here is not interpreted as intolerance or as being narrow-minded. Rather, it’s seen as the opposite, a sign that one is enlightened and liberal.

The danger in that is not that the church will somehow collapse, but that the church, us, will become too defensive, too self-protective, lose the vulnerability that Jesus demonstrated and asks for, and instead see the world as an enemy to be fought rather than as a precious body to which we are asked to give our lives.

The first task of the church, no matter the difficulty, is not to circle the wagons and defend itself. Even when the world doesn’t welcome what we have to offer, we’re still asked to give ourselves over to it as food.

It’s easy to lose that perspective, especially in a time of disprivilege, and so it’s important that we recall the reason why the church exists.

The church exists not as an end in itself. But we exist as a church, too, to be food for the life of the world, to be eaten up as

nourishment by everyone, including those outside our own circles. As Cardinal Hume put it, our real reason to be is beyond our own lives. Ultimately the church is not about the church; it’s food for the world.

That, of course, doesFather n’t mean the church shouldn’t have an interRon Rolheiser nal agenda. It’s valid, too, to turn inward sometimes. In order to be a body that can be nourishment for the world, the church needs to generate, foster, and protect its own life. We can’t give life if we haven’t got any.

Church life exists to build up a body, but that body exists not for itself, but for the world. Our task as church, especially today, is not to defend ourselves or even to carve out some peace for ourselves against a world which sometimes prefers not to have us around. No. Like Jesus, our real reason for being here is to try to help nourish and protect that very world that’s often hostile to us.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.

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September 19, 2003

Edward Le Breton “Friend and Protector” of Saint Anne’s Home house owned by the Lazard brothers. Originally retail merchants and importers, Lazard Frères had expanded their firm On Saturday morning, March 19, 1910, the Little Sisters into domestic and foreign banking and Edward was fortunate of the Poor at St. Anne’s Home gathered to pray around a to rise to the position of chief clerk at a time that the firm was dying man. The man who lay in the Bishop’s Parlor on Lake gaining national and international prominence.

Not all French banks in San Francisco were as successful. In Street was one of the most generous and devoted Catholic laymen of the first half-century of the San Francisco 1879, Edward joined other members of the French Community Archdiocese. His sudden, but peaceful death closed a life of to recapitalize the French Savings & Loan Society, which had business success, civic involvement and devotion to the declared bankruptcy the previous year. Edward used much of the income he earned from his job at Lazard, his personal real Church, the Jesuits and the Little Sisters of the Poor. estate investment and management business and his As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the many fiduciary appointments in the French comArchdiocese, it is important to remember the munity to make and increase his investment in many lay men and women who contributed the French Savings & Loan. In 1887, at age their time, talent and treasure and made pos35, he became president of the bank. sible the spiritual, educational and social As a banker, Le Breton was consermission of the Archdiocese. Edward Le vative. His bank provided a solid, conBreton’s record of devotion to and finantinuous rate of return to his customers cial support for Catholic institutions who were drawn largely from the make him a fitting representative of French community. He invested his the laity who for 150 years have supdepositors’ money carefully in San ported the clergy, religious and instiFrancisco real estate mortgages and tutions of the Archdiocese. stocks and bonds in the booming Edward Joseph Le Breton was railroad business. As a result, born in September, 1852, in the French Savings & Loan survived gold mining camps along the the periodic panics and financial American River near today’s city of downturns which marked San Folsom. His parents, with thousands Francisco banking in the late 19th of others, had come from the far corcentury. ners of the globe to Northern As an alumnus of St. Ignatius, California during the early days of Edward was generous in his time and the Gold Rush. His father was born donations to St. Ignatius Church and on a small French-owned island in the Universities of San Francisco and the Indian Ocean and his mother was Santa Clara. Having a special devothe daughter of an English planter tion to St. Anne, the patron saint of who settled in Brazil. After losing Edward Joseph Le Breton Brittany, he donated a statue of the most of their property in one of the many fires which devastated Gold Rush San Francisco, the mother of Mary to the new Jesuit church on Hayes Street. He Le Bretons moved to the primitive mining camps near also continued his father’s real estate investment and manSacramento. There, in the mud, violence and hunger of the agement business. From time to time, Edward found opportunities to help Archbishop Patrick Riordan and the make-shift tent city, Edward was born.

