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by Tom Burke Father Joseph Hartzler celebrated his 25th anniversary as a member of the Mananist community on Jan. 21, at Archbishop Riordan High School, where he teaches and where his community has held forth since the school's founding in 1949. Father Hartzler is a grad of the City 's St. Anthony Elementary, now St. AnthonyImmaculate Conception, and Riordan.... Daly City 's Our Father Hartzler Lady of Mercy Elementary recently bid farewell to "beloved crossing guard" Margaret Fischer who died unexpectedly during the Christmas holi-

Back from left: Mercy High School , San Francisco 's p Dotty McCrea , principal; Patrick Hickey, Linda Ambrosini. Front from left: Marianne Thon, Carol Touye, Anne Kotsopoulous;

Ecumenism Paul Wattson lecturer addresses questions of unity

will house a gymnasium, locker rooms, weight room and classroom. The gym will seat 700 fans , and for the first time in the school's .48 years, its teams will be able to tap into the legendary home court advantage. Two-thirds of the building 's $1.5 million price tag has been raised with further fundraising scheduled for the fall.... San Mateo's St. Gregory Elementary School went to bat for the Porras family of the Mission District 's St. Peter Parish, victims

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Clockwise from bottom left: Katrina Brooke , Starla Virgen , Nichole Mendoza , Chaneile Molina, Katie Cavallero and Elisa Davis place flowers where Margaret Fisher once stood guard.

days. Margaret, a parishioner of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, "is deeply missed" the school said, adding her "friendliness and hel pfulness were an inspiration to us all."

Arlene Fife is principal. Father Manuel Curso is pastor.

During Christmas, the parish had some great suggestions for the Jubilee Year including write a love letter, share some treasure, encourage youth , keep a promise, find the time....

Notre Dame High School, Belmont, held a "Home for the Holidays" reunion for members of its 1995-99 classes

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on Dec. 22. More than 35 grads came to see what 's up at their former stompin ' grounds....

The Catholic Marin Breakfast Club gave "a big thank you" to St. Sebastian parish's "great secretaries" Nancy Lampe and Irene Platz for being on the other end of the phone for people making reservations to attend the group 's monthly gatherings, and Genevieve Swisher gets a sunny-

Front from left: Roberto Porras , Jr., Vanessa Porras , Roberto Porras. Back from left: St. Gregory Elementary School's Kara Barden , Chelsea Cardani , student council moderator Cindy Stuart, Keith Benham , Fred Stamm;

of a tragic automobile accident on Labor Day weekend. A student council-run campai gn raised $450 and a check was presented to the family at St. Peter 's on Dec. 13. Hats off to these kids who looked beyond themselves. The Porras children, 1st grader Roberto and 6th grader Vanessa who lost use of her legs in the crash, have returned to classes. St. Gregory princi pal is Linda Grund. Pastor is Msgr. Bob McElroy. St. Peter principal is Vicki Butler. Pastor is Father Dan Maguire....

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By Kamille Maher Proposed physician-assisted suicide legislation died of natural causes Jan . 31 when its sponsor declined to bring it to the California General Assembly floor for a vote.

AB 1592 had been carried forward as a two-year bill last June and needed to be considered in the General Assembly by January 's end. The bill's author, Assembly member Dion Aroner (D-Berkeley), reportedly believed she did not have the necessary votes to pass the legislation and quietl y let it die.

This was in stark contrast to a fevered effort last spring to nud ge the controversial legislation out of two committees.

During the interim months between June and January, Aroner spoke to various audiences about the proposal, but realized the legislation would not pass the Assembl y floor, according to California Catholic Conference Associate Director for Public Policy David Pollard.

"It's been a graduall y emerging realization th at she wasn't going to bring it to the floor," Pollard explained. He also noted this is an election year for all Assembl y members and wondered if that fact influenced Aroner 's decision.

Aroner's office did not respond to inquiries by press time.

The measure had been modeled after an Oregon law. It would have permitted ph ysicians to provide lethal prescriptions to certain "terminally ill" patients, within guidelines.

The proposal constituted a humane response to troubles at the end of life, the 14th Assembly District Representative said during a Jul y interview with Catholic San Francisco.

"It is an issue of choice and control," she argued at the time.

A diverse coalition formed last spring in opposition to the bill, claiming it would open floodgates to so-called mercy killing and forced extermination of "undesirables ," such as the disabled or the very poor.

Opponents expressed relief and satisfaction Feb. 1 about the bill's demise.

"A very diverse and creative coalition of strange political bedfellows came together to oppose Aroner 's killing agenda ," commented East Bay attorney and author Wesley J. Smith. "Disability rights activists, advocates for the poor, Catholics and pro-lifers joined with medical professionals , hospice organizations and migrant farm workers to send the

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Mercy Sisters Cecilia Dolores Conant, Joseph Mary Galli and Helena Sanfilippo (left to right) were among the clergy, religious and faithful who attended the second annual Mass for Consecrated Life celebrated by Archbishop William J. Levada at St. Mary 's Cathedral, Jan. 30. "The day is a special one for me ," said Sister Conant. "I'm here to give thanks to God for my long length of service to him - nearly 65 years. " "Today we are uniting ourselves with the Holy Father and celebrating with him as spouses of Christ and thank God for his merciful graces. We also pray for more religious and clergy vocations," said Dominican Sister Joseph Andrew, another attendee. Jesuit Father Frank Buckley of the University of San Francisco told the gathering in his homily, "Today, Jesus chooses different people in different ways to carry on his work. Priests, Prophets, kings and queens are given a special call. Through their tota l trust in God's providence, priests, clergy and religious commit themselves to poverty, chastity and obedience so they can focus all their love in God by finding him in every human being."

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"These are groups," Smith continued , "that disagree about other issues but came to understand that those differences should not be an impediment to taking a st and to protect the most vulnerable members of society."

"We certainly are not interested in having the state encourage or even make possible this type of killing," explained Michael Dunn, executive director and empowerment team leader for Californians for Disability Rights.

"While we feel for people who are suffering at the end of life," Dunn continued , "we certainly don 't encourage (physician-assisted suicide) in terms of disability. We don't believe disability justifies mercy killing. We are committed to living full lives."

CCC representative Pollard cited the issues that had brought migrant farm worker demonstrators from Gilroy to two demonstrations on the Capitol steps last spring.

"To talk of assisted suicide, or to talk of aiding peop le in dying is rather pointedly directed at people who have control of their own life," Pollard noted. "However, there are all kinds of people who don 't have control of their own lives. Consequently, if push comes to shove, a person who has no resources is just there, and the option is to spend a great deal of money (at the end of life) or to push them into making a decision (about suicide)."

"It's very good to have the bill dead at this time, particularly because of the difficulty in garnering support for it," Pollard concluded. "However, it is an issue that isn 't going to go away with this one bill.

"In addition , however, there is an extremely important aspect to our work, and that is to be extremely sensitive to the very large issues th at people are having to deal with at the end of life in California. Poverty, social pressures, economic pressures. Everything that can be done to ease th ose pressures, should be done."

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MIAMI (CNS) — The nun who hosted a reunion in Miami of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez with his Cuban grandmothers said afterwards "peop le with political agendas " have made the child a pawn. Several hundred reporters and demonstrators gathered outside Dominican Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin 's Miami Beach home, the "neutral site " selected by U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno for the Jan. 26 meeting. Elian has been the center of an internationa l custod y battle between his Cuban father and Cuban-American relatives since Nov. 25, when he was found off the Florida coast, a survivor of a boat that sank , killing his mother and 10 other Cuban refugees.

Sister O'Lau ghlin , president of Dominican-run Barry University, hosted the 90-minute private meeting between the Elian and his grandmothers, Mariela Quintana and Raquel Rodriguez, who flew to the United States in late January to try to break the political and legal deadlock and obtain the child's return to his father. Sister O'Laughlin told reporters afterward she had mixed feelings. "It was very definitely a family affair that has somehow turned into political agendas ," Sister O'Laughlin said. The next morning on NBC's "Today" show she said, "I' m not sure any real good came from this meeting other than perhaps some fears were dispelled."

She added , "I believe that there are people with political agendas that take the child as a pawn, and perhap s the grandmothers also." She said before the meeting she had to allay fears and mistrust on both sides.

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service had ordered Elian 's Miami relatives to let him meet with his grandmothers if they did not want to lose temporary custody during their court appeal of the INS ruling the boy should be returned to his father.

Camp ai gns in Rome against SOA

ROME (CNS) — Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois brought his campaign to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas to Rome in late January. "The school is a Cold War dinosaur, a relic ," which helps the military keep a firm grip on power throughout Central and South America , the priest said. The school, known as the SOA and based at Fort Benning, Ga., since 1984, was founded in Panam a in 1946. It has trained some 60,000 military officers from Latin America and the Cari bbean . During a week-long visit to Rome, Father Bourgeois tried to enlist the help of the world's religious orders in closing the school , whose graduates have included officers accused of assassinations and human rights abuses.

Elian Gonzalez plays at the home of his cousin and great-uncle in Miami . Next, Mariela Quintana Gonzalez and Raquel Rodriguez , Elian 's grandmothers , listen to reporters at a press conference at Kennedy Airport in New York Jan. 21. Elian 's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez , leaves a meeting with representatives of the New York-based National Council of Churches Jan. 20. A judge has ruled the boy should stay in Miami until a March 6 hearing.

Father Serra 'miracle nun' dies

SHREWSBURY, Mo. (CNS) — A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 15 for Sister Boniface Dyrda, 83, whose miraculous cure from a blood disorder 40 years ago helped secure the beatification of 18th-century Franciscan missionary Father Juni pero Serra.

Sister Dyrd a, who died Jan. 11 from complications following surgery for a broken hip, was a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help for 58 years. Burial was in Resurrection Cemetery in St. Louis.

In October 1959, at the age of 43, Sister Dyrd a became ill with a blood disorder and her health rap idlydeclined.

Physicians could not determine the cause. She dropped from 146 to 86 pounds . On Palm Sunday of 1960 she was given last rites. Her religious congregation began a novena to Father Serra, founder of nine of California 's 21 missions.

By May 1960 she was released from the hospital. She never suffered a recurrence of the disorder.

Won 't f ig ht g ay pride gathering

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican will not intervene to stop the city of Rome from hosting an international gay pride gathering , Vatican sources said. Meanwhile, Rome's mayor said the city will not support anything that shows lack of respect for the Church. Italian newspapers Jan. 28 were filled with predictions of Rome-Vatican confrontations after the city council allocated about $200,000 for World Pride 2000, a Jul y 1-8 international meeting of gays and lesbians.

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WARSAW, Poland (CNS) — A Jesuit Refugee Services official said Kosovo's Catholic minority faces Muslim threats after being accused of collaborating with Serbs during the 1999 conflict. However, he denied steps were being taken to "Islafhicize" the mostly Albanian-inhabited province , which is now under control of U.N. peacekeepers.

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by Serb forces against ethnic Albanian civilians , most of whom were Muslim , said Jesuit Father Stjepan Kusan, head of Jesuit Refugee Services in the Balkans.

Notre Dame f ig hts sweatshops

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) — A special anti-sweatshop task force at the University of Notre Dame has called for the school to prohibit the manufacture of its licensed products in countries that do not recognize workers ' legal right to organize .

The task force also urged the university to create a model factory monitoring program to be overseen by professional auditors , church members and labor and human rights organizations.

A third recommendation , that the school request full public disclosure of manufacturing sites by all its licensees , has been in effect since last November.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II reportedly wept as he watched the latest film by one of Poland' s most successful directors. In a private screening at the Vatican Jan. 23, the Polish pontiff saw Andrzej Wajda 's "Pan Tadeusz," Vatican Radio said. Sources said the Pope was moved to tears during the film , a historical saga set during the Napoleonic era, when Poland was divided between Germany, Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Pope John Paul II plans to canonize Mother Katharine Drexel , a U.S. heiress who dedicated her life to educating African Americans and Native Americans. She lived 1858-1955. The pope likely will declare her a saint in October.

