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Voucher camp aig n tactics and claims criticized by bishops hile neither endorsing nor opposing the school voucher initiative on November 's state ballot, the Catholic bishops of California have issued a statement criticizing "exaggerated and unfounded claims on both sides of the issue," especially "negative assertions which imply that institutions such as Catholic See full text of bishops' statement on page 5 schools lack accountability or properly credentialed teachers." Made public Monday, the roughly 600-word commentary urged "that negative campaigning about Proposition 38 be recognized for what it is — the enemy of the common good and of the educational needs of all of California 's children." Saying that persons who vote in favor of the initiative — often called the Draper Initiative — could be said VOUCHER, page 5

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Overcoming hardships, Chinese Catholics enrich local Church By Jeffrey Burns , Ph.D.

_X_ he terms "Catholic " and "Chinese" have not always fit together easily. Stereotyping and misunderstanding have made the terms seem incompatible, but Catholic Chinese have been present in San Francisco since the beginning of the Archdiocese. Though only a tiny fraction of Chinese are Catholic , their presence has deeply enriched the Church in San Francisco. Also see "Chinese communities prepare to celebrate Oct. 1 canonizations," page 11, and editorial , page 12.

An unidentified Sister of St.Josephof Orange teaches students at the Holy Family Chinese Mission School in 1955.In 1921, the Holy Family Chinese Mission was off iciall y established at 902 Stockton, the same year that the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange arrived to staff the newly fo rmedelementary school.

Like everyone else, Chinese immigrants began arriving in California during the Gold Rush , numbering some 25,000 by 1852. Regrettably, the Chinese did not receive a hosp itable welcome from the City of St. Francis. From the time of the earliest arrivals, the Chinese experienced intense racial discrimination and hostility. Many Catholic San Franciscans were no better in this regard than their fellow citizens. In 1873, Jesuit mission preacher James Bouchard was guilty of a CHINESE CATHOLICS, page 10

In this issue . . .

Fall Fest

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About the cover: Our Lady of Guadalupe is depicted in this mosaic at the Franciscan Monastery in Washington.D.C. See page 3 story of "Pilgrim Image" of the famed painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe set to tour the Bay Area. (CNS photo)

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ing clubs and activities included John Mission , Danielle Bisho, Scott Karpowicz, Anne Yalon, Joe O'Malley, Edmond Lau.... Notre Dame High School, Belmont leads a hats off to biology teacher, Chris Read , on receiving a Certificate of Distinction from the Radioshack teachers awards program. Chris got the nod for "excelling" at "bring ing the wonders " of the biolog ical sciences to her students. Notre Dame grad and Santa Clara University sophomore Anica Galindo, is a new member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. ...The welcome mat 's out at Mercy Hi gh School, Burlingame, for new faculty members Aileen Kilgariff Catanzarita , Joann Riggio, Michael Garcia, Rosario, Zavaleta , Cynthia Yabas, David Cortes and Brenda Buckley Chavez . The senior class recently welcomed 129 freshmen with a donut breakfast and teaching the new girls on the block the "Freshmen Song ". Eight freshmen whose moms are Mercy alumnae are Elizabeth Button , Jacqueline Carambat, Delaney Diskin, Andrea Mendietta , Caitlin Ross, Danielle Sheridan , Kathleen Twomey, Bridget Walsh.Never too late to congratulate ! Kudos to last year 's winners of Mercy, Burlingame 's Sister Mary Gabriel Sportsmanship Award , Adrianne Veronica-Marie Gabriel; Sister Amy Bayley Leadershi p Award , Leila Nour Qutami; Mother M. Baptist Russell Service Award, Monica Maria Andrea Hawry low ; Board of Directors Academic Award , Erin Marie Swabacker; Princi pal's Award for General Excellence , Kathryn Margaret Boyle. Congrats to new officers of Mercy 's Parents Club: Cathy Payne , prez; Darlene Esola , vp; Marietta Dalton , treasurer; Catherine Damonte, secretary.

The Over 50 Club of SF's Epi phany Parish gathered to celebrate the 100th birthday of member Silvia Solari on Sept. 12 in O'Keefe Hall. Prez of the group is Frances Balestrieri , aunt of longtime Ep iphany music director , Mario. Thanks to Barbara Bottarini for leadin ' the hats off to the new centenarian , ... Silvia Solari, Father Larry Goode, pastor, 100 years old St. Finn Barr Parish , SF , invites all priests to a month ly holy hour. (See Datebook)....Thanks to Deacon Paul Lucia of St. Luke Parish, Foster City, and a retired Menlo Park cop, for his affirming words about Catholic San Francisco.... Hats off to Notre Dame des Victoires Elementary and religion coordinator , Barbara Loughery, on the school's student run liturgy committee. Students from all nine grades are inv ited to have a hand in planning all of the downtown school's liturgical rites through the year. Commissioner is 8th grader, Sara Welsh. Lunch time Bible study is also catching on here led by Barbara with assistance from fourth grader, Peter Moxley....Michael McGinley, who taught for 39 years at Juni pero Serra High School until retiring in 1999, was honored with the San Mateo school 's In Via Award in ceremonies at Serra on Aug. 30. Mike , a St. Brendan parishioner , says receiving the award is a "very touching experience" and th at he 's "proud" to have his name alongside previous Notre Dame High School National Merit Scholarship semifinalists winners , "peop le met Archbishop William J. Levada on his recent trip to the Belmont who have worked school. From left: Olivia Tarn, Heidi Baumgartner, Annahita Farschi , many years in the Archbishop Levada , Kristin Fabbro , Alyssa Caridis , Jessica Lee, community in Jacquelyn Chi. social justice and Enjoyed chatting with Sul pician Father Fred for other people." Honorary Serra alumnus status that comes with Cwiekowski, professor of systematic theology at St. the award "means a great deal" to Patrick Seminary. Father Fred is a Connecticut native Mike. Bishop John Wester who "loves" living in the Golden State. Congrats to Father Michael McGinley presided at Mass preceding the Fred and the other recentl y elected officers of the Priests ' award ceremonies with retired San Jose Bishop Pierre Council (see page 7). If you ever get a chance to visit the DuMaine and Serra president , Father Stephen Howell , gorgeous grounds of the seminary or concelebrating. The In Via Award is presented to a non- nearby Vallombrosa, don 't pass it alumnus who has supported Catholic education and pro- up. ...Glad to add Roy Silveira to the vided service to others. On hand for the event was former sacristan list at St. Anthony Parish , Serra teacher and In Via winner Jim Monahan, now retired Novato.... What' s up with those commerto much warmer climes near Sacramento with his wife, o P Jane....Congrats to Bil Paul of San Mateo 's St. Gregory cials that have people dri pp ing food Parish on his new public relation duties at Kaiser all over the p lace like it 's going to (O Permanente. Bil is married to Serra assistant princi pal for make us want to do it, too? I admit o academics, Lorraine Paul , and was formerl y a public rela- to fumbling at the table once in a tions person with the U.S. Postal Service....Many more awhile -1 have one necktie with so years to former St. Greg's pastor, Father Bill Worner who much food on it I have to keep it in Jaime Korkos the refri gerator - but yecch is about is celebrating his 80th birthday.. leads song at all that describes what goes on in Gavels raised for Father SI Spirit Mass those TV spots.... Michael Padazinski, head of the Canon Law Department of the Archdiocese, who gave a Tom Burke's First Recording very well-received presentation "Voice with Piano" on his area of expertise to repNow available on CD or cassette tape - $18 each (tax, S&H included) resentatives of more than 40 staff from about a dozen ggifftfmlk Includes Schubert 's Ave Maria, He Looked Wk Beyond My Fault [sung to Danny Boy), Peninsula Catholic elementary i e Not Af raid, the timeless Hail Holy schools a coupla ' weeks ago. ^ Queen and nine other prayerf ul hymns. VN SiHfck Associate Superintendent of raft To order, fill out this form, T* Schools , Lars Lund , who M enclose check and mail to: arranged for the talk , said par_^ Toin B«r ke, 1662 Alameda, r%_S Redwood City, CA 94061. ticipants were very pleased Questions? Call (650) 364-6909 with what they learned.... Chris Read Tom has served as cantor at Holy Name of Jesus, St. Pius and St. Raymond More than 1,400 students of the Sunset District's St. parishes and today leads song at Our Lady of Angels , Burlingame. Ignatius College Preparatory gathered for the school's Name annual Mass of the Holy Spirit at neighboring Holy Name _____ Address of Jesus Church earlier this month . Jesuit Father State Zip Phone Anthony Sauer, school president, presided and Jesuit Number of CDs Cass . x $18°° Father Edward Fasset was homilist. Students represent-

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Famed Guadalupe 'Pil grim Image' to be displayed in several parishes The traveling "Pilgrim Image" of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be disp layed throug hout the Archdiocese of San Francisco Oct. 4-26, according to Msgr. Jose Rodriguez , coordinator of the event and vicar for Spanish-speaking Catholics of the Archdiocese. "The image is the replica of the original vision of Guadalupe exhibited at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City," said Msgr. Rodriguez, who is also pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Parish, San Francisco. "His Holiness Pope John Paul II blessed the traveling image in January of 1999 during the Synod of Bishops celebrated in Mexico City." On Dec. 9, 1531, according to the New Catholic Encyclopedia , the Virgin Mary appeared to a peasant countryman Juan Diego at Tepeyac, a hill northwest of Mexico City. Mary instructed Diego to tell the bishop to build a church on the site. Three days later in a second appearance she told Diego to pick flowers and take them to the bishop. When Diego presented the fj flowers to the bishop, roses fell out of I Diego's mantle and beneath them was the u 1 painted image of the Lady. The famed Image of Our Lady is pre0 z < served in the sanctuary at the Basilica of z >l Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City. ca In 1945, Pope Pius XII bestowed the as title "Queen of Mexico and Empress of the Americas" on the Virgin of Guadalupe. The Virgin of Guadalupe has become for "a symbol of unity between the Catholics Cardinals from throughout the Americas and Pope John Paul II sit beneath a people of the Americas, inaugurating a new Mexican flag and the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the Mexico City basilica era of peace and evangelization and an named for her during a Jan. 23 Mass last year. At that time the Pope blessed a unprecedented blending of cultures," said "Pilgrim Image " of Our Lady of Guadalupe which will be seen at several parishes of Father Esequiel Sanchez, director of the San Francisco Archdiocese during October. UJ

Hispanic Ministry in Chicago. ."This event is a wonderful opportunity for the parish communities of our Archdiocese to renew the faith and to celebrate in honor of Our Lad y," Msgr. Rodriguez said. "Pope John Paul II said, 'the joy of the Jubilee would not be complete if our gaze did not turn to her who in full obedience to the Father gave birth to the Son of God in the flesh for our sake. May she guard the steps of all those who will be pilgrims in the Jubilee Year.'" As the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe travels throughout the Archdiocese Msgr. Rodriguez said there would be special celebrations in many parishes , including a special Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral , San Francisco, on Oct. 22 at 1 p.m. Schedule of appearances of the Pil grim Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Archdiocese: Oct. 4, St. Charles Borromeo Church , San Francisco; Oct. 6, St . Isabella Church , San Rafael; Oct. 7, Sacred Heart Church , Olema; Oct. 8, St. Anthony of Padua Church , San Francisco; Oct. 9-10, St. Bmno Church, San Bruno; Oct. 12, St. Finn Barr Church , San Francisco; Oct. 13 Holy Angels Church , Colma; Oct. 14, St. Paul Church , San Francisco; Oct. 15, St. Raphael Church , San Rafael; Oct. 17, St. Timothy Church, San Mateo; Oct. 18-19, St. Matthew Church, San Mateo; Oct. 20, Church of the Nativity, Menlo Park; Oct. 21, St. Mark Church, Belmont; Oct. 22, St. Mary 's Cathedral; Oct. 25, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Daly City; Oct. 26, St. Charles Borromeo Church, San Francisco. The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is Dec. 12.

U.S. bishops' Web site translation causing concern in Canada By Art Babych OTTAWA (CNS) — The availability of a stud y translation and an English summary of the new General Instruction of the Roman Missal from the Web site of the U.S. bishops ' conference is causing some concern to the Canadian bishops ' liturgy commission. "People are grabbing it and running with it and saying 'we have to implement this right now,'" said Notre Dame Sister Donna Kelly, secretary of the liturgy commission of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. "For a whole month before we even saw an official copy of the Latin text it was already all over the press," she said in an interview Sept. 21. With the consent of the Vatican's

Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for the Liturgy prepared the study translation and is taking orders for it online. The official Latin edition of the instruction can also be downloaded from the site at http://www.nccbuscc.org. The Canadian bishops' liturgy commission published an explanatory note Sept. 18 on the CCCB's Web site, pointing out that the study translation made available on the U.S. bishops' Web site "is currently not official even in the United States, much less in Canada." Several steps are necessary before the full implementation of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal in Canada, including asking the international liturgy commissions for

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official English and French translations of the text, said the CCCB commission. "Until we have a definitive English-language translation, it 's really hard to try to educate people on the nuances" of the new Missal, said Sister Kelly. As well, she said, the process has been "short-circuited by the fact that now the press has taken on the responsibility of catechesis by just the tone of the articles out there. That 's too bad, because it has taken out of the bishops' conferences' hands the responsibility for starting the catechesis." The Congregation for Divine Worship announced Aug. 4 it was sending the text of

the new Missal to episcopal conferences and nuncios so they could become aware of the changes and prepare translations. The instruction , last revised 25 years ago, includes minor changes in the way that Mass is to be celebrated. An official at the congregation told Catholic News Service Sept. 25 the general instruction "does not have legal force" until the new Missal is promulgated. Although the instruction and the Missal were approved by Pope John Paul II April 20, because of technical difficulties with the music and the printing, it may not be released before the end of the year, he said.