After spending two years in the Gold Country, the Le Religious of the Sacred Heart in Menlo Park in their often Breton family returned to San Francisco. There, they found complicated property transactions. He also worked closely that the flourishing French community of San Francisco with his sister, Marie Le Breton de Laveaga, when she built afforded more opportunities for financial and social success. Edward’s father built a successful real estate and investment business and, in 1863, he enrolled his 11-yearold son Edward in the new Jesuit school, St. Ignatius College, on Market Street. There, the young Le Breton received a solid, classical education, won many prizes for his academic achievements and acted in the theatricals presented at the annual graduation exercises. Through all this, Edward forged a lifelong devotion to the Society of Jesus.

Edward and his older brother Albert spent three academic years with the Jesuits. In 1867, Albert apprenticed with a local attorney and Edward transferred to what was then called City College. There, he studied a business curriculum until, in 1868, his parents took him, his brother and his sister Marie to Europe for the Grand Tour. The Le Breton boys studied in Dresden and Paris before returning to San Francisco in late 1871. Nearly 21, Edward obtained a series of jobs in French business and banking firms, until he settled at the banking

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the original Santa Maria Church in Orinda, and represented his family at the dedication by Archbishop Riordan as Marie lay dying in San Francisco.

However, it is as the friend and benefactor of the Little Sisters of the Poor throughout California and the builder of the original St. Anne’s Home on Lake Street that Le Breton is most remembered.

Shortly after the Little Sisters of the Poor arrived in San Francisco in February, 1901, the French banker visited St. Joseph’s Home on Howard Street. “I will be your friend and protector,” he told the Little Sisters. There was a clear tie between the French Le Breton and the Little Sisters, whose order was founded in France by Blessed Jeanne Jugan, who was from Brittany herself. The banker shared the Little Sisters’ emphasis on prayer, especially to St. Joseph, and his deep devotion to his parents prompted him to support wholeheartedly the Little Sisters’mission to the elderly poor.

His gifts of flowers, food, clothing and money soon became a regular feature of life at the Home. From the beginning, Christmas gifts to every man and woman in the Home from Le Breton accompanied the holiday dinner. He regularly visited the Home each week on Wednesday and Saturday to see what could be done or what was needed by the Little Sisters and the residents.

Recognizing that the Home was already crowded, Le Breton told the Little Sisters that he would donate $100,000 to purchase the land for and build a new Home. With typical business acumen, Le Breton purchased several lots on Lake Street next to the Army Presidio and, on April 28, 1902, he joined the Little Sisters at the groundbreaking.

Le Breton managed every part of the construction process. He selected the architect, corrected the plans to afford more comfort for the residents, argued with the City about the electric lines for the elevator and negotiated with the subcontractors. With the residents, he worked on the landscaping and he continually insisted that he would pay for every single expense related to the new Home. Relying in part on the intercession of St. Joseph, a special patron of the Little Sisters, Le Breton even supervised the digging of the well on the property, a source of water which became critical after the 1906 earthquake. His sole conditions for all his contributions were that the Home be dedicated to St. Anne and that, over the main door, would be a dedication

San Francisco groundbreaking, April 28, 1902.

Archbishop Patrick Riordan blesses the cornerstone, July 26, 1902.

“In Honor of My Father and Mother”.

In 1904, at the cost of more than $350,000, all paid by Le Breton, St. Anne’s was ready for occupancy. Shortly thereafter, the banker wrote to the Bishop of Los Angeles, offering to build and pay for another Little Sisters Home in Southern California.

This Home, also dedicated to St. Anne, opened in 1908.

Constructing and furnishing the Los Angeles Home cost the banker another $400,000. His $750,000 in donations to the Little Sisters was hailed as an outstanding example of Christian charity. As one Little Sister wrote, “This man understands Charity.”