Meanwhile, the Pope issued decrees Jan. 27 clearing the way for the beatification of Redemptorist Father Francis Xavier Seelos , a German who worked among immigrants in New Orleans in the 1800s.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II , recognizing as miraculous a healing of an Italian nun , cleared the way for the beatification of Pope John XXIII. Sister Caterina Capitani , a member of the Daughters of Charity, attended the Jan. 27 Vatican session at which the pope recognized her healing as a miracle attributed to the intervention of Pope John. The decree clears the way for the beatification of Pope John , who served as pontiff from 1958 to 1963. Officials have said Sept. 3 is the most likely date.

Another miracle occurring after the beatification would be needed before Pope John could be canonized.

Sister Capitani was dying from comp lications follow ing stomach surgery in 1966 when she prayed to Pope John to help save her. She said she saw the pope smiling and heard him say, "Be calm , I am here." The nun, who is now based in Naples, told Italian media she was healed instantaneousl y.

ready to act as well as to pray for Christian unity, said French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray. Closing the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity on behalf of Pope John Paul II, the cardinal said Christians , "under the intolerable weight of the discomfort of being separated ," must do what they can to re-establish unity. Cardinal Etchegaray, president of the Vatican's Holy Year committee, presided over a Jan. 25 evening prayer service at Rome 's Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.

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The altar of St. Edward Parish , closed in 1994, has been installed at Good Shepherd Church in Castries , St. Lucia , British West Indies.

Pictured with the altar are , from left: Castries ' Archbishop Kelvin Felix; Good Shehpherd's pastor; and Archbishop Levada. At right, the altar of San Francisco 's Holy Cross Parish , also closed in 1994, has become the reredos at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Vieux Fort on the same island.

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Altars bring j oy to St. Lucia, West Indies Last month , in conjunction with a visit with some priest- Sisters , partici pated in their sung Office , and celebrated their classmates, I took the occasion to extend my tri p to the dail y Mass during my four days in St. Lucia. They could not Caribbean , to the beautiful island of St. Lucia near the have been more hospitable. Mother Superior was from Italy, southern end of the Lesser Antilles between Martini que and and the meals diey served had a distinctl y Italian heartiness and Trinidad . flair with a Caribbean accent.

It was a deli ght for me to have the opportunity to travel My host was Archbishop Kelvin Felix , Archbishop of Castries since 1981. 1 first met Archbishop Felix at the Special with Archbishop Felix , clad in his white cassock and red Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for America, and have sash , the length and breadth of the Archdiocese , especiall y to come to know him well as a fellow member visit our two San Francisco altars , now beauArchbishop William J. Levada tifull y adorning two parish churches in the of the post-synodal commission , which has met several times since the Synod to follow north and south of the island.

(Unfortun atel y, the seminary is temporarily up on and discuss implementation of the Synod's recommendations. closed due to a lack of available staff.) that San Francisco has been able to make such a fine contribuEarl y on Archbishop Felix told me that The lovely marble altar from Holy Cross tion to this missionary outpost in another part of our "one he had read the Archdiocese of San Church , which I had never seen since it had America", as our Holy Father has described it in his Apostolic Francisco had closed several churches , and been put into storage before I arrived in San Exhortation on die work of the Synod. While St. Lucia is not wondered whether there might be an altar Francisco, makes a wonderful reredos for the on the way to places most of us from San Francisco would go available which would be suitable for the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in on a regular basis, it would be a thrill for anyone who does go Vieux Fort, on the southern tip of the island. to St. Lucia to be able to see these beautiful altars from "home" chapel of his minor seminary. We sent him The parish is staffed by Redemplorist priests continuing to provide their service as the table of the Lord's pictures of the altar of Holy Cross Church , which at the time had been dismantled after from the American eastern province , and our sacrifice of the Eucharist in a faraway place. the Church was closed and sold and put How beautifull y this underscores for us the catholicity of host was a young priest from Baltimore . He into storage. We also sent a picture of the Our Lady of the Assumption told us that as the installation of the altar the Church , where each time we gather at the altar we gather altar of St. Edward Church , which was in at Vieux Forf St. Lucia Island. neared its completion, around midni ght one as members of the one body of Christ united in faith and charevening, more than 500 people had gathered ity at the common table where the Lord Jesus, our true Good the process of being sold.

Felix wrote a charming letter in which he conin the spacious wood and stucco church to witness the event. Shepherd , feeds us and nourishes us from these altars again Archbishop fessed he could not make a choice between these two altars , but They burst into applause and song when the workers placed the and again for our pil grim journey to the "altar in heaven" would be delighted to find a home for both if they were avail- final piece at the top of the altar. He assured us the altar has where we will all be one with him forever. able. So we shipped them off to Ft. Lauderdale, where a char- brought great joy to the peop le who live in that parish.

The French missionary priest who is pastor at Good itable organization fills a frei ght container for shipping to St. Shepherd Church just north of Castries was beaming with pride Lucia two or three times a year.

St. Lucia is a beautiful island about 30 miles long and 10 as he showed us the altar from St. Edward' s with its handsome MosLRev. William J. Levada miles wide with just over 150,000 inhabitants , about 80 percent marble carving of the Last Supper on its front. He, too, recountArCnbishop of San Francisco of them Catholic. It is now an independent country within tire ed the great joy of the people British Commonwealth. The people speak Apatois based pri- to have this beautiful work of maril y on French, but the educational system is conducted in art adorn their simple place of Hearts and flowers worship.

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The ninth annual Chinese Dinner sponsore d by the Chinese Ministry of the Archdiocese drew nearly 700 people to downtown San Francisco Jan. 21 and raised almost $18,000 to support the ministry 's programs and projects , which this year will include sending a contingent to the Youth Day of the Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, April. At left above is the Chinese Catholic Children 's Choir.

Above right, ministry director Canossian Sister Maria Hsu addressed guests which included many non-Catholic Chinese.

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Deacon Felix Soo, a long-time minister to the Chinese Catholic community of the Archdiocese , died at San Francisco 's St. Anne 's Home on Jan. 23. Deacon Soo, who was 87 years old , had been a resident of the Little Sisters of the Poor facility since 1995.

He was ordained to the Deacon Felix Soo diaconate by former San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn in 1979.

Born and baptized in China , Deacon Soo came to the United States in the mid- 1940s to continue studies , ultimatel y earning graduate degrees from the University of Denver and San Francisco State University. He later returned to Hong Kong to teach as well as serve in several civil posts taking up permanent residence here in 1969 where he served as an educator and with the San Francisco Social Services and Public Health departments.

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Deacon Soo is survived by Anna, his wife of 64 years, children Albert , Christopher and Lourdes , and six grandchildren.

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The accompany ing statements reflect the financial activities for the 1999 fiscal year which were under the direction of the Archdiocesan Central Administrative Office. Activities administered throug h the Central Office include various pastoral programs {such as Evangelization , Marriage Tribunal , school scholarshi ps and clergy education) that complement and/or support parish activities throughout the Archdiocese.

Another important activity performed by the Central Office is the administrative operation of the Archdiocese, its financial functions (e.g. overseeing investment of parish funds , administering parish/school loans , managing the Archdiocesan coordinated payroll), employee relation/benefit programs , legal council , real estate and stewardsh ip/development.

To assist the Central Administrative Office in these activities , the Archdiocese has various committees which oversee the activities. Their role is to ensure that all administrative activities are managed according to set standards.

The main oversight committee for financial affairs is the Archdiocesan Finance Council. They are responsible for assisting the Archbishop in the administration and control of the temporal goods of the Archdiocese. This includes the recomiuendation of appropriate policies and procedures for the management of all Archdiocesan financial affairs.

Based upon the Finance Council's recommendation , the Archdiocese has an established reporting program which accounts to all parishion ers about the financial affairs of the Central Office. In addition to this annual summary, individual annual reports of the investment activities and loans to parishes/schools are sent to all partici pating parishes .

Althoug h the administrative activities are critical to the overseeing the temporal goods of the Archdiocese, they account for onl y a small part of the work performed within the Archdiocese of San Francisco. They do not include the primary work most familiar to parishioners that are carried on in our parishes, elementary and secondary schools, cemeteries, seminary, CYO and Catholic Charities.

The following information , as well as the accompanying financial statements and charts, have been derived from the audited financial statements of the Central Administrative Office as of June 30, 1999 which were audited by Grant Thornton LLP, independent certified public accountants.

Since 1972, the financial statements of the Central Administrative Office of the Archdiocese of San Francisco have been audited. In 1999 all Archdiocesan entities except the parishes and elementary schools had an annual audit performed by an outside accounting firm. Many of our parishes and schools do prepare and publish an annual report of the activities to their parishioners.

In fiscal year 1999, the Central Office generated a surplus from ongoing operations of $11,215 ,708. The majority of the surp lus was attributable to another exceptional year for invested funds , which generated a total return (realized and unrealized gains) of 11.5% or $9,392,449. Althoug h we were very fortunate to attain such a high return in fiscal 1999 , the Central Office , per policy, only uses a fixed portion of the income (6%) for the current year 's program expenditures. The remaining portion is reinvested to hel p fund Archdiocesan programs in future years.

During the year, $281 ,402 in grants was disbursed to parishes for retrofitting unreinforced masonry (UMB) churches to help bring the buildings into compliance with seismic standards as mandated by the City and County of San Francisco. This was part of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Plan of 1996 which committed $6 million of Archdiocesan funds to help parishes with the tremendous burden of bringing their churches up to seismic code. For a more thoroug h presentation of the financial condition and results of operations of the Central Office as of June 30, 1999 and for the year ended , reference should be made to the audited financial statements including related footnotes. Anyone wishing to review the audited statements should contact the Office of Communications at (415) 565-3630.

Central Administrative Office of the Roman Catholic Arcdiocese of San Francisco Statement of Activities June 30, 1999 Revenue and Other additions

Fees Annual Appeal Investment Income Rental Income Gifts and bequests Insurance Premiums-net Other Total revenue and other additions

Expenses and other deductions

2,964,549 6,064,371 9,392,449 5 I 1 ,940 5,593,221 562,342 4.347.853 29,436,725

Pastoral Clergy development Education Social, ethnic and cultural services Interest paid to parishes & institutions Priest retirement Administrative Building Total expenses and other deductions

1,166,012 1,931,328 3,818,348 1,448,789 2,560,588 34,335 4,945,730 1,460,296 17,365,426

Change in n et assets before extraordinary item

12,071,299

Grants for parish church retrofitting Closed parish assets & operations(net)

281,402 574. 189

Change in net assets

11 ,215,708

Net assets at beginning of year

94 ,337, 863

Net assets at end of year

105 ,553,571

Central Administrative Office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco Statement of Financial Position June 30, 1999 Assets

Cash and cash equivalents Marketable securities Receivables Parishes, schools and institutions Other receivables Property, plant and equipment Real estate held for sale Beneficial interest in perpetu al trust

Total assets

52,060,440 150,533,211 . 15,508,311 3,814 ,5 82 27,086,778 4,234 ,075 1.026.577 254 ,263,974

Liabilities and Net Assets Liabilities

Accounts Payable Deposits held for parishes, schools & institutions

Total liabilities

3,390 , 183 145.320.220 148,710,403

Net Assets

Unrestricted & Archdiocesan designated funds Temporarily restricted Permanently restricted

88,725 ,663 11 ,343,248 5.484.660

Total net assets

105,553.571

Total liabilities and net assets

254,263,974

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Donald Baird Richard Hannon Frank Hudson Fr. Harry Schlitt , Chair

Msgr. Charles Durkin Cecilia Herbert Deacon Hank Jacquemet Deacon Gary West

Ernest Go John Hitchcock James Jensen

Bishop Wester to young adults

'Relax in the Lord. Be comfo rtable with not being in control '

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Young adults and others tempted to approach this Jubilee Year in such a manner mi ght better consider focusing on three themes: letting the land lie fallow, reconciliation , and liberation , according to Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester, who addressed a meeting of about 100 young adults at St. Dominic Church , San Francisco, last week.