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tary bull y boys." Policing is a contentious issues in the Northern Ireland peace process. The Royal Ulster Constabulary has been perceived by Catholics and nationalists as an arm of Protestant and British rule.

Iraqi archbishop: 'end sanctions '

Church 'needed in Internet world '

EDMONTON , Alberta (CNS) — The rise of the Internet means the Churc h must re-emphasize its mandate to make disci ples , said the retired archbishop of San Francisco. But Archbishop John Quinn said the ideals and values needed by society will be best learned not throug h the Inlernet , but offline in churches , Archbishop Quinn mosques , temples and synagogues. "In the new world of the Internet , the Church will be more necessary than ever," Archbishop Quinn said in a Sept. 14 keynote talk that kicked off the four-day Assembly 2000 of the Archdiocese of Edmonton.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) — Dangers faced by human ri ghts advocates are minimal compared to those faced by peop le whose ri ghts they advocate , according to Bruce Harris , director of Covenant House 's Central American affiliate , Casa Alianza. "I don 't think we 've suffered any hardshi p that you can speak of ," Harris told a Washington human ri ghts gathering. "If we are attacked , we can run away. We can run to you and you can come to our defense ." But the children whose rights he champions "will continue to suffer until we get off our backsides and do something about it," Harris said to applause Sept. 18 at an American University symposium on human rights.

Hears of Christian persecution

WASHINGTO N (CNS) — Minority Christians are harshl y persecuted by non-Christian fundamentalist groups in India and Pakistan , and their governments have failed to protect them , said speakers at a hearing of the U.S. Commission on International Reli gious Freedom. Murder and harassment of priests and nuns , destruction of churches and burning of Bibles by fundamentalist Hindus in India is fed by an "ideology of hate" which the government has not confronted , said John Dayal , a Catholic and head of the Delhi-based United Christian Forum for Human Rights and national secretary of the All India Catholic Union. "Muslims and Christians are the main targets of a very focused , deeply organized and well-funded hate campaign throug hout India ," he said.

Execution moratorium p rop osed

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholic social justice activists are being asked to wage a fall campaign calling for a moratorium on the death penalty. Social justice ministers and state Catholic conference directors were asked in a Sept. 1 memorandum from the U.S. Catholic Conference Department of Social Development and World Peace to support Moratorium 2000, calling for a nationwide moratorium on the use of the death penalty.

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DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) — In a speech welcoming the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Ri ghts into British law, a veteran justice and peace campai gner urged young Catholics to join Northern Ireland' s police. Speaking to the Irish Association , Msgr. Denis Faul said , "Young Catholics ' biggest worry (if they join the police force) is that they and their families will be harassed and driven out of their homes by the paramili-

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BALTIMORE (CNS) — Archbishop Gabriei Kassab of Basra , Iraq, is urg ing the American people to pressure their leaders to bring an end to the U.S.-led sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations. During a visit to Baltimore , he said sanctions are causing unspeakable suffering among his peop le — causing 5,000 children to die every month from a lack of food and medicine and creating a debilitating climate of hopelessness. "As a witness , I saw in many hospitals not even a syringe available to give shots ," said Archbishop Kassab , speaking Sept. 14 on the steps of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virg in Mary in downtown Baltimore .

Call for U.S. debt relief

App ealed fo rjust treatment

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Vatican authorities appealed several times for the just treatment of 10 Iranian Jew s arrested and convicted of spy ing in Iran , the Vatican said. The Vatican statement was issued Sept. 21 as an Iranian official announced that , on appeal , the sentences of the men were reduced by between two and six years. "The Secretariat of State , both directl y and indirectl y, spoke about the fate of the prisoners several times with Iranian authorities ," said Vatican spokesman Joaqu in Navarro-Valls. E

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston called on Congress to allocate $435 million for debt relief to the world's poorest nations. The amount , said Cardinal Law, chairman of the U.S. bishops ' Committe e on International Policy, would fund two years of the U.S. commitment to the debt relief program approved by the G-7 leaders in Cologne , Germany, last year. Making a similar plea to Congress was Bishop Michae l D. Pfeifer of San Angelo , Texas, in a statement he issued as president of the Texas Conference of Churches , which embraces 13 Christian denominations in the state . Cardinal Law, in an op-ed article published Sept. 20 in The Washington Post , said: "A U.S. failure to fulfill its Cologne pledge would be devastating."

Sudan church-run clinic bombed

ROME (CNS) — A Sudanese government warplane dropped three bombs on a church-run medical clinic days after Sudanese bishops called for a cease-fire among warring factions in the country. The attack in Naurus , a village in southern Sudan about 30 miles from the Kenyan border , occurred Sept. 18, reported MISNA , a missionary news agency in Rome. The Sudanese bishops ' conference , meeting in Ital y, issued a statement Sept. 15 calling for a cease-fire to be "strictl y observed" and asked the United Nations monitor and assess the cease-fire .

App lauds Catholic education

HOLLYWOOD (CNS) — _ i_____ ^_ r-, Lourdes Benedicto , one of the cast members in NBC' s new prime-time soap opera "Titans ," knows the value of a Catholic education. Benedicto went from kindergarten throug h her senior year of hi gh school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan. Her parents may have hoped she would follow in their footsteps and become a doctor, lawyer or Lourdes Benedicto businesswoman , but she chose acting. "Just being in a same-sex school for 13 years empowers a woman to be not onl y independent but strive for whatever she wants in life and look for (it)," Benedicto said. "Especially as a minority woman , it definitely gave me a sense that my options and opportunities were limitless." She was born to Fili pino and Dominican parents.

Dialog ue postponed

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A Vatican-sponsored Day of Jewish-Christian Dialogue was postponed indefinitel y after leaders of Rome 's Jewish community withdrew their participation. Rabbis Elio Toaff and Abramo Piatelli , who were scheduled to speak at the Oct. 3 event , canceled after the early September publication of the

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Bishop : East Timor needs time

TOKYO (CNS) — East Timor should wait "one to two years " before declaring independence because it needs time to prepare for it , said Bishop Carlos Fili pe Ximenes Belo of Dili , East Timor. The U.N . Transitional Administration in East Timor is considering independence for around the end of 2001 , but Bishop Belo said Sept. 15 he would caution against it.

Jake step s to promote women

PERTH , Australia (CNS) — Australia 's bishops announced they will establish a Commission for Australian Catholic Women to promote women 's participation in the Church. The bishops pledged to work for a better balance of women and men in leadershi p and pro fessional roles at the national Churc h level and to work for a better gender and lay-clergy balance on councils , organizations and advisory bodies. The actions were in response to the bishops ' 1999 research report , "Woman and Man: One in Christ Jesus ," on the partici pation of women in the Catholic Church in Australia.

Condom use debated

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The delicate discussion of whether the Catholic Church should tolerate the use of condoms as a "lesser evil" in fighting the spread of AIDS resurfaced at the Vatican in late September. Some of the theologians closest to the Vatican , while emphasizing that contraception should never be accepted , told Catholic News Service there was still lively scholarl y debate about whether and how condom use - in certain extreme circumstances ~ mig ht be allowed. A few even said that Catholic couples in which one spouse has AIDS could use a condom to defend the health y partner from infection as long as they had no contraceptive intent. "There is an ongoing debate among Catholic theologians ," said Dominican Father Georges Cottier, Pope John Paul IPs in-house theologian .

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State bishop s ask 'common good ' be voucher debate goal

Following is the text of a commentary by the California Conf erence of Catholic B ishops on state Prop osition 38 the school voucher initiative. The statement was made public on Monday. The California Catholic Conference of Bishops has always supported the fundamental princip le that parents are the primary educators of their children. Consequentl y, we have consistently supported a variety of efforts to give parents that opportunity in education, such as tax credits, tax deductions, opportunity scholarships, and vouchers. For this reason, too, we are naturally interested in this year 's ballot measure on school vouchers, Proposition 38. As bishops of the Catholic Church, which is the largest provider of private education in our state, we are concerned that Proposition 38 does not reflect our consistent commitment to serve the poor in our midst. Had we and others committed to educational choice been invited to participate in the development of this proposition, we believe that a more equitable and effective voucher proposal would have resulted. We believe that a special preference for children and families who are economically poor or in poorly performing schools should be a key element of a voucher proposition. We are deeply concerned that the poorer children in our society are alread y at a perilous educational disadvantage, especially as we move forward in the technology age. Children with special needs should also be targeted in such a proposal. On the other hand, were Proposition 38 to pass, we would consider it a step toward upholding the right of parents to choose tire education best suited to the needs

of their children. We believe there is value in communities across the country enacting various forms of school choice measures to hel p broaden the discussion and the experience of parents exercising their choice of education for their children.

ELECTIONS We fear, however, that these underly ing values are being obscured by exaggerated and unfounded claims on both sides of the issue. We are greatly disappointed in the negative advertising, which p its one system of education against another. Moreover, we rej ect those negative assertions, which imply that institutions such as Catholic schools lack accountability or properl y credentialed teachers. We are proud of the fact that Catholic schools have been educating the children of this state since its founding, and have achieved a splendid record of educational accomplishment, particularly for inner-city and economically-challenged families. We urge that negative campaigning about Proposition

38 be recognized for what it is — the enemy of the common good and of the educational needs of all of California 's children. As Catholic bishops we have consistently sought to support our public schools, which the majority of our Catholic children attend. We greatly appreciate the countless men and women — many of them Catholic parishioners — who provide dedicated service and leadership to society through their efforts in public education. We are also convinced that no single model of education is appropriate to the needs of all persons. As bishops, we believe that it is not only our right as citizens but our responsibility as pastors to speak out on the ethical and social policy dimensions of public life. This conviction is echoed in Faithful Citizenship, recently published by the U.S. Catholic bishops: "As citizens, we can and must participate in the debates and choices over the values, vision, and leaders that will take our nation into this century. This dual calling of faith and citizenship is at the heart of what it means to be a Catholic in the United States at the beginning of this new millennium." We encourage our Catholic peop le and all people of good will to make an informed decision when they vote on Proposition 38 on Nov. 7, 2000.

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Several San Francisco religious leaders gathered at a Sept. 25 press conference to voice support for the City of San Francisco Proposition D, "The Children 's Fund". Pictured with children of the Good Samaritan Family Resource Center are , from left: Rabbi Stephen Pearce of Temple Emanu-EI; Episcopal Bishop William E. Swing; Msgr. Harry Schlitt, vicar for administration of the San Francisco Archdiocese; Rev. Kay Jorgensen of First Unitarian Church; unidentified participant; and Rev. Roger Ridgeway, president of the Interfa ith Council. Although Proposition D passage has been labeled a "slam dunk ," said Bishop Swing, "our problem is apathy. Voters may accidentally vote against it." The proposition would renew the 1991 landmark law known as the Children's Amendment . San Francisco became the first city in the country to dedicate such significant resources every year for programs for children and youth, according to proposition sponsors. Since passage , 80,000 young have annually received a variety of educational , care and family services , say proponents . Noting he represented Archbishop William J. Levada , Msgr. Schlitt said a recent Sunday's Gospel reading pointed out that when Jesus' disciples began arguing about who was the greatest, Jesus brought a child to them and said , "Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me." "This is a very important proposition to support ," said Msgr. Schlitt. "Proposition D is our ministry." According to Margaret Brodkin of Coleman Advocates, the organization that helped create the 1991 measure , "There is no organized opposition against the proposition and no additional money or new tax is involved. The proposition dedicates a portion of the city's existing budget to the kids. "

