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Several children at Mission Day Care Center strike a happy pose with a parent, Mekonnen Zere.

At right, Program Director Liliana Rossi gives a hug to a little girl at the Center.

Mission Day Care is a window on the work of Catholic Charities CYO

By Sharon Abercrombie Ethiopian immigrant Mekonnen Zere doesn’t know what he and his wife would do without Mission Day Care. Zere drives a cab in the City from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.

His wife works days from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Coordinating both schedules around the needs of their two school age sons always is difficult.

But two years ago, the Zeres discov-

ered Mission Day Care, an affordable child care facility which has allowed them both to keep their absolutely essential jobs. Since then, the couple’s lives have become less complicated.

This Catholic Charities CYO agency provides a safe space for their youngsters before and after school. Mission Day Care feeds them breakfast and afternoon MISSION DAY CARE, page 6

Lebanon’s bishops urge formation of transitional government (CNS PHOTO FROM REUTERS)

By Doreen Abi Raad

Thousands of Lebanese gather during a protest in Martyrs Square in Beirut March 7. In a statement, Lebanon's Maronite Catholic bishops commended the peaceful demonstrations and spoke of the hope of a democratic Lebanon where Muslims and Christians are united.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNS) — Lebanon’s Maronite bishops urged that the nation quickly form a transitional government and commended the Lebanese people for the peaceful demonstrations that toppled the nation’s pro-Syrian officials.

In a statement following their monthly meeting in early March, the bishops noted that the “peaceful, civilized, dayand-night” protests “show a praiseworthy awakening of the Lebanese, especially young people.” They said the protesters “carried only the Lebanese flag” and

were united in their protest, “despite the disparity of communities and the difference of (religious) denominations.”

“Hope is great that this sound national feeling ... will continue to gather the ranks and unite the hearts until it crystallizes a national thought that all Lebanese will adopt. Thus the picture of a Lebanon — democratic, with its Muslims and Christians united — will emerge,” the bishops said.

Approximately 40 percent of Lebanon’s 3.8 million population is Christian, composed of Maronite Catholic, Melkite LEBANON, page 18

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Council on Bioethics . . . . . 3 News-in-brief . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Leadership day. . . . . . . . . . 8 Editorial and letters . . . . . 12 Scripture and reflection . . . 14 Lenten movie serives. . . . . 17

Roots of Peace ~ Page 5 ~ March 11, 2005

Youthful author ~ Page 7 ~

Women and society ~ Page 15 ~

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by Tom Burke Prayers please, for Christian Brother Chris Brady who is battling cancer. Brother Chris is a ’70 alum of Sacred Heart High School and first principal of the school under the name it took in 1987, Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep. For the last several years, he has served as principal of De La Salle High School in Concord….Kudos and thanks will be the order Joan Burke of the evening March 19th when St. Stephen Parish honors “anchor parishioners” Deacon Gary West and Joan Burke at the St. Stephen School annual Dinner Dance. Gary is a Michigan native who moved to the City in 1958 the year he and his wife Julie were married.

They are the parents of six adult children and have been active parishioners at St. Stephen’s for more than 30 years in areas including, in earlier years, assisting immigrant Asian families make a home here. Gary, a now retired partner in an international accounting firm, was ordained to the diaconate in 1979. He has also brought his financial acumen to the aid of the larger Church and has helped develop updated reporting systems and internal fiscal controls for the Archdiocese and parishes. He is a Knight of Malta and has accompanied the sick to Lourdes on five of the group’s annual pilgrimages. “It is difficult for me to accept this as an individual honor,” Gary said. “It’s a privilege to be chosen.” Joan Burke and her now-late husband, Gene, met as students at Mills College. They are the parents of adult children, Deacon Gary West Kathy and Karl, who both

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Youth from St. Mark’s gave up a day of Christmas vacation to assist the homeless with the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

“We’re small in number but mighty in force,” said Jill Leyte-Vidal, Youth Minister at the Belmont parish. More than 30 young men and women take part in the group’s activities that include Masses, charitable and service efforts and social events, Jill said. From left: Eric Yousef, Ricky Deschler, Anna Nicolopolous, Jill Leyte-Vidal, and Sheila Ashtiani.

attended St. Stephen School. Joan played a major role in estab- members of Serra’s soccer team, the young men spend an hour lishing a social justice committee at the parish and was a mem- of their Friday afternoons reading, assisting with assignments, ber of St. Stephen’s first class of extraordinary ministers of Holy playing games, and building community with the young people Communion. Joan also assists at Martin de Porres Soup of Arundel…. An alphabet salute to Katrina Manuel, a 5th Kitchen in San Francisco and is active in service to the home- grader at Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School and first bound. “I am proud and honored knowing so place finisher in the Daly City school’s Spelling many others are deserving of this,” Joan said.

Bee. The word that took Katrina to her winning “Joan Burke and Gary West go the extra mile in spot was rhubarb, a vegetable I’ve never tasted support of and service to our parishioners,” said and also used to describe the heated baseball fraFather Joe Walsh, St. Stephen, pastor. “These cas. The speller’s proud folks are Alma and are the kind of people who are the backbone, the Manolito....Tops with the alphabet at St. anchor, of any community.” Thanks so much to Elizabeth School is 8th grader Danielle Del Bonnie Macaraig, event co-chair, for the good Carlo. Word that made her last speller standing news. Bonnie and her husband, Michael, celewas repertoire. Congrats, too, to Junior High brated 11 years of marriage November 12th.

Science Fair winners Rebecca Mehrwein, 8th They are the parents of St. Stephen’s 2nd gradgrade; Anthony Lo Giudice, Anthony er, Zachary, and future-Cougar, Kallan, who is Gerigk, and Julian Cornell, 7th grade; Katrina Manuel 4 years old. Thanks, too, to co-chair, Ana Gabriela Moreno, 6th grade. At the helm was Carcache-Evans, a St. Stephen’s alum. She and her husband, science teacher Natalia Girlich….The email address for Jon Evans, are the parents of Carter, a St. Stephen’s 2nd grad- Street is now burket@sfarchdiocese.org. As this continues to be er, Logan, a kindergartner at the school, and Travis who is 3 but an empty space without you, please jot it down and get those years old…. John Carrara, Kyle Robertson, Miles items in here??!! All the rest is the same. Mailed items should be Boettigheimer, Brian Kelley, Andrew Molyneux, and James sent to “Street,” One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Pix should Berkvam are among 21 students from Junipero Serra High be hard copy or electronic jpeg at 300 dpi. You can reach School helping as tutors at Arundel School in San Carlos. All me at (415) 614-5634.

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California funding shifts stem-cell decisions to states, says expert WASHINGTON (CNS) — California’s appropriation of $3 billion in state funds to finance embryonic stem-cell research has taken pressure off the federal government to relax its funding restrictions on such research and is causing other states to scramble to pass similar legislation or lose top researchers, said a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics.

The result could be chaotic with 50 states and 50 different policies controlling research rather than a unified federal policy controlling it, said Frank Fukuyama, a professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins University.

Fukuyama spoke March 4 at a bioethics council meeting and with Catholic News Service after the meeting.

“Proposition 71 is sucking research talent into California,” he said, referring to the voter referendum passed last November in California authorizing the funding.

A major problem is that the law is pretty vague on who sets the ethical guidelines for the type of research done, he said.

“In California, the fox is in control of the chicken coop,” he said.

Fukuyama said that Johns Hopkins, based in Baltimore, is one of many U.S. universities “under big threat because all the postdocs,” those engaged in postdoctoral research, “now are going to be heading out to a university in California.”

He said Maryland and other states are under pressure to approve stem-cell research funding that is competitive with California.

The March 4 council meeting discussed possible ways of extracting stem cells from human embryos without destroying the embryos so as to overcome ethical objections by people and groups who equate the destruction with the killing of human life.

Stem cells, according to the council glossary, are undifferentiated multipotent precursor cells capable of perpetuating themselves as stem cells and differentiating into one or more specialized types of cells. They are believed to be valuable in finding cures for a number of diseases.

The council, which advises President George W. Bush on bioethics issues, is investigating alternatives to destroying embryos as a way of breaking the current logjam over federal funding. Currently, federal funding is restricted to only those stem-cell lines in existence on Aug. 9, 2001, when Bush announced the policy. A key Bush concern was the ethical objections to destroying further human embryos if he allowed funding for new stem-cell lines.

(CNS FILE PHOTO BY NANCY WIECHEC)

By Agostino Bono

University of Chicago Professor Leon Kass is chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics.

The California situation has taken the heat off the Bush administration to liberalize its funding policy, Fukuyama said, because the political landscape has changed, shifting the decision on funding and how to control research to states.

What is developing is “a kind of blue-state/red-state federalism in which different types of scientific research under different ethical guidelines are going to appear in different parts of the country” because of the logjam in federal funding under the current policy, he said. He was drawing on the customary use of red and blue to distinguish between Republican and Democratic states, respectively.

Dr. William Hurlbut, biology professor at Stanford University and a council member, said the situation created by the California funding makes it more imperative that the council recommend further research into ways of extracting stem cells without destroying human embryos.

The alternative may be forcing people to choose between “red-state medicine and blue-state medicine” with “people having to come into the hospital 20 years from now and checking a box and saying, ‘I don’t want (to be given) anything developed in California,’” said Hurlbut.

Fukuyama said that Bush has to refederalize funding under new federal research guidelines.

At the March 4 meeting, the council discussed a draft document outlining four possible alternative human stemcell gathering methods, all of which are in the experimental stage. They are: — Extracting stem cells from embryos as soon as they are declared dead according to clinical criteria.

— A nonharmful biopsy of living human embryos.

— Genetically engineering cell material prior to the cloning process so that the resulting embryolike entity can engage in cell division producing stem cells but can never develop into a human.

— Reprogramming differentiated cells so that they go back to their stem-cell stage.

Several council members were skeptical of many of these methods, citing the difficulty and expense of conducting enough experiments to determine if they work.

The council may release a modified version of the draft as an official document.

Leon Kass, council chairman, said the council examining possible nondestructive ways of getting stem cells from human embryos was not an effort to sidetrack research using human embryos or to take sides in the ethical controversy.

The council is examining “the possibility of trying to find common ground and also of seriously considering ways that science might advance in ethically uncontroversial ways, in which neither side would have to compromise,” said Kass, who is a bioethics professor at the University of Chicago.

“Everyone ought to be interested in finding morally uncontroversial ways for science to proceed, if we can, and ways that would respect the seriously held ethical opinions of our fellow citizens whether we agree with them or not,” he said.

“There are people who have been cynically saying that all this is an attempt to distract the country and divert attention from the need to pursue embryonic stem-cell research by the conventional means,” said Kass. “I reject that.”

The accusation “ranks really with those who say the people who support embryonic stem-cell research over adult stem-cell research are really motivated by the desire to kill embryos or to defeat their pro-life opponents,” he said.