Bishop Wester reiterated much of his keynote address from last October 's Fall Fest, a day-long young adult conference sponsored by the Archdiocese on the University of San Francisco campus.

"The Pope is eager to call this a time of new evangelization ," Bishop Wester explained , "a time to live our faith in such a way that people can 't help but see we are in love with Christ."

He warned that such an evangelization would demand personal preparation and urged his audience to apply the themes privatel y as well as socially.

"We need to prepare on a personal level," the bishop argued. "There are so many celebrations foisted upon us," and the public , social aspects of Jubilee will feel more authentic with personal reflection.

The themes of Jubilee , traditionall y coming every 25 years, are presented in Leviticus 25 , Luke 4 and in the books of Isaiah , Bishop Wester noted.

Letting the land lie fallow refers literall y to the agrarian life of a farmer . Its significance lies in "acknowledging that God is the author of life," Bishop Wester "Let go. continuing, exp lained , prayer this is the essence of Surrender... and the essence of any relationship - to be

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"Our bodies are part of the land ," the bishop continued , and exhorted his listeners to remember that many ailments are related to stress. "How do you relax?" he challenged.

Turning to the second theme , reconciliation , Bishop Wester said, "We are as sick as our secrets. Forgiveness puts voice on those secrets."

Reconciliation relates socially to a current movement to forgive debts, especiall y of poorer nations oppressed by debt to richer nations , the bishop explained. In addition to such public efforts , reconciliation relates personall y to "forgiving debts , of ourselves and loved ones , and to asking for forg iveness."

"At the core of our faith is the whole theme of forgiveness," Bishop Wester explained. "Christ 's forg iveness of the people who killed him set a high standard.

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The Pope went to his would-be assassin 's prison cell to say, 'I forg ive you.'"

One of the questions following Bishop Wester 's talk asked for specific advice about how to forgive someone, especiall y if that person has not asked for forg iveness or does not acknowledge wrongdoing.

"It is a difficult question. It takes two to forg ive. Read Luke 15 , pray," Bishop Wester replied , adding that it is not too late to forgive people who have died.

"Remember that we believe in the communion of saints. We profess that every Sunday. We do live forever."

He cautioned that sometimes face-toface confrontation might be harmful and suggested writing a letter that is never sent.

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"We can all come up with so many excuses and reasons for what 's happened ," the bishop noted , "and we can be very focused on fault. " Coming up with one 's own list of transgressions can be a good idea, however, and Bishop Wester suggested increased use of the sacrament of confession, The third Jubilee theme heralds liberation.

"I can liberate friends and family from my tyranny, my manipulation ," Bishop Wester suggested. "We are enslaved very often by all kinds of things on a personal level — addiction , the need to be ri ght , an obsession with money."

Bishop Wester encouraged the young adults to consider: "I need to be liberated so that 1 can be my authentic self. It 's only in Christ that I can find my true self. Esteem comes from my relationshi p with Christ, not praise, not the number of (academic) degrees, not how many times I am right."

In conclusion , Bishop Wester made "a pitch for each of us to spend a few moments reflecting. See where the Spirit moves you , then tie into the public celebrations."

Public Jubilee celebrations in San Francisco will include an April 8 reconciliation service at St. Mary 's Cathedral , an Oct. 29 eucharistic celebration at Pac Bell Park; a fall archdiocesan pil grimage to Germany, Ital y and the Holy Land , and local pil grimages.

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Ecumenism

Road to Christian unity has its share of p otholes importance for western Christians to learn about their connection to the "legacy of Abraham , and that legacy 's three-book monotheism." Judaism laid the root system for the development of Christianity, and Islam has much to say about the concept of the one God. "The Koran says , T believe in one God.' Everything else is a postscript."

Pelikan lamented that theologians have never read the Koran, Islam's holy book.

Jerusalem on Pentecost and was baptized in the name of the Trinity.

Anodier obstacle to unity, he said, is the The road to Christian unity between the difference of administrative styles. "In the Roman Catholic and Orthodox faiths is you have your bureaucracies, your West, strewn with stumbling blocks even though your organizations." The East, he laws and individuals "on both sides express good will , and is still hampered by a said, is less linked for each side," a noted Yale historian told an including the various number of factors, ecumenical gathering of mostly clergy last century, including oppressions of the 20th Friday at the University of San Francisco. communist domination.

Jaroslav Pelikan , Ph.D., the Sterling "Picking up the pieces after 75 years of Professor of History at Yale University idencommunist rule is not easy to accomplish," tified some of the challenges to unity during he said.

Another problem , Pelikan said, are his visit to USF to deliver the 21st annual the Byzantine Catholic Church which reunitPaul Wattson lecture. ed with Rome centuries ago, and Protestant The Paul Wattson Lectures honor the Evangelicals. Pelikan said there is much conmemory of Father Paul Francis Wattson, cern on the part of Orthodox leaders over founder of the Franciscan Friars of the both groups "coming to convert an ancient Atonement in Graymoor, N.Y. in the early Christian land." part of the 20th century. Father Wattson Pelikan said he sees the need for another (1863- 1940) was a pioneer in fostering ecumenical council "which could speak for unity of Christian churches. The Franciscan Jaroslav Pelikan . Ph.D. orthodoxy." The last truly ecumenical counFriars of the Atonement co-sponsored the Cardinal John Henry Newman, an Anglican cil took place in Florence, Italy in the 15th USF event.

In addition to his Jan. 28 evening lecture clergyman who converted to Roman century, he claimed.

Another roadblock to unity, he said, is the on "Comprehensiveness or Catholicity," Catholicism in the last century.

Pelikan has received more than 40 hon- failure of the western Catholic and Protestant Pelikan spoke at a luncheon for about 200 Bay Area church leaders and presented a orary degrees from universities including the churches to consider other ways of praying to seminar during an afternoon session on University of Notre Dame, the University of God — taking into account, for example, Hamburg, and the Jewish Theological "the will of God for all humanity." campus.

Then he asked his listeners: "Is it permisRaised a Lutheran in Akron , Ohio, Seminary of America. He has written 35 Pelikan, now 77, converted to the Orthodox books including The Riddle of Roman sible to pray that all will be saved? Am I forChurch of America when he was 74, after Catholicism and The Illustrated Jesus bidden to pray that God will achieve universal salvation? Are there ways of dealing with nearly a lifetime of researching and writing through the Centuries.

During a question-and-answer session at that as a doctrine in an atheistic society, on the numerou s creeds developed by the early Christian churches. The scholar his afternoon seminar, Pelikan mapped out where two-thirds of the world does not laughingly admitted that with his conver- some of the major hindrances to unity believe in God?" Pelikan said he beiieves it is of major sion, he "became dejure what I had been between the two church bodies. defacto for so long. I don 't know if the "In the West most Christians have creeds drove me to it, or not. But dogma has reduced their Christianity to Jesus. Our laity aLways been central for me." are devoid of Trinitarian theology," he said, He declined to elaborate further, he said, contrasting it to the Orthodox Church of the because he does not consider himself as the East which emphasizes the Trinity and feels same caliber as "more important minds" like a close affinity to the congregation born in

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Urges recovery of East traditions VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Holy Year renewal of the Catholic Church must include the recovery of traditions the Eastern Catholic Churches have lost or allowed to lapse, said a Vatican document released in October.

For the jubilee year to be an event lived and celebrated by the universal Church, each Church must participate according to its own. tradition and share that tradition with the wider Church, said Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches.

The cardinal presented a handbook for the Holy Year, "The Great Jubilee 2000 and the Eastern Catholic Churches." The 130-page book, available initially only in Italian, has suggestions both for the celebration of the Holy Year at home as well as for pilgrimages to Rome.

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N ewspap er series on priests with AIDS stirs controversy KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CNS) — A three-day series on Catholic priests with AIDS by The Kansas City Star has sparked wide controversy and criticism.

The series, begun Jan. 30, ended Feb. 1 with a long story revealing that AIDS was the cause of death last year of a prominent local Jesuit , Father Thorn Savage, president of Rockhurst College in Kansas City.

The Catholic Key, Kansas City-St. Joseph diocesan newspaper, said that was "a fact known only to Father Savage 's family until the Star report."

Priests contacted by The Catholic Key questi oned several aspects of the series, which said that priests ' deaths from AIDS are at least four times the rate of the general populace.

The series called into question "Church doctrine" on homosexuality, AIDS and the celibate priesthood. In a sidebar commentary on the series, Star editor and vice president Mark Zieman described AIDS in the priesthood as "a question that strikes strai ght at the heart of Church doctrine."

"He's just dead wrong about that ," said Father Paul Turner, pastor of St. John Francis Regis Parish in Kansas City. "The central doctrines are that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus is present in the Eucharist and so on. These are the things we hold most dear in our Church. I hope the media are aware of that."

Jesuit Father Thomas Reese, editor of America magazine in New York, said the reference to priests having AIDS at four times the rate of the general population — a figure widely picked up by wire services and other media — "is skewed" since priests are all adult males.

According to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the incidence of AIDS among adult males is roughly five times th at among adult women. Father Reese said the series used the comparison with the general populace four times and only once compared priests' deaths from AIDS with those of other adult males.

On the whole , however, Father Reese said the treatment of statistics in the series seemed "pretty even-handed."

Father Patrick Rush , Kansas City-St. Joseph diocesan vicar general , deplored the "inferential reporting" in the series .

In a statement Jan . 29, he said , "Quite simp ly, HIVAIDS affects us all and poses a health crisis nationall y and internationally.

"With 47,000 Catholic priests in America, the number of HJV-AIDS deaths of ordained clergy pale in comparison to the tidal wave in our country and throughout the world," he added. "Selecting and publicizing a few facts about a few priests casts a shadow on the ministry of all Catholic priests."

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Ned McGrath , Detroit archdiocesan communications director, seconded Father Rush' s remarks and said news reports about the series appearing in Michigan could leave the mistaken impression "that the Catholic Church has been 'quiet ' or 'behind the times' on the issue," He cited numerous Church initiatives to address AIDS since the 1980s, including the U.S. bishops ' 1987 statement on a Gospel response to the AIDS crisis.

In Kansas City, Father Norman Rotert, former vicar general and now pastor of Visitation Parish, described the series as "sensationalized."

"It appears that the Star is going for a journalistic award," he said. "If they are using the priesthood to win an award, then I resent it very much. There isn't any question that it calls the character of every priest into question and invites the general public to call the character of priests into question."

Father Joseph Cisetti, associate director of vocations, and Father Don Farnan, pastor of St. Louis Parish and vocations director from 1991 to 1997, took issue with the series' contention that seminarians receive inadequate training and counseling on sexuality.

Father Farnan, who was ordained in 1987, said the AIDS issue was new when he was a seminarian, but it was openly discussed.

"When I first heard about AIDS 1 was in the seminary," he said. "At that time, the whole thing was new. People were askN ing questions such as, Should we drink from the same cup?' — practical things like that. 1 don 't think the church or anybody else knew how to deal with those questions at that time."

Father Cisetti said prospective candidates for the seminary undergo an extensive application process that includes counseling on celibacy and sexuality. "The application process and the seminary formation process (on those issues) is much more sophisticated than it was in the past ," he said.

Father Turner said the Star missed the mark when it attempted to explain celibacy as a doctrine of the church.