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" 3 Unfortunate ly, Catholics paid little heed to their archbishop. As one wag observed , "If the good bishop 's advice is heeded and the Romanists abandon such meetings, there The famed Chinese Drum and Bell Corps , founded in 1940, is shown in a 1961 photo taken on the will be but a thin attendance." Anti-Chinese discrimination occasion of a visit to the Bay Area by the late Cardinal Gregoire-Pierre Agag ianian (at left). and hostility remained a significant feature of California life well into the 20th century. in Chinatown. [He is] The directing supervisor of our entire Despite affronts and outright attacks , the Chinese Chinatown , and gained the confidence of the women." Catholic community in San Francisco retained a remarkEquall y as loved was another native Chinese Helper, Chinese Evening School which numbers over 550 students. able dignity. Several Chinese Catholics have made distinc- Mother St. Rose, who arrived in 1914 and worked in the Therein he also carries on religious Instruction." Chin received a host of awards for his service, most tive contributions to the local Church . What follows high- community until 1951. lights the efforts of several of these individuals. The list is Lay women undergirded success of the mission. Two notabl y the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Award in 1964, the not comprehensive nor can it do justice to the efforts of the early converts , Chew Yee and Genevieve Chow, for exam- first Chinese Catholic to be so honored. Chin remained Paulists , the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, and more ple, assisted the Sisters in social work. Chow l ater joined princi pal of the Language School until his death in 1994. His prominence extended well beyond the Catholic recently the Salesians in their ministry to the Chinese com- the Helpers, and was sent to Shanghai as a missionary. munity. But in'light of the 120 Chinese martyrs being celLay men also contributed mightily. In the 1 880s, community. In 1965, he was appointed to the original San ebrated in Rome we want to celebrate several of the out- Andreas Ma served as a catechist and assistant for Father Francisco Human Rights Commission. In his honor, a San standing Chinese Catholics in San Francisco's history. Antonucci. In the 1920s Anthony Chan and A.J. Fisher Francisco public elementary school at 350 Broadway was Many additional Chinese Catholics not mentioned here served as interpreters and catechists for Father Bradley. named for him, and a special scholarship for San Francisco have worked to build up the Church in San Francisco. But the two most prominent Chinese Catholic laymen were City College students bears his name. (He served ei ght Catholic Chinese fou nd a sympathetic presence in Dr. Chu Chew Shong and John Yehall Chin , who were also years on SFCC Governing Board.) Chin was one of the Archbishop Alemany. In 1854, Alemany secured the serv- g iants in the larger San Francisco Chinese community. orig inal members of the Friends of the Archives. ices of a Chinese Catholic priest to minister to his countryOne of Chin 's most notable contributions was his Dr. Chu was bom in Canton , China and came to the San men , Father Thomas Cian Francisco in 1913 , where he founding the now famous girls ' Chinese Drum and Bell from the Hunan Province in established a practice as a Corp s in 1940. Dressed in Chinese uniforms , the Corps China. Father Cian had jour "herbalist doctor." He became first performed on March 16, 1940 in the city 's annual St. neyed to Naples, Italy to study acquainted with Father Bradley, Patrick's Day parade, for which it received an award as the for the priesthood at the and converted to the Catholic "Most Outstanding Unit. " The group has since appeared Chinese College there. faith , being baptized on June throug hout California and the United States, including a In the 18th century the 25, 1915 at Old St. Mary's. 1961 performance in Washington , D.C. in the inauguration newly formed Congregation of According to one history, Dr. parade of the first Catholic president , John F. Kennedy. the Holy Family had founded In recent years , Catholic Chinese ministry in the Chu was essential to Father the Chinese College to train Bradley 's success: "Through Archdiocese has been guided abl y by Msgr. Ignatius Wang Chinese men for the priesthood Dr. Chu 's guidance and wise and Canossian Sistger. Maria Hsu. Both are immigrants to work in the Chinese miscounsel , Father Bradley was from China, but Msgr. Wang is a 12th generation Catholic , sions. Father Cian was ordained able to become better known while Sister Mari a is a convert. John Yehall Chin (left) and Dr. Chu Chew Shong a member of the Congregation were well-known Chinese Catholic leaders as well and acceptable throughout the In 1992, they convened a number of Chinese leaders in 1853, and agreed to go to San Chinese community." and formulated a "Chinese Pastoral Plan " For the as "giants in the larger San Francisco Chinese Francisco to minister rather Dr. Chu 's most important Archdiocese of San Francisco. The plan, while acknowlcommunity," writes historian Jeffrey Burns. than return to China. The priest contribution , however, was edging past difficulties , foresees a great future for the was a brilliant scholar and linguist, reputedly fluent in six lan- founding the Chinese Language School in 1921. He served Archdiocese 's Chinese Catholics. It calls for greater openguages including Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French and Italian. as principal of the school until his death in 1956. At that ness and respect for the Chinese culture and encourages Unfortunately, he spoke the Mandarin dialect, not Cantonese time, the pastor of the Chinese Mission wrote, "He was a Chinese Catholics not to remain isolated , but to become as did most of the San Francisco Chinese. His efforts proved zealous Catholic and considered by many as the leading involved in their local churches. "The hope is that with frustrating. In his initial survey of the Bay Area he found Chinese Catholic. He was constantly trying to find way s of patience, prayer and willingness to learn about the values, about 50 or 60 Chinese Catholics. His inability to communi- bringing the Church to the Chinese of San Francisco." beauty and richness of what the Chinese community has to cate effectively discouraged him. He lamented, "I cannot see The Chinese Language School was attended b y many offer," the plan asserts, "the Chinese Catholic Community much prospect of doing good here." non-Catholics, children primarily, who were taught the will take its rightful place in the councils of the Church." Despite his shortcomings in evangelizing the Chinese Chinese language, Chinese histoiy, and Chinese traditions A well-known Bay Area teacher, scholar and lecturer, community, Father Cian became one of Archbishop and culture . The school was an active agent in preserving Jeffrey Burns , Ph.D., is archdiocesan archivist. Alemany 's most trusted aides. In addition, since he was flu- the culture for second and third generation Chinese ent in Italian , he was appointed "pastor of the Italians" in Americans. But it was more than that . As one Paulist San Francisco! In 1865, Father Cian retu rned to Naples to Father noted, the school "was the instrument Christ used to teach in the seminary, before returning to China in 1873. bri ng so many people of our neighborhood into the Faith ." The first successful long-term ministry to the Chinese In 1931, John Yehall Chin became Dr. Chu 's assistant , began at Old St. Mary 's Parish in Chinatown. Under the and eventually succeeded him in 1956 as the princi pal of inspiration of a young Paulist, Father Henry Ignatius Stark , the Chinese Language School. Born in Kwangtung the mission was begun in 1903. Province, Canton , China, Chin came to San Francisco in In 1910, Father Stark was replaced by the much-loved 1924, and quickl y became involved with the Chinese misPaulist Father Charles Bradley who served until 1927, and sion. By the 1940s, he was practical ly indispensable. earned the title "Apostle to the Chinese." In 192 1, the Holy Father Charles Donovan , pastor of the mission, noted Family Chinese Mission was officially established at 902 that Chin was responsible for "instruction in prayers and Stockton in a building purchased by benefactress, Mrs. Christian doctrine of the first four primary grades as well Bertha Welch. In the same year, the Sisters of St. Joseph of as the kindergarten of our parochial school. [He was] a Orange arrived to staff the newly formed elementary school. companion-interpreter and helper with me on sick-calls , The Chinese Mission has always depended on the census work, hospital and house-to-house visitations, at efforts and generosity of women religious and lay men and baptisms, marriages, funerals. Instructor and catechist of women. In 1904, the Helpers of the Holy Souls, who were all our elderly Chinese converts. On every Sunday and working in Shanghai, were brought to San Francisco to Holyday as well as on other special occasions , he preachassist the Paulists. Included in this original group was es our messages, announcements and Gospel sermons to Archbishop William J. Levada assisted by Mother St. Ida, a native Chinese, who began working with the assembly and to the congregation. He serves as a link , Msgr. Ignatius Wang leads the ritual of the blessing the Chinese community. In addition to interpreting, she a medium of exchange for me in my daily dealings with the of ancestors incorporated within the annual taught catechism, sewing and English. Accord ing to histo- Chinese in their manifold problems as well as being interChinese New Years Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral. rian Deanna Gumina , "She spoke the language of preter to the various Chinese agencies and Chinese leaders

Oct . 1 canonizations

Chines e communities around world p repare to celebrate event

HONG KONG (CNS) — As the Oct. 1 canonization of 120 Chinese martyrs approaches, Chinese communities outside mainland China are preparing to celebrate the event at the Vatican and in local churches. Franciscan Father Giovanni Chiu, director of Centra Agostino Chao, serving Chinese Catholics in . Rome, told UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand , that about 3,500 Chinese Catholics from various parts of the world are expected to be among some 40,000 people who will attend the canonization liturgy at St. Peter's Square. Among those will be a contingent of Catholics from the Archdiocese of San Francisco led b y Canossian Sister Maria Hsu, director of the Chinese Ministry Office for the Archdiocese. Pope John Paul II will receive participating Chinese Catholics Oct. 2. Besides the 120 Chinese martyrs, Blessed Josephine Bakhita, an African Canossian Sister, and Blessed Katharine Drexel of the

United States will be canonized during the Oct. 1 ceremony. The Franciscans, Paris Foreign Mission Society and other congregations with members among the martyr-saints will celebrate the event in Rome. Mainland Chinese nun s, seminari ans and priests studying in France, Germany, Italy and other part s of Europe will make their way to the two-day event. The Church in Taiwan, which has been the major advocate of the canonization cause, will be represented by about 900 Catholics , including Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi of Kaohsiung, eight other bishops and a 100person choir. All parishes in Taiwan began a novena Sept. 22 that will continue through tomorrow in anticipation of the canonizations, and an island-wide celebration will be held Oct. 28 in Chiayi Diocese. From the Hong Kong Diocese, Canossians, other groups and a 200-person

diocesan pil grimage led by Auxiliary Bishop John Tong will attend the event in Rome. Overseas, Chinese Catholics from Australia , Europe, North America, Singapore and other countries will join the Rome event , including a 50-person group led by the U.S.based Cardinal Kung Foundation , named after the late Cardinal Ignatius Kung Pin-mei of Shanghai. Foundation president Joseph Kung, the cardinal 's nephew, told UCA News that the foundation will establish a depository to collect information supporting initiation of the canonization cause for Cardinal Kung. Among the 120 Chinese martyrs, 87 were Chinese and 33 were forei gn missionaries. Seventy-four were lay persons, 23 priests, eight seminarians, seven sisters and six bishops. Their ages ranged from 7 to 79. Thirty-two were martyred between 1814 and 1862 in religious persecutions, 86 in the anti-foreign Boxer Uprising in 1900 and two in 1930.

Vatican: Chinese canonizations not political By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican's decision to canonize 120 Catholics martyred in China has no diplomatic or political message behind it , according to Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Vails. The fact the Chinese government is upset the ceremony will take place Oct. 1, China's National Day, was not an intentional snub and mi ght have been avoided if China and the Vatican had diplomatic relations, he added. For Catholics, October is traditionally dedicated to remembering the importance of missionary activity, and Oct. 1 is the feast of St. Therese of Lisieux , patron of missions. For Chinese, Oct. 1 marks the anniversary of the 1949 proclamation of the People's Republic of China and the beginning of communist rule. "The story of Catholicism in China is so tied to the Church 's missionary activity that the date was obvious," Navarro-Valls told reporters Sept. 22. Thirty-three of the 120 martyrs were missionaries from Spain, France, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands. "The reasons for choosing Oct. 1 were so obviou s that the possibility of other interpre-

tations was not even considered," said Navarro-Valls. "Unfortunately, there are not direct diplomatic channels" with Beijing "so everything becomes more difficult ," he said. The Chinese government 's official protest also alleged the Vatican took the names of Chinese martyrs from the Catholic Church in Taiwan and that at least one of the foreign missionaries was anti-Chinese. "The presumption that the list of 120 martyrs arrived from Taiwan is absolutely not true," Navarro-Valls said. In fact, just over half of the martyrs' causes for canonization were begun at the Vatican before the modern Chinese state was bom, he said, adding that 61 of the 120 martyrs were beatified before 1947. All of the martyrs being canonized died between 1648 and 1930, "not in the context of the present politi cal situation in China," Navarro-Valls said. In addition, he said, requests for the canonization came from the countries where the foreign missionaries were bom as well as from Taiwan and from underground Catholics in mainland China. As for accusations that some of the missionaries were anti-Chinese, Navarro-Valls said people making those claims " must

provide proof and documentation " if they want the allegations to be taken seriously. "In reality, all of these martyrs, including the forei gn missionaries , loved China deeply and tried to inculturate the Gospel," he said. v "Accusations of being anti-something' are common," Navarro-Valls said; "early Roman martyrs were accused of being antiCaesar. "This is a strictly religious ceremony," the spokesman said. "It expresses the great evangelizing vitality of the local churches which sent the missionaries and a strong vitality in adhesion (to the faith) on the part of the Chinese." Navarro-Valls also said Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, head of the Vatican's jubilee committee, returned to Rome late Sept. 21 from a trip to China, where he met govern-

Sainthood Sunday

Blessed Josephine Bakhita, a Daughter of Charity of Canossa , will be canonized this Sunday by Pope John Paul II. The future saint spent years as a slave after being kidnapped as a child from her native Sudan. Canossian Sisters from the Archdiocese will be in Rome for the ceremonies including Sister Maria Hsu, director of Chinese Ministry and a member of the local Canossian community living at Holy Name of Jesus Parish. Archbishop Levada will preside at a Mass of Thanksgiving commemorating Blessed Bakhita 's life at the cathedral on Nov. 5 at 11 a.m.

ment leaders as well as representatives of the government-approved Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. The Vatican had said the cardinal' s visit was in a personal capacity, not as a Vatican official. Navarro-Valls said the cardinal was able to celebrate Mass at the popular Sheshan shrine, "but unfortunately there were no faithful present, only a few invited guests, priests of the patriotic association and the bishop of Shanghai."