He also understood the power of prayer. When one of the Little Sisters fell ill, he led the residents in prayer to Our Lady, promising that he would build a Lourdes grotto on the ground of St. Anne’s Home and sponsor an annual procession in honor of Mary. The Little Sister recovered and, in 1904, Le Breton paid for the construction of an exact replica of the grotto at Lourdes on Mount St. Anne behind the Home. The first Lourdes procession took place on December 8 that year and has become a tradition followed for nearly a hundred years. Today, the Knights and Dames of Malta bring the sick and the elderly to the Lourdes grotto every year to pray to Our Lady just as Edward Le Breton did.

In the meantime, Le Breton sold his bank to the new EDWARD LE BRETON, page 17

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St. Anne’s Home on Lake Street in 1904.

Edward Le Breton . . .

■ Continued from page 16 French American Bank and, after several years as its president, retired to have more time for philanthropy.

Archbishop Riordan asked him to serve on the Board of Trustees of St. Patrick’s Seminary and he was considered for selection as one of the first lay Directors of the Catholic Humane Bureau, the forerunner of today’s Catholic Charities. He also continued his regular donations to both St. Anne’s Homes, where he and his brother Albert began the tradition of serving the residents a special meal on St. Joseph’s Day each year. This tradition also continued long after his death and brought Archbishops, priests, businessmen and members of San Francisco’s Police and Fire Departments and many lay men and women to the Home to serve the poor.

Although he never married, Edward was devoted to the three children of his deceased sister Marie and, as guardian, took into his home the orphan son of a friend and business acquaintance. Ever a proponent of Jesuit education, Le Breton sent his ward to St. Ignatius High School and, later, to Santa Clara University. He was a daily communicant at the 6:30 morning Mass at St. Anne’s and lived a quiet life on Pierce Street, near St. Dominic’s church.

Le Breton always sought to remain in the background.

He only relunctantly and humbly allowed his charity to be recognized by the Little Sisters. He once said, “All is for the glory of God and the benefit of the elderly poor. I don’t want to have any reward in this life.” On the other hand, he saw little merit in leaving good deeds until after death. “It is more meritorious,” he observed, “to make during life a

sacrifice of whatever you possess.”

It was not surprising to find the retired banker at St. Anne’s for the morning Mass on St. Joseph’s Day, March 19. Although he was scheduled to attend a court hearing that day, he was anxious to discuss with the Little Sisters another project. Tradition holds that he planned to assume the responsibility for building the Little Sisters Home in Oakland, his third such undertaking.

As he prepared to leave, Le Breton suffered a massive stroke. The Little Sisters, residents and doctors who surrounded him recognized that nothing could be done, and Le Breton himself was resigned, in true Christian fashion, to God’s will. He said, “I went to Confession last night and to Communion this morning. I am ready.”

His last request was to die surrounded by the prayers of those who lived in the house he had built in memory of his parents. “If I die now, I die in good hands and among the Little Sisters and the old folks whom I love.”

Le Breton was not alone in noting the strange act of Providence that he should die on the feast of St. Joseph in the building which was his greatest monument.

One of the Little Sisters wrote that the death of their friend and protector encouraged all who saw it to persevere in their own lives his example of charity and devotion to the elderly poor.

Today, a picture of Edward Le Breton hangs near the main entrance of the new St. Anne’s Home on Lake Street. His memory has been kept alive by the Little Sisters, residents, benefactors and volunteers of St. Anne’s nearly a century. The Monitor in 1910 wrote a fitting summary of his life and work.

Mr. Le Breton was not like many philanthropists who give money and are content. He gave his heart to the work or succoring and caring for the aged poor.

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The Lourdes Grotto at St. Anne’s Home.

Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Joseph McGucken at a Jubilee celebration at the Los Angeles Home.

Lauding Le Breton as someone who frequented the sacraments, venerated God and His saints, while being an “upright and active American citizen,” the newspaper urged its readers to “live the Christian life, as did this man.

Let us revere his memory and emulate his kindly acts.”

John H. McGuckin, Jr. is General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Union Bank of California. He is a lawyer by vocation and an historian by avocation. He is currently at

The oldest photo of residents and Little Sisters in San Francisco.