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Program gives seniors, disabled, working poor a legal leg up (CNS PHOTO FROM REUTERS)

CHICAGO — A law office run by a Catholic bishop and a Jewish lawyer for the working poor, seniors and the disabled might have the makings of a great TV series, but to Caroline Schoenberger, the Chicago Legal Clinic is “more like a fairy tale.” “I don’t think there’s another place like it,” said Schoenberger, the former Chicago consumer affairs commissioner who became the Chicago Legal Clinic’s supervisory attorney last fall. Schoenberger’s primary project is a new program at the clinic called Legal Advocates for Seniors and People With Disabilities. It operates out of a new office on Chicago’s North Side. The privately funded agency was founded in 1981 by DePaul University law school classmates Edward Grossman and then-Father Thomas J. Paprocki, now a Chicago auxiliary bishop, when the shutdown of the South Chicago steel mills left thousands of families financially stranded. The emphasis remains on the working poor who often do not qualify for services available to welfare recipients, said Schoenberger, who is focusing on programs for seniors and the disabled as well as immigration issues. Two-thirds of the clinic's budget comes from grants and donations -often solicited by Bishop Paprocki himself.

(CNS PHOTO BY DEBBIE HILL)

A small group of Iraqi women holds a demonstration and celebrates International Women's Day in central Baghdad March 8. The demonstrators also demanded the withdrawal of coalition forces from Iraq and the separation of the government and church.

This was the second International Women's Day in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

A Palestinian boy climbs a hill near the Israeli security wall in Abu Dis, West Bank, March 3.

The controversial security wall has made it more difficult for some Palestinians to visit family and friends or attend church services.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Efforts to resolve about 70 clergy and church employee sex abuse cases against the San Francisco Archdiocese could result in a heavy financial burden, cutting into church programs and services, said Archbishop William J. Levada of San Francisco. The archdiocese may be faced with balancing its moral obligation to victims with its moral obligation to provide parishes, schools and social services “for all who need them,” the archbishop warned in a letter he asked be read at all Masses on the weekend of Feb. 26-27. “Resolving and balancing these two moral imperatives is a responsibility I share with all the people of God in the Archdiocese of San Francisco,” he said. Archbishop Levada noted that the archdiocese is currently involved in a court-ordered mediation process “that may result in the settlement of many or all of its six dozen pending lawsuits.” Settlement talks continued even as some of the lawsuits proceeded to a civil trial, which began this week.

NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Loretto Sister Jeannine Gramick was a featured speaker at the “Queer Film Festival” at the University of Notre Dame in February, despite the fact that she was censured by the Vatican in 1999 and ordered to cease all ministry to homosexuals.

Additionally, a 2004 documentary film about Sister Gramick’s encounters with the Vatican was shown at the festival, even though she also has been told not to write or speak about the church’s disciplining of her. In the film, “In Good Conscience,” Sister Gramick contends that homosexuality is an “innate instinct,” and that a “be, but don’t do” theology is unacceptable. The church teaches that homosexual orientation is a disorder but not sinful, but that homosexual acts are always sinful.

Legal network trains Knights to aid citizenship applicants WASHINGTON — The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, known as CLINIC, will recruit and train members of the Knights of Columbus to help immigrants become U.S. citizens. The program will include training in completing applications for citizenship, offering classes in English and on preparing for the citizenship test, and assisting at citizenship ceremonies. An estimated 8 million people in the United States are eligible to apply for citizenship, but have not done so, according to CLINIC. “Although they are contributing members of their communities and U.S. society as a whole, they do not enjoy many of the rights afforded to U.S. citizens, including the right to vote,” said a statement released by CLINIC, which is based in Washington.

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Riordan High School joins Roots of Peace program to clear landmines Kyleigh was inspired to join a student campaign after seeing firsthand the devastation caused by landmines during a trip to Croatia. The idea for the student campaign was hammered out during a brainstorming session with her mother Heidi, and family friend Cheryl Jennings. Last year the campaign raised 7 million pennies, or $70,000.

The funds were used to clear minefields in Afghanistan. The check was received by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan at a ceremony last March.

In addition to the penny campaign, Roots of Peace raises money from local wineries, private contributors and other organizations to remove landmines in Croatia, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq. The cleared minefields are then converted to agricultural use.

According to Roots for Peace, 26,000 people are killed or maimed worldwide by landmines. There are 70 million landmines in more than 70 countries. Producing and installing a landmine costs between $3 and $30, while removing a single mine can cost $1000.

San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester joined in kicking off the Roots of Peace penny campaign at Archbishop Riordan High School March 1. The annual campaign called “Making Change Work” enlists the help of students from more than 40 Bay Area schools in raising awareness about the scourge of landmines and collecting pennies for restoring the safety of former mine fields. The campaign marks the anniversary of the implementation of the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel landmines.

“This Lent the Archdiocese of San Francisco is joining Pope John Paul II, as well as leaders of the Church around the world, to condemn the use of antipersonnel landmines and reach out to those effected by these terrible weapons,” Bishop Wester said.

Wester was part of a multi-national group taking part in the event, including Iranian actress, Mary Apick, who spoke to students on the “horrific” practice of the deployment of children to detect landmines on the front lines during the Iran-Iraq war.

Making Change Work is a student project of Roots of Peace (www.rootsofpeace.org) founded by St. Raphael parishioner Heidi Kühn. The mission of Kühn’s organization is to “rid the world of landmines and other remnants of war by transforming minefields into thriving farmlands and communities.”

The penny campaign was co-founded by Kühn and ABC 7/KGO news anchor Cheryl Jennings and the effort is spearheaded by Kühn’s daughter Kyleigh, a student at Marin Catholic High School.

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Bishop Wester, Heidi Kühn and Cheryl Jennings at Riordan kick-off.

Bishop Wester plans to lead Spain and Portugal pilgrimage San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester plans to lead a pilgrimage tour to Spain and Portugal this fall.

Participants in the Sept. 17-30 trip will travel from San Francisco to Madrid, and then proceed along the coast of Portugal to Lisbon. The trip will be

highlighted by visits to the shrines of St. Teresa of Avila and Our Lady of Fatima.

The journey also will include a portion of “The Way of St. James,” following the route taken by pilgrims since the Middle Ages to the tomb of St.

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Mission Day Care . . . ■Continued from cover snacks. It provides nourishment for their spirits as well: an after school program consisting of art and physical education – two classes that Mekonnen, 8, and Abel, 6, can’t receive in their local public school. It provides tutoring and homework help. “This is a beautiful place. Kids have a lot of opportunities here. When I show up here every day before work to pick up my children to take them home, I see so many happy kids,� said Zere, as he shot baskets in the school yard with a group of energetic moppets.

A vibrant little haven for low income families and their children, Mission Day Care might be one of the best-kept secrets in San Francisco. Located just six blocks from the 24th and Mission BART station, Mission Day Care is housed in a former school building at St. James Parish.

The agency has served San Francisco’s Mission, Outer Mission and south of Market neighborhoods since 1983. Besides offering day care to 154 children ages five through 12, the yearround program provides family support services to their parents – including family therapy, housing referrals, literacy and English language proficiency skills, job training, and referrals to day care options for children under five. There always is a waiting list. The majority of families are recent immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico.

About 50 percent of the children live with single moms.

Three years ago, the Mission district’s best kept little secret came to the notice of United Bank of Switzerland, one of the largest investment banking and securities firms in the world. UBS has a substantial asset management business in the San Francisco area. Charitable giving is part of the company’s culture, said Mary Redington, Catholic Charities CYO communications and marketing director.

UBS learned about Mission Day Care through Bob McLalan, a Catholic Charities Board member. McLalan a UBS executive, suggested to Tony Tarrab, senior vice president, that the agency might be a good candidate for the firm’s annual charitable giving project.

March 11, 2005 Instead of going to lunch with Catholic Charities officials to discuss the work of Mission day Care, though, Tarrab declined the invitation, saying he’d rather see Mission Day Care in action.

He visited tutoring sessions and art classes, played basketball, and shared snacks with the kids. Recalls Tarrab: “The staff was doing an unbelievable job.

I could see it by the happy looks on those kids’ faces.� Tarrab said he also noticed how secure the children felt.

The visit brought back memories of the banker’s own boyhood. He attended a Catholic parochial school in his native Damascus, Syria for nine years. The school, operated by the Brothers of Mary, a French community, was located in a poor neighborhood similar to that of the Mission district. Tarrab recalls how happy and secure the Brothers made it for the children there.

As a result of his afternoon at Mission Day Care, Tarrab recommended to the UBS Foundation that Mission Day Care be given a grant. The foundation heeded his request and over the past three years has donated more than $60,000. UBS is Mission Day Care’s largest corporate donor.

The firm’s generosity is a much appreciated boost for Mission Day Care, which operates on a budget of $650,000 annually, said Liliana Rossi, director.

The UBS grant helps to fund tutors who work in the homework clinic after school and for all-day tutors when the public schools are closed. It also pays for healthy snacks, juices, fruit, milk, granola bars and peanut butter sandwiches.

Mission Day Care is the only statesubsidized childcare program for elementary school children in the city.

About one-third of the families there receive this subsidy and pay no tuition.

Another third receive various types of help, such as vouchers, and through Catholic Charities CYO scholarships.

One third of families pay the full monthly tuition of $135. But that’s pretty good, considering that the market rate for day care elsewhere ranges from $460-$475 per month, said Mrs. Rossi.

Like most non-profit agencies, Mission Day Care operates on a lean budget. It depends on financial support from client fees, city and state contracts and contributions from individuals and foundations. Contributions were more plentiful during the dot-com boom, she

UBS Regional Director and Senior Vice-President Tony Tarrab (in suit) with children and Mission Day Care teacher Stephanie Martinez.

said. “But today we are all competing for the same corporate money.�

A couple of small local businesses contribute paper for the art classes as well as software for the children’s computers. The software supplier is an alumnus of Mission Day Care, Mrs. Rossi noted with pride.

Some current students are second generation attendees, she said. But there are sad stories, too, said the director. Mrs. Rossi particularly recalls the summer of 1987, when she couldn’t let the children play in the yard because of the frequency of drive-by shootings in the nearby alley.

Liliana Rossi, a child psychologist who studied at Stanford University, started Mission Day Care in 1983. Her office walls are covered with winsome childish art and little homemade quilts, reminders of what Mission Day Care is all about – inspiring children to stretch and grow, to become well-rounded individuals. Mrs. Rossi has never wanted to go anywhere else, she said.

Even though the specter of drive by shootings constantly hovers in the back of her mind and she is constantly aware that there is drug dealing, prostitution and gangs in the neighborhood, Mrs. Rossi knows that Mission Day Care is a safe place in the midst of chaos.

She has seen families who come to the United States with no resources, who bring their children to Mission Day Care, and tap into its adult services. “Five or six years later, they are standing on their own two feet, maybe for the first time in there entire lives.�

Mission Day Care will be one of the 33 Catholic Charities CYO agencies which will benefit from San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada’s annual Loaves and Fishes dinner to raise funds for charitable causes. This year’s event will take place March 19 in the Julia Morgan room of Merchants Exchange Bank in the City. Tickets are $1,000. For further information phone (415) 9721266.

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Youthful author tackles tough topic in her book, ‘What about me’

By Tom Burke Anxious for the world to know what was on her mind as a child is Brenda Valencia, author of “What About Me?” the first of what she sees as three books chronicling her life as the sister of a disabled brother.

The Skyline College sophomore is a graduate of All Souls Elementary School and South San Francisco High School.

Her mom and dad are Elvira and Javier. Her younger brothers are Javier, Jr. and David, who suffers from cerebral palsy.

Brenda poured out her feelings to her diary every day as a youngster but it was a high school writing project that encouraged her to tell them to a wider audience.