"Celibacy is certainly a spiritual discipline that we accept and embrace in our church. But it is not what I would call a central doctrine," he said. vsThe Catholic Church accepts 'celibacy for its priests because it has been a time-tested spiritual discipline that has proved useful for priests in their ministry as a way that they can hold society to a higher standard, to lift people up to think beyond what this world has to offer and to the promises of the next world.

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By Heather Barnhart do the best I can. I need to parent from where I am today, not from how guilty 1 felt for so many years."

Like Kealoha, in addition to struggling with personal issues, many women also feel alienated and fear being stigmatized by a Church and peers with strong anti-abortion stances.

A m , Especially in women who have experienced it firsthand. s these women are not heartlesss % y Contrary to what many might think, In her mid-30s, Theresa was led to Project Rachel after her sister hap^~ murderers with little education and no religion. In fact, the person sitting next to you in pened to hand her a parish Sunday bulletin containing a small mention of the church this Sunday might have had her life touched by abortion. program. Interestingly, Theresa had only recently returned to attending Mass "It was a burden I carried for over 20 years," said Kealoha. on a regular basis, and this had been one Sunday she had missed church.

"As a woman who has worked for three parishes, I was concerned if people knew oi the "Project Rachel was the best experience I've ever had, " said Theresa. choice I had made all those years ago, it would be held against me," she said.

"1 have come to peace with a lot of things in my life, not j ust the abortion.

Now in her 40s with several teen-age children, Kealoha said she could not carry the There was lots of turmoil in my life, a lot of things I was struggling with — burden alone anymore. "It causes you to question your parenting, and who you are." a failed marriage, other relationships, my upbringing. " She decided to do something about it. She had heard about something called Project After going through the sessions with three other women and two Rachel at one of the parishes where she had worked. When she facilitators, Theresa said, "It all just came asked what it was, the response was whispered: "A post-abortogether. I felt a very strong bond with "Jjf t breaks my heart when I think tion support group. " everyone. It gave me my spiri tuality back , "It took about three years before J even looked for the I'm grateful for that." and of other women who carry phone number, and several more months before I got up the She now plans to be trained to cothat burden alone. nerve to call," she said. facilitate future support groups herself.

Since its creation in 1984 by Vicki Thorn in Milwaukee, Project Rachel allows you to share Women or men can call the Respect Life Wis., Project Rachel has spread to more than 100 dioceses.

Program, (415) 565-3672, to receive a confiIt took root in the Archdiocese of San Francisco a decade dential referral to trained Project Rachel in such a safe, confidential way. ago, according to Mary Ann Schwab, local coordinator. Today it counselors, priests and support groups. While That support system is operates out of the Archdiocese's Respect Life Program within the program is Catholic-based, participants the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns. do not have to be Catholic. very powerful and such a gift. '' Kealoha said participating in the 11-week support group Outreach activities are conducted at through Project Rachel allowed her to work through her pain Catholic churches throughout the and grief and to begin the process of moving on with her life.

Archdiocese. Two recent training days were held to prepare additional "We need to accept the person we are today and the person we were when we made that priests and non-professional supporters for Project Rachel ministry. decision {to have an abortion) ," she said. "It breaks my heart when I think of other women who "I would really encourage others to participate ," said Catherine, who carry that burden alone. Project Rachel allows you to share in such a safe, confidential way. also took part in a support group . "Peop le who have a need would find it well That support system is very powerful and such a gift. " worth their time. It was a very powerful experience. Some sessions are very Project Rachel helped her realize, "In spite of who we are, God still loves us. I've tried to painful. You're forced to face the choices you made. It can be very emotional and gut-wrenching. But having done that , you can forgive yourself and others."

After having an abortion as a single woman in her early 20s, Catheri ne later married the father of the unborn baby and had two children , now in their teens. Until working through her feelings in her support group, however, she never reall y forgave her future husband for pressuring her to have the abortion. But the resentment still contributed to the end of their marriage of nearly 20 years, she admitted.

"It bothered me that (the abortion) didn 't seem to bother him," she said. "It created a lack The archdiocesan Respect Life Commission will sponsor a Jubilee Year "Celebration of of trust. I wasn't really comfortable with the decision. I lived with it for 20 years, but it was always Life " on March 26 at St. Mary 's Cathedral. on my mind."

The day will begin at 8:45 am with a morning of reflection and retreat in the Support group sessions culminate in a healing Mass. "It was beautiful ," Catherine said.

St. Francis Room of Cathedral Hall, 1111 Gou gh St. Social Service Sister Paula "It's a celebration and a memorial. We had the opportunity to name our children , to give the Vandegaer, director of International Life child an identity and recognize their existence formall y. It really helped me grieve. " £ Services of Los Angeles, will facilitate. Sister Kealoha brought her mother, who never knew of the agonizing decision her daughter had Vandegaer's agency fosters research and support made as a teen-ager, to the Mass. Just before Christmas , she told her mother the secret she had services covering a wide range of life issues. kept for more than 20 years.

Following the retreat, Archbishop William J. "My mother said the words I wished to hear my whole life. She said , 'I wish you had been Levada will preside at an 11 a.m. Mass, and then able to share with me , because I would have been there to help you ' ," Keahola recalled with a pay tribute to members of the respect life comtrembling voice. "It was the best Christmas present ever given to me." munity at a special reception. To be honored are The decision of when and how and with whom to share an abortion experience is very perfounders, past and present members of the sonal. Catherine never told anyone in her famil y and said she probably never will.

Respect Life Commission, parish respect life rep"They weren't involved in the decision. I wasn't living at home , and there 's no point resentatives, volunteers and leaders of organizainvolving them now," Catherine explained. "It would just be hurtful. I' ve really only told two tions supporting life. close friends. And that was a real hurdle , a real turning point. It was very positive. A few months Commenting on the date for the celebration , ago, I wouldn't have been able to talk about this at all."

Mary Ann Schwab, commission chair, noted the Likewise, Kealoha said that unti l recently she also has not been able to talk about her expeSister Paula Vandegaer, S.S. day's tie-in to the theme, "It is most appropriate rience. Her husband now knows. Her children do not. that this special event he held on the day follow"Project Rachel calls you forth to do work , " she said. "It 's not easy work. You use lots of ing the feast of the Annunciation when Christ himself chose to take on human life and Kleenex. To me it' s part of the healing to be able to share with others." gave affirmation to its special nature."

This desire for healing is reflected in a simp le prayer the women learn: "Lord , lay your hands gently upon me. Let your touch render your peace."

For further information, or to register, call (415) 565-3672.

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The local Project Rachel program is joining with the Pro-Life Secretariat of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and other dioceses in a major emphasis on post-abortion reconciliation and healing ministry during the current Jubilee Year, explained Project Rachel program coordinator for the Archdiocese, Mary Ann Schwab.

The local Project Rachel committee plans to expand services, build awareness, and "encourage the Catholic community to become partners in this timely ministry," she said.

Project Rachel ministers are encouraging priests to use a manual titled Post Abortion Ministry, recently prepared by the bishops' Office of Priestly Ministry and the Pro-Life Secretariat. Recently distributed to all area pastors , the manual provides information and insights about personal counseling and sacramental reconciliation for women who have undergone abortions.

Project Rachel founder Vickie Thorn recently directed a training program in the Archdiocese that addressed nearly 100 peop le. Project Rachel has been operative in the Archdiocese for 10 years, Schwab noted.

In addition to the current program of priest counselors and one-to-one volunteer lay support services, local Project Rachel volunteers are forming support group seivices facilitated by a professional therapist. They are considering a postabortion reconciliation retreat.

Coordinators are recruiting volunteers in the hope of offering the program on an expanded basis in parishes throughout the Archdiocese.

Schwab said the Project Rachel committee welcomes financial contributions, especially to defray costs of ajubilee Year media campaign . Donations may be sent to Project Rachel , Archdiocese of San Francisco, 445 Church St., San Francisco, 94114. Phone number is (415) 565-3672.

The National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing can be reached at 1-800-5-WeCare. Weekend retreats in Washington State are available to people from around the country. For information , call 1-800-822-Hope.

Additional retreatsorganized by a related ministry called Rachel's Vineyard are held in various locations throughout the U.S.; call l-877-IIeI p 4Me.

Sculptor creates 'Rachel' for shrine

By Cathy Blankenau Bender ARAPAHOE, Neb. (CNS) ¦— Sculptor Sondra Jonson says her statue of "Rachel Weeping for Her Children" at a Nebraska Fatima shrine stands as a prayer that all people "may realize the gift of life. " Jonson, a magma cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, has been a professional sculptor for 15 years and has done numerous religious works.

Her newest, "Rachel ," is the latest addition to the statues in the Fatima shrine at St. Germanus Church in Arapahoe in southwestern Nebraska.

The shrine has been in place since 1956 and includes 13 statues from Italy, placed in a grotto of natural rock and a garden of more than 150 shrubs and trees.

In 1996, Jonson was asked by Father Mel Rempe, her pastor at St. John 's Church in Cambridge, who is also the pastor in Arapahoe, if she would sketch ideas for a new memorial to life to be placed at the shrine.

A mother of three and a convert from Judaism to Catholicism, the artist became an active member at St. John 's after settling in Cambridge from Philadelp hia in 1994.

She offered three ideas and a year later Father Rempe and the Knights of Columbus chose her sketch of the sorrowful Rachel of the Old Testament, who was anguished for not being able to bear children but later was blessed with two sons.

In Jonson 's sculpture, an empty blanket lies across Rachel's lap and her face is full of sorrow.

The artist said: "Rachel seems to say, 'Here is the blanket in which my child should have nestled against me. It is empty; my heart is more than empty; my sorrow is beyond words and God alone is my help now. My prayer is not j ust for myself, but for all people, that they may realize the gift of life

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"I was particularly glad to undertake this commission because Rachel , as a symbol, ties Old Testament faith to New Testament believers ," Jonson told the Southern Nebraska Register, Lincoln 's diocesan newspaper.

"It is so satisfying to have created a sculpture with a spiritual message that I can share with my Jewish family as well as with my Christian circle," she added.

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Jubilee challenge She is the teen-ager who was buoyant with relief last year that her abortion was over, but today she is attempting to drown a gripp ing uneasiness with drugs and sex.

She is the enviable career woman at the p innacle of success — but she noticeabl y winces at a discussion of abortion.

She is the young mother whose joy of family is impaired by depression and guilt triggered by the memory of another child lost to abortion.

She is an 80-year-old woman unable to let go of life fearing she will not be forgiven for an abortion many years in the past.

These are the faces of abortion 's second victims. All suffer from the same destructive pain termed post-abortion aftermath. It is estimated that 40 percent of women who have lost a child to abortion suffer serious spiritual , emotional , psychological , and physical dysfunction that can be traced to a guilt that seized them — sometimes shortl y, but most typically several years after an abortion.

As Catholic peop le ledged to be instrup j ments of the healing love of Christ , we are challenged to compassionate and constructive ways to help those suffering from post-abortion aftermath. And one form that is taking is a national program that forms priests, professionals and lay peop le to be the catalysts for providing forgiveness and healing. The program in most dioceses is called Project Rachel.

The program 's first goal is to provide priests with an understanding of the symptoms and anguish of post-abortion pain.

Priests are frequ ently the first persons Catholic women seek out for both sacramental reconciliation and solace. The program also serves as a vehicle for providing information to therapists, counselors, campus ministers and others who, with increasing frequency, encounter women with post-abortion symptoms. The Archdiocese of San Francisco has trained 40 priests and a number of volunteer lay persons who now serve both as supporters to women and facilitators in the healing process. (See the stories on pages 12-13.)

The bishops ' Pro-Life Secretariat enthusiastically recommends to dioceses that post-abortion reconciliation and healing be a major pastoral program during this Jubilee Year. A special manual for priests has been prepared. The Secretariat is piloting an intensive outreach program to women in the WashingtonBaltimore area including a media campai gn of radio ads, posters, and billboards . These ads are available to local dioceses also as they expand their programs.