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■ Continued from cover His hour-long talk, received with applause and laughter, linked the teachings of the Second Vatican Council to the lives and faith of Filipinos in the archdiocese.

“Christus Dominus,” the council document on the life and ministry of the bishop, uses “the image of gathering,” to describe the local church, the bishop said. “It is a people that is gathered. We are not called individually. We are called with others . . . It is the Spirit of Jesus that gathers.”

Vatican II identifies four central elements of “a particular church or a diocese: a people assembled by the Holy Spirit, by the word of God, by the Eucharist and the other sacraments and by the ministers, especially the bishop,” he said.

“These are the four elements . . . in any community, anywhere, that deserves the name of church,” Bishop Tagle said. “You may be in India, you may be in Indonesia, you may be in Sweden, you may be here in San Francisco, but anywhere you go if you find a community called church, hopefully you will find the four elements: the work of the Spirit, the word of God, the Eucharist and apostolic ministry.”

“The Spirit that works in Manila is hopefully the same Spirit at work here in San Francisco. The word of God that is proclaimed in Manila is the same Word of God proclaimed here. The Eucharist that is celebrated here, the body and blood of Christ, is the same Eucharist, that happens in Manila. And it is the same ministry, the one episcopacy, sent to serve, that we find hopefully in San Francisco and in Manila . . . . The church is universal precisely because we hold the elements in common.”

Those theological concepts do not exhaust the description of the local church, Bishop Tagle said, because, “The church can never be an abstraction.”

“We cannot find the Word of God floating up there in the air . . . . the Eucharist that is floating up there in the air . . . The church is a gathering of men and women who receive the Spirit, who listen to and receive the Word of God. . . who gather around the table of the

Word and the table of the Body and Blood of Christ.

The church is men and women serving one another.”

“When we focus on men and women it is necessary to bring in their personalities, their temperaments, their moods, their foods, their habits, their mysteries, their traditions, their cultures. At this point, the universal church acquires a local face,” he said. “We bring who we are to the church.”

“The church becomes truly local . . . because we bring our gifts, our traditions, our individual values,” Bishop Tagle said. “Local churches need to be places of communion in a world where cultures usually clash,” he said.

People from a variety of cultures need to “gladly and generously offer their gifts. Without their offering of their gifts, then the local church is impoverished . . . .”

Filipino Catholics have much to give, he said.

Acknowledging that his list was not complete, the bishop cited four special gifts of his people: a person-oriented view of life, an unusually expansive emphasis on family, a deep spirit of devotion and the “culture of poverty.”

“Filipinos,” he said, “look at the world through the prism of human beings and human relationships,” a trait that shows itself in “our renowned Filipino hospitality.”

To a burst of laughter, he said, “We reserve the best of everything for our guests. Our children are starving but not the guests.”

“We know how to treat people gently,” Bishop Tagle said. “God doesn’t forget this. That is why God can be gentle with us . . . . This is good news in a world slowly moving into forgetfulness of human beings,” a world in which people are “transformed into objects, like commodities.”

“In every culture, the family is special,” he said, but for Filipinos it takes on an added dimension. “The family is our nuclear community, and how big that nuclear community is. It’s not just your parents and your siblings,” Bishop Tagle said, recalling that on his visit to San Francisco, people from his own province approach him as if he is a member of their family.

To an audience that included many immigrants, the bishop said, “We live for family, migrants especially.

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The afternoon Barrio Fiesta held at St. Mary's Cathedral began with traditional Filipino cultural dance presentations. Later, Father Editho Mascardo of the Diocese of Stockton took the opportunity to sing a song with audience members. Father then asked for audience participation to follow his dance movements as he introduced a song about the Lord. The results brought laughter, joy, and a standing ovation from the crowd.

Filipino presence and ministry come of age

By Patrick Joyce The impact of Filipinos on the Catholic Church in America has grown so much that ministry “to Filipinos” has been transformed into ministry “with Filipinos,” said Cecile Motus, ethnic coordinator for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, at a Filipino Centenary conference workshop at St. Mary’s Cathedral Sept. 13.