Sts. Peter and Paul parishioners and priest to attend canonizations Salesian missionaries, Fathers Aloysius Versiglia and Callistus Caravario, martyred approximately 80 years ago in China, will be canonized on Oct. 1 by Pope John Paul II in Rome.

Salesian Father ' John Lam, parochial vicar, Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, and a delegation from the North Beach parish will attend the rite. The new saints ' feast will be celebrated annually on Nov. 14.

tion to the Bureau 225 nuns who of Catholic Indian today run more Missions , the start than 40 schools of an interest th at and ministry sites would eventually serving AfricanAmericans and 3 become a lifelong commitment. Native Americans £ m Touring in 13 states. '6 Europe in 1887 , Members also she met with Pope serve in Haiti. Mother Katharine Drexel, founder of the Leo XIII and Earlier this year, Church Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament , dedicated pleaded for more her life to helping poor African-Americans missionaries to the authorities officialand Native Americans. At left is an undated Indians. He sugly recognized a miracle attributed portrait of her as a young woman, courtesy gested she become of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. one herself. Later to Mother Drexel's that year, she intercession when a U.S. girl, Amy Wall, was cured of deafness made an extended visit to Indian missions in 1994. That cleared the way for Mother in the western United States. Despite concerns about her health, she Drexel 's canonization, completing a process decided in 1888 to take religious vows, that began 36 years ago in Philadelphia. Bom in 1858 to a wealthy banking fam- writing to a bishop: "What can I better ily, Katharine Drexel and her sisters inherit- desire than this?" She was encouraged to ed an estate of about $14 million in 1885. start her own order and use her inheritance Soon afterward, Katharine made a contribu- to support its work.

In New Orleans in 1915, Mother Drexel founded Xavier University, which became a leading institution for black education in the segregated Sou th. She also built dozens of small schools in Louisiana 's povertystricken bayou country, staffing them with black lay teachers from Xavier. Weakened by two heart attacks in her late 70s, she retired from active ministry and, until her death at age 96, spent much of her time in adoration of the Eucharist. Also being canonized Oct. 1 are: • Blessed Josephine Bakhita , a black African slave from Sudan who became a member of the Daughters of Charity of Canossa and worked as a cook, seamstress and doorkeeper for the order. • Blessed Maria Josefa Sancho de Guerra, a Spaniard who founded a religious order, the Sister Servants of Jesus of Charity, in the late 1800s. • 120 people martyred in China between 1648 and 1930, including bishops, priests, religious and laity. Of the total, 87 were Chinese and 33 were foreign missionaries.

Philadelphia heiress to become newest U.S. saint By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In a Holy Year highlig ht for U.S. Catholics, Pope Joh n Paul II will canonize Blessed Katharine Drexel , a Philadelp hia heiress who dedicated her life and fortune to helping poor African-Americans and Native Americans. At a jubi lee liturgy Oct. 1 in St. Peter 's Square , the Pope will declare Mother Drexel a saint along with 120 Chinese martyrs, a Spanish nun and a Sudanese slave. Mother Drexel will be only the second American-bom saint. More than 3,000 U.S. p ilgrims — including some who knew her personally before her death in 1955 — are expected to attend the ceremony. When he beatified her in 1988, the Pope praised Mother Drexel for her determination in combating "the devastating effects of racism " in the United States. She entered religious life after many years of prayer, devotion and missionary interest, and eventually founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, an order of more than

Sing le Catholi cs

Mural of Sister Josephine Bakhita created in commemoration of her 1992 beatification

Sunday 's canonizations: testimony to universality This Sunday 's canonization ceremony at St. Peter 's Square in Rome carries special significance for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and serves as an incredible spotli ght on the at-once global and intimate-interconnectedness of the Catholic Church. For U.S. citizens in general there is the culmination of the sainthood cause of Mother Katharine Drexel, who will become just the second American-born saint (the first being St. Elizabeth Ann Seton). Her and her order 's work among the Native American and black populations of this country was and continues to be a beacon for Catholics and persons of good will to embrace the ethnic and cultural richness of this nation — a reality that is reflected in glorious fashion in the Catholic Church in the U.S., and in particularly unique fashion here in the Bay Area. On that score, probably no locale in the United States has been the recipient of the depth of Chinese Catholic contribution to the Church as has the Archdiocese of San Francisco. (See Jeffrey Burns' historical commentary beginning on this week's cover.} Thus, on Sunday when Pope John Paul II declares 120 Catholics martyred in China — 87 native Chinese and 33 foreign missionaries — to be saints, the joy will resonate here in a profound way. A contingent of a dozen persons from the Archdiocese will be there, led by the director of the archdiocesan Chinese Ministry Office , Canossian Sister Maria Hsu, a convert to Catholicism and native of Shanghai, China. Interestingly enough, one oi those being canonized Sunday is also a convert and a Daughtei of Charity of Canossa — Sister Josephine Bakhita. Sister Josephine Bakhita, however, was a native of the Sudan , a region of the world that has been brought into much sharper focus for those of us here in the Archdiocese by the recent visits of exiled Sudanese Bishop Macram Mac Gassis of the El Obeid Diocese in the south of that tortured nation. Tragically, the stories of slavery, abuse, separation from family, torture, tattooing and humiliation that he shares with the world were all suffered well over a century ago by Blessed Josephine as a child (kidnapped at 8) and adolescent. A Mass of Thanksgiving in honor of Sister Josephine Bakhita will be held Nov. 5 at St. Mary's Cathedrdal. Archbishop William J. Levada will preside. The local Sisters of Charity oi Canossa have invited all to attend the 11 a.m. liturgy. Sunday 's canonization celebration will serve as eloquenl testimony that there are no boundaries of race or culture oi nation to the faith Jesus Christ asks us to share; that the Church is truly called to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic. DMY

Mary Pecci in her letter , "Missing Minislry " of Sept. 22, accuratel y notes the responsibility of the Church to address sing le Catholics ' need to meet others who share their values and beliefs. In terms of that ministry as it app lies to young adults , the U.S. bishops affirmed this core element of ministry in their 1997 document "Sons and Daug hters of the Light: A Pastora l Plan for Ministry with Young Adults. " We are fortunate in the San Francisco Archdiocese to have many parish young adult ministries which offer social , sp iritual and service opportunities for Catholic s in their 20s and 30s to meet one another, grow in relationshi ps, develop their faith , and to participate more fully in Christ 's mission. Furthermore, the Office of Young Adult Ministry for the Archdiocese publish- ¦ es a newsletter, an e-mail-listing of monthly activities , and p lans ongoing events for young adult Catholics in the Bay Area. One such event , Fall Fest, was founded by Catholic young adults , with concerns similar to those of Ms.Pecci , who saw a need and decided to make something happen. An annual event , created by young adults for young adults , Fall Fest now gathers 300 single and married young adults to celebrate their faith and meet others. J invite young adult Catholics to partici pate in the upcoming Fall Fest 2000. On Oct. 14 at Dominican University in San Rafael , Fall Fest 2000 includes a keynote by Father Brett Hoover, author of Losing Your Reli gion , Finding Your Faith; workshops on a variety of topics: Mass with Bishop John Wester; and a dinner and dance. For more information about Fall Fest and other young adult activities or to become more involved , contact the Office of Young Adult Ministry at (415) 565-3629 or e-mail christineop@sf yam.org . Sister Christine Wilcox , O.P. Director, Office of Young Adult Ministry

founded by St. Francis himself in 1217. The archdiocesan contribution for the Year of Jubilee in the generous amount of $76, 159.86 is gratefully acknowled ged. With every best personal wish , I am, respectfull y yours in Christ. Father Martial Luebke, O.F.M. Commissariat of the Hol y Land

Yes, a moral issue

Thank you for the excellent piece by Rick Moekler , "Affordable housing is a moral issue ," Sept. 15. 1 hope your readers will read it closel y. As executive director of the Tenderloin Nei g hborhood Development Corporation (TNDC), I appreciated his remarks about nonprofit housers. "Today most affordable housing is built by private, nonprofit developers ," he wrote. "The projects are smaller, well integrated into local neig hborhoods , and demonstrate I successful resident care and maintenance." That 's true of groups like Mercy Charities Housing of California , TNDC , and many more in San Francisco and throug hout the state. TNDC serves some of the poorest families and individuals in San Francisco , helping them maintain stability and dignity in their lives throug h the very affordable housing we provide. TNDC continues to grow. This year, we will take over three private ly owned affordable buildings at risk of going to market-rate rents, thus saving the housing of 450 people, mainly seniors and disabled , who otherwise might end up on the streets. TNDC was started in 1981 with substantial financial and administrative support from the Franciscan Order. We continue to have a good relationshi p with the Friars to this day. In fact , I' m a Franciscan Brother. However, we are an entire ly separate , secular organization , receiving no funding from the Church. Nonetheless , our work is part and parcel of the Good Work. Brother Kelly Cullen , O.F.M. Executive Director, TNDC San Francisco

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Thanks from Holy Land Abortion ignored

The following letter was forwarded from the Office of the Archbishop to he shared with readers: On behalf of the Custos in Jerusalem and the friars serving in the Holy Land , I wish to thank you , the clergy and the laity of the Archdiocese of San Francisco for your continued hel p and support in their important apostolates. Besides the care of the holy places, the Franciscans of the Custody operate 25 schools, two orphanages, two retirement homes, 10 medical centers , three summer camps and 15 parish centers in the land where Jesus was born , worked, preached , died and rose again. The Custod y was

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A Catholic Church without a conservative national Catholic newspaper has for the most part confused uninformed congregations in matters concerning the Catholic viewpoint on abortion. Many routinel y vote for national , state and local pro-abortion candidates causing great anguish. Abortion is seldom mentioned in the Catholic Church — with some laudable exceptions — except on the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. After that month (January) mostl y silence. The answer: bring in some national Catholic conservative papers to the churches. They give strai ght from-theshoulder answers to help voters vote Christlike. Louis Keeshan San Francisco

Objective evil

It is hard to address you as "Catholic " San Francisco as there are so many outand-out un-Catholic articles , but that happens when Truth is forfeited for opinions , either by the laity or, most regretfully, by the clergy. For examp le, Sept. 15' s article on Father Richard Rohr, 0. F. M. regarding "Jubilee spirituality." A statement he made was absurd, and from my limited knowledge of theology, a contradiction: "God breaks God' s own rules all the time." I guess this is due to the fact that He/or she is no longer God , but some anthropomorphic resemblance of what we think God should LETTERS, page 18

On Being Catholic

Facing our failings In the Gospel of St. Matthew Jesus praises the wise steward who can bring out of his storeroom both the new and the old. (Mt 13:52) Pope John Paul has done this in our celebration of the Holy Year. He has g iven a fresh significance to traditional practices associated with the Jubilee : the images of his opening the Hol y Door at St. Paul ' soutside-theWalls with Ang lican and Orthodox bishops and visiting the sacred sites of the Holy Land will stay with us long after the year ends. The Pope has also brought from the storeroom of the Church new signs for this Holy Year. The first is what John Paul calls the "purification of memory." Fundamentally, this means the recognition that we, the followers of Christ , throug hout history have acted in ways which are contrary to the Gospel — at times , in the name of that same Gospel. The Hol y Father 's frank admission that we Catholics must ask pardon of others , and his desire to request this himself , has stirred up a hornets ' nest. For some, the Pope does not go far enough. He is criticized for not being more willing to admit wrongs done in the name of the Churc h , and for continuing to act in ways perceived to be insensitive even as he asks forgiveness. Others criticize him for making unilateral apologies , as if Catholics in the past (and present) were not also the victims of persecution.

This debate has moved into the theolo g ical arena. bold as to proclaim , We profess faith in a Churc h which is hol y. The pages "God made him who of history and the pages of newspapers set before us did not know sin to be many examp les of members of the Church who act in sin , so that in him we anything but a hol y way. Does this affect the holiness might become the very of the Church? In one sense, no. The sanctity of the holiness of God." (2 Church is the Cor. 5:21) In the mystery of gift of God, not the sum total of the Incarnation , the her members ' eternal Son of God virtues. The took on our human nature. Throug h His death and respriest at the urrection , Christ has made the Church trul y His Body, altar may be the and He prolongs the mystery of His presence in the saintl y Cure of Ars or the scheming Talleyrand. The world th rough saints and sinners , and the saint and sinEucharist is the work of Christ regardless of the ner in each of us. We can ignore the sinful aspect of the human instrument. As St. Paul observed long ago, Churc h, just as we can ignore the dark side in our per"The treasure we possess in earthen vessels , to make sonal lives , but onl y at great peril. Somewhere it clear that its surpassing power comes from God and Chesterton wrote that it is dishonest to claim St. not from us." (2 Cor. 4:7) Francis of Assisi and deny Pope Alexander VI. In another sense, of course, the unholiness of In the field of the Churc h, wheat and weeds grow Catholics does have an impact on the holiness of the together. The apostles ' net gathers in the trash along Church. "The Church" is not an abstraction , still less a with the treasure. (Mt 13) Until the Lord's return , this spiritual entity "out there" detached from the real flesh- will be the state of affairs. It will always be necessary and-blood members of the Body of Christ. To affi rm for us as individuals and as Churc h to ask forgiveness. some kind of perfect , sinless Church wholly separate It is easy to criticize the Pope for apolog izing too from the community of sinners who belong to the much or not enoug h — until I try to do it myself , and Church strikes me as a kind of ecclesial docetism. The find out how hard it really is. docetists denied that the Son of God reall y became a human being — he onl y "appeared" to be human , because it was unthinkable to them lhat the all-good , allFather Milton T. Walsh is dean of students and an powerful God could reall y take on our weak , limited assistant professor of systematic theology at St. nature. Opposing this line of thought. St. Paul was so Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.