Our archdiocesan Respect Life Program has made Project Rachel a priority program for the coming year. The priests ' manual has already been sent to each parish. Vicki Thorn , director of the National Catholic Office of Reconciliation and Healing, provided two local training and informational programs in December to 95 attendees: priests , professionals , and prospective volunteers. We are putting the wheels in motion to expand our current individual supporter program to include support groups facilitated by a therapist, and a possible retreat program.

Please pray for the success of Project Rachel .

Chair of the Respect Life Commission, Mary Ann Schwab leads the Project Rachel Programf o r the Archdiocese of San Francisco; for information, call (415) 565-3672.

Retrouwille does help

Your Jan. 21 feature article on Retrouvaille and its ministry to troubled marriages broug ht immediate inquiries.

Both we and the families thank you.

In today 's culture , families and marriages are tinder great stress and as one of our partici pants said in half j est, "If you feel your marriage is not in trouble, maybe you 're over-medicated. " The good news is the seriousness, intensity, and dedicati on of the couples working to renew their commitment. This ministry needs more priests to bring the sp iritual and sacramental healing that is the "sine qua non " [without which notl of Retrouvaille.

Ed and Peg Gleason San Francisco

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impending disasters in the world as a result of the cultural shift in Europe against religious faith. I would like to nominate another poet for inclusion in an editorial written on the eve of the 21st century which would see his contemporary poem as a herald of a century of peace and harmony based on religious faith. This poet , an American born of a Jewish family on the eve of America 's entrance into World War II, has consistently sung in his poems of the need for faith in God , and railed against selfish cynicism , militarism, and false religion.

In 1997 he sang three of his poems at a Eucharistic Congress in the presence of Pope John Paul II in the heart of "red" Italy — Bologna. In 1989 he wrote in his song "Ring Them Bells " — "Ring them bells St. Peter/ where the four winds blow/ Ring them bells/ With an iron hand/ So the peop le will know/ Oh it 's rush hour now/ On the wheel and the plow/ And the sun is going down/ Upon the sacred cow/ ".

Our American poet, Bob Dylan , in harmony with Pope John Paul II, has pointed Europe and America to a better culture than that revealed by Matthew Arnold — a culture of life, love, truth, joy and peace rooted in Christ. There is no limit to God's love (or human love correctly understood) as Dylan pointed out in a recent song, "To Make You Feel My Love " — "I'd go hungry/ I'd go black and blue/ I'd go crawling down the avenue/ no, there's nothing that I wouldn 't do/ To make you feel my love ".

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First the abortion lobby claimed that the mother 's anesthesia killed the unborn baby before the horrific partial-birth abortion procedur e.

This irresponsible and dangerous lie could have caused many women to postpone necessary surgery for fear of endangering their unborn children. Althoug h it exposed the carefull y nurtured myth of the industry 's concern for women 's health , the media chose not to notice.

Later, the industry insisted upon a health exception to the ban, knowing the Supreme Court cleverly concealed its ridiculously broad definition of health (it can mean anything) in Doe v. Bolton, the largely overlooked companion decision to Roe v. Wade. This old, reliable ploy destroys the support of borderline legislators by making them appear insensitive to the health needs of women if they oppose it.

Ethical physician s know partial-birth abortion is never necessary and that its onl y real purpose is to assure a dead baby that is sufficientl y undamaged and fresh that its parts will fetch top dollar in die market for research specimens. The media reliably failed to explain any such details.

What other practice must be sold almost exclusively on the basis of lies?

What does it say about the abortion industry 's relationshi p with the media when it can churn out lie after bald-faced lie for over three decades and never have its credibility challenged? Would any pro-life organization get away with the same tactic?

With such complicity b y the media, will America ever get wise to the lies?

Alfred Lemmo Dearborn , Mich.

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I strong ly support those who object to the Church' s unqualified support , financial and otherwise , of the Defense of Marriage Initiative .

As a physician who has treated homosexual victims of AIDS , I am keenly aware of the fact that, stable monogamous relationshi ps in the gay community must be supported , not only because they save lives , but also because they promote the common good as do all such relationshi ps. Promiscuity is no safer in the heterosexual population as is evidenced b y the 23.3 million AIDS-infec ted Africans, most of whom are victims of heterosexual transmission , and nearl y all of whom will be dead b y the end of the first decade of our new millennium.

In the 1980s the Rev. lerry Falwell declared the AIDS epidemic was a plague visited b y God on homosexuals because of their lifesty le. About six years ago, an administrative committee of the NCCB suggested use of condoms by gay men might be justified in view of the lethality of the virus. This provoked a shriek of protest from several prominent churchmen — and the suggestion was quickl y withdrawn. Their reaction was a source of embanassment for the Church unexcelled b y recent clergy scandals.

Clearly the Catholic Church will not confer sacramental status on same-sex unions , nor should it. Nevertheless a recognition of monogamous homosexual partnershi ps for purposes of legal and insurance benefits is clearl y in the public interest. The originators of the initiative , now known as Prop . 22, were likel y motivated more b y fear of gay activism than b y a desire to safeguard the sanctity of marriage, Regardless, I wish the California Conference of Catholic Bishops had made better use of the $310,000 they gave to Prop . 22, perhaps b y supporting instead the Parental Notification (Before Termination of a Minor 's Pregnancy) Initiative which died for lack of signatures.

Robert M. Rowden , M.D. San Rafael

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I was fascinated by the editorial of your Dec. 24 issue which began by quoting from Matthew Arnold' s poem, "Dover Peach", in which the poet lamented the

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Ethical challenges in next millennium

Can Church stop the drif t toward 'culture of death '?

By Raymond Dennehy, Ph.D. The most important challenge facing the Church in the new millennium is that of deflecting die United States from its drift toward what Pope John Paul II calls die "culture of death." The areas in which this effort must be made are contraception, abortion , laboratory reproduction and physicianassisted suicide. The latter three practices directly assault the right to life, which is the pillar of democratic society. The security of all the other ti ghts — free speech, worship, peaceable public assembly, etc. — presupposes the security of that right. If society abandons its commitment to protect innocent life, it can hardly be expected to protect ri ghts that presuppose the right to life.

Aldiough contraception does not violate the right to life, it is the prelude to its violation. Unlike induced abortion , the direct kilting of an unborn human being, conu'aception kills nobody; it prevents the possibility of conception. This in itsel f is a far cry from homicide. Still , by formall y separating sex from procreation, contraception creates the mentality that one has a right to have sex without producing babies. I say "formally separates " to distinguish conu'aception from natural famil y planning. From contraception, it is a short step to abortion.

The data over the past three decades shows that the vast majority of abortions are performed for birth control: the pregnancy occuned at an inconvenient moment in the woman's life. Dr. Eugene Haskell, a leading provider of partial-birth abortions, a particularly grisly form of late-term abortion, claims that over 80 percent of the partial-birth abortions he performs are elective. The separation of sex from procreation creates the mindset that there is a right to have sex without having children and, increasing ly, that sex is just for fun. Many will be surprised to learn that the leading financial contributor to the National Abortion Ri ghts League's congressional lobbying efforts is the Playboy Foundation. As novelist Graham Greene has one of his characters say, "Nothing dampens romance like the thought of babies."

Changes in abortion practice My perception is that the pro-life movement is winning

have added to this misconception by trying to redefine "conception" as the moment that an embryo implants itself in the lining of the mother 's womb. This misconception will make it all the harder for the pro-life groups and the Church to keep alive in the public 's mind that induced abortion , by any means and no matte r how early in gestation , is still the direct killing of an innocent human being.

Laboratory reproduction and cloning The contraceptive society has separated sex from procreation. Now technocrats have separated procreation from sex. With artificial insemination , in vitro fertilization , and cloning, — Raymond Dennehy, Ph.D. we are transferring procreati on from the bedroom to the laboratory, from the context of love and personal the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans, slowly but committnent between husband and wife to the depersonalized surely. National polls show that about 87 percent of the laboratory where efficiency reigns supreme.

American public disapprove of abortion on request. This The defense most often advanced for laboratory reproducmeans they harbor fundamental misgivings about the very tion is the appeal to the plight of couples who cannot have practice of abortion. Indeed, fewer medical students are children by coital sex. The structure of the sex act implies that choosing to learn abortion techniques in medical school and the man and woman be willing to accept the child that may existing abortionists are not being replaced. This results in be conceived in a loving and responsible way. In other words, fewer and fewer abortion clinics ("abortion chambers" is a the child will be cherished for him- or herself. But the dream more apt term). The struggle between Congress and President and the reality are hardly ever the same. Because in vitro ferClinton over the "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban" bill has also tilization is successful only 40 percent of the time and costs helped the pro-life cause by shifting public attention, for the about $8,000 per attempt, the temptation will be to restrict the first dme, from the woman's alleged right to an abortion to the practice to couples who are intelligent and healthy and who show promise of producing children like themselves. In fact, life of the unborn child.

But there is a cloud on the horizon. Many people, includ- it will be hard for society to resist the temptation of producing those in the media, think that the "morning after pill," ing designer babies. People will be valued in terms of their intra-uterine devices, Norplant implants, and Depo-Provera instrumental potential: intelligence, creativity, health, etc. The injections are contraceptives when, in fact, they are abortifa- tendency will be to value human beings not for themselves cients. Rather than preventing ovulation, they prevent the but for what they can do for society, leaving little room for the newly created embryo from implanting in the mother's sickly, deformed , and less gifted .

Cloning is the procedure by which we create an exact womb. Because this occurs after conception, it is, by definition, abortifacient. Even the so-called "birth control p ill" copy of a cell or an organism. The dup lication of an organworks as an abortifacient at least 10 percent of die time. ism consists of removing the nucleu s from a fertilized egg Because diese substances end pregnancy by medication and tran splanting it into a cell in another organism. What instead of surgery, it is easy for people to suppose diem to be develops is the exact genetic copy of the donor organism. contraceptives. Some purveyors of tire morning-after pill ETHICAL CHALLENGES, pa ge 21

My perception is that the p ro-life movement is winning the battle fo r the hearts and minds of Americans, slowly but surely.

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On temptation and Caesar 's coin

George Weigel JL .Low "faith-based communities" can help solve the nation 's welfare problems is likely to become a serious issue in the 2000 election cycle.

Candidates across the political spectrum have agreed that religious organizations ought to be financially empowered to help serve the poor, and the empowerment of the poor. That 's a very good sign that things are changing in our political culture . The secularist bias that dominates the educational and social service establishments seems to be breaking down. But a new question demands attention: How can "faith-based communities" take Caesar 's coin without being corrupted by it?

A statement by Vice President Al Gore last year suggests this concern is not misplaced. In one speech , the vice president noted that , "for too long, faith-based organizations have wrought miracles on a shoestring." Which is true enough. But then the vice president said something that ought to set off the alarm bells among religious social service providers : "With the steps I' m announcing today, they will no longer have to rely on faith alone."

Well, better to rely on "faith alone" (and the generosity

that faith impels) than to become a wholl y-owned subsidiary of die federal government.

A close observer of these affairs, the Hudson Institute 's Michael Horowitz , suggests three ground rules to help ensure reli gious social service agencies don 't become dependent on — or captives of — the government.

First, the tax code, rather than direct grants, should be the primary method for funding religious social service agencies. Citizen-donors are better equipped to measure the effectiveness of these agencies than bureaucrats.

Bureaucratic regulation and control usuall y follow direct federal grant-making . So does lobbying, as reli gious institutions line up to claim their share of the federal pie.

Horowitz suggests the government 's primary role in this business should be certif ying a reli gious agency is eli gible for tax-deductible dona- ______¦_______________ tions, or that donations to a given organization may be claimed by a donor as a tax credit. Beyond that , we are into deep waters in which religious agencies risk becoming Caesar 's wards.