Over the past 100 years, the Filipino presence in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and throughout the United States has grown from a few single men, many of whom did not go to church, to 1.6 million Catholics who fill their parish churches, said Ms. Motus, who works in the bishops’ Office of Pastoral Care for Migrants and Refugees in Washington, D.C. There are approximately 100,000 Filipinos among the 450,000 Catholics in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Filipino ministry focuses on “culture and traditions and passing them on to the younger generation,” Ms. Motus said.

“We want to transmit not just our culture but our faith. We also want to share our gifts through Filipino ministry, not keep our gifts to ourselves. So we become givers as well as receivers in this country.”

“Unity among Filipinos means reaching out to establish connections and solidarity with each other,” she said, but the outreach should include others. “Enrich your culture.

Celebrate with Europeans, Hispanics, Asians and everyone else in the parish.”

Filipino ministry “gives us a chance to gather and grow in the faith, to strengthen the faith of families and to evangelize the inactive and the unchurched. Integration is a big challenge for immigrants. Some relax the practice of their faith and don’t go to church as often as they did. Some abandon their faith. If no one reaches out to them, they drift away.”

A family in Florida that joined a Baptist church is an example of this drift and of the way to reverse it, she

said. A Catholic Filipino reached out and told the family the diocese was having a Simbang Gab celebration, a Filipino pre-Christmas novena of Masses. The family went to the celebration and “returned to their Catholic roots as Filipinos,” she said.

There are now 1.8 million Filipinos in the United States, about 85 percent of them Catholics, Ms. Motus said, and unlike the single working men of a century ago, they are active in the church. “We bring the gift of our presence,” Ms. Motus said. “We fill the churches. We bring gifts of leadership and devotions.”

In parishes, Filipinos are filling a variety of ministries, as lectors and music ministers, and other Filipinos are proud to see them in these positions, she said.

In seemingly small ways, parishes need to adapt to Filipino culture, she said. “What will make Filipinos answer an invitation? Not just an announcement in a bulletin.

Filipinos say they need to be invited three times. You need to follow up personally at least with a phone call.”

On the national level, she said, “Bishops are growing more aware of the need for Filipino ministry and many dioceses and parishes are celebrating Filipino devotions including Simbang Gab.” “The first organized movement of Filipinos began in 1903. These were men to be trained in the United States to establish a government in the Philippines,” she said.

This migration followed the U.S. victory in the Spanish American War in 1898 and its taking control of the Philippines from Spain.

Even before this “first wave” of migration, Filipinos had settled in the United States. “The first migrants had worked on Spanish galleons in Mexico and jumped ship in 1763 because of the brutal treatment,” Ms. Motus said. “The descendants of these ‘Manila men’are still in Louisiana.”

Other Filipinos came to California in the 19th century while it was still part of Mexico, and in the early years of the

20th century, more came to Hawaii and California as farm workers and to Alaska to work in canneries.

“The first Filipino ministry helping these newcomers began in Stockton, then part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, 70 years ago.” Ms Motus said. “The first programs to help Filipino immigrants were housing and jobs and organizing workers. There was a lot of discrimination and prejudice against our people. The law prohibited Filipino men from marrying white women, and they could not earn property.”

The migrants were mostly single men who didn’t go to church, she said, with a ratio of men to women of 33 to one on the West Coast.

The second wave of migrants came following World War II when Filipinos who had served in the American Armed Forces during the war came here with their wives and children. With the coming of families, “Filipinos were now seen not only in church on Sunday but they became active in the church,” she said.

In 1965, immigration barriers were lowered and a third wave, including many professionals, arrived. The fourth wave came as immigration policies were changed to allow Filipinos living in the United States to be reunited with their families.

“Beyond the first 100 years, where do we put our effort?”

Ms. Motus asked. “Learn, live, share and celebrate, but before you give you must know what you are giving. Learn your faith, live your faith, share your faith with your children and the parish community. Share your Filipino culture with your children,” Ms. Motus told those attending the workshop.

“It’s OK to be Filipino. Sing Filipino songs at Mass. It need not be a Filipino Mass but you can include Filipino elements.”

Her ministry has been called “pastoral care for Filipinos” Ms. Motus said. “Now it is pastoral care with Filipinos. We are not a problem to be solved.”