The sanctity of the Church is the gift of God , not the sum total of her members' virtues

Father Milton T. Walsh

Family Lif e

A person — no matter how small A coup le of years ago at this time, I was three months pregnant. All of us were overjoyed about the new member of the family, though at lhat momen t I was rather cheerless about the morning sickness. Our children , especially, were delighted about the new baby. They had been praying for months that God would give them another brother or sister, and they believed this pregnancy was the answer to their prayers. Then during a routine ultrasound we discovered that the unborn baby Dudro had died. The doctor offered no conclusive explanation for this , and my husband and I returned home from his office with droop ing heads. "How will we tell the children?" we asked each other. Grieving and dreading the miscarriage still to come, we gathered the children together for a rosary. We tried to exp lain the situation as best we could , then

my husband added , "Let 's pray lhat Mommy won 't two-year-old daughter need to go to the hospital." Before the firs t teary stepped forward and decade ended , the labor pains began. And shortl y after tenderl y kissed the I left the room , our baby was born . baby 's itty, bitty head. From the crown of his head to his little round We decided to rump, the child was no more than two inches long. I bury the child. Our cradled him in the palm sons prepared a small of my hand , and counted box which I lined with his 10 teeny fingers and pretty fabric. A priest 10 teeny toes. close to our famil y Instinctively, I baptized helped us. him. The following Sunday was Respect Life Sunday, After my husband Oct. 1 this year. The irony was not lost on us. Though ascertained that all was we mourned our baby, we realized his brief and fragwell with me, he said , ile life had been a gift to our family. "I'm getting the children. " Before I could even consid"A -person 's a person no matter how small ," wrote er whether or not this was a good idea, they were Dr. Seuss. And the child who died before he was born standing beside me. had witnessed this truth to us all. Our three older children drew a deep breath when they saw the tiny baby. "He 's so small ," one of them said , and then they began to cry. My husband and I Vivian Dudro is the mother of four (ages four to 12) began to cry, too. But we all dried our eyes when our and a member of St. Mary 's Cathedral Parish.

1 cradled him in the palm of my

hand , and counted his 10 teeny f i ngers and 10 teeny toes. Instinctively, I bap tized him...

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Vivian W. Dudro

What is Polish National Catholic Church? sacraments at PNCC Masses? Can they receive Communion in our churches? (Illinois) A. An agreement seven years ago between the Vatican and the Polish National Catholic Church of America ruled that PNCC members may receive the sacraments of penance, Eucharist and anointing of the sick from Roman Catholic priests if they make the request on their own initiative. Likewise, Roman Catholics may receive these sacraments from PNCC clergy whenever necessity or sp iritual advantage suggests and it is physically or morall y not possible to receive these sacraments from

a Roman Catholic priest (Canon 844 n. 2). The PNCC is neither Roman Catholic nor Orthodox, but its sacraments are now formally recognized as val id by the Vatican. It was founded in 1897 after a series of dispute s between Polish immigrants to North America and local bishops. There are approximately 160 PNCC parishes in the United States, mainly in the Northeast. (Questions for Father D ietzen may he sent to him at Box 325, Peoria, IL 6/65/. This column is copyrighted by Catholic New Seivice.)

The Catholic Diff erence

What World Youth Day meant World Youth Day 2000, the largest pilgrimage in the history of Europe, provoked considerable commentary. One striking analysis came from Eugcnio Scalfari , an eminent Italian journalist of the secularist persuasion and former editor-in-chief of La Repubblica , one of Ital y 's major dailies. In a front-page , signed column the day WYD-2000 concluded , Scalfari challenged the press favorable attention his Italian media colleagues had lavished on the young pilgrims. "Are a million and a half or even two million young people touring Rome in the Jubilee worth more than the two million who are flooding the Adriatic Riviera without crosses and litanies?" Scalfari asked. And what was the difference between World Youth Day 's youngsters and the "flower children " of 30 years ago? Many of the latter "felt the same need" to "escape the solitary conditi ons to which modernity has condemned individuals " and "fulfilled it in their way, with their music, sexual liberty, jeans and miniskirts, feminism, pacifism." Mr. Scalfari was also-worried that the young pilgrims of August would become cannon fodder in the ecclesiastical wars, manipulated by Communion and Liberation , Opus Dei, and other renewal movements which, in the former editor 's judgment, are only interested in the "power game." The participants in World Youth Day certainly didn 't understand themselves that way, the Italian journalist conceded; but , according to Scalfari, they were, objectively, agents of "curial centralism " and the absolutist moral agenda promoted by their hero, Pope John Paul U. Give Mr. Scalfari this: He had the courage to say what other critics of the pontificate were only thinking . But in the saying of it, he displayed a host of confusions and demonstrated , yet again, that many Italian intellectuals simply have not come to grips with the dramatic changes that John Paul II has made in "their" papacy. Mr. Scalfari is certainly rig ht that modern life can

engender a lot of loneliness. But surely there is a dramatic difference between dealing with that loneliness by "turning-on and tuning-out ," as the Woodstock generation proposed , and transcending it by a commitment to Christian community and the service of the world. The young pil grims of WYD-2000 are not "worth more ," in God' s eyes, than their age peers on the beaches of the Adriatic. But they may have found a path to human fulfillment that is less strewn with broke n glass and broken lives than the path of hedonism and "I did it my way." Isn 't that a possibility worth exploring ? The world has not turned out the way Eugenio Scalfari

World Youth Day 2000 was, in its essence, a tremendous celebration of faith.

Jeannie (left) and Chrystal Fontanilla of St. Finn Barr Parish, San Francisco , take a break on picturesque steps in Assisi , Italy, while there with the archdiocesan group of young persons on pilgrimage to World Youth Day in Rome last month. The event drew nearly 2 million young adults from around the world. The sisters described the experience as spiritually powerful. "It was chaoti c and beautiful at once ," said Chrystal.

and other secularists 'o expected. The youth revo X E olution of 1968 did not I m ; -J :& produce a more humane ¦ uj world order. It produced z I o some good music, a lot of ,,, . -i human suffering, and the ~ George Wei gel poll-driven politics of Bill Clinton and Great Britain's Tony Blair. Worst of all, from the point of view of those who imagined that a secular Utopia was at hand 30 years ago, the next generation has, in large numbers, found its way to God. Confusedly, perhaps. Tentatively, maybe. But the opening to faith and to moral heroism is there . And that 's the opening that John Paul II, who reads the signs of the times better than most newspaper editors , has seized. The Church has also not worked out the way Mr. Scalfari evidently expected. He is not, of course, alone in his frustrations. But isn 't there something strange about the inability to take what is in front of you at face value? World Youth Day 2000 was, in its essence, a tremendous celebration of faith . Like anything else human it was multidimensional, and no doubt some of those involved had their ecclesiastical power agendas. But to mistake the revitalization of the Church and the building of networks of Christian friendship that will shape the Catholic world for decades to come for another cynical gambit in the internal politics of Catholicism is, in a word, pathetic. The new evangelization received an enormous boost from WYD-2000. And the new evangelization is not about the tattered old "who 's in charge here " questions that continue to agitate those who cannot seem to understand that things have changed since 1968. The new evangelization is about proclaiming, celebrating, and serving Jesus Christ. '¦ <

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

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Focus on 'papabilf shifts as cardinals grow older John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With the lengthening of Pope John Paul JI's papacy — on Sept. 30 it will become the seventh-longest in history — Vatican-watchers have noticed a strange phenomenon : Cardinals considered potential popes only a few years ago are quietly retiring to the sidelines. In mid-September, Brazilian Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves resigned at age 75 as head of the Congregation for Bishops. As recently as 1998, he topped many lists of future papal candidates, but age and illness have taken a heavy toll. Late last year, Cardinal Pio Laghi, another perennial favorite on lists of "papabili," or papal contenders , resigned as head of the Congregation for Catholic Education at age 77. Sometime in the not-too-distant future , the Pope is expected to accept the resignations of other key Vatican figures who have been mentioned over the years as possible pontiffs: Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, head of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, who turns 77 this fall; Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, 78, who heads the Vatican Jubilee committee; and Cardinal Jozef Tomko, the 76year-old head of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Other key cardinals who have retired or are edging into the retirement zone include Cardinal Bemardin Gantin, the 78-year-old dean of the College of Cardinals, and Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, the Vatican's top ecumenist, now 76. Any cardinal can be elected pope, even in his late 70s, but the talk around the Vatican these days is turning away

from the older cardinals toward the lesser-known and younger. There is also growing interest in the next consistory, expected sometime during the next five months, when the Pope will name 25 new cardinals and bring the College of Cardinals back up to its maximum 120 voting members. Discussion of a potential successor to Pope John Paul began many years ago in the press, but the issue is still rarely mentioned in public by those who would actuall y elect a new pope: the world's cardinals under the age of 80. When asked, they say they hope Pope John Paul, who turned 80 in May, is able to reign for many more years. Despite underl ying worry about the ph ysical frailty brought on by neurological disease, the Pope appears to be sailing slowly but steadily through the Holy Year. And although there has been much speculation about papal retirement after the Jubilee Year, no one inside the Vatican seems to take the possibility too seriously. If a conclave should occur anytime soon, the field would be fairly open, in the view of many informed observers. Indeed , the next pope may not yet be a cardinal — which is why the upcoming nominations are considered so important. Some of the cardinals-to-be are virtual certainties: • Italian Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re, newly named to replace Cardinal Neves at the Congregation for Bishops. A seasoned veteran at the Secretariat of State, he is already being touted in the Italian press as a favorite-son papal candidate. • Six other Vatican officials: Polish Archbishop Zenon Grocholewski, who took Cardinal Laghi's place at

the education congregation; Portuguese Archbishop Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Congregation for Sainthood Causes; Italian Archbishop Mario Pompedda, head of the Vatican's highest tribunal, the Apostolic Signature; Italian Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, head of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See; and Italian Archbishop Sergio Sebastiani, president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See. • Among residential archbishops, Archbishop Edward M. Egan of New York is seen as certain to receive a red hat. So is Archbishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor of Westminster, England. After that , the list of could-be cardinals tips heavily toward Latin America: In Brazil, Archbishops Claudio Hummes of Sao Paolo and Geraldo Majella Agnelo of Sao Salvador da Bahia; in Argentina, Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires; in Chile, Archbishop Francisco Errazuriz Ossa of Santiago; in Peru, Archbishop Juan Cipriani Thome of Lima; in Colombia, Archbishops Pedro Rubiano Saenz of Bogota and Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo of Medellin; in Honduras, Archbishop Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa; in Ecuador, Archbishop Juan Larrea Holguin of Guayaquil; in El Salvador, Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle of San Salvador. Those 10 Latin American archbishops govern huge dioceses in a part of the world where more than 40 percent of the Church 's population now resides. That 's why many Vatican watchers expect Latin American influence to grow in the College of Cardinals. Elsewhere, leading cardinal candidates are found in PAPABILL, page 17

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SCRIPTURE & LITU RGY Appreciate the Spirit even outside 'official channels My father and I never allowed my mother to forget this incident. The year was 1 948 when the United Nations was being formed in San Francisco 's War Memorial Opera House and when Red Cross volunteers were being recruited to serve as ushers for this momentous event. My mother, a volunteer , if ever there was one, was on the phone assuring her Red Cross "superior " that she was qualified to be an usher because she had "the full uniform , even the raincoat." Needless to say, my father and I would assure her that she could do anything thereafter because she had "the full uniform , even the raincoat." The Word chosen for this Sunday 's liturgy would lead us in a different direction: there are many without "the full uniform ," without degrees and titles throug h whom God asserts His reign , and we better not , dare not, make it difficult for them to function. Numbers describes the experience of 70 elders who receive from God some of Moses ' spirit and who then begin to engage in prophetic behavior, probably ecstatic chanting and dancing. A problem arises when two men, Eldad and Medad, who were not at this gathering, begin to prophesy. They were acting without official empowerment. "Joshua , son of Nun , who from his youth had been Moses' aide, said, 'Moses , my lord , stop them.' But Moses answered him , Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the people were prophets! Would that the Lord might bestow his spirit on them all!' " Moses seems quite content to allow God to act outside "official channels" with the people He chooses. Indeed his words anticipate the formation of the Church of all nation s, Spirit-filled and missioned to the world. Numbers prepares us to hear Mark. "Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us." Savor the irony: a few verses before (Mark 9:28-29) Jesus' disciples

Tweny-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Numbers 11:25-29; Psalm 19; James 5:1-6; Mark 9:39-43, 45, 47-48

Father David M. Pettingill were unable to cast out a demon, and here is a "non-disciple" doing quite well at the task. Jesus ' reply is no surprise to us, "Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me." Jesus, as the agent for God's reign, allows God to reign, to choose whom God wills , to work with whom He wills, to confound disciples who would be a bit more restrictive , if they "reigned." The test goes on with increased strength . We can oppose God and His reign if we make it difficult for His Spiritfilled agents to function . If we do so, we deserve to be drowned. Moreover, the language becomes more exaggerated; we should maim any members of ours ("hand," "foot ," "eye") rather than place obstacles in the way of peoples' Spirit-guided ministry.