“The project was to think of something I always wanted to do,” Brenda told Catholic San Francisco in the living room of her family’s South San Francisco home. “I had known from a very young age that I wanted to write a book about my brother so I took the project as my chance. In writing “What About Me?” I had the opportunity to express my feelings about growing up in a household with a child with special needs. I had suppressed these feelings for so long that this was the first time in 11 years that I had ever openly spoken about it.”

Brenda recalled the first time she and her brother Javier saw David’s illness take hold of him and, in a way, their family. “I can still remember it,” Brenda said. “My mom was holding David in her arms when all of a sudden his eyes rolled into the back of his head, his body stiffened and he began to shake.” Brenda said it was “a

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The events of that day would decide, at least, the near future for the Valencia family. “Time after time, David was raced to the hospital for seizures and time after time, Javi and I would be dropped off at a relative’s home,” Brenda said. Doctor’s visits, physical therapy sessions and other of her brother’s necessary appointments added to the routine.

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“A whole lot of time was spent just focusing on David,” she said. “The attention he needed became emotionally draining for my parents and for me as well. As a child I didn’t fully understand why David needed so much attention or why my parents couldn’t take me to the park as often as I wanted. As the oldest child, I felt it was my responsibility to stay strong so that my family would stay strong so I kept my feelings to myself.” Her outlet was writing about her feelings.

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Leadership training day brings clergy and lay people together to seek solutions

By Maurice Healy More than 80 individuals — including clergy, religious and lay people — from 22 parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco attended a leadership training day at Most Holy Redeemer Parish Feb. 26. The half-day, afternoon session was sponsored by the Archdiocese’s Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns as a means to seek creative ways to improve parish life and neighborhoods.

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Cardinals to stand in for pope in Holy Week liturgies

Pope John Paul II, blesses the faithful as he appears behind the window of his room at Gemelli hospital in Rome March 6.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican said cardinals would be standing in for Pope John Paul II in the celebration of Holy Week events. For the first time in his 26-year pontificate, the pope was not scheduled to preside over Holy Week and Easter celebrations. However, the pope is expected to impart the papal blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city of Rome and the world) March 27.

The pope is recovering following his hospitalization for respiratory problems and a tracheotomy.

Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the Vatican hoped the pope would be back in the Vatican for Holy Week, but he would decide how or if he would participate in the week’s many liturgies.

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The goal of many present was to help their fellow members of the local Church more fully live out the Gospel values, particularly in the areas of justice and Catholic social teaching. The idea of a leadership training day, said organizer Sarah Silva, came from conversations with pastors who said they would like greater involvement of lay people, and conversations with lay people who said they wanted to become more involved in helping the Church and others.

In addition to several presentations, participants exchanged views on the principles of faith-based community organizing, and the power of active listening in building relationships through conversation. “We work on issues, but we begin with conversations,” Silva said.

Among the participating clergy were Father Stephen Meriwether, pastor at Most Holy Redeemer, Father Eugene Tungol, pastor at Church of the Epiphany, Father Bill Justice, pastor at Mission Dolores, Marist Father Bruce Lery of Notre Dame des Victoires, Father John Balleza, parochial vicar at St. Patrick, Father Graig

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Lay people taking a role in the leadership training day were Patrick Mulcahey of Most Holy Redeemer, Joyce Calagos of Epiphany, Michael Adams of Old St. Mary, Melanie Bailey of St. Ignatius and Tim Kortenkamp of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns.

The session also served as a lead-up to Catholic Lobby Day in Sacramento April 26.

Most of the priests and lay people at the session came from parishes in San Francisco, but there were several parishes from San Mateo and Marin represented. Silva said the sessions would be expanded to those locations in the future.

Participants agreed to go back to their own parishes and talk with five other people to learn more about the parish and community concerns. The next meeting will be at Notre Dame des Victoires parish March 31, to discuss collaboration in local issues and area-wide issues.

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Pro Life dinner honors college evangelist, local doctor

By Valerie Schmalz Curtis Martin is a former evangelical Protestant and that Bible-focused, intense emphasis on evangelization comes through in every word he speaks now as a Catholic leading one of the fastest growing youth ministries in the U.S. “We need to speak to the hearts and minds of young people,” the leader of the Denver-based Fellowship of Catholic University Students told an audience of about 200 at the Annual United for Life dinner in San Francisco March 5. “They need to hear God’s story,” he said.

“The real key is the next generation. They have a need for faith,” Martin said, noting that Pope John Paul II’s New Evangelization spends “overwhelming” energy on youth. With 1.5 million abortions a year in the U.S., Martin compared today’s youth to those who survived the Massacre of the Innocents in the time of Jesus. “No generation has been subject to greater attack than this generation,” he said.

The Thirty-third event included the presentation of the 2005 Human Life Award to Dr. George Maloof, a local Catholic psychiatrist who has devoted more than 30 years to pro-life work, focusing on natural family planning.

Maloof said research shows that natural planning practice

fosters a respect for life that brings abortion rates down worldwide. Maloof is president of the San Francisco Catholic Medical Association.

Martin founded Fellowship of Catholic University Students seven years ago with two part-time employees and the Denver-based organization now is on 26 U.S. college campuses. Martin said 53 former campus missionaries have entered the seminary and two dozen women have entered convents from FOCUS. The group’s presence on college campuses is at the invitation of college administration or the school’s Newman Club.

A San Francisco college graduate Olivia Du Bois, who now works for FOCUS at Troy University in Alabama, spoke passionately about her involvement. She thanked many of those at the dinner who support her financially.

“San Francisco is the city where I decided to give my life to Jesus Christ and where I decided to become prolife,” she said. “I want you to know there is great hope for the country.”

Former San Francisco Supervisor Tony Hall served as Master of Ceremonies at the event and said reaching out to those who are pro-abortion is important. “We have to be inclusive. Let’s pray for them. The pendulum is swinging our way.”

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Sister Bernadette Heslin, RSM served on the faculty at St. Gabriel, St. Peter, and Holy Name of Jesus in San Francisco from 1960 – 71. She is remembered, too, as principal of Holy Name from 1971 – 77. The Brooklyn, New York native also taught at schools in southern California and in 1980 – 81 served in a pastoral capacity at St. Athanasius Parish in Mountain View.

“We and the community along with many people of the San Francisco Archdiocese mourn the loss of Sister Bernadette Marie Heslin whose service in the areas of education, counseling and marriage tribunal comforted and gave hope to many persons,” said Mercy Sister Mary Waskowiak, congregation president. “She leaves a legacy in the people whose lives she touched,” “I knew Bernie as a very outgoing,

Mercy Sister Bernadette Marie Heslin died March 6, 2005 in the care of her congregation at Marian Care Center in Burlingame. Known to many as Sister Bernie, she entered religious life August 15, 1957. She was 65 years of age.

A graduate of Mercy High School in Burlingame, Sister Bernie had, in more recent years, served as a canonical auditor for the Canon Law Department of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. From 1989 through 2000 she maintained a practice as a psychotherapist having earned a post-graduate degree in the field from Pacific Graduate School in Menlo Park. She retired to the Mercy Sisters’ motherhouse in 2004.

Sister Bernie was a familiar face at local Catholic elementary schools having

optimistic, practical and decisive person,” said Mercy Sister Marilyn Gouailhardou.

“She had a great sense of humor and was a good leader.”

A funeral Mass was celebrated at Holy Name of Jesus Church March 8 with interment in Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. Remembrances may be made to Marian Care Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame 94010.

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American Catholics Asked To Help End Senseless Deaths Of Children From Contaminated Water Poverty kills. Just ask Jocelyn Joachins. One moment, her daughter Natacha was like any other baby— giggling and playful and a symbol of hope. The next, she was gone—the victim of a contaminated water supply. It was a painful death for the baby and an excruciating loss for Jocelyn.

“Unfortunately, I have seen this happen too often. In fact, the same month we lost Natacha, two other children died for the same reason. Jocelyn is poor and she scavenges for food and water like many families in Haiti’s central plateau. Clean water has become very scarce and many families have been forced to use sources that are risky,” explained Delva Jean Souverne, a church leader working in the area.

“No child should die that way. No mother should suffer like that. But it happens and it will keep happening until we can do something about it.”

Delva Jean Souverne knows that many American Catholics may find it difficult to relate to this kind of problem.

Virtually every American has safe water to drink and has immediate access to that water from a faucet in their home.

In Haiti, women often walk for hours over rough dirt roads to draw water from a well, crude standpipe or riverbank.

Many leave their homes at 4:00 in the morning, walking in the dark in order to save precious daylight hours for other work that needs to be done.

It’s common to see as many as 40 or 50 people clustered around a water source with plastic buckets. Water at a well or riverbank is rarely crystal clear or good to the taste, but it’s eagerly collected because it is the only option these families have. And when a water supply becomes contaminated, the villagers may not realize it for days— usually, only after children have already died and others are fatally ill.

Children, weak from cramping and dysentery, are a pitiful sight as they hang limply in the arms of their worried mothers. Life in Haiti is already hard.

This added attack is often more than a child can take, and many never recover.

“We Americans are so far removed from that kind of poverty that we can’t fully appreciate the urgency of their

“American Catholics would be shocked to see how poor Haitians live. Their leaky shacks have dirt floors – no electricity or plumbing for water or waste. Their sources for water are easily contaminated and often dangerous. In fact, unsafe water is a leading killer of children under age 10,” explains Jim Cavnar, president of Cross International Catholic Outreach.

problem,” admitted Jim Cavnar, president of Cross International Catholic Outreach, a U.S.-based ministry working with Delva Jean Souverne to provide safe water to Haiti’s poor. “This is a life or death issue. If we don’t solve the problem, more children will die in the months ahead.”

Cavnar added that Haiti’s water problems are not technically difficult to solve. In fact, the solution usually involves capping a spring or digging a well, both of which can be done with equipment already available in the country. The only issue is cost—the poor villages cannot afford the $250 to $3,000 it takes to finish the project.

“In some cases, the problem can be

something as simple as a broken pump.

The part might be $250 or less. But these people are unable to pay even that. These are poor families who may only make $100 in an entire year, and they need that for food,” Cavnar said.

“The positive side is that we can solve the problem if we have financial support from Catholics and their parishes in the U.S. If American Catholics are willing to contribute to this effort, we can provide safe drinking water to villages in Haiti and save the lives of these children.”

Cavnar, a devote Roman Catholic himself, is confident that fellow Catholics will eagerly rally to solve this problem.

“Our faith is a universal faith—a worldwide faith. We see fellow Catholics

as brothers and sisters, and we understand that God wants us to care for those in our family who have needs,” he said.

“When we rally together to solve a problem like this one, it honors God, and magnifies the power of our faith for the whole world to see.”

Individuals and parishes interested in participating in Cross International Catholic Outreach’s efforts to help the poor can make a tax-deductible contribution to the ministry in two ways.

Gifts can be sent using the ministry brochure found in this issue of the newspaper or they can be sent directly to: Cross International Catholic Outreach, Project #AD00259, 490 White Pond Dr., PO Box 63, Akron OH 44309-0063.

Cross Responds Rapidly to Needs of Tsunami Victims

In the days following the terrible earthquake and tsunami that devastated coastal areas in Southeast Asia, Cross International Catholic Outreach was busy arranging an effective response to the disaster and shipping aid to meet urgent needs.

“Thanks to the many Cross donors who called in and contributed their support, we were able to move very quickly,” explained James Cavnar, President of Cross International Catholic Outreach.