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Ailing Filipino cardinal retires; Lipa archbishop to head Manila

By John Norton Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II accepted the resignation of Cardinal Jaime Sin, the ailing archbishop of Manila, Philippines, who reached retirement age of 75 at the end of August.

In a Sept. 15 statement, the Vatican also said the pope named 71-year-old Archbishop Gaudencio B. Rosales of Lipa as the new head of the Manila Archdiocese.

Cardinal Sin, the leading churchman in the Philippines for nearly 30 years, undergoes daily dialysis treatment for a kidney ailment and was hospitalized briefly in March following a minor stroke. At a Mass in late July, his voice was faint and he had to be supported by two priests to move around the altar.

Over the years, the cardinal was an outspoken commentator on public life in the Philippines, one of two majority-Catholic nations in Asia. He played a leading role in the 1986 “people power” movement that sent former President Ferdinand Marcos into exile.

Born Aug. 31, 1928, in New Wa s h i n g t o n , Philippines, he was ordained a priest at age 25. He was

Filipino . . .

■ Continued from page 18 You suffer on account of family . . . . It is for the family that many people are able to bear the loneliness and the suffering of being a migrant.”

Filipinos find self-esteem not in the workplace but in the family, he said. “The family is the source of our stability . . . . No amount of accomplishment can give a Filipino a sense of self, of security and self-confidence.

Self esteem comes from belongingness, the sense of being at home, being accepted.”

This approach to life is “good news” for a world obsessed with competition, Bishop Tagle said. Success in the world “does not give us happiness . . . Stability, self confidence comes from being rooted in family,” he said.

The Filipino gift of devotion, Bishop Tagle said, includes not only traditional religious devotions but also the kind of devotion he feels for his 30-year -old watch, a high school graduation gift from his parents.

named a bishop in 1967 and was appointed to head the Diocese of Jaro in 1972. Two years later, Pope Paul VI transferred him to the Archdiocese of Manila.

Cardinal Sin is one of five prelates worldwide who were named cardinals by Pope Paul and are still under 80, and thus eligible to vote in a papal conclave.

The new archbishop of Manila, Archbishop Rosales, served as a Manila auxiliary bishop from 1974 to 1982.

He has headed the Lipa Archdiocese for nearly 11 years and previously served for a decade as bishop in the Diocese of Malaybalay. He is president of the Commission for Clergy of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.

Archbishop Rosales was among initiators of a national seminary formation program that is currently being finalized by the seminaries commission, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. His clergy commission recently finalized ethical guidelines for the conduct of priests, earlier referred to as the protocol on priestly misconduct.

Archbishop Rosales will take control of an archdiocese much smaller than that headed by his predecessor, as five new dioceses have been split off from the Manila Archdiocese in the past year.

While even they encourage him to get a new one, the bishop refuses to replace the watch. “I am devoted to it . . . It is not just a wristwatch. Keeping it is my way of paying tribute to my parents who had so little money that they could not pay cash for the watch but had to buy it on credit.

“Devotion comes from the heart, we are devoted to God; we are devoted to family, to community. This is good news, because in our world of scientific objectivity, the heart is not listened to. We need to put the heart again into the world.”

Finally, the bishop said that the poverty of the Philippines enables its people to express gratitude and feel compassion in a way the affluent cannot.

“Gratitude is a wonderful trait of people who know they are poor. If you are rich, you are not grateful, because you think everything is a fruit of your labor . . . . If you are poor everything is a blessing. Every sunrise is a blessing. Every drop of rain on the parched earth is a blessing . . . Because we are poor we can be compassionate. It is easier for us to understand the sufferings of others.”

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Food & Fun 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. Acommemoration 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: Rummage Sale benefiting Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, 3255 Folsom St., SF, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the church hall.

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 (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: AKaleidoscope, 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 by Sept. 22 at (415) 706-5947.

Oct. 4: Harvest Fest benefiting St. Matthias Parish Pre-school, Canyon Rd. off Cordeleras, Redwood City from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. The arts and crafts fair features “20 local vendors who sell their wonderful and creative homemade items,” said Mary Ornellas, school director. “It’s a fun-filled day for the entire family.” Also featured are a bake booth, food booth, silent auction and raffle. Children’s game area and Cosmo Jump, too. Call (650) 367-1320.