Second, as Horowitz writes, "government should never regulate, dilu te, or diminish die religious character" of the social service work of religious organizations, by forbidding efforts at evangelization , for example. The government can run its own religion-free social service programs if it chooses. But "the government has no business secularizing religious organizations , whose mission to aid the poor is driven by a central element of their faith " Third , if there is to be government grant-making to "faith-based" social service organizations , such grants should be restricted to funding services to the poor, not to covering organizational overhead costs. As Mr. Horowitz puts it (with the hard experience of Great Society social programs in mind), "If a church needs its overhead grant to

cover half the heating bill or a third of the minister 's salary, how will it resist terms dictated by government agencies" about the kinds of programs it runs?

More than two decades ago, Peter Berger and Richard John Neuhaus published a small booklet titled , To Empower People. They suggested government be the banker of educational and social services provided by "mediating institutions " like churches and other faithbased communities, but not the program designer or micro-manager. If a religious organization is providing a genuinel y public service with a legitimate claim on the public purse — educating children or providing necessary social services for the poor — then the "separation of church and state" ought not be an obstacle to that organization making a claim on public funds.

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Which is why, in the welcome debate over federal funding of "faith-based communities " working with the poor, the homeless, and all those on the margins of our society, the real question is not "whether," but "how."

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

SCRIPTURE ŠL ITURGY 'Mute Christian witness is a contradiction in terms' Pope Paul VI startled many when he said , "The sole purpose of the Church's existence is evangelization. " After recovering from the shock of his insight 's clarity, we do well to respond to the same jolt this Sunday 's Liturgy of the Word gives us.

The first reading fro m Job locates us at the heart of humanity 's pain. Anyone who has mourned a loved one, dealt with the mortality of self or another, had a significant relationshi p explode , worked under oppressive conditions , or felt the power of depression can identif y with these words: "Job spoke saying: 'Is not man 's life on earth a drudgery? Are not his days those of hirelings? He is a slave who longs for shade, a hireling who waits for his wages. So I have been assigned months of misery, and troubled ni ghts have been allotted to me....Remember that my life is like the wind; I shall not see happiness again. ' " This description of the human condition needs , cries out for, indeed howls in pain for the God who "heals the brokenhearted." (Responsorial Psalm) In Jesus ' preaching ministry and that of us , his Church , God responds.

Wonderful it is to hear about the cure of Simon 's motherin-law : "They immediately told him about her. He approached her, grasped her hand , and hel ped her up.

Then the fever left her and she waited on them."

Wonderful it is to hear of Jesus ' defeat of sickness and the forces of evil: "The whole town was gathered at the door. He cured many who were sick with various diseases, and he drove out many demons." More disconcerting than wonderful it is to hear Jesus ' reply to his discip les who tell him , "Everyone is looking for you.". He says to them , "Let us go on to the nearby village that I may preach there also. For this purpose have I come. " Fortified by his prayer in a "a deserted place," Jesus offers his perspective to all his followers: we are in the

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Job 7:1-4, 6-7; Psalm 147; / Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23; Mark 1:29-39

Father David M. Pettingill evangelizing business; we move on; we invite the heretofore uninvited.

This is the limp id , cystal-clear vision of Paul as he writes to his Corinthians. "If I preach the Gospel , this is no reason to boast , for an obligation has been placed on do not preach it." He feels me, and woe to me if I compelled to preach because he is a living part of the Church who is Christ. When he preaches , there are no strings attached. He support s himself with his leather craft: "When I preach , 1 offer the Gospel free of charge."

This man, who glories in the freedom Christ has given him, willingly becomes a slave to those to whom he preaches: "Although I am free in regard to all , I have made myself a slave to all so as to win over as many as possible.

To the weak (those who do not have the same knowledge the Corinthians thought they had regarding food sacrificed

to idols) I became weak, to win over the weak. I have become all things to all , to save at least some."

The Word calling us to be Church and leading us to the holy table to worship reminds us of the work of our God within us, turning us outward to proclaim his intervention in Christ on its behalf. We confront its sickness with healing; its sin with forg iveness; its isolation , with hospitable welcome; its suffering in loneliness with suffering in community ; its triumphs, with eucharistic praise.

When this component is lacking in our witness to Christ, we have good reason to suspect our conversion to him is merely seminal and inchoate. If what God is constantl y doing for us because of what he accomplished once and for all in Christ does not move us to tell our stories, perhaps we have not met him.

The mute Christian witness is a contradiction in terms. A Church that prizes evangelization, on the other hand , knows why it 's around and why it will be till the end of time.

RENEW 2000 questions What is your attitude about telling your God stories to your family? Parish?

What can you do to bring the Catholic vision to the world?

Father David Pettingill directs the archdiocesan Office of Parish Life.

Christ 's word is living and active A new event. The word of God proclaimed in the gathered assembly becomes a new event. So say s the Introduction to the Lectionary. I find this a very striking phrase. Never before has this gathering of disciples heard these particular , inspired words of the Bible in this unique , once-in-a-lifetime moment. When the lector and then the deacon or priest proclaim the living word of God in the midst of the disciples of St. Charles Parish , San Francisco, or St. Charles , San Carlos, for example , their proclamation is a new event. A fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit. A fresh incarnation of the message of God's plan for the world. A real presence of Christ in the midst of his own disciples.

Last week Father John Talesfore explained in his column how the Old Testament reading at Sunday Mass was chosen to highlight the message of the Gospel. The proclamation of Jesus healing Peter's mother-in-law and then healing all who were brought to him follows a passage from Job, lamenting the illness and suffering that we humans experience in life. Christ does not remove that suffering from us but illuminates it by his presence and power.

Another example: Mark 's Gospel offers us the story of Jesus healing a leper who trul y believed that Jesus ' power could save him . The Old Testament reading reminds us of the laws of Moses that governed the treatment of lepers in those days. And again: the Gospel proclamation of Jesus forgiving the sins of the paral yzed man who was .actuall y lowered throug h the roof to get to where Jesus was. This stoty is prefigured by the reading

Sister Sharon McMillan, SND from Isaiah : "See, I am doing something new! I wipe out your offenses. Your sins I remember no more."

So if the first reading from the Old Testament is chosen to reflect the Gospel , what is the role of the second reading ? I smile as I write this , remembering many evenings with the liturgy committee at Mission Dolores years ago as we strugg led to find a "theme" in all three readings during Ordinary Time. We alway s had such a problem with that second reading !

I now know why. The second reading follows its own pattern that is not related to the Old Testament reading

nor to the Gospel on the Sundays in Ordinary Time.

Large sections of the letters of St. Paul and other apostles are presented to us for their own sake. They do not necessarily relate directly to the other readings.

On these Sunday s after the Christmas season , we hear the riveting words of St. Paul from his first letter to the Corinthians: "Your bod y is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is within." "Devote yourselves entirely to the Lord."

"I do all I do for the sake of the gospel." "Whatever you do, you should do all for the glory of God." After our celebrations of the Lenten and Easter seasons, large sections of the second letter to the Corinthians will be shared with us , readings that follow consecutively Sunday after Sunday, without a direct connection to the other readings.

The Liturgy of the Word, the "table of the word ," trul y offers us a rich banquet of spiritual nourishment.

Together with the Psalm, the readings invite us to experience Christ, alive and present among us, teaching us, healing us, shepherding us now. May I remind you as I remind myself that praying over the Sunday readings before Mass is a wonderful way to open the door to Christ that the "new event" of his presence in our midst may take root in us with all its power?

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

Walk-ins to Saturday 's Religious Education Institute to be welcome Persons who have been unable to register for tomorrow's annual Reli gious Education Institute will be welcome as late-registrants, according to Lynn Zupan of the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry which is co-sponsoring the event with the archdiocesan offices of Ethnic Ministry and Worship and the Department of Catholic Schools.

Late registrants should follow signs into the St. Mary 's Cathedral underground conference center where they can

pay the $20 fee and pick up conference materials, Zupan said. â&#x20AC;˘ To be held at the Cathedral Conference Center, 1111 Gough St., the conference is themed "Eucharist: The Heroic Act of Love." The Institute will have tracks in English and Spanish as it has in the past, but this year will also include an innovative youth track most of which will be carried on the campus of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School adjacent to the Cathedral.

Keynote speaker for the English-language morning session with be Father Kevin Irwin, a liturgy expert from the theology department of the Catholic University of America.

The afternoon English track keynoter will be Paulist Father John E. Hurley, director of the evangelization office of the U.S. Catholic bishops.

Dominican Sister Carmen Olivera will keynote the morning Spanish-language session. She is an expert in international relations from Chicago 's Loyola University.

Family Lif e

Embracing the wind

Christine Dubois

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JL he lights flickered , went out , flashed , and then went out for good. The big wind storm that had been predictedhad arrived right on schedule.

1 switched off my computer, secretly glad that I'd have a better excuse to offer my editor than procrastination. This was one deadline that would just have to stretch.

"Mom!" six-year-old Gabe shouted down the stairs.

"The power's out!."

"I'm coming." Upstairs, I found Gabe, 9-year-old Lucas

and their dad looking for flashlight batteries and candles. I searched the kitchen cabinets. If only we 'd taken the Y2K warnings a bit more seriousl y. Here we were with no electricity, and we had only two working flashlights and a few small candles.

1 looked out the window at the trees bending in the wind. We still had an hour of day light.

"Bundle up, guys," 1 called. "Let's go meet the wind!"

The street in front of our house was empty. We crossed and headed up the sidewalk. The wind whi pped around us, tossing leaves into the air. A gust roared up behind and pushed us forward . We laughed and ran ahead.

"I can feel the air pushing me!" yelled Gabe.

Lucas took his hood off , laug hing when the wind blew it back onto his head .

A red plastic cup bounced past, dancing noisily up the street in front of us. The grass on the corner house's wellmanicured lawn ri ppled as if it were water. Clouds raced across the sky.

We checked neighbors ' yard s for signs the wind had been by. A sandwich board advertising new homes lay flat on the sidewalk. Pine cones and leaves littered the street. A gate hung askew, missing two boards.

"Look at that basketball hoop !" shouted Lucas, pointing to a backboard that had been knocked to the ground.

We passed a man pruning his plum trees. He snipped

away steadily, determined not to let a little thing like 50 m.p.h.-wind gusts alter his weekend plans.

At the end of the street , we crossed to another street and circled back the way we had come. This time the wind was in our face. Laughing, we let the wind push us backwai'd.

When it died down , we walked forward , only to be met by another gust that sent us staggering back again.

"It 's more fun when the wind' s behind you," said Lucas.

Back inside, play ing Parcheesi by candleli ght , I thoug ht about our blustery walk.

Kids instinctivel y know how to let the wind lead them.

They feel the wind and respond . Adults tend to forge ahead , heedless of the gusts around them.

It's the same in our spiritual lives. The wind of the Spirit is blowing all around us, but too often we don 't notice or respond. Worse yet, we try to move against the wind, then wonder why we're exhausted.

Like our children , we can learn to trust the wind. And when we do, we'll discover life is a lot more fun when the wind is behind you.

Christine Dubois is a widely published freelance writer who lives with her family near Seattle.

Contact her at: chriscolumn@juno.com.

What is required for Host bread?

C2- One of the parishioners in our parish serves as chairman of our liturgy commission. Recently he has made some changes, with the approval of our pastor, which we are told are proper but which we wonder about.

Eveiyfew weeks homemade bread is substituted for the usual host. These are said to be made according to law, but the problem is that this bread stays in your mouth a long time. What is required "according to law " for the bread used in the Eucharist? (North Carolina) elf A. First, there is nothing wrong in itself with using bread made by people in ^, the local community. I've known / parishes, for example , where families take turns preparing the bread for ^^ Mass. It can be a beautiful and meaningful custom.

It is difficult to answer your question without candidly noting we have two seemingly contradictory sets of regulations for eucharistic bread.