“That first response allowed us to provide more than $20 million in aid. More has gone since then, and we continue to work with the churches overseas to meet their wide range of needs – everything from food to housing to helping families get back on their feet again.”

Among its many efforts to help tsunami victims, Cross International Catholic Outreach is collaborating on projects with Cor Unum, the Holy Father’s own relief ministry to the poor. This work is

particularly important to Cavnar, who met Pope John Paul II several months ago to express his concerns for the poor worldwide.

“The Holy Father clearly has a heart for the suffering in our world, and through Cor Unum, he is reaching and comforting the poor,” Cavnar said. “We’re proud of the unique collaboration of our ministries.

And we believe it will ultimately benefit the poor most of all.”

Clearly, the leaders of Cross International Catholic Outreach understand the importance of responding rapidly and efficiently when a disaster strikes, and they have developed a superb system to deliver both immediate relief and longer term assistance when needs arise. This makes the ministry an excellent choice for American Catholics looking for a way to respond to emergencies – and support the valuable work of missionary priests and nuns working overseas.

James Cavnar recently shared a report about Cross ministry activies with the Holy Father.

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The “Basureros” of the Philippines Given New Hope Through the Compassionate Outreach of Devoted Nuns They are called “basureros”— Spanish for scavengers—because they forage for food and clothing on the dump sites at the outskirts of town.

Sister Clare of the Missionaries of the Poor prefers to call them “children” and to see them for what they are— innocent souls forced to dig in the trash as means of survival.

“There are thousands of families living in and around the dump because… it’s how they survive. Men, women and children living like rats with the garbage and that overwhelming smell tainting everything in their world. It’s a difficult life, especially for the children,” said Sr. Clare.

Shortly after the Missionaries of the Poor founded their ministry in the Philippines, they set out to launch two special outreaches to help the poor. The first was to establish an orphanage for abandoned infants (see story below).

The other was to help the families and children living in and around Catmon Basura, the nearby dump. They began by bringing in food and fresh water— the most basic of human needs.

Supplying safe water was particularly important because the other water sources at the dump site had been contaminated, and the children there were at serious risk from parasites and illnesses.

“Having access to clean water is something most Americans take for granted, but the situation is much different in countries like Haiti or

Sr. Clare cradles one of the Philippines’ “basureuos” – the children whose families survive by scavenging on the town dump for food and other needs.

the Philippines. People literally walk miles for hours a day to find safe water. It’s a real hardship – but the alternative is much worse. Drinking

contaminated water kills thousands of poor people every year,” Sr. Clare said.

After taking care of the necessities, the Missionaries of the Poor began to develop a plan to do more for the families living at the dump. In partnership with Cross International Catholic Outreach, they hope to gain the support of Catholic parishes in America and expand their work to a whole new level.

“Sr. Clare is an amazing woman and she has a very creative approach to helping the poor families living in Catmon Basura. Her idea was to give a family the resources needed to start a small agricultural or a livestock project as a source of income. Her goal was to help these families break the cycle of poverty and develop small businesses of their own,” explained Jim Cavnar, president of Cross International Catholic Outreach. “She had to start small because her resources are limited, but it’s a program with great potential to grow.

She began with about 25 families, but with the support of American Catholics, that outreach could grow to help hundreds if not thousands of others.”

Cross International Catholic Outreach was founded to support the ministries of priests and nuns working in Third World areas like the Philippines, and it empowers the Missionaries of the Poor and other religious outreaches by providing the food, medicines and other urgently needed resources these groups distribute to the poor.

For these children, life is whatever the dump provides on any given day. Sr. Joan Clare is committed to giving these families another way to survive.

Readers can donate to Cross International Catholic Outreach and its efforts to help the poor of the Third World by sending a contribution in the tear-off envelope portion of the ministry brochure found in this issue of the newspaper or by mailing the gift to Cross International Catholic Outreach, Project #AD00259, 490 White Pond Dr., PO Box 63, Akron OH 44309-0063.

Missionaries Of The Poor Make Pledge To Rescue Lost Children One night, during a torrential storm, Sister Clare and the other sisters of the Missionaries of the Poor were praying for guidance from God when there was a knock at the door. As the door opened with a rush of wind and rain, a painfully thin woman stepped into the house. She was carrying a cardboard box.

“As we crowded in around her to see what she had, we were surprised to find a baby inside. It was a newborn, laying on pieces of shredded news-paper, and you could see that he was severely handicapped,” Sr. Clare said. “The woman knew that we ran an orphanage.

She knew that we represented the baby's only chance for survival.”

Sister Clare and the Missionaries of the Poor welcomed the baby as they had taken in so many other needy infants before. They never questioned that God would meet the needs of this child in some way.

“One of the sisters suggested that we call him Moses because he had come to us like the baby Moses in the basket,” Sr. Clare continued.

Although the group of nuns realized Moses had medical needs beyond their resources, they felt compelled to take this first step. By accepting the child from the hospital, they hoped to keep alive the hope of his eventual rescue.

“We kept Moses as long as we could, praying for God's help, but knowing that we would eventually need to turn him over to someone else. Then, a miracle happened.

A family in the United States came forward with a willingness to adopt the baby. Doors also opened for him to get the medical attention he needed. Now, that baby has a future. He’s now in the U.S. where he can get the care he needs,” Sr. Clare said with a smile.

“God’s hand was in it all.”

In other cases, the Missionaries of the Poor have themselves become the family for abandoned children in need.

Catholic Outreach is supporting their important work among the poor.

“Sr. Clare and the Missionaries of the Poor are doing amazing things with

Sr. Clare and the other Missionaries of the Poor are introduced to “Moses” — and an opportunity to glorify God through an act of compassion.

“I think of Julie, who is now three.

She’s a joy to all of us—always singing and dancing. But her life began quite differently. She was lost and alone, with no one to care for her properly.

She was malnourished and fearful when we found her and brought her in,” Sister Clare explained. “It’s a wonderful thing to see a child grow and bloom as they find peace and security in life. A loving home is the greatest gift you can give these little ones. It is the foundation they need to build a happy life.”

Inspired by Sr. Clare and the Missionaries of the Poor’s ministry in the Philippines, Cross International

very few resources. Life is a real struggle for them, but they never complain or give up the fight. They represent everything that is best and most inspiring in the Catholic Church. We count it a privilege

to be a partner with them in that holy work,” said Jim Cavnar, president of Cross International Catholic Outreach.

Cavnar is calling on other Catholics in America to join the partnership and support the work being done by priests, nuns and pastors in the Third World.

“The Church is poised to have a major impact among the poor, but they lack the resources. That’s where we American Catholics can make such an importantdifference,” he said. “For example, the sisters are there to serve, but they need the food, clothing and other resources only we can provide.

And it only takes the gift of a few dollars to supply those things.”

Cavnar also pointed out that future lives may depend on how Americans respond.

“Do we really want to put the Missionaries of the Poor in the position that they must turn a child away for lack of resources? Certainly not! We Catholics value life as a gift of God. We would never willingly let a child be lost,” he said. “Just like that stormy night when a knock came to the door of the orphanage, this call is a knock at the door to our hearts. Will we open the door and respond as those nuns did?

I am confident that if we do, God will be glorified and we can save more children in need.”

How to Help: To support Cross International Catholic Outreach and its work overseas, mail your tax-deductible gift in the tear-off envelope portion of the ministry brochure found in this issue of the newspaper or mail the donation to Cross International Catholic Outreach, Project #AD00259, 490 White Pond Dr., PO Box 63, Akron OH 44309-0063.

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Guest Commentary We cannot remain silent

By Tony Magliano March 24, 2005, is the 25th anniversary of the assassination of the holy archbishop from El Salvador, Oscar Romero. Since he was murdered while celebrating the Eucharist, it is fitting that this anniversary falls on Holy Thursday.

Following Jesus’ example, Archbishop Romero said shortly before his death: “My life has been threatened many times. I have to confess that as a Christian I don’t believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me, I will rise again in the Salvadoran people. ... My death will be for the liberation of my people.”

However, Archbishop Romero was not always a courageous voice for the oppressed. In her book, “Oscar Romero: Memories in Mosaic,” Maria Lopez Vigil writes that in his early years as a bishop Archbishop Romero was politically cautious.

Even when the Latin American bishops pronounced at their gathering in Medellin, Colombia, that “institutionalized sin” was crushing the majority of Latin Americans and that the universal church should support a preferential option for the poor, he wanted nothing of it; he wholeheartedly protected the status quo.

One priest who worked with Archbishop Romero, Father Inocencio Alas, recalled key moments leading to the archbishop’s dramatic conversion. According to Father Alas, the archbishop began realizing that the poor laborers waiting for work at the coffee plantations were sleeping on the sidewalks.

“What can be done?” Archbishop Romero asked. Father Alas replied: “Look at that big house where the school used to be. Open it up!”

And so Archbishop Romero did. Next he started talking with those poor workers and began to understand their problems.

As Archbishop Romero continued his search for the truth, he had difficulty believing Father Alas’ claim that plantation owners treated workers unjustly. Father Alas said, “Why don’t you go to the plantation of this friend of yours. ... Go find out for yourself.”

After visiting the plantation, Archbishop Romero said to Father Alas, “You were right Father, but how is so much injustice possible?”

Father Alas replied, “This world so full of injustices is exactly what they were talking about in Medellin.”

As the poor began speaking out for justice, the ruling military junta — in union with several powerful Salvadoran families — began murdering them. When priests, sisters and lay leaders began speaking on behalf of the poor, they too became targets of the military.

A shameful chapter in American history reveals that the U.S. government supplied the brutal Salvadoran military with millions of dollars in weapons and training.

In a letter to President Jimmy Carter, Archbishop Romero warned that continued U.S. aid to El Salvador’s government “will surely increase injustices here and sharpen the repression.” Archbishop Romero asked Carter to stop all military assistance to the Salvadoran government.

President Carter ignored Archbishop Romero. Later, President Ronald Reagan increased military aid.

Finally, with tremendous courage, Archbishop Romero called on soldiers — “uniformed peasants” — to exercise civil disobedience. “The campesinos you kill are your own brothers and sisters.”

He said, “The church. ... cannot remain silent in the presence of such abominations. ... In the name of God, in the name of our tormented people who have suffered so much and whose laments cry out to heaven, I beseech you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God, stop the repression!”

Shortly afterward, Archbishop Romero was assassinated.

Oscar Romero, holy archbishop, through your example and prayers may we be moved to tirelessly care for the poor and oppressed, and courageously to speak out on their behalf. Amen.

Columnist Tony Magliano writes for Catholic News Service.

Faithful Citizenship Edmund Francis McGill charges that “some Catholic clergy and religious publicly welcome and faun over powerful public figures who are leaders in the army of death.” (Letters – Mar. 4) In the archdiocese these officials include every “Catholic” congressperson, state legislator, and San Francisco supervisor. They all support abortion, and infanticide, aka “partial birth abortion.”

Some worry that if the Bishops deny the Eucharist to public persons who support abortion, it might give the impression the Church is a partisan player because the Republican party also opposes abortion. This is specious because most Republicans are pro-choice, including Rudy Giuliani and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who are both “Catholic.”

The U.S. Bishops have often spoken against policies of the Republican Party, including welfare reform, and the recent liberation of Iraq. Their criticism was based on moral principles, not partisan politics. Similar moral principles obligate the U.S. Bishops to criticize scandalous conduct of Catholic officials, Democrats and Republicans alike, who publicly oppose Church doctrine in human life, yet still take communion.