One such prop hetic presence in our communities is the groups who have heard James and oppose economic injustice. These peop le are constantl y at us to use our wealth responsibl y, to protect the ri ghts and di gnity of workers, and to attack economic systems that reduce our species to poverty and homelessness. They annoy and challenge us: "Come now, you rich , weep and wail over your impending miseries.... You have stored up treasure for the last days. Behold , the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are cry ing aloud; and the cries of the harvester have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts." We move to the table to give thanks that our parish community has listened to its Spirit-filled prophets "with or without uniforms ," th at we have created an atmosphere and structures in which the Hol y Spirit can speak through our people, that we have given gracious hearing to those who are "not one of us" but whose message is limpid and heart rending. The alternative is trul y fri ghtening: communities of suppression where life ebbs away, hospitality numbs, and the justice and peace of God 's reign remain unspoken â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all because God is not permitted to reign , and the people He chooses to send are placed on restriction. Frightening! Father David M. Pettingill is assistant to the moderator of the curia and parochial vicar at St. Emydius, San Francisco .

Jubilee Mass 2000: environment, music, Communion I really hate to admit it when I'm wrong, so my friends and family really enjoy proving that I am. It seems that the Archbishop has done just that and I hope he 's enjoying himself. You see, I didn 't want a Jubilee Mass in a giant arena. I mean I really didn 't want one. I argued that the liturgy doesn 't lend itself to a ballpark. I insisted that we could never fill such a stadium. And I really didn 't want to do all the work involved . But I guess I was wrong. Pacific Bell Park is so beautiful that it may be the one ballpark that does lend itself to the liturgy. Ticket reservations for the Oct. 28 Jubilee Mass have already topped the 40,000 mark to confirm a full house, and a number of very generous people have come forward to hel p with all the work . Three strikes and I'm out. Here are just a few of the people who are involved and a few things you can do to help. Environment Transforming a stadium into a place of worship on a shoestring budget is no small task, but the designers of Pacific Bell Park have already done a lot to help. The park is a unique setting where 40,000 people can be part of the action on the field and enjoy the grandeur of God 's cre-

Father John Talesfore ation. For the rest we are lucky to have the beautiful furnishings and vessels designed by Brother Joe Aspell for the historic 1987 Mass at Candlestick Park with Pope John Paul II which are currently in use at the Cathedral. Thanks also to St. Hilary Parish for lending us their beautiful Roger 's organ. Along with PGI production company, Father Tony La Torre of St. Finn Barr Church and Doug Benbow of St. Mary 's Cathedral are seeing to all these preparations. Of course, furniture and sacred objects alone will not turn the ballpark into a church. We, the Church, will do that. A number of people will be on hand to welcome us into a hospitable setting for worship. To start, choirs from the Catholic high schools of the Archdiocese will be our greeters at the gates and the Office of Communications will be providing inspirational videos on the Megatron. At 12:45 Father Miles Riley will host a pre-liturgyevent including keynote speakers Sister Sharon McMillan, Father Milton Walsh and Msgr. Warren Holleran. More than 1,100 people from the many cultures of the Archdiocese will draw us in with a call to worship under the direction of Jose and Gigi David with Noemi Castillo in our Office of Ethnic Ministries.

Music While I was unable to book the Baha Men for a Gregorian Chant rendition of "Who Let the Dogs Out? " international ly acclaimed composer Christopher Walker did accept our invitation to direct music for the Mass. We're grateful for the experience he brings having directed music for stadium liturg ies many times. His good friend , Sister Celeste Arbuckle in the Office of Reli gious Education and Youth Ministry, is seeing to all the arrangements for his travel and stay. Laura and Victor Flaviani serve as his local support staff. They are seeing to countless details like finalizing the musical program , arranging musicians, and directing early rehearsals with the Archdiocesan Choir. My assistant Debbie McAuliffe has sent parish music directors a preliminary list of all the songs being considered for the liturgy. We hope parishes will use this music during the coming weeks so everything is familiar to you on the day of the Jubilee Mass. Communion Providing Communion to over 40,000 people in a dignified manner will be a challenge. So I' m grateful to McCoy 's Church Goods Co. for offering us 40 ,000 Communion hosts and to a number of people who are coordinating the 400 ministers of the Eucharist. Father Crai g Forner of the Office of Vocations is coordinating the priests and deacons. Don Crean, the liturgy coordinator at the Office of Campus Ministry for USF, Nanette Miller from Most Holy Redeemer Parish and Ol ga Barrera of Catholic Charities wilt be coordinating the lay eucharistic ministers. Commissioned eucharistic ministers who would like to help should speak to their pastors right away. Sister Christine Wilcox and Mary Jansen from the Office of Young Adult Ministry are gathering 400 young adults (18-40 years of age) to serve as ushers who will guide ministers of the Eucharist to points throughout the stadium and provide directions for the necessary flow of communicants. Those interested in ushering should call (415) 565-3629 or e-mail them at christineop@sfyam.org. iiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; i 1

Father John Talesfore directs the Office of Worship

School of Pastoral Leadership For times, registration materials, costs, exact locations and additional information , call Joni Gallagher at (415) 242-9087 or spl@att.net Preregistration is necessary for many of these programs. Visit the Web site at www.splsf.org . Sept 29-30: "Called and Gifted Worksho p" sponsored by St. Catherine of Siena, St. Finn Barr, Good Shepherd and St. Veronica parishes at St. Veronica Parish Hall in South San Francisco. Fri. 7-9 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Oct 24 (Tues. 7:30-9:30 p.m., San Mateo): "Christianity: An Introduction to (he Catholic Faith" with Father Milton Walsh. Prayer: Finding the Heart 's True Home" with Jesuit Father Bernie Bush. Through Oct. 25 (Wed. 7:30-9:30 p.m., SF): "Christianity: An Introduction to the Catholic Faith" with Father Tony Lambino at Archbishop Riordan High School. "Catholic Bible Study: Pathways through Scripture" Through April 3/Tues. in San Mateo with Jesuit Father Donald Sharp and Msgr. J. Warren Holleran; Through April 4/Wed./SF with Erasmo Leiva; Through April 5/Thurs ./Marin with Dominican Father Gregory Tatum. All 7:30-9:30 p.m. Through Oct. 6/Fri. with Fr. Sharp at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi , SF from 2-4 p.m. followed by Holy Hour. Nov. 4: Detention/Prison Ministry confe rence , "Grace Behind Bars" , with St. Joseph Sister Suzanne Jabro and Bishop John Wester at Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Ave. and Lawton, SF. Includes prayer, lunch, dialogue. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees, times and other offerings call (650) 325-5614. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, Program Director. Oct. 1: "A Day with Therese of Lisieux" led by Father Thomas Madden, director of Vallombrosa Center. The saint called the Little Flower. What can she say to our time? to our world? to our life? 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Father Madden will preside at Mass during the day. Oct. T. "Sisters: Are We Really Related?" a one day retreat opportunity to acknowledge the similarities and differences that link sisters together, a bond that is often the longest lasting of their lives. Come and find out why. Facilitated by Marriage and Family Counselor Carol Kaplan. 9:15 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Silver Penny Farm offers retreat facilities near the wine country, 5215 Old Lakeville Rd., Petaluma, 94954. All quarters have bedroom and sitting room with fireplace. Call Father Ray Smith for a brochure at (707) 762-1498.

MERCY CENTER 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. For fees, times and other offerings, call (650) 340-7474 Sept. 30: Centering Prayer workshop, an introduction to the meditation techniques that foster contemp lative prayer with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan and Carol Fowler. Oct. 7: "Sowing Tears Reaping Joy", a day to listen and pray with Johannes Brahms' A German Requiem, music that will help unlock the Bible's tenderness and passion about death and dying. Facilitated by Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan.

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Volunteers to serve as ushers during Communion at the Oct. 28 Jubilee Mass are needed. Volunteers will sit behind home plate and be able to keep a special umbrella they'll use to guide communicants. Please call (415) 565-3629 or 581-3545.

Social Justice/Respect Life Sept. 30: "Faithful and Effective Citizenship in a Jubilee Year", a Pax Christi workshop at St. Augustine Church, 400 Alcatraz Ave. at Colby, Oakland, 8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. What kind of nation do you want? What are candidates not discussing? What makes this year's election unique in history? Sponsored by the Diocese of Oakland and Pax Christi, and featuring Mercy Sister Anne Curtis. Call (925) 829-9554. Jubilee 2000 USA, as part of a worldwide effort to relieve the crushing debt owed by struggling countries to stronger lands, announces a Bay Area speakers bureau. Knowledgeable speakers are available without charge to address parish groups and organizations on this Jubilee Year topic. Call William or Jean Lesherat (510) 524-6645 orwelesher@aol.com. Oct. 7: Jubilee 2000 USA sponsors A Debt Free Start for a Billion People, a teach-in with speakers including Ann Pettifor and Njoki Njehu. Workshops on IMF and World Bank; Global Debt in Relation to Sweatshops; the Environment and Healthcare. $10 general admission/$5 students and those who can't afford the higher fee. Call Diana Bohn at (510) 5255497 or Bill Ferguson at (408) 946-5096. 3rd Sat: Maryknoll Affiliates meet from 11 a.m. -1 p.m. at the Maryknoll House, 2555 Webster (between Pacific and B'way), SF to share faith and plan an action agenda. This is a group comparable to some religious communities' Third Orders made up of lay women and men interested in assisting the Maryknoll mission. Call Marie Wren at (415) 386-6600.

Prayer/Devotions Oct. 1: Sunday evening prayer at St. Patrick Seminary chapel, a Jubilee Year pilgrimage site, 320 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park , 5:15 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Call (650) 325-5621. Also, Oct. 8, 22; Nov. 5, 12,19; Dec. 3. Oct. 5: Healing Mass with Father Richard Bain presiding, 7 p.m., St. Mary's Cathedral, Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Oct. 12 at 12:30 p.m. at St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae. Call (415) 663-1139. Oct.

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Datebook^ Convention, St. Mary's Cathedral, Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Three days of prayer and exhortation with presenters including Archdiocesan Liaison, Father Joe Landi; Msgr. Fred Bitanga, and Jesuit Father Bob Nery. Call Ernie Von Emster at (650) 594-1131. Through Oct. 1: Christian Renewal Mission at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church , 3 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley with Redemptorist Father Carlyle Blake presiding. Morning and evening Masses with special retreat Mass on Sept. 28. Call (415) 388-4190. Nov. 5: Archbishop William J. Levada presides at a Mass commemorating the life of Blessed Josephine Bakhita who will be proclaimed saint by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 1. Blessed Bakhita was a Canossian Daughter of Charity. All are invited. St. Mary's Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF. Call (415) 753-6685. 2nd Fri.: Holy Hour for Priests at St. Finn Barr Church , 10:30 a.m. Includes talk by priest from Opus Dai with silent prayer and Reconciliation if desired. Followed by simple lunch in rectory. Call (415) 333-3627. Take a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land without leaving the Archdiocese by visiting an ongoing exposition at St. John of God Parish, 5th Ave. and Irving, SF. Open M-F 1:30-5 p.m. and until 1 p.m. on Sundays. Their Web site address is www.sjog.org. Last Sunday of the month: Mass for people living with AIDS at St. Boniface Church, 133 Golden Gate Ave., SF at 5:30 p.m. Call for dates (415) 863-7515.

Blessed Sacrament Exposition Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, 24 hours everyday, (650) 322-3013. St. Sebastian Church, corner of Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae, M - F 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Adoration Chapel, (415) 461-0704. St. Agnes Church, 1025 Masonic (near Page) SF, Fri., 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., (415) 487-8560. Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame, M- F after 8 a.m. Mass until 7 p.m. St. Isabella Church, One TrinityWay, San Rafael, Fri., 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Our Lady of Loretlo Church, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, Fri. 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., 1st Fri. 9:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.'Sat. St. Bruno Church, 555 W. San Bruno Ave., San Bruno, 24 hours everyday. Call (650) 588-0572. Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel. St. Francis of Assisi Shrine, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, SF, Fri. following 12:15 p.m. Mass until 4:15 p.m. 2nd Sat. at St. Matthew Church, One Notre Dame Way, San Mateo with Nocturnal Adoration Society of San Mateo County. Call Lynn King at (650) 349-0498 or Jim McGill at (650) 574-3918 for times. Corpus Christ) Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, daily from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Call (650) 322-1801.St. Bartholomew Church, 300 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, 1st Fri. from after 8 a.m. Mass until just before next day's 8 a.m. Mass.; St. Dominic Church , Bush and Steiner St., 8:30-9:30 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. each Mon. and Wed. (415) 567-7824. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 3 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley, Mon., 8:15 a.m. through Wed. at 7:30 a.m.; St. John of God Church, 1290 5th Ave. at Irving, SF. Mondays after 12:10 p.m. Mass, (415) 566-5610; St. Kevin Church, 704 Cortland Ave., SF, 1st Fri. following 9 a.m. Mass until 5:15 p.m. Benediction. Call (415) 6485751. St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St., SF, M-F 8:45 a.m.-6 p.m.;Thurs.until 9 p.m.; 1st Fri. until 7:30 p.m. Mass. Call (415) 333-3627; St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon, M - F 7:45 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Call (415) 435-1122; St. Mary's Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, 1st Fri. after 8 a.m. Mass until Sat. at 8 p.m.