The Church has insisted increasingly on the vital importance of signs in the celebration of the liturgy, especially in the sacramental and eucharistic liturgies.

These signs — oil, water, bread , wine, gestures, words — are essentials for the sacraments and should reflect as genuinel y as possible the reality they purport to be. Dirty water, for example , or gummy oil , while perhaps valid for the sacraments , are grossly inappropriate and unbecoming.

Thus, the Church insists the bread for the eucharistic celebration "appear as actual food" (General Instruction on the Roman Missal , 283). In other words, it should look and taste like bread peop le reall y use.

On the other hand , the Latin-rite tradition and the present regulations of the Church require that no ingredients other than wheat flour and water be used in making the bread.

I've had much correspondence on this subject through the years, and have learned most people find it difficult, to say the least, to make bread this way and have it come out looking any more like recognizable bread than the usual hosts.

One is reminded of the little first communicant who received a common tiny white host that melted in his mouth and was asked if he believed that the bread had become the body of Christ. He replied , "I believe it is die body of Christ , but I don 't believe it was bread."

In 1978 the American bishops ' Committee on the Liturgy presented a canonical position paper to the appropriate officials in Rome, searching for some way unleavened bread could be prepared with a few additives that would make it appear more like real bread. f The following year, the then-head _. of the Congregation for the Doctrine the host is so tiny and frail it dissolves before one can chew of the Faith responded that "it or swallow it. would not be appropriate to accept the suggestions" for One such recipe was developed by a professional baker some additives for eucharistic bread. who was also a permanent deacon. It does not crumble easIn 1980 the Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine ily, and fulfills all requirements for the Eucharist .

Worship repeated basicall y the same instructions.

He died recently, but his wife has given me the instrucDespite the difficulty, several recipes have been devel- tions for preparing and baking Communion bread this way. oped over the years which provide a substantial type of I will be hap py to send it to anyone who writes to me at the bread, suitable for the Eucharist, baked onl y from wheat address below. flour and water.

(Questions or a request for that recipe may be sent to The reason for the attempt , of course , is in the sign value Father Dietzen at Box 325, Peoria, IL 61651; or e-mail: of sharing "one loaf or "one bread," of which the jjdietzen @ aol, com.)

Eucharistic Prayers speak, symbolizing the unity which © 2000 by Catholic News Service Jesus brings about in his people through the Eucharist. It is similar to sharing the "one cup," which we do when we receive Communion under both species.

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However, this outreach and ministry must be in conformity with the authentic teaching of the Church , since homosexual persons , as do all Christians, have a right to receive the teachings of the Church clearl y and completely.

The Church continues the work of salvation by faithfull y proclaiming the Gospel of Christ and ministering to those who believe in him. The Gospel sets us free and enables us to overcome everything that would stand between us and its saving message. In its 1986 letter the congregation encouraged bishops "to provide pastoral care in full accord with the teaching of the Church for homosexual persons of their dioceses." The congregation also warned against presenting the teaching of the Church "as if it were only an optional source for the formation of one 's conand Father Robert Nugent science." The bishops of the United States are committed to this approach , and the recent pastoral message of the Committee on Marriage and Family, "Always Our Children ," is an example of our commitment. We also deplore as a horrible evil any malice in speech or action against homosexual persons and call upon In view of the concern s expressed , mostly by religious all who engage in such acts to repent of their behavior. women and men as well as members of the laity, about the recent notification of the Congregation for the Doctrine of II. FOUR ISSUES REGARDING THE NOTIFICATION Now I want to address four issues about the notification, the Faith concerning Sister Jeannine Gramick , SSND, and Father Robert Nugent, SDS, I want to issue the following approved by the Holy Father, which must be clearly understatement to clarify some misconceptions about the notifi- stood.

1. Sister Gramick and Father N ugent on Church teachcation and to reaffirm support for the decision of the Holy See. This statement is being issued after consultation with ing Some have questioned whether there is evidence that the full body of bishops.

Sister Gramick and Father Nugent have publicly expressed I. CHURCH OUTREACH TO HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS opinions about homosexuality which are not in accord with First, it must be said that, through the efforts of Sister Catholic teaching. Both the Maida commission and the Gramick and Father Nugent, as well as others, many in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith conducted Church were sensitized to the need for a compassionate investigations of their writings and pastoral activities and ministry to persons of homosexual inclination and their found serious deficiencies. Particul ar reference was made parents . Both the commission chaired by Cardinal Adam to th eir books Building Bridges and Voices of Hope.

Maida of Detroit and the Congregation for the Doctrine of Many of those asserting that no evidence of departure the Faith acknowledge the positive aspects of their min- from Church teaching was found evidently are relying on istry. I made the same observation at the time of the publi- Father Nugent 's own published statement on the course of cation of the notification. the inquiry, in which he states his belief that he and Sister

The July 13, 1999 notification by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith barring School Sister of Notre Dame Jeannine Gramick and Salvatorian Father Robert Nugent "from any pastoral work involving homosexual persons " was not an effort "to diminish and discourage ministry to persons of homosexua l inclination. "In fact, the opposite is true," said Bishop Joseph Fiorem.a of Galveston-Houston, Texas, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Furthermore, he said, "the notification cannot be used to claim the Church teaches that persons of homosexual inclina tion are intrinsically evil persons." Bishop Fiorenza said,"To call the homosexual inclination 'intrinsically disordered ' is not to pass jud gment on any individual 's mental or moral state." Fiorenza also said the U.S. bishops "dep lore as a horrible evil any malice in speech or action against homosexual persons and call upon all who engage in such acts to repent of their behavior." His statement came during the bishops ' fall meeting Nov. 15-18 in Washington and two days after a press conference held to publicize a letter with more than 4,500 signatures asking the bishops to petition the Vatican to reconsider its decision Sister regarding Gramick and Father Nugent. The letter Sister Jeannine Gramick appeared in the Nov. 19 edition of the Nationa l Catholic Reporter newspaper. Bishop Fiorenza said his statement was issued "to clarify some misconceptions about the notification and to reaffirm support for the decision of the Holy See." Its text follows.

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Sister Gramick states in this booklet , "Most Catholic moral theologians now hold that homogenital behavior, as well as heterogenital behavior, is good and holy in God's sight when it is an expression of a special and uni que love which one person has for anotfasr." While she offers the opinions of others , she does not mention the Church' s teaching, and she confuses theolog ical opinion with authentic Church teaching.

Father Nugent , in the same booklet , clearl y puts homosexual relationshi ps on par with heterosexual ; there is no mention of the intrinsic disorder of homosexual acts: "If homosexuality mean s same-gender erotic, physical expressions of union and pleasure , the possibility of personal sin exists in homosexuality - as it does in heterosexuality depending on the interp lay of three factors, including the physical behavior itself and its meaning for the person , the personal motives and intentions of the person acting, and the individual social consequences for results of the behavior." Father Nugent avoids talking of objective evil; he addresses only subjective sin, which is known to none but God. On this basis, no one can ever speak of a sinful act.

2. Respect for conscience Another objection often heard is that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith violated the privacy of their consciences. It is not an invasion of conscience for the Church to ask those who minister in her name about their adherence to Church teaching. Thus no invasion is involved in asking those serving in ministry to homosexual persons whether they adhere to the Church 's teaching on the intrinsic immorality of homosexual acts. Their personal beliefs have pastoral , and therefore public , significance. Private dissent does not remain purely private when one is involved in ministering to a group of people who either struggle with , or even reject, precisel y that element of Church teaching.

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Gay and lesbian ministry

Controversial pai r issue challenge , outline 'concerns '

By Dan Morris-Young SAN FRANCISCO -- Father Robert Nugent challenged gays and lesbians to "assume the authority to speak for themselves" during a Jan. 26 presentation at Metropolitan Community Church and a Jan. 27 questionand-answer session at Most Holy Redeemer Parish.

During the same two gatherings , Sister Jeannine Gramick outlined several "concerns " generated in the wake of last Jul y 's Vatican curtailing of the pair 's ministries to the homosexual community.

The Salvatorian priest told the more than 300 persons crowded into the modest MCC building in the Castro District that gays and lesbians "cannot abdicate" the responsibility to articulate their views and experiences for broader society "even if you are not readily heard."

"You are the experts in this area" of homosexual understanding "and you cannot be silent — for your own good or for the comfort of others," he said, adding that he plans "to continue to speak within the restrictions" of last summer's "notification" from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which limited the pastoral work both he and his School Sister of Notre Dame colleague could carry out within official Church auspices. They have engaged in a joint gay and lesbian ministry since 1971.

Noting the Church "has apologized" for mistreatment of individuals and groups including Holocaust victims , Galileo, women, and the divorced and remarried , Father Nugent said, "I look forward to the day when a bishop gets up and apolog izes for the way the Church has treated gay and lesbian people. We as a Church need to name our sins against the gay and lesbian community."

Father Nugent repeatedl y underscored the impact and role of language used by Church people and in Church documents when addressing issues concerning gays and lesbians. He credited the U.S. bishops in general with "trying to avoid pastorall y harmful language, language that can hurt , language that can reinforce shame and guilt" and pointed to the bishops ' 1997 pastoral letter, "Always Our Children" as a specific example.

However, it becomes "problematic ," he said , when the Church speaks about the dignity of homosexuals and promoting ministry to the gay community but uses language that conveys another sentiment by using words and phrases such as "intrinsicall y evil" and "fundamentally disordered" .

Interesting ly, the 62-year-old priest complimented Sul pician Father Gerald D. Coleman "for trying very hard to approach this issue" of language "in a very positive

way." President-rector of St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park, Father Coleman became a lead spokesman for the U.S. bishops on the CDF's July 13 notification.

In an article carried in the Aug. 14 issue of America magazine, Father Coleman explained the grounds for the CDF conclusions which led to the Congregation 's barring Sister Gramick and Father Nugent "from any pastoral work involving homosexual persons".

Sister Gramick and Father Nugent responded to Father Coleman 's essay in the Oct. 9 America challenging several of his statements.

The Salvatorian told both audiences the Vatican restricti ons on his and Sister Gramick's ministry did not curtail their writing or speaking . He did note, however, they had been told to "refrain from criticism" of Church teaching. They also were declared "ineligible, for an undetermined period , for any office in their respective religious institutes."

The pair said their working understanding of the Vatican notification's restrictions were that they refrain from workshops and retreats involving homosexual persons or their families , an interpretation they said canon lawyers had supported. Speaking at Most Holy Redeemer, Father Nugent said the CDF restrictions were modest in light of what could have been suggested — such as removing them from ' their religious communities , or suspending his priestl y faculties.

Nonetheless, Father Nugent charged that the 12-year exchange with Church authorities that led to the Vatican move "was not a dialogue about the truth ," but rather a clamp ing down on their ministry.

S i s t e r Gramick later' echoed the charge in comments about ongoing "development of doctrine" on homosexuality which , she said, "is at the heart of the nervousness on the part of the Vatican."

Stating that polls indicate about half of all Catholics and "most Catholic moral theologians disagree with the Church" that homosexual activity is intrinsically evil, she said she feels "that what the Vatican is really trying to head off" is the notion same-sex couples should not be "denied a loving (sexual) relationship."

Asked at Most Holy Redeemer what they would do if

...it becomes 'p roblematic' when the Church spea ks about the dign ity of

homosexuals and p romoting ministry to the gay community but uses language

that conveys another sentiment....

—Father Robert Nugent

Statement . . . ¦ Continued from previous page While Sister Gramick and Father Nugent are reported to have informed their various audiences of the authentic teaching of the Church, this is not sufficient if it is presented as one opinion among many. There is an important difference between telling peop le what the Church teaches as a matter of information and teaching what the Church teaches. The Church has the right to expect that those who engage in ministry in the name of the Church to teach as the Church teaches.