The clergy and religious who admire pro-choice public officials because they advocate social programs should examine “Faithful Citizenship,” the U.S. Bishops statement on political responsibility. It teaches that: “Calls to advance human rights are illusions if the right to life is subject to attack.”

Mike Denunzio San Francisco Ed. Note: Mike Denunzio is Chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party.

Personal perspectives

L E T T E R S

I enjoyed very much the personal perspective written by Dr. Gordon Seely (CSF – Mar. 4).

Along with Archbishops John Meyers and Charles Chaput, Dr. Seely spreads the true light of Christ.

Expect to be persecuted for my sake said Our Lord. Pick up your cross and follow me, He also said. I believe these men are doing just that.

We need to be reminded that sometimes tolerating evil (letting pro-abortion politicians abuse communion) is to consent to the evil.

Richard Jaurigui San Mateo

Negative, deprecating It is very disappointing to find the Spirituality column taken up with “Toxic thinking.” (CSF – Mar. 4) The title well

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bespeaks the attitude of the author it seems: negative, deprecating and meanspirited.

Please make every effort to continue to bring us Fr. Ron Rolheiser regularly.

His Spirituality is the most thought-provoking and spirit-enhancing column you include in the paper and the chief and, often, only reason many of us continue to read it.

Margy Sheehy Ross Ed. Note: Fr. Catoir was speaking against negative, deprecating and meanspirited thinking and suggested that readers “call on Jesus” to turn and break free from “evil thoughts . . .emotional pain . . . poisonous thinking . . . fear and suspicion.” Fr. Rolheiser (a fan of Fr. Catoir) will continue to run regularly in Catholic San Francisco.

An alternate review

In our postmodern culture, many no longer believe in an over-arching reason for our existence, do not place their lives in the context of a mega-narrative, a story bigger than one’s own script. If, in that script, the value of human life depends upon delivering the knockout blow you have a tragedy waiting to happen.

The gloves are on not just in the boxing ring but in most of the arenas in modern life where the stakes are high - finance, politics, sports, industry, entertainment. In all of these arenas million dollar babies, male and female, are born every day and many die, as did the young person in the film, without ever finding a reason for existence beyond the knockout blow and its shallow and short-lived reward. Had the young woman in the film lived to old age, the scenario might well have been the same: ultimate defeat, depression and suicide.

In the depths of the soul, the response to a meaningless existence is not a shrug, it’s a shiver.

Life is a game to be won at any cost, and, when it’s over, the meaning of life is ended: the young boxer lived by this script, by this limited vision of life.

When the film showed the cruel blow dealt to her by the game she had made of her life, her loss of the will to live seemed like a natural consequence of the script by which she had lived.

What seemed unnatural was that the Catholic who loved her so deeply couldn’t avert the “final solution” by offering meaning and, consequently, hope within the context of faith. When the Big Screen presents a mercy killer as a devout Catholic, it puts into question the ability of Christians to see ultimate meaning in existence. We are all dealt shattering blows by life, and we must stand by those we love when these blows come down on them: accidents, catastrophic illness, loss of limbs or eyes, a child born with serious birth defects to name but a few.

Life is a shadowland, filled with both light and darkness. Can a Catholic look to the Judeo-Christian heritage to find meaning and consequently hope in the dark? Can we look to our faith to assure a person shattered by a devastating blow of God’s power to act in and through our lives even in the midst of our brokenness? Can we affirm the sanctity of life created in the image of God even when that life is shattered by forces beyond our control? Can we share the Big Story? It is the story of God’s transforming love, and, in today’s postmodern culture, unless Catholics can answer “yes” to these questions, I think our Christian faith may be down for the count.

Victoria Forrester Larkspur

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The Catholic Difference When the U.S. cardinals came to Rome to discuss the Long Lent of 2002 in April of that year, they recommended that a visitation be made of all U.S. seminaries, houses of priestly formation, and theological consortia, with an eye toward accelerating the process of reform already underway in many of those institutions. Those visitations, which may begin as soon as this coming fall, are crucial to authentic Catholic reform in light of the crisis caused by clerical sexual misconduct and failed episcopal leadership.

If the visitations are to fulfill their promise, they must be conducted with certain imperatives in mind. Here are three.

(1) The purpose of a visitation is to ascertain the truth about the spiritual, moral, and intellectual life of the institution being visited. The primary task of the visitators, in interviewing faculty, staff, and students, is to establish the truth about this particular situation. That is not going to be easy.

Those who have built careers by skating around issues like improper sexual activity in seminaries and houses of formation are not going to want those careers jeopardized. Those who have seen problems and yet have not had the courage to name them for what they are must be encouraged to tell the truth, even if the truth is painful — and so must students, who must be confident that they will not be jeopardizing their chances for a positive faculty evaluation if they tell the truth to visitators. Which means that students must be assured that their comments to visitators will be held in the strictest confidentiality.

There are prudent and experienced priests throughout the country who are quite familiar with the games that are often played to prevent the truth of certain seminary situations coming to light. A roster of such priests should be put together, and the relevant names should be made available to a visitation team before it visits an institution with which one or more of these priests is familiar. Visitators who know what to look for, and where, will be more likely to get at the truth of things.

(2) The intellectual, spiritual, and human formation of seminarians, especially on issues of sexuality, all intersect in the field of moral theology. Yet there are still seminaries in the United States where the teaching of moral theology remains in the hands of those who do not seem to have read the 1993 encyclical Veritatis Splendor, which rejected certain approaches to moral reasoning that, in my judgment and that of others, contributed to the meltdown of discipline in seminaries and houses of formation in the 1970s and 1980s. Or, having read Veritatis Splendor, they have dismissed it as impossibly old hat.

There are knowledgeable and sophisticated moral theologians in America who are both faithful to the teaching authority of the Church and notable scholars in their field. Those scholars should be asked to sketch a model moral theology curriculum, including a list of appropriate textbooks, that visitation teams can use as a template in assessing this critical aspect of priestly formation. The point is not to mandate a return to the pre-conciliar moral manuals. The point is to insure that future priests are

taught a method of moral theology that is compatible with the settled teaching of the Church on this matter.

(3) Then there is the issue of psychology and psychologists. When psychology trumped moral George Weigel theology in dealing with issues of sexual maturation in the seminaries of the 1970s and 1980s, bad things happened and a disciplinary breakdown followed – with what we now know were awful consequences. Today’s seminary visitators need the counsel of psychologists who were not identified, with those past problems – psychologists who understand the priority of moral theology over psychology in assessing certain patterns of abusive behavior, and who have not succumbed to the temptation to use clinical jargon to mask the reality of those kinds of sexual abuse.

American seminaries are in considerably better shape than they were two decades ago. Yet there are still problems in some places. Identifying and fixing those problems must be the purpose of these visitations.

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

Media & Culture

The patron saint of the Internet St. Isidore of Seville, inventor of the encyclopedia, is said to be the leading contender for the title, but I hope he doesn’t get it. The obvious patron saint of the internet is St. Joseph Cupertino. St. Joseph was a great man of the 17th century, and is my second favorite saint.

Many saints were deeply intelligent, and some were geniuses, but St. Joseph Cupertino, God bless him, was a bit of an idiot. Great saints like Teresa of Avila (my favorite: her common sense had a kind of genius to it) wrote books.

St. Joseph Cupertino couldn’t even read them. He had a low IQ. He was accepted to the priesthood only when a small miracle occurred: His big final test question dealt with the one part of the Bible he’d managed to fully memorize.

What was so special about St. Joseph? His intellectual dullness left him modest; the fact that no one seems ever to have loved him left him not angry but humble; the violence inflicted on him by others left him sympathetic to their frustrations. He thought nothing of himself, and God knew. He loved God with pure and complete ardor, and God knew that too. And God filled him with what most others could not be filled with because they were so full of themselves, and that was love. God poured so much love into St. Joseph that he was lit with it, floated with it. It literally left him airborne.

St. Joseph would pray, and then have visions, and soon he would begin to float. He would come to and find himself in the top of a tree and climb down with great embarrassment. It angered his superiors—who is this idiot to be so filled with love? Smarter people deserved visions! They also resented the fact that the local peasants began to follow him, for they and not the monks and nuns could see something special, the man was a saint. (He was: he’d be sent out to beg for food for the monastery and wind up giving the poor peasants his shoes and cloak instead. One cold winter day he came back naked.)

Instead of wearing his shoes, the peasants saved them as relics.

Animals too seemed to understand St. Joseph. They felt the love within him like a mighty vibration. Maybe it was the exact opposite of an earthquake vibration dogs are said to feel. They didn’t run from him but to him, and were quiet when they were with him, and put their heads on his knee. Birds would follow him. He’d tell them to shoo but they wouldn’t, and he’d laugh. They flew all around his head. He died in obscurity after finally having been assigned never to leave his cell. The best essay on him is in “Saints for Sinners” by Alban Goodier.

Why is St. Joseph Cupertino the obvious patron saint of the Internet? Because he flew through the air, lifted by truth.

Because no establishment could keep him down. Because he empowered common people. Because they in fact saw his power before the elites of the time did. And because it could not be an accident Peggy Noonan that the center of the invention of the Internet, ground zero of Silicon Valley, is Cupertino, Calif., named for the saint centuries ago.

Was God in this? Of course. Does God do such things for no reason? He does not. Has the church recognized St. Joseph Cupertino as patron saint of the Internet? No. But the church was always slow to give him his due. If you want to tell the pope that St. Joseph should be patron saint, you can reach him at john_paul_II@vatican.va.

Peggy Noonan is a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal. This article originally appeared in Wall Street OpinionJournal.

Spirituality

Gethsemane as the place we are put to the test “A common soldier dies without fear, but Jesus died afraid.” Iris Murdoch wrote those words and they teach one of the lessons of Gethsemane. The Garden of Gethsemane is also the place where we are put to the test. What does this mean?

The great spiritual writer, Henri Nouwen, once wrote a book within which he tried to come to grips with his mother’s death. The manner of her death had surprised him and left him struggling with some painful doubts and questions.

His mother had lived a full life; she’d died surrounded by a loving family and friends, and in her final illness had been made as comfortable and pain-free as possible by the best of modern medicine. What’s troubling about that?

She’d died struggling, it seemed, with her faith, unable to find at the most crucial moment of her life consolation from the God she’d loved and served so faithfully her whole life.

His mother, as he explains at the beginning of the book, had been a woman of exceptional faith and goodness. He was teaching abroad when he received the phone call that she was dying. Flying home to be with her, he mused naively how, painful as it was going to be, his mother’s death would be her final gift of herself and her faith to her family. A woman who had given them the faith during her life would surely deepen that gift by the way in which she would face her death.

But what he met in his mother and her struggles as she died was, at least to outward appearances, very different. Far from being peaceful and serene in her faith, she fought doubt and fear, struggling, it seemed, to continue to believe and trust what she had believed in and trusted in her whole life.

For Henri, expecting that someone of such deep faith should die serenely and without fear, this was very disconcerting.

“Why”, he asked, “Would God do this? Why would someone of such deep faith seemingly struggle so badly just before her death?”

The answer eventually came to him: All her life, his mother had prayed to be like Jesus and to die like Jesus.

Shouldn’t it make sense then that she should die like Jesus, struggling mightily with doubt and darkness, having to utter, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me!” Jesus didn’t die serenely, but struggling with doubt.