Family Life Oct. 13-15: Catholic Family Retreat at St, Clare's Retreat Center in the Santa Cruz mountains. Single and couple families with children age 4 - teenage are welcome. Sponsored by Retrouvaille. Call Ed or Peg Gleason at (415) 221-4269 or Mike or Nancy Demaree at (408) 227-1759. Partial scholarships available.

Single, Divorced, Separated Oct. 6-8: "Beginning Experience" weekend at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park , designed to help the widowed, divorced and separated make a new beginning in life. Call Lanier Reeves at (650) 375-8332 or Jean Nash at (650) 851-2371. 45-plus professional singles meet for coffee and good conversation every Wed., 5:30-7 p.m. at Starbucks at Jackson and Davis in downtown SF. Go to table with PS sign. Call (415) 391-8579. Catholic Adult Singles Assoc, of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 897-0639. Are you or someone you know separated, divorced, widowed? Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese is offering the Divorce Recovery Course which provides a chance to understand the emotional journey begun with loss of a marriage. Group meets Sun. fro m Oct. 8 - Nov. 19 at St. Dominic Church at Bush and Steiner, SF. At 7 p.m. $40 fee includes materials. Call Pat at (415) 389-9780 or Theresa at (415) 666-0876. 19For information about additional ministries available to divorced and separated persons in the Archdiocese, call (415) 273-5521. New Wings at St. Thomas More Church meets on 3rd Thursdays. Call Claudia Devaux at (415) 3349088 or e-mail stmchurch @ hotmail.com. Sept. 23: Enneagram workshop from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. $20. Oct. 7: Day at Lourdes with Rosary procession , Mass sacrament of the sick, followed by lunch. Oct. 14:

New Wings Indian Summer Beach Bonfire. Call Ron Landucci at (650) 583-6016.

Food & Fun Sept. 29 - Oct. 1: Enjoy the Harvest 2000 Festival at Mater Dolorosa Parish, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco. Children's hour on Fri., 3-5 p.m., with 10 cent games. Festival hours: Fri. 3- 1 0 p.m.; Sat. noon-10 p.m.; Sun. 1 - 8 p.m. Children's rides, food court , silent auction, rummage sale. Fun for all! Call (650) 583-4131. Sept. 29: "Viva Las Vegas" at Our Lady of the Pillar Parish, 400 Church St. Half Moon Bay, 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. Food, fun , great prizes. Tickets $15/$20 at door. Call (650) 726-4674. Sept. 30: Tri-Tip Dinner/Auction at Our Lady of the Pillar Churc h, 400 Church St., Half Moon Bay. 6 p.m. Tickets $25. Call (650) 726-4674. Sept. 29, 30: "A Blast Through the Past" at Our Lady of Angels Parish, 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame benefiting programs and activities at Our Lady of Angels school. The annual Fun Faire features dinner both days from 5:30 - 8 p.m. as well as a silent auction, rides and more. Fri. 6 - 1 0 p.m.; Sat. noon -11 p.m. Call Cheryl Watkins at (650) 588-7442 or (415) 973-2189. Sponsored by OLA Mothers Club. Sept. 30: Annual Blessing of the Animals by Franciscan Father Floyd Lotito at St. Boniface Church, 133 Golden Gate Ave., SF from 1 : 3 0 - 3 p.m. Call (415) 592-2740 Sept. 30: Annual awards dinner for Jesuit Volunteer Corps: Southwest at University of San Francisco's Handerly Room on Lone Mt. campus, 2300 Turk St., SF 6 p.m., $30 per person. Call (415) 522-1599, ext. 305. Sept. 30, Oct 1: Mission Dolores Parish Fiesta, 16th and Church St., SF with international foods , children's games, music , sports bar. Family chicken dinner both days 4 p.m. - closing. Sat. 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Come celebrate with us. Call (415) 621-8203. Oct. 1: Annual Carnival on the grounds of St. Matthew Parish, 9th Ave. and El Camino Real, San Mateo, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Dinner served 4 - 8 p.m. Special appearance by Rhonda Bentley and Tom Vacar from Channel 2 News. Call (650) 344-7622. Oct. 1: Carnival at Our Lady of the Pillar Church , 400 Church St., Half Moon Bay, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. with international foods, arts and crafts , bongo, and entertain ment. Call (650) 726-4674. Oct 6: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club meets for 7 a.m. Mass, breakfast and a talk from former Jesuit Dick Neve, founder of "Harvest of Hope" at St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae. Members $5/ non-members $8. Call (415) 461-0704. Nov. 3: Gerald Jampolsky, MD, from the Center for Attitudinal Healing. Oct. 6, 7, 8: "An Enchanted Forest" , All Souls Parish Festival 2000, corner of Miller and Walnut in South San Francisco. Great family fun! Lots of games, prizes and food including bingo, silent auction and entertainment . Fri. 6 - 1 0 p.m.; Sat. and Sun. noon - 10 p.m. Call (650) 871-8944. Oct. 7: Annual Creole Cuisine Feast at St. Dominic Parish hall, Pine and Pierce St., SF, 1 - 8 p.m. Menu of Gumbo, red beans, rice, fried chicken, corn muffins, salad and dessert. Tickets $17/children's plate $12. Order sweet potato pies, $10, in advance. Benefits St. Dominic parish school. Call Lorraine Gash at (415) 922-5339 or Vicky Winston at (415) 921-3293. Oct. 7-8: Columbus Day Bazaar of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, 666 Filbert St. at Washington Square, SF. Spaghetti dinner, children's games, sports games, music, bingo, and more. Sat. noon-10 p.m.; Sun. noon - 8 p.m. Call (415) 421-0809. Oct. 7: 23rd annual Fiesta Filipina at St. Anne of the Sunset's Moriarity Hall, Funston and Judah St., SF beginning at 6 p.m. Includes dinner, entertainment and dancing until midnight. Tickets $20 adults/$6 under 12. Call Cely Zapanta at (415) 753-5154. Oct. 8: 50th Anniversary celebration of SF's St. Anthony Foundation at St. Boniface Parish. 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Oct. 13-15: "Harvest Daze", the annual festival of St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae featuring carnival rides , booth games, silent auction , family dinners, bingo and on Sat. night , a DJ. Fri. 6 - 10 p.m.; Sat. noon - 10 p.m.; Sun. noon - 9 p.m. Call (650) 697-4730. Oct. 14: Monte Carlo Night at Good Shepherd Parish, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica featuring an enchanting Mardi Gras Masquerade theme with a trip for two to New Orleans for the best costume. Special appearance by Rhonda Bentley of KTVU's Mornings on Two. Join the fun. Costumes optional. Tickets $25 in advance or at the door. Call Dianne at (650) 355-2953.

Oct. 15: "Songs and Celebration ", an afternoon commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in California featuring the talent of Opera San Jose , the Gospel. Choir of Notre Dame High School, San Jose; and the Chorus of Notre Dame High School, Belmont at College of Notre Dame Chapel, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont, 1 p.m. Benefits construction of Sisters ' retirement residence on Belmont campus. Tickets: $50. Call (408) 741-0324. Oct. 15: St. Brendan's Mothers ' Club presents Fabulous Fashion at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, SF, a fashion show echoing memories of the Mary Quant and Yardley styles with an early 60s English Invasion theme. Piccadilly Silent auction begins at 2 p.m. with Tea and fashion show at 3 p.m. Tickets $50 adults/$40 children. Call Marilu Donnici at (415) 753-1077 or Kathy Morello at (415) 584-6275. Oct. 16: 8th annual Father Fergus Memorial Golf Tournament at Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club, Menlo Park benefiting seminary fund of the Capuchin Franciscan community. 18 Hole Scramble begins with 10 a.m. check in and lunch, noon shotgun start , cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7:30 p.m. $225 ticket includes greens fees , cart , tee prizes, lunch , beverages and cocktails/dinner. Contact Mike Stecher at (650) 3424680 or Anne Hahn at (650) 692-5044. Oct. 20-22: Mardi Gras 2000, Good Shepherd Parish Festival, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica. Three days of fun for the whole family. Booth games live music, rides, food, classic car show, and more . Fri. 6 -10 p.m.; Sat. noon - 9 p.m.; Sun. 1 0- 6 p.m. Call Dianne at (650) 355-2953. Oct. 21: "White Mass" , the annual gathering for medical professionals at St. Mary 's Cathedral , Gough and Geary Blvd., SF at 5:30 p.m. with Archbishop William J. Levada presiding. Banquet follows at USF's Xavier Hall. William Andereck , M.D., will speak after dinner about "How the Doctor/Patient Relationship is Weathering Managed Care " . Call (415) 661-0740 or (650) 548-9946 for ticket information. Oct. 22: Celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of St. Stephen Parish, 601 Eucalyptus Dr., SF. Archbishop William J. Levada presides at a Mass of Thanksgiving with former pastor, Bishop John C. Wester, as homilist. Reception follows in Donworth Hall. Call (415) 681-2444. Oct. 23-24: Reno Fun Trip sponsored by St. Thomas More Church, SF. Call Nancy and Bill Mannion at (415) 333-2798. Oct. 25: Good Shepherd Guild's annual Octoberfest Luncheon and Bingo Party at Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave., South San Francisco. Social hour 11:30 a.m.; luncheon 12:30 p.m. Tickets $35. Call Beverly Desmond at (415) 587-5373. Benefits Good Shepherd Sisters ' Grace Center. Oct. 26: "Set the Captive Heart Free" , a concert by Jesse Manibusan benefiting Kairos Outside, a ministry supporting women affected by the incarceration of a loved one, at 7 p.m. at St. Leander Church, 550 West Estudillo Ave., San Leandro. Tickets $10 adults/$7.50 13-17/$5 under 12. Call Denise Dawson at (510) 226-0605.

Reunions Sept. 30: Presentation High School Class of 1970. 6:30 p.m. at Alioto's on Fisherman 's Wharf. Call Maureen Sullivan Revel at (415) 386-4447. Oct. 7: University of San Francisco beginning with Mass in St. Ignatius Church at 5 p.m., reception and dinner at Lone Mtn. Campus at 6 p.m. and a picnic the next day. Call Catherine Williamson , alumni relations, at (415) 422-2646 or 422-6431. Oct. 14: St. Paul High School, SF, Class of 1960. Call Lillian Carter at (415) 584-3938 or Jann Ortega Phillips at (415) 647-6589. Oct. 14: Star of the Sea Academy, Class of 1960 at the Italian American Social Club, SF. Call Loretta Fraguglia Repetto at (415) 585-5301 or MconroySalbi@juno.com. Oct. 21: "Fashion Show, Luncheon, Milestone Reunion" honoring classes of 1940 , 45, 55, 60,' 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95 from Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Call Donna Westwood, alumnae director, at (650) 595-1913, ext. 351 or alumnae@ndhsb.org. Oct. 14: Class of 1975 reunion. Call Karen Schwarz at (650) 572-2675 or Debbie Bradley Schembri at (408) 267-8740. Class of 1982 is planning its 20 year reunion. Call Denise Miller at Dmllsports@aol.com; Wynne Hegarty at WHegarty @ aol.com; Amy Ellingson at Aimelling@aol.com; Lenore Wagner Grant at lenore@dellnet.com. Class of 1990 planning a 10th reunion. Call Megan Centis at (650) 3699784 or mcentis@yahoo.com. Did you attend SF's St. Paul of the Shipwreck Elementary School? We need to hear from you. Please call the school at (415) 467-1798 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Mon. - Fri. or e-mail Shipoff@stpaulshipwreck.com with your name, address, phone numbers and year graduated. A special event is planned for spring 20O1. Centennial of St. Anne's Home, SF. Looking for old photos or written recollections of the Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Anne's Home or residents of the home. Contact John McGuckin at (415) 765-2945.