3. Distinction between homosexual orientation and homosexual activity There is a disconcerting amount of confusion among some Catholics with regard to the Church' s teaching about homosexuality. Crucial distinctions are often lost such as that between orientation and activity. Many of those questioning the recent notification seem to believe that the Church teaches that people with homosexual orientation are themselves intrinsically evil or disordered. The Church's rejection of homosexual activity is taken to be a rejection of them as persons.

Lying, malicious gossip, murder, racism, fornication are intrinsically evil acts. To assert that an action is intrin-

the Vatican interpreted their current heavy schedule of speaking engagements and writing as a violation of the spirit of its Jul y 13 notificatio n, Sister Gramick said they would have to "discern" how to deal with that issue if it arose.

Their week-long itinerary in the Bay Area included talks and panel discussions in San Francisco, Berkeley, San Rafael , Santa Rosa, Santa Clara and Oakland.

Pioneers in ministry within the gay and lesbian world , both Father Nugent and Sister Gramick said the CDF disciplinary action had "put a chill in the air" for persons active in gay and lesbian ministry as well as other "ministries to those on the margins — to prostitutes , victims of AIDS, and others ."

They questioned , in Father Nugent's words, the doctrinal congregation's "shift into our private and personal, internal stands " on particular questions.

"No one should invade my conscience," Sister Gramick said Jan. 26, arguing that Church teaching on homosexuality "is not infallible" and is "open to change and development."

Last November following the national meeting of the U.S. bishops in Washington , D.C., the bishops ' president, Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza of Galveston-Houston .issued a lengthy statement responding to "concerns expressed, mostly by religious men and women as well as members of the laity" about the notification.

In it Bishop Fiorenza addressed the conscience issue, stating, "It is not an invasion of conscience for the Church to ask those who minister in her name about their adherence to Church teaching."

In her remarks, Sister Gramick said questions about Vatican "interference in the intern al affairs of religious congregations " as well as "issues of subsidiarity" have caused widespread concern , notably within religious communities.

Subsidiarity is a princi ple in which those in authority recognize the rights of those in positions of lower authori ty, and by which it is normally considered best for decisions to be made at the lowest and most appropriate level of authority.

Questions about religious communities maintaining "canonical status " are being asked, she claimed. "If we are being prohibited from doing the work of the Gospels," she said, some dissidents are suggesting religious institutes or congregations might opt to "go noncanonical" (outside the precepts of Canon Law).

In his November statement, Bishop Fiorenza stated that "the Holy Father is the ultimate superior of all members of religious institutes " and that "acting in his own authority or through the dicasteries of the Holy See, the Pope can intervene in the affairs of religious institutes."

...Vatican 'interfe rence in the internal affairs of religious congregations ' as well as 'issues of

subsidiarity' have caused widesp read concern, notably within religious communities.

— Sister Jeannine Gramick

sically evil is not to assert that those who commit these undertake a study of the content of their writings and sins are themselves intrinsicall y evil. To call the homo- oth er communications. sexual inclination intrinsically disordered is not to pass It would be hard to think of a process which, over a judgment on any individual' s mental or moral state. It course of almost 12 years, showed more respect and senmeans that this inclination does not correspond to God's sitivity for the religious institutes and the religious perplan for sexuality, whose purpose is to unite a man and a sons involved. The exclusion of Sister Gramick and woman in the loving union of marriage and to enable Father Nugent from office in their communities is a reathem to be co-creators of new life. sonable one. To hold office in a religious community is to The notification cannot be used to claim that the Church be in service of the whole Church. It is the obligation of teaches that persons of homosexual inclination are intrinsi- the Holy See to ensure that all who hold offices in relically evil persons. The Church teaches that all are created gious communities adhere to the fullness of the faith , in the image of God and are deserving of love and respect. without reservation. The charge that the action taken was Homosexual persons, no less than anyone, deserve to be an undue interference in the autonomy of their religious treated as sons and daughters of a loving God, and as broth- institu tes only has meri t if the Pope is not acknowledged ers and sisters to all who profess faith in him. as the ultimate superior of all those who profess vows in 4. Interference in the internal affairs of religious insti- institutes that are approved by the authority of the Church tutes (cf. Canon 590.2).

The Hol y Father is the ultimate superior of all members of religious institutes. Acting in his own authority or III. CONCLUSION through the dicasteries of the Holy See, the Pope can The decision of Sister Gramick and Father Nugent to intervene in the affairs of reli gious institutes (Canon 593). abide by the decision of the Holy See is laudable. I want to In the case of Sister Gramick and Father Nugent , the urge them again, in the spirit of filial obedience to the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for supreme authority of the Church , to reflect more intensely Societies of Apostolic Life was involved from the very and prayerfully on the Church's authentic teaching and ask beginning. Because Church teaching is involved, it invit- the Holy Spirit to guide their minds and hearts to embrace ed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to this truth unambiguously.

School of Pastoral Leadership For registration materials and additional information, call Joni Gallagher at (415) 242-9087.

"The Millennium and the Holy Year: What Does It Mean in Our Lives? ," a 3-night discussion program at St. Gabriel Church , 2559 401h Ave., SF, 7:30-9 p.m. Everyone is invited.

Feb. 7: "Gospel Justice Themes and their Old Testament Roots " with Msgr. Warren Holleran , professor , St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.

Feb. 14: "The Catholic as Citizen of the U.S. and the World" with Msgr. Robert McElroy, pasto r, St. Gregory Parish, San Mateo.

Feb. 28: "Questions Close to Home: Life and Death" with George Wesolek , director, Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns , Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Through Feb. 29 (Tuesdays, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.): "The Sacraments : Doors lo the Sacred" with Sister Sharon McMillan at St. Gregory Church, 2715 Hacienda St., San Mateo. $45. The class will also be offered Jan. 26-March 1 (Wednesdays , 2-4 p.m.) at St. Dominic Church , 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF, Through March 1 (Wednesdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m.): "Catholic Moral Theology and Social Teaching" at Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave., SF. $45.

Jan. 27-March 2 (Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m.): "The History and Theology of the Mass" with Father James Aylward, includes 2-session practice for lectors with Susan Sikora , and for eucharistic ministers with Father Bob Cipriano at St. Hilary Church , 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon.

Retreats/Days of Recollection VALLOMBRDSA CENTER 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees , times and other offerings call (650) 325-5614. Pre sentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, program director.

Feb. 19, 26, March 4: "Three Saturdays in Spring " where retreatants can experience contemplative prayer with art , music and the labyrinth, facilitated by Sister Toni Longo. Attend one, two or all three days.

Feb. 12: "Experiencing God in the Seasons of our Life - The Winter Gifts of God" with Carol Fowler who will take retreatants through "the earth's cycle of seasons" using Scripture and photography.

Feb. 13: The monthly series "Living the Beatitudes" continues. This month's facilitator is Jesuit Father William Wood who will explore "the humble heart" . Join these discussions on how to live an "authentic Christian lile" in the 21st century.

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

Feb. 12, March 11 : "The Art of Discernment" with Jim Neafsey. Find out how discernment can help you make wise choices and live an authentic spiritual life in a culture that offers few moral and spiritual guidelines.

Feb. 25-27: A weekend of Taize Prayer led by brothers from the founding place of the popular mode. An annual event featuring Prayer Around the Cross , Bible reflections and silence. Modeled on the Taize gatherings at the brothers monastery in France where young adulls flock to discover their own meaning and mission.

Feb. 26: "Encountering Mary: Opening to the Healing Power of Mary's Presence" with Kathleen Denison, Experience Mary as a haven of compassion rather than an unapproachable model of perfection.

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

SILVER PENNY FARM offe rs retreat facilities near the wine country, 5215 Old Lakeville Rd., Petaluma, 94954. All quarte rs have bedroom and sitting room with fireplace. Call Father Ray Smith for a brochure at (707) 762-1498.

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

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

3rd Thurs. 7:30-8:30 p.m. at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park , facilitated by Sister Toni Longo. Call (650) 325-5614.

2nd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Presentation Sisters Motherhouse Chapel, Turk and Masonic, SF. Call Sister Monica Miller, PBVM at (415) 751-0406, ext.

22; and at 7:30 p.m. at St. Luke Parish, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster Cily. Call (650) 345-6660.

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

Vocations Feb. 18-20: The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur announce a "Women 's Retreat" in Felton for women 18 years of age and older. An opportunity to spend time alone, with God " and with others who share similar values. Call Sister Marie Annette at (408) 741 -0324 or BurkartSND@aol.com.

Feb. 25-27: Are you interested in finding out about Sisters or becoming a Sister? The Sisters of the Presentation invite you to a weekend retreat at Presentation Center in Los Gates. Visit Sisters at their ministry sites and hear first hand about their work and their passion for it. Open to women 22-45 years old. Register by Feb. 20. Call Presentation Sister Monica Miller at (415) 751-0406, ext. 22 or mmiller@pbvms.org .

Consolation Ministry Drop-in Bereavement Sessions at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF on 2nd and 4th

Datebook* Wed., 2:30 - 4 p.m. Sponsored by Catholic Charities and Mid-Peninsula Hospice. Call Sister Esther at (415) 567-2020 , ext. 218.

Ongoing Sessions: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish at the Parish Center, Fulton and James St., Redwood City, Thurs., 6-7:30 p.m. Call (650) 3663802. Our Lady of Angels Parish , 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame; 1st Mon. 7-9 p.m. Call (650) 3477768. St. Gabriel Parish, 40th Ave. and Ulloa, SF; 1st & 3rdTties., 7-9 p.m. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. St. Hilary Parish , 761 Hilary Dr. , Tiburon; 1st S 3rd Wed., 3-4:30 p.m. Call Sister Colette at (415) 435-7659.

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

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

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

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

Young Adults You may contact the Young Adult Ministry oftice of the Archdiocese by phone at (415) 565-3600 , ext.

2045; by e-mail at mjansen@sfvam.org or christineop@sfyam.org; or visit the ministry 's website at www.sfyam.org. Unless other wise noted contact the Young Adult Office tor additional information about the following activities.

Feb. 25-27: A weekend of Taize Prayer led by brothers from the founding place of the popular mode. An annual event featuring Prayer Around the Cross , Bible reflections and silence. Modeled on the Taize gatherings at the brothers monastery in France where young adults flock to discover their own meaning and mission. At Mercy Center , 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. Call (650) 340-7480.

March 16, 17, 18: A collaborative Young Adult weekend sponsored by the Young Adult ministries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Dioceses of Oakland and San Jose. Joan Weber, a national leader in ministry to young adults, is among the speakers.

Areas of discussion include "Developing a Young Adult Responsive Parish" and "Young Adult Ministry 101".

The date for Fall Fest 2000, the largest Young Adult conference in the region, is Oct. 14. Volunteer opportunities available.

Young Adult communities have been established at the following parishes. Please call the numbers listed for more information. St. Dominic, SF, (415) 567-7824; St. Gabriel, SF, (415) 731-0650; St. Vincent de Paul, SF, (415) 922-1010; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, (650) 343-5809; St. Andrew , Daly City, (650) 756-3223.

Youth Feb. 5: "Youth Day" at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School, Franklin and Ellis St., SF. For high school students interested in a day of music , games, meetings , new friends, inspirational presentations, storytelling and other activities. $15.50 fee includes lunch. Sponsored by Office of Religious Education/Youth Ministry. Call (415) 565-3650.

Returning Catholics Feb. 8, 15, 22, 29: "Catholics Coming Home", a series of meetings geared toward inactive Catholics, at Homer Crouse Hall of St. Pius Parish, 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City, 7:30-9 p.m. Call (650) 368-0429.

At the Cemetery 1st Sat. of the month Mass in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel. All liturgies begin at 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma. For more information, call (650) 756-2060.

Prayer/Devotions Feb. 8: Mass at Holy Name of Jesus Church commemorating the life of Blessed Josephine