The great mystics called this struggle “the dark night of faith”, an experience within which God purifies us by seemingly withdrawing all sense of his presence so that our thoughts and feelings run dry and we can no longer imagine God’s existence. We become, in our hearts and heads, atheists at that moment, though something in our souls knows another reality.

And it’s an awful feeling, one of the worst pains possible. Darkness, chaos, and fear overwhelm us and we stand, literally, on the brink of nothingness, of non-existence, sensing our finitude, littleness, and loneliness in a way we never sensed them before. We feel exactly what it would mean to live in a universe where there is no God. The great doctors of the soul tell us that, while nobody is immune from this trial, it is generally experienced in so radical a way only by those who are the most mature in the faith and thus more ready to be purified by its particular fire.

The rest of us tend to get it in bits and pieces. Little doses of

what Jesus experienced on the cross appear in our lives, reveal the fearful edges of nothingness, and let us taste for a moment what reality would feel like if there were no God. Part of the darkness and pain of that is that, in that Father experience, we come to Ron Rolheiser realize that our thoughts about God are not God and how we imagine faith is not faith. God is beyond what we can feel and imagine and faith is not a warm feeling in the heart or a certainty in the mind, but a brand in the soul - beyond thought and feeling.

One way or the other, all of us have to learn this. But we’d like the lesson to come to us a bit more gently than how it came to Jesus in his last hours. Whenever we pray the Lord’s Prayer and say, “Do not put us to the test”, we’re asking God to spare us from this night of doubt.

When Jesus walked into the Garden of Gethsemane, he told his disciples: “Pray not to be put to be put to the test.” We need to pray for that because real faith can sometimes feel like doubt and serenity can too easily turn into dark fear.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, TX.

JOHN EARLE PHOTO

Visiting the seminaries

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FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT

Scripture

Ezekiel 37:12-14; Psalm 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; Romans 8:8-11; John 11:1-45 or 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45.

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL (EZ 37:12-14) Thus says the Lord God: O my people, I will open your graves and have you rise from them, and bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and have you rise from them, O my people! I will put my spirit in you that you may live, and I will settle you upon your land; thus you shall know that I am the Lord. I have promised, and I will do it, says the Lord.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8) R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice!

Let your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication.

R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?

But with you is forgiveness, that you may be revered.

R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in his word.

More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord.

R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

For with the Lord is kindness and with him is plenteous redemption; And he will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.

R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE ROMANS (ROM 8:8-11) Brothers and sisters: Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is alive because of righteousness. If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also, through his Spirit dwelling in you.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN (JN 11:1-45 OR 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33B-45) Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill. So the sisters sent word to Jesus saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was. Then after this he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.” The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and you want to go back there?”

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If one walks during the day, he does not stumble, because he sees

the light of this world. But if one walks at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” He said this, and then told them, “Our friend Lazarus is asleep, but I am going to awaken him.” So the disciples said to him, “Master, if he is asleep, he will be saved.” But Jesus was talking about his death, while they thought that he meant ordinary sleep. So then Jesus said to them clearly, “Lazarus has died.

And I am glad for you that I was not there, that you may believe. Let us go to him.” So Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go to die with him.”

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles away.

And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him, “I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.”

When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, “The teacher is here and is asking for you.” As soon as she heard this, she rose quickly and went to him. For Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still where Martha had met him. So when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, presuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there. When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping, he became perturbed and deeply troubled, and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Sir, come and see.” And Jesus wept. So the Jews said, “See how he loved him.” But some of them said, “Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done something so that this man would not have died?”

So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay across it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days.”

Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd here I have said this, that they may believe that you sent me.” And when he had said this, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”

Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him.

RON ZANONI

Turn to Him and be free During the Lenten season, especially during the first half, the demands of the Gospel are placed squarely in front of us - demands such as: turn from sin, listen to the Lord, die to yourself, forgive “70 times 7” (ouch!), love your enemies (ditto!), do not judge others, humble yourself, serve one another, feed the hungry at your door, love the Lord with all that you are, and your neighbor as yourself – just to name a few! And if we are honest with ourselves, we will come to the conclusion very quickly that it is impossible to satisfy these demands – that is, on our power alone. Of course, that’s exactly the point. During Lent, we need to be reminded of our radical need for God. We often fail to follow the Lord as we should. We sin against God and others. And we are reminded of our need for salvation.

In a passage from the letter of Saint Paul to the Romans, taken just a few verses before our second reading today, Paul expresses the universal human struggle we all face between good and evil. Surely we can all identify with these words: “What I do, I do not understand…For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want… I take delight in the law of God…but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind” (cf. Rom 7:15-23).

We can take great comfort in that this was written by one of the greatest saints ever!

My five-year old nephew was complaining a while ago to my sister-in-law, who was (again) instructing him on some of the finer points of good childhood behavior. He said, “I know what I’m supposed to do, Mom, but my head and my feet won’t let me!” We know that what God asks of us is right and good good for us, and for others - and we want to follow the Lord more faithfully, but “our head and feet” often won’t seem to let us.

But the realization of our inability to satisfy the demands of the Gospel should never lead us to discouragement. Continuing the passage above from the letter to the Romans, Saint Paul asks, “Who will deliver me from this mortal body? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (cf. Rom 7:24-25) We must turn to Christ who is our salvation.

Only He can rescue us from the sin and death that plague us and the world.

This is where the second half of Lent comes in. Our attention has been turning, slowly but surely, more directly to Christ and his saving promises for our lives. We have heard in recent weeks that He is the Living Water, the Light of the World, and today we hear Jesus tell Martha, and us: “I am the resurrection and the life.”

There is only one condition. We must believe. Jesus promised Martha that if she would believe, she would see the glory of God. Jesus was not only talking about the glory that would be revealed in His raising Lazarus from the dead, but about what we would all “see” by believing in Him, by placing our lives completely into his hands.

If we want to truly see God’s glory and overcome sin in our lives, if we want to truly live the “good life”, we must believe.

Saint Paul goes on in our second reading today to make clear the decision that is always before us – to live in the flesh, or in the Spirit. Paul is not opposed to the human body or to the life we live here in the flesh. For him, to live “in the flesh” is his code language for being opposed to God and His ways. We live in the flesh when, rather than turning away from sin, we resist God’s law to love Him and each other. When rather than forgiving, we prefer to hold on to resentment. When rather than serving others, we look out for only “number one.” And when rather than turning to God for the grace and mercy we need to follow Christ, we would rather (with all due respect to Frank Sinatra) “do it my way.” And as St. Paul says, when we do – when we are “in the flesh” – we cannot please God. But, here’s the good news: Paul also reminds us that as baptized Christians, and being continually nourished by the sacraments, we have the Spirit of God dwelling in us! Christ has united Himself to us, and in so doing, we can live the life of the Spirit. By His death and resurrection, Christ has solved the “power shortage” problem – the power needed to live the Gospel. Christ will not only give life to our mortal bodies at the resurrection, but will do so even now.

So, Lent is not just a “brush-up” course on the moral demands of the Gospel, it is about transformation. It is certainly about turning away from sin, but perhaps as importantly, it is about turning once again to God and being filled by Him and His Spirit, to live the life He has already given us through our baptism.

Life, not death. Jesus wants us to have life, and to the full. Because He is the resurrection and the life. Not just at the future resurrection from the dead, but now. Not just at Easter, but on the Fifth Sunday of Lent. Can we, like Lazarus, hear him calling, “Come out”? Let us go to Him, and be set free.

Ron Zanoni is a transitional deacon studying at St. Patrick’s Seminary.

He will be ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Las Vegas this spring.

The Raising of Lazarus – Mattia Preti, c. 1650.

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Year of the Eucharist

Simple gifts But in a sense God does not give us bread and wine.

In the Gospel of John, the greatest “sign” of Jesus is the raising of Lazarus. Ironically, it is this gift of life which God gives us wheat and grapes, and the ingenuity to proprovokes the enemies of Jesus to seek His death. The duce bread and wine. These gifts are also a celebration of Church’s liturgy reflects this pattern. On the Fourth Sunday the blessings of human life. By their very nature they are of Lent we hear the Gospel of Lazarus and then we are social, both in their production and in their use. Many plunged into “Passiontide”: the hymns, readings and hands work to cultivate the crops and produce the bread prayers for the next two weeks dwell on the passion and and wine, and they are best enjoyed around a common table. As the prayer of the Mass puts it so succinctly, these death of Christ.

A little later in John’s Gospel Jesus provides a clue to are fruits of the earth and the work of human hands.

These are gifts which we offer back to God. Students of the meaning of these events: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it religion love to explore the various meanings of “sacrifice” in human history, but certainly remains just a grain of a fundamental meaning of wheat; but if it dies, it sacrifice is the recognition produces much fruit.” (Jn Sacrifice is the proclamation that that our human existence is 12: 24) We can take this as an invitation to consid- everything we have is a gift, and we not self-sufficient. Sacrifice is the proclamation that er the symbolic lessons of everything we have is a gift, the simple gifts of bread want to “return” something to God and we want to “return” and wine which we use in something to God as an the celebration of the as an expression of that reality. expression of that reality. It Eucharist. is not that God needs it; we First, the bread and wine proclaim the goodness of God’s creation. (CCC 1333) want to make the sacrifice as a sign of our love and gratitude.

Catholic liturgy celebrates creation: water and oil, candles We are like children who save up their allowance to buy their and flowers, vestments and incense all assert that the world parents a gift. We give back what we have received, but the is beautiful, and that we should rejoice in its goodness and gift lies in the love with which we give it.

Recall a very simple gesture in the Mass: members of the use the things of this world to glorify God. Among these blessings, bread and wine have a special place; in the words assembly bring up bread and wine, and the priest places of the Psalmist, God has given us bread for strength and them on the altar. In the words of the Catechism this presentation “… commits the Creator’s gifts into the hands of wine for joy. (Ps 104:15)

Christ who, in his sacrifice, brings to perfection all human attempts to offer sacrifices.” (CCC 1350) We are back to the image of the grain of wheat in the Gospel: new life coming from Christ’s death.

The bread and wine are marked by sacrifice: the sweat and labor to grow the crops; the crushing of grain and grapes; the baking of the bread and fermentation of the juice.

The sacrificial obedience of Christ heals the wound inflicted by sin. Adam sought equality with God; the Son did not deem the equality He possessed something to be clung to, but emptied Himself and became obedient unto death. (Phil 2:6-8) When our first parents attempted to usurp God’s place they upset the spiritual ecology of creation. The sundering of their relationship with God poisoned their love for each other (mutual recrimination, the submissive position of woman to man after the Fall), and infected their relationship to the world: where formerly they had the joy of gardening, now they would get their bread only by the sweat of their brow. (Gen 3) The celebration of the Eucharist is the triumph of Christ’s humility over human pride, and it is this humility which heals all of our relationships: with God, with one another, with our world. The grain of wheat dies and becomes the Bread of Life.

Part of a series presented by the Liturgical Commission of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

In the News

Women who are caregivers shouldn’t suffer economically Pope John Paul II named Mary Ann Glendon, a professor of law at Harvard University, to be president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences one year ago.

The appointment marked the first time a woman has been named president of one of the 10 pontifical academies.

UNITED NATIONS (CNS) — Mary Ann Glendon, head of the Vatican delegation to a meeting of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, said March 7 that women face an unresolved problem of “harmonizing” their “aspirations for fuller participation in social and economic life with their roles in family life.”