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¦ Continued from page 14 Armagh, Northern Ireland, and Dublin, Ireland; Vilnius, Lithuania; Lisbon , Portugal; Onitsha, Nigeria; Nairobi , Kenya; Lyons, France; and Turin, Italy. Some think the new cardinals could include Jerusalem Patriarch Michel Sabbah, despite possible political fallout from Israel; and Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, apostolic administrator of Northern European Russia, despite ecumenical fallout from the Orthodox. Conclave scenarios are much more speculative. Usually they are written by reporters covering the Vatican, who are familiar with the cardinal s of the Roman Curia, Italy and Europe but often out of touch with those in the rest of the world. Names frequentl y mentioned as future papal candidates these days include Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze, 67, who coordinates dialogue with other religions at the Vatican; Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, 67; Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano, 72, Vatican secretary of state; Italian Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi of Genoa, 66; Italian Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini of Milan, 73; Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino of Havana, 63; French Cardinal Pierre Eyt of Bordeaux, 66; and Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, 71, who heads the Vatican Congregation for Clergy. No consensus has formed on a front-runner, and these names also will drop off the lists the longer Pope John Paul stays in office. In 2004 the Pope would climb to No. 3 in longest pontificates, and in 2010 to No. 2, behind only St. Peter, who according to tradition ruled for 34 years. John Thavis is chief of Catholic News Service 's Rome bureau.

A formal blessing and dedication by Archbishop William J. Levada of the spiritual life center, chapel and priests ' rooms at St. Agnes ¦ Parish in the Haight-Ashbury District took place on Sept. 14. Those taking part included , from left above: Chad Evans , Patrick McCormick , Beatriz St. John , Phyllis Clausen, Virginia Snyder, Frank Uranich , Jesuit Father Russell Roide (pastor), Shannon Day, Jesuit Fathers Don Sharp and John Chandler. The Archbishop (right with Fathers Don Sharp and John Chandler) presided at a Mass in the building 's new St. Francis Xavier Chapel. The facility, 1611 Oak St., will serve as an urban spiritual life center geared toward young adults, according to Virginia Snyder, executive assistant to Father Roide. The facility is open daily and provides programs including Bible study, Yoga , and retreats. It opened its doors July 31, feast day of St. Ignatius of Loyola. The center includes guest rooms , the Edmund F. Egan Book Center and Library, the Bob and Pat Bliss Conversation Center, the chapel , and the Catherine Teresa Garnett Counseling Center. For information , call (415) 487-8560.

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of bamboo because, "It is said that a person rocking with laughter looks like bamboo swaying in the wind ," Father Wong writes. "Laughing makes us happy, healthy, and strong like bamboo. I am grateful that I have been strong like bamboo for these 80 years."

Bamboo Swaying in the Wind deserves to be ranked with See related stories on pages 10 and 11. Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain and St. Theresa of the Little Flower's Story of a Soul as a record of Father Wong was the first Chinese a conversion , discovery of a vocation , and Jesuit of the California Province. His spiran account of how a religious life is lived. ituality is truly East and West, grounded But it is also a prison narrative. Most in the Ignatian exercises and enriched by of Father George Bernard Wong 's vocahis Chinese heritage. His prayer life in tion as a Jesuit has been lived in detenprison included silent daily Mass (which tion in Chinese prisons and labor camps he called "a dry Mass" without bread or and in the restricted conditions of a wine), a daily examination of conscience, released ex-convict. often four rosaries a day, keeping up with The Chinese government arrested the seasons of the Church and occasionalFather Wong in 1955. He was 34. ly completing an Ignatian retreat with Claudia Devaux, Ph.D. and Chinese by birth , he had been ordained a four weeks of spiritual exercises. Father George B. Wong, S.J. priest in Shanghai four years before. Father Wong's fellow Jesuits thought From 1955 to 1962 he was held pri soner, without charges, he had been too traumatized by his experiences to set them often in solitary confinement. In 1962 he was final ly tried down in writing after he was permitted to emigrate. But his and convicted as a counterrevolutionary and a supporter of co-author, Claudia Devaux, has given voice to an extraora subversive organization, the Legion of Mary. dinary narrative of suffering and triump h from a littleHe was sentenced to complete a 15-year term by serving known period. This portrait glows with Father Wong's genanother eight years of hard labor on a prison farm. But he tle optimism, sincere faith , humble kindness. would not be released even then. In all, he spent more than 40 "The world needs thousands of books like this one," said years as a convict or forced laborer. Not until 1991, at the age the famous Chinese human rights activist Harry Wu, who also of 70, was he permitted to emigrate to California. Yet his por- spent years on Chinese prison labor farms for thought crimes. trait today shows a man with a broad sincere smile, "a man Daly is an associate editor in the special projects entirely without rancor," as a friend today described him. The Chinese character for the word "laugh"is a picture department of Catholic News Service.

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Most beautiful flower of ML. Carmel Blessed Mother of the San of Gad , assist me in my need Help me and show me you are my mother Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God. Queen oi Heaven and earth I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need Qh Mary, conceived without sin Pray for us OX) Holy Mary. I place this cause in your hands (3X). Say prayers 3 days JR

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J.S. Paluch Co,, Inc. Is interviewing for experienced Sales Reps to sell advertising in weekly Catholic Church Bulletins. Bilingual a plus. Work in your local area. We offer the qualified candidate realistic earning potential of $25K - $5OK . Our benefit package Includes Medlcal/Dental/401K/Expenses.

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Human Resource Generalist Provide administrative support to the HR Department , responsible for coordination of employment process , orientation and education; proposing, improving and maintaining Human Resources administrative processes , preparing reports/written materials, and follow-up on specific tasks as assigned. Assumes primary responsibility for maintaining/updating ADP/ HR Info. System. Works closely with Director of Human Resources in employee relations, interpretation/development of policies, consulting with supervisors on employment related problems, follow-up on workers compensation and unemployment claims. Bachelor's Degree in Human Resource Management or related field preferred. Minimum of 3 to 5 years experience in Human Resources and previous supervisory experience preferred. FT benefit position.

Submit resume by October 24, 2000 to: Human Resources Director Sisters of Mercy 2300 Adeline Drive Burlingame, CA 94010 Fax: (650) 347-2550 E-mail: HRCherie@aol.com

Weekly Newspaper Editor Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco Have you ever wanted to make a difference? This is a unique opportunity to become editor of a hi gh quality, respected , and award winning weekly newspaper. The editor will be responsible for the planning, preparation and production of the weekly (43 issues per year) newspaper, which will support the mission of the Catholic Church and the goals of the Archdiocese, while earning a strong reputation for quality. Applicants should have a BA degree or hi gher (preferably in Journalism or Communications), at least ten years of newspaper experience (with tenure as an editor or assistant editor), strong management and communication skills and knowled ge of newspaper production. An understanding of Catholic Doctrine and Beliefs as well as being a practicing Catholic are required. A background that includes work in the Catholic Press is desirable. Please mail resume and cover letter with salary history to: Kathy Andrews, Archdiocese of San Francisco, 445 Church Street, CA 94114 or fax to (415) 565-3648 or e-mail kandrews-hr.asf@planeteria.net.

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Emma Baretto, 21, is one of the team of Amerindian women near Lethem in the remote interior of Guyana who work long hours weaving increasing ly sought-after Rupununi tribal hammocks made from cotton thread grown and spun locally. The women do not keep formal track of the hours worked , but a rough estimate would put their hourl y wage at far less than $1. Emma 's earnings help support her family. The work causes hand and shoulder problems for some of the women.

Junita Gomes, 30, a member of the Patamona Tribe in the predominantly Catholic village of Kato in the Pakaraimas Mountains of Guyana, was eight months pregnant with her eighth child when she gave a walking tour of St. Anthony of Padua Parish there last month . In addition to caring for her children and parents, she gardens — spending special attention on the crop of the versatile cassava plant , pictured here. Everyone helps on the farm , she said , "or you starve." She is a parish catechist.

Rose Jacobs (standing, center), 38, is the single mother of five and lives in a small,one-room fhatched-roof home provided by her village where she also cares for her disabled grandmother. She is raising pigs to support her family, and hopes one day soon to obtain a treadle -powered sewing machine to augment her income with other members of the St. Ignatius Parish (Lethem) sewing cooperative. Pictured with Rose and her grandmother are three of her children , clockwise: Dione, 12; Michael, 2; and Kathleen , 4.

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Guyana — microcosm of third world challenges and hop es Amy and Robin Gall

By Dan Morris-Young Rose Jacobs , Junita Gomes, Amy Gall and Emma Baretto are not experts on third world debt , international price structures, infrastructures , or partici patory governments, but they can tell you about struggles to secure enough to eat, keeping a roof over their heads, and their families ' fights against disease and death. The women were among the dozens of persons to interact with a team of Catholic Press journalists from the United States who took part in a week-long fact-finding tour of Guyana in August . Sponsored by the international relief organization Food for the Poor (FFP), the itinerary for the 16 writers and photographers included 250-mile fli ghts to the nation 's interior, walking tours of the capital city of Georgetown 's poorest areas, visits to health and social service facilities , and interviews with Guyana's young president and first lady. In all, the nation is a microcosm of racial, cultural, economic, governmental and social issues that besiege the poorest of poor nations. Surviving on hand-outs, handicrafts and cleverness, Amy Gall supports herself and her severely handicapped 38-yearold daughter, Robin, in Georgetown, the capital. There is no social "safety net" in Guyana, South America's only English speaking nation. While located on the northeast comer of the continent with neig hbors Brazil and Argentina, Guyana is considered a Caribbean nation with a significant African-Guyanese population reflective of other Caribbean countries. It also boasts a large percentage of eastern Indian heritage residents , many of whom are Hindu. In addition , there is a significant population of Sino-Guyanese, such as Paul Chan-A-Sue, a local Food for the Poor board member and a fourth-generation Chinese Guyanese whose brother is a priest of the Miami Archdiocese. Chan-A-Sue understands well the down-to-earth issues faced by persons like Emma Baretto attempting to generate a meager income with micro- "industries", in this case the hand-weaving of hammocks considered more works of art than structures for reclining. A retired business man, he was forced to curtail much of his trade business within the sizeable interior of Guyana because of transportation and access barriers. Year-round, useable roads do not exist. Air freight is very expensive, and air strips are not always well maintained. Baretto and other weavers spend literally uncounted hours constructing the hammocks which draw handsome prices on the international market, even being promoted over the Internet. However, it is unclear what portion of the sales price makes its way back to the village. Chan-A-Sue also sympathizes with residents who live in Rose Jacobs ' 400-person village surrounding St. Ignatius

Amy Gall , 74, lives in the Albouys /Charlestown area of Georgetow n, Guyana 's capital city, where she watches after her 38year-old daug hter, Robin , who is deaf and cannot speak. She sells sewing and handicrafts when she can , and seeks work because , she points out , "I am still strong." She S o was nearl y killed when struck by a mini-bus last December, and her Ia, feet and legs severely injured (see >• o inset photo). 5 s CO

Parish in Lethem — almost 250 air miles from Georgetown. Village leaders have asked if Food for the Poor could provide a small tractor to aid in agricultural development. It could, FFPofficials indicated, but related issues need to be addressed at the same time — availability and cost of fuel; maintenance; and cost of transporting goods back to market at a reasonable cost. Junita Gomes and her remote interior village of Kato face like challenges. Yet, despite subsistence farming where "everyone works, or you starve," she remains hopeful and speaks animatedly about her catechetical work translating English faith formation lessons into the local Amerindian dialect for local youngsters of St. Anthony of Padua Parish. Observers say it is difficult to tell how much January's scheduled national elections will ultimately affect any of the four women's lives. A Bay Area man who has lived in Guyana for the past year hel ping direct an international team monitoring those elections, expressed "cautious optimism" about Guyana 's political future, but was candid about the context. Guyana is "a country accustomed to political stalemate and a winner-take-all political climate" with history of "years of controversial elections, undemocratic rule and racial ten-

sions," said John Heffernan , the country representative to Guyana for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, a private non-profit organization "working to expanding democracy worldwide". NDI is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, the U.S. Agency for International Development and private donors. He lauded the work of Guyana 's Constitutional Reform Commission "composed of political parties and civil society representatives who are working across racial , religious, gender and other dividing lines to reach consensus on contentious issues." At the same time, however, Heffernan warned, "Ethnic divisions, fueled by political parties and other entities that use race to gain political advantage , threaten political stability and hinder economic growth." He said the country faces "an env ironment in which the public has little confidence in the capacity of political institutions to resolve the country's problems." Morris-Young is editor of Catholic San Francisco. Next week: Guyana 's young president and first lady address their nation 's future.

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Our family is our first responsibility, and a will or living trust are two of the most basic and powerful stewardship tools we have. They provide a loving, swift and economical distribution to those we care about most.

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? Increase your income and decrease your taxes. You can earn a charitable income tax deduction and bypass capital gains by giving stock or real estate to a charitable trust. The trust sells the stock or real estate free of capital gains tax, then invests the proceeds to pay you income for life. Your income goes up, your taxes go down , and a future gift goes to good causes.

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he Archdiocese of San Francisco , ministeri ng to 425 ,000 Catholics in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties, gives you a variety of ways to share some of your estate with others . Planned Giving can help parishes, schools, social services, youth programs , and special ministries . MduCff 'ttOf l * Twenty-nine thousand children attend Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. There are Religious Education , Teacher Initiative Grant , young adult and campus ministries and familygrant programs. Your gift to education can also support tuition assistance for students in need through the "Today 's Students - Tomorrow 's Leaders " endowment fund.

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