Oct. 4, 5: Monet, Merlot and Music, a benefit art auction and wine tasting benefiting the charitable programs of the St. Pius Parish Women’s Club, 1100 Woodside Rd off Valota, Redwood City. Saturday event begins at 6:30 p.m. with fine wine and hors d’oeuvres and music from the Scott Foster Jazz Trio. Tickets $25.

Art auction, free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. with items including lithographs, oil paintings and more from Regency Fine Art. First time art buyers and seasoned collectors are encouraged to attend. Dayafter sale on Sunday from 9 a.m. – noon. “This promises to be a lively, fun event,” said Debra Thompson. Call (650) 361-1710.

Oct. 4: Rites commemorating feast of St. Francis of Assisi at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF including blessing of the animals and evening Jazz Mass featuring the Jazz Mass Ensemble of the Diocese of Monterey and the Gospel Choir of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, SF. Call (415) 567-2020.

Oct. 5: St. Peter’s Elementary School will celebrate its 125th anniversary as a Mission District landmark and legacy with a Mass of Thanksgiving at 2 p.m. followed by a reception. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester will preside, with St. Peter’s pastor, Father Fabio Medina concelebrating. Everyone invited. Call (415) 647-8662.

Oct. 10, 11, 12: Fiesta commemorating the 227th anniversary of San Francisco’s Mission Dolores. Begins Fri. at 6 p.m. and continues Sat. 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. and Sun. 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Silent auction, family-style spaghetti and chicken dinners, game booths, international food, and Mission Café Sports Bar in the school auditorium. Benefits Mission Dolores Elementary School. “It’s all for a great cause, so come out and join the fun,” the school said. Call (415) 621-8203.

Oct. 19: St. Thomas the Apostle continues celebrations of its 80 Years of Serving God and Community with a liturgy at 11 a.m. honoring those who entered the priesthood or religious life from the Richmond district parish. Couples married there will be honored Nov. 16th. The parish school, Religious Education program and Chinese School graduates will be remembered on

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Sept. 20: ADay of Prayer and Healing from Abuse with Jesuit Father Bernie Bush beginning at 9:30 a.m. and ending with Healing Liturgy at 3 p.m. Also includes conferences, meditation, quiet time. “May this day be one of love and healing for you as you are embraced by the love of your God and one another.” $15 fee/no one excluded who cannot afford this.

Contact Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506.

Mercy Center 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. For fees, times and other offerings, call (650) 340-7474 or www.mercy-center.org.

Oct. 2,3: Men’s Golf Retreat with pro Jeff Leavitt and experts in meditative prayer including Jesuit Father Tom Hand. Retreat is suitable for those at all levels of meditative experience including beginners.

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Capuchin Father John De La Riva, parochial vicar at Our Lady of Angels Parish, takes a whack at the “pinata mascot” of the Annual Fall Fiesta benefiting Our Lady of Angels School taking place Sept. 19 and 20 on the school campus at 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame. Holy Jalapeno!!! Celebrate with rompin’ rides, game booths, festive food, and mingling mariachis. It’s a “hand-clapping, feet-stomping weekend,” said publicity chair, Laura Elmore. Fri, 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat. 2 – 11 p.m.

Alumni night Friday features line dancing. Call (650) 343-9200.

Dec. 7. Parishioners and friends from then and now are invited. Call (415) 387-5545.

Oct. 19: Happy 50th birthday to auxiliary of Mt. St. Joseph – St. Elizabeth, SF. Big birthday party commemorates the occasion from 2 – 6 p.m.. Cocktails and bountiful hors d’oeuvres. $50 donation benefits the children and families of Mt. St. Joseph – St. Elizabeth. Call (415) 587-1439 or (415) 386-1135.

Prayer Opportunities/Lectures 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) 7176428 or (415) 614-5572. Use cemetery’s main gate and follow signs. Sponsored by Rachel Ministry of the Archdiocese and the Cemeteries Department.