Women can resolve the problem, but not without “radical changes in society,” she said.

Glendon, a Harvard law professor and president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, said no society had yet found a satisfactory way to apply the “equality principle” to the situation of “mothers and others who give priority to caregiving roles.”

To do this, she said, policy-makers would have to pay closer attention “to women’s own accounts of what is important to them, rather than to special interest groups that purport to speak for women but often do not have women’s interests at heart.”

Society should both respect caregiving as “one of the most important forms of human work” and restructure patterns of paid employment so that women do not have Glendon said, however, that the same years had to pay for their economic security by sacrificing the caregiving “in which many millions of them find their deepest brought “new forms of poverty” and “new threats to human life and dignity.” fulfillment,” she said.

“Even in affluent societies, the faces of the poor are “In sum, the problem will not be solved until human values take precedence over economic values,” she added. predominantly those of women and children,” she said.

Tying this “feminization of poverty” to family breakThe Feb. 28-March 11 commission meeting, held at U.N. headquarters in New York, was devoted to a review down, she said that the costs of increasing divorce and of the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women and of single parenthood had “fallen heavily on women.”

Glendon said another growing problem for women was progress in implementing its declaration and action platthe combination of falling birth rates and increasing form.

Glendon, who headed the Vatican delegation to the longevity that produced a shortage of caregivers and creconference, told the commission that the family of nations ated “tensions between younger and older generations.”

“In a world that has had given significant become dangerously careless “encouragement and impetus about protecting human life to women in their quest for “In a world that has become at its frail beginnings and recognition of their equal dangerously careless about endings, older women are rights and dignity.” likely to be at particular When the U.N. charter risk,” she said. affirmed “the equal rights of protecting human life at its Poverty today, Glendon men and women” in 1945, said, is not merely a problem women did not enjoy social frail beginnings and endings, but a scandal because and legal equality in any humanity “for the first time country of the world, she older women are likely to be in history” has the capacity said. to end it.

But she said progress “The Holy See wishes to toward realizing the U.N. at particular risk.” take this occasion to reaffirm vision “gathered momentum” in the women’s conferences in Mexico City in 1975; its own long-standing commitments to the education Copenhagen, Denmark, 1980; Nairobi, Kenya, 1985; and and health of women and girls, and to pledge its redoubled efforts to awaken the consciences of the priviin Beijing.

“Today, the equality principle is officially accepted leged,” she said.

In a telephone interview, Glendon said the meeting of nearly everywhere in the world,” she said.

(CNS PHOTO BY JUSTIN IDE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

By Tracy Early

the Commission on the Status of Women showed some of the same divisions evident in Beijing and at other gatherings, with representatives of the developing world focusing on problems such as poverty and delegates from more affluent areas “still preoccupied with the agenda of the old feminism of the 1970s.”

This “old feminism,” she said, was characterized by negative attitudes toward men and motherhood and following a “party line” on abortion and homosexuality.

Glendon said, however, that she found the Vatican received a cordial welcome and a respectful hearing.

The Catholic Church wins respect because it has 300,000 agencies throughout the world actually working in the fields of health, education and other areas important to the advancement of women, she said.

The United States encountered widespread opposition when it sought to amend a declaration issued from the commission meeting to say that the Beijing documents did not create any right to abortion.

Relatively brief for U.N. documents, the declaration reaffirmed the Beijing declaration and action platform, and called for intensified efforts to implement it on the part of the international community, nongovernmental organizations and individuals.

Glendon said she found the declaration acceptable because lawyers knew such conferences lacked the authority to create new rights.

The U.S. representatives said the discussion precipitated by their amendment proposal sufficiently established that no right to abortion was created at Beijing, and they agreed to accept the declaration without amendment.

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Lenten Opportunities Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF at 3:30 p.m. Call (415) 567-2020 ext.

213. Open to the public. Admission free. March 13: Irena Chribkova, organist visiting from Prague.

Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to the public.

Admission free. March 13: Schola Cantorum sings music of Shrine’s resident composer.

March 17: Morning Reflection for Cathedral Autumn Group with Father Lawrence Finegan of the Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF. All people 55 and over are cordially invited. Call (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

March 18: A dramatic performance of the Gospel of Matthew with Michael Reardon and Patrick Lane at St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Rd., Redwood City at 7 p.m. Experience a contemporary translation of Scripture in a new and fresh way with music, lighting and costumes. A reception to meet the artists follows.

March 19: Day of Recollection sponsored by SF Guild – Catholic Medical Association in the Green Room of St. Cecilia Church, 17th Ave. and Vicente, SF, beginning at 9 a.m. Talks focus on Christ’s Passion with Philip Calanchini and Richard Sonnenshein. Tickets $35 per person include lunch. Father Mark Taheny, chaplain, will guide the day. Call (4150 219-8719.

March 20: Palm Sunday Bunch at St. Mary Church in Nicasio, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Enjoy fresh fried eggs, hash browns and a ration of ham plus raffle and silent auction.

Tickets $15 adults/$5 under 12. Call (415) 662-2191.

March 21: San Francisco Council of Catholic Women “Evening of Recollection” at Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco beginning with Mass at 6 p.m.

March 22 and 24: Holy Week Retreat with Dominican Father Jude Siciliano and Dominican Sister Patricia Bruno at Sacred Heart Church, 10189 State Route One in Olema. Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., “an evening to lift your spirits,” Thursday at 9 a.m., “Scriptural Reflection to prepare for Easter.”

Call (415) 663-1139.

St. Anthony Padua Dining Room in Menlo Park needs volunteers Wed., Thurs, and Sat. from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. to help prepare and serve noon meals. The program helps more than 500 people daily. Call (650) 365-9664.

St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco.

Call (415) 567-2020 for more information.

April 2: Spring Dinner Dance, in Patrons’ Hall. A fundraising event for the Cathedral. Proceeds benefit St.

March 12: The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur continue the Morning of Prayer series with “Blessed are the Peace Makers: The Promise of the Tenderloin” from 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. Explore and reflect on San Francisco’s inner-city neighborhood as a model for individual and community growth and development. Led by Don Stannard-Friel, Ph.D. and Kathryn Racine-Jones at Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Avenue in Belmont, across from Ralston Hall on the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University. For more information call 650-593-2045 X 277 or visit www.SistersofNotreDameCA.org.

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Consolation Ministry Groups meet at the following parishes. Please call numbers shown for more information.

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame. Call (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Louise Nelson at (650) 343-8457 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City. Call (650) 366-3802; Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 3552593; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call (650) 589-2800.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont. Call Ann Ponty at (650) 598-0658 or Mary Wagner at (650) 591-3850.

Marin County: St. Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at (415) 472-5732. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato. Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171.

San Francisco: St.Gabriel. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. St. Finn Barr in English and Spanish.

Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823; St. Cecilia. Call Peggy Abdo at (415) 564-7882 ext. 3; Epiphany in Spanish. Call Kathryn Keenan at (415) 564-7882. St. Dominic. Call Margaret Passanisi at (415) 931-5241.

Ministry for parents who have lost a child is available from Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 3443579.

Young Widow/Widower group meets at St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

Information about children’s and teen groups is available from Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

Returning Catholics The class of ’50 from Epiphany Elementary School gathered in October for memories and lunch.

“One came from as far as Montana and another from Illinois,” said classmate Ann Murray Miller of Menlo Park. “Everyone agreed we should try to meet every year. Here’s to future reunions.”

Mary’s Cathedral.No Host Cocktails: 6.00pm. Dinner 79 p.m. Dance 9pm-1am. Semi-Formal Attire. Donation: $25.00 Inquiries call 567-2020, ext. 205.

St. Paddy’s Day Events March 12: Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with St. Anne of the Sunset Parish. Evening includes traditional Irish fare plus music by Alex and the Trade Winds and Cora Beloy.

Irish pipers and dancers too. Tickets $30 adults/ $20 seniors and teens/$10 under 10. Call Patty Diner at (415) 566-7500. Sponsored by parish Men’s Club.

March 12: Star of the Sea Parish honors the auld sod saint with Irish food, dancers and music of the Over Commitments from 8 – 10 p.m. Call (415) 7510450 for ticket information.

March 12: Annual Luncheon benefiting Redwood City’s St. Francis Center, a longstanding immigrant family outreach program, at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park beginning with seminarian-led tours at 11 a.m.

Later, it’s a silent auction and raffle as well as a tasty and March-appropriate corned beef and cabbage lunch. Tickets are $50 per person. Call (650) 854-1262 or (650) 851-9858.

March 12: Art Irwin Memorial Dinner Dance at Our Lady of Loretto Parish Hall and sponsored by Knights of Columbus, Council 3950. Music by the Poyntless Sisters. Also entertainment by Anne Healy Irish Dancers. Raffle, too. Tickets $30 per person. Call Al Labourdette at (415) 892-9989.

March 13: St. Patrick’s day Festival and Barbecue rain or shine benefiting Sacred Heart Parish at the Dance Palace, 5th and B St. in Pt. Reyes Station.

Complete BBQ Chicken Dinner served noon – 4 p.m. with Irish music, baked goods and games.

Adults $10/Kids $7. Tickets available at the door.

Raffle, too. Call (415) 663-1139 or just show up!

March 19: Traditional Irish fare accompanied by song and dance from Ireland at St. Francis of Assisi Church Hall, 1425 Bay Rd., East Palo Alto. Corned Beef and Cabbage dinner prepared by former chef of Woodside’s Village Pub. Evening also includes presentation from noted historian Robert Senkewicz.

Call (650) 322-2152 for ticket information.

Food & Fun March 12: Monte Carlo Cruise is the theme of this year’s annual dinner dance, auction and party benefiting Notre Dame High School in Belmont. The evening is on-campus at the school’s Moore Pavilion complete with sumptuous buffet dinner, live auction, gaming and dancing to Hitop Posse. Early bids can be placed at www.ndhsb.org. Tickets are $50 per person. Call (650) 595-1913, ext. 351.

March 19: Fiesta Fever takes hold of St. Cecilia’s Durocher Pavilion for the parish Mothers’ Club’s annual dinner dance and auction beginning with theme oriented appetizers at 6 p.m. Music by Ben Hunter and the Celtic Scandal. Tickets are $75 per person. Proceeds benefit parish school. Call Tanya Bolshakoff at (415) 759-8582.

Respect Life/ Family Life March 18-20: Rachel’s Vineyard, a weekend retreat for women and men seeking healing from an abortion in a supportive and non-judgmental environment. Call Mary Peter at (408) 426-7343 or (888) 467-3790. For information about additional Project Rachel services, please call the Archdiocese of San Francisco at (415) 717-6428.

Are you in a troubled marriage? Retrouvaille, a program for couples with serious marital problems, might help. For information, call Tony and Pat Fernandez at (415) 893-1005.

Single, Divorced, Separated March 18: Potluck Supper at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral conference center. Sponsored by Divorced and Separated Ministry of the Archdiocese. Call Vonnie at (650) 873-4236.

Separated and Divorced support group meets 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452.

Catholic Adult Singles Assoc. of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 897-0639 for information.

Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: Marin County: St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, call (415) 453-2342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani at (415) 4617060; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea or Diane Claire at (415) 388-4190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco at (415) 331-7949.

San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, SF, Michael Adams at (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call (415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus, SF, (415) 664-8590.