Sept. 25 - Oct. 30: World Religions seminar with Philip Novak of Dominican University of California at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 3 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley. Thursdays at 7 p.m. Fee of $50 covers all presentations. Call (415) 388-4190.

Oct. 3: 1st Fri. Mass of the Sacred Heart at St. Cecilia Church, 17th Ave. and Vicente St., Sf with rosary at 7 p.m. and Mass at 7:30 p.m. Father Joe Landi will preside.

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.

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.

Social Justice/Family Life 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) 568-3018.

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) 2214269 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.

1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan.

Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

2nd Fri. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica. Call Deacon Peter Solan at (650) 359-6313.

2nd Fri. at 7:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., SF. Call Laura McClung at (415) 362-1075.

3rd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley. Call Dean Miller at (650) 631-2882.

1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Catherine Rondainaro at (415) 713-0225.

Single, Divorced, Separated Sept. 27: Gala Anniversary Dinner of Separated and Divorced Catholics ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco beginning at 6:30 p.m. at L’Olivier Restaurant, SF. Tickets $40 per person. Call Jack at (415) 566-4230.

Sundays, Oct 12 – Nov. 23: Divorce Recovery Course, 7 p.m., O’Reilly Parish Center, 451 Eucalyptus, San Francisco. $45 fee includes materials. “Provides a chance to understand the emotional journey begun with the loss of a marriage,” said Separated and Divorced ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco sponsor of the sessions. Call Susan at (415) 752-1308 or Vonnie at (650) 873-4236.

Oct. 24 - 26: Beginning Experience weekend at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Time is “designed to be a powerful, positive growth experience’ and help those suffering significant loss “move on to the future with renewed hope.” Call Nicole at (408) 578-5654, Alan at (415) 584-2861 or Ward at (415) 821-3390.

Nov. 15: San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester will preside at a Mass of Thanksgiving at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Mill Valley at 1 p.m.

Pot luck reception follows. Call Pat Harder at (415) 492-3331.

Separated and Divorced support groups meet 3rd Sat. at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, call Pat at (415) 492-3331; and 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452.

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The Fighting Temptations

By Jayme George Paramount and MTV Films have teamed up to give audiences their answer to the gun-toting, action-packed bombs that stunk up the theatres this summer— a little family fun called “The Fighting Temptations” starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyonce Knowles.

The film centers on Gooding as Darrin Hill, a junior advertising executive with money and career problems galore, who is faced with the challenge of leading his homet o w n ’s gospel choir to contest winning stardom.

Not so subtle comparisons are made early on between Darrin and F. Scott F i t z g e r a l d ’s Jay G a t s b y, both are men from humble beginnings who have lied and cheated their way to success.

Both the film and Gooding’s character are supported by a flimsy plot line that has played itself out in a million different ways before it got to this movie. Darrin is driven by money and the attractive Knowles, as the outcast single mother, to turn the group of unlikely misfits into a spectacular gospel choir. Conveniently the movie skips over any kind of explanation of how a man with no musical experience could accomplish such a feat.

In the meantime, the film gives the audience the feeling that they are watching an

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uncut version of what should be a much shorter film that could do without all the tired jokes about professional athletes.

Director Jonathan Lynn clearly wants the movie to have important moral messages such as “be true to who you are” and “find value in people, not in material things.” So to convey these messages he practically bludgeons the audience over the head with them.

Fortunately for Darrin, no real hardships befall him on the way to discovering these important lessons.

Because this is a family film, Darrin will not meet the same end as his role model, the doomed Jay Gatsby. In the end, all the cheating, lying, and criminal charges are totally forgotten to make way for much cheerier things. There will be weddings and babies and prizes! People who used to hate each other will suddenly share warm smiles. The only way there could be more love in this film is if the Care BearsTM came down to sing a song about candy-flavored kisses.

Perhaps the only redeeming quality in this film is the appearance of Gospel and R&B stars such as Faith Evans, Melba Moore, and the O’Jays in some toe-tapping musical numbers. But overall, this film earns an unsatisfactory C-.

This film is rated PG-13 for mild profanity and suggestive sexual remarks.

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