San Mateo County: St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Dorothy Heinrichs or Maria Cianci at (650) 347-7768; St. Dunstan, Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Chris Booker at (650) 738-1398.

Taize Prayer 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in their Province Center Chapel, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont across from Ralston Hall on the campus of their Notre Dame de Namur University. Call (650) 5932045, ext. 350 or www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org.

1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

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Lenten Movie Series Frequency Following is part of a series of movie reviews for Lent. Frequency (2000) is available on DVD and VHS.

Review by Steven D. Greydanus Like the smash hit The Sixth Sense, Frequency is a human drama told against a paranormal backdrop, a story of two characters a generation apart in troubling circumstances who share a mysterious bond and who help one another in different ways.

Yet, where The Sixth Sense was overshadowed by the specter of death, Frequency is about life. This is a film about the legacy of fatherhood and the inheritance of sonship, about the unbreakable connection and the unbridgeable gap between one generation and the next. It is a celebration of masculinity, but it contemplates how men relate to women as an index of their manhood. This film believes in family; in the strength of fathers and the nurturing of mothers — qualities symbolized by the uniforms of firefighters or policemen and nurses. It also believes in baseball, especially the Amazin’ Mets of the ’69 Series.

Most of all, Frequency touches upon the profound human longing to escape the constraints of time, to see the wrongs and mistakes of the past somehow set right, redeemed.

At the heart of the movie is a premise so simple, yet so powerful, that it could practically carry the story by itself: A Queens cop whose firefighter father died heroically thirty years earlier has an unexpected and mysterious opportunity to communicate across time with his father on the eve of the fatal fire.

John Sullivan (James Caviezel) was only six years old in 1969 when his father Frank (Dennis Quaid) died in a warehouse blaze, and his father’s death casts a long shadow over John’s life; he drinks too much, and his girlfriend has just left him. Then one day he happens to pull his father’s old ham radio set out of storage, begins fiddling with it, and, by a freak convergence of northern lights, sunspots, and one heck of a plot device, suddenly he and his father, sitting thirty years apart in the same chair at the same desk with the same transmitter in their hands, are communicating across a distance of decades.

I’ve watched countless movie scenes in which characters must establish to each other and to themselves that something extraordinary is happening. This film has one of the neatest such sequences I’ve ever seen. The way the facts come out is clean and persuasive, and the emotional responses are note-perfect. And, of course, John proceeds to do exactly what any of us, no matter how many time-travel movies we’ve seen, would do under the circumstances: He tells his father about the next day’s fateful fire — and how to survive it. The way the film resolves the consequences of this act is as intriguing as it is satisfying.

The story then falls back on some standard-issue complications in the time-travel type of plot (though technically no one does any time-travelling in Frequency, except of course in the everyday sense, pointed out by MacPhee in The Dark Tower, that we are all “travelling into the future at the rate of sixty minutes an hour whether you like it or not”).

John and Frank have altered history, and something has gone horribly awry. Now father and son must collaborate across time to stop a serial killer who’s inadvertently been given a new lease on life. This rather conventional thriller subplot essentially gives shape to the second half of the film; it’s handled smartly and competently, and the time-bending rules of this universe, although not clearly worked out, have some clever applications.

Why is the idea of time travel, alternate time lines, and changing the past so compelling? Roger Ebert in his Frequency review expresses something of it when he observes, “There must be something universal about our desire to conquer time, which in the end conquers us.” But it’s more than that. God, the saints tell us, has placed eternity in our hearts. We aren’t satisfied to be bound by time; we long to escape from its constraints, to see the tragedies wrought in time undone; to see all things work together for good.

This is a desire which finds its ultimate satisfaction only in eternity, where every wrong is righted and every tear wiped from our eyes.

But even in this life there can be partial realizations (as, for example, on those occasions when a quarrel leads to deeper reconciliation and harmony); and in fiction the device of time travel gives us a new way, an imaginative and metaphorical way, to explore this desire of our hearts. Even though there is no such thing as time travel, it appeals to something in us which is very real, and can illuminate not only our present condition but also our eternal destiny.

Frequency does all this about as well as any time-bending tale I know of. From the outset we have every confidence that things will work out for our heroes, not only because a sentimental Hollywood thriller of this sort has to deliver a happy ending, but also because we feel that such an extraordinary set of circumstances must be providential; that the universe must in some way be on their side; as indeed it is on our side.

Some critics have raised questions about the logic of the film’s time-tweaking. Having watched it twice, I acknowledge that there seem to be inconsistencies in the way events in the past make their effects felt in the future. (I say “seem to be” because experience has taught me that an explanation can be mounted for just about any apparent discrepancy. Of course, it might be argued that the mere fact that such an explanation is necessary in the first place is itself a flaw in the film; which it may be. But I’d have to hear the explanation before coming to a

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final conclusion.) And the fact that John Sullivan always retains his memories of previous timelines as well as gaining new memories from the new continuity (while others don’t) is obviously a huge creative liberty.

But I don’t care. It works well enough to make the movie work for me. Most importantly, the instantly persuasive rapport between Dennis Quaid and James Caviezel (who worked together before in Any Given Sunday

and Wyatt Earp) makes their relationship real and involving; and, because I believe in their relationship, I accept the circumstances in which they find themselves. It’s not quite as well-crafted as The Sixth Sense, but Frequency is not only just as heartfelt, it’s more entertaining, and the themes it deals with are more important, more fundamental to the human condition. It’s a great movie to see with your father or (assuming he’s old enough) your son.

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■ Continued from cover Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Roman Catholic and Protestant), The government of Prime Minister Omar Karami was toppled Feb. 28 during a demonstration by tens of thousands of Lebanese. Banks, shops and schools throughout the country were closed for a general strike.

The Lebanese government forbids protests. In the past, those who attempted to demonstrate were beaten and jailed.

Thousands of demonstrators arrived the evening before the protest; still thousands more were delayed the next morning due to road barricades and Lebanese army forces blocking entry to Martyr’s Square in downtown Beirut. In efforts to keep the demonstration peaceful, many protesters chanted that the troops would “stand by us, but not against us.” Thousands of red roses were distributed to soldiers standing guard.

Since the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri Feb. 14, Lebanese of all ethnic and religious backgrounds demonstrated peacefully with cries of “Syria Out” and called for the resignation of the Syrian-controlled Lebanese government.

Hariri was killed in a massive blast in Beirut that also killed 16 others and injured more than 100. His tomb became the scene of a nightly vigil, with Christians and Muslims praying side by side.

Lebanon has been under occupation by Syria for nearly 30 years, since Syrian troops entered Lebanon as a peacekeeping force in 1976 during the country’s civil war. The Taif Accord signed in 1989 officially ended Lebanon’s civil war and called for the withdrawal of Syrian troops. Some 15,000 Syrian troops remain, along with an intelligence force.

Hariri’s assassination is seen as the spark that has united Christians, Muslims and Druze — a religious sect — in their outrage against the pro-Syrian government.

International pressure, particularly from the United States, has been mounting for Syria to withdraw its troops and intelligence forces from Lebanon.

Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a special speech to the Syrian Parliament March 5, announced a complete withdrawal of Syrian troops to the Bekaa Valley, which covers the Lebanese-Syrian border. He said the timetable would be decided upon by the Syrian and Lebanese leadership. Assad made no mention of the extensive Syrian intelligence force operating in Lebanon.

In a demonstration early this week, the opposition called for withdrawal of Syrian intelligence forces; asked for a schedule for the withdrawal of Syrian troops; asked for a clear explanation of the borders involved in the announced withdrawal of Syrian troops; and asked for the truth regarding Hariri’s assassination, which many Lebanese believe Syria orchestrated.

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PRESIDENT Bishop O’Dowd High School, Oakland, California (www.bishopodowd.org) a Catholic, coeducational, college preparatory high school serving 1,100 students, owned and operated by the Diocese of Oakland, seeks a creative,charismatic and visionary President to carry on its strong tradition of academic excellence and faith formation.

The first President of Bishop O’Dowd High School will be a committed, practicing Catholic with excellent communication and leadership skills. A qualified candidate will hold a Masters Degree in an appropriately related field and will demonstrate successful experience in fundraising, marketing, financial management and school administraion.

Preferred start date is July 1, 2005. Review of applications will begin March 14, 2005 and continue until the position is filled.

Interested and qualified candidates are asked to submit a letter of interest addressing requirements/skills listed above, a resume and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of five references to: Bishop O’Dowd Presidential Search, Catholic School Management, Inc., P.O. Box 4071, Madison, CT 06443-4071. Email: office@catholicschoolmgmt.com.

CONFERENCE COORDINATOR: Vallombrosa Retreat and Cenference Center in Menlo Park, CA. seeks a confernece coordinator to manage the reservation system for the center. The conference coordinator is responsible for creating a positive image for Vallombrosa Center and representing its high standards to both the onsite staff and to those persons and businesses outside of the organization. Minimum qualifications: ● ● ● ● ● ●

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PRINCIPAL POSITION AVAILABLE De Marillac Middle School is a Catholic, co-educational middle school in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District. De Marillac was established in 2001 and is co-sponsored by the De La Salle Christian Brothers and the Daughters of Charity. De Marillac is a member of a national network of San Miguel Schools and is dedicated to serving a low-income population. The school is tuition-free and seeks students who would be considered “at-risk:” because of social, academic, economic, and/or family circumstances. The ethnically diverse student body currently includes 56 sixth, seventh and eighth graders.

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Catholic San Francisco

March 11, 2005

San Domenico School’s Virtuoso Program Orchestra Da Camera won top honors at the 2005 National Orchestra Festival last month in Reno, Nevada, including the “Grand Champion Award” for the most outstanding High School Orchestra nationwide. The San Domenico ensemble was one of 15 orchestras from around the nation to take part in the event. Each had been selected for the competition by taped audition.

The Virtuoso Program is one of a handful of such programs in the nation, and the only one specifically for young women. The next Virtuoso Program performance is a benefit concert of orchestral and chamber music on Sunday, April 24, at 3 p.m. in Bettye Poetz Ferguson Hall at San Domenico School in San Anselmo.

The 2005 San Francisco St. Patrick's Day Parade is Sunday, March 13 starting at 11:30AM from Second and Market and proceeding to Civic Center.

The parade is expected to draw close to 200 entries and is followed by a full day of festivities at Civic Center Plaza, with live performances, food and drink, and Irish Arts and Crafts. The parade is sponsored by the United Irish Societies. Many parishes and Catholic organizations also hold festivities in March in honor of St. Patrick, the patron of Ireland, whose feast day is March 17. See Datebook, page 16.

Members of San Domenico’s Orchestra Da Camera include (standing back row) Rachel Taylor, Sarena Hsu, Gabi Fragiadakis, Christie Kim, Terri Lin, Michelle Markle, Sheila Perry, Camille Buchanan, Andrea Maffei, Rachel Taylor, Drew Wolpert, Makiko Harris, Lia Kohl, Sarah Lee, Emilia Burlingham, Stacy Hsueh, Karolinka Tekiela; (standing front row) Shallin Ris, Mika Weissbuch, Eboni Garrett-Bluford, Rachel Ruggles, Lisa Wu, Emmy Pierce; (seated) Christina Simpson, Joanna Neuschatz, Maggie Simpson, Buff Simpson; (not pictured) Min Seon Kim and Jee-Kang Kwon)

(CNS PHOTO BY GREGORY A. SHEMITZ, LONG ISLAND CATHOLIC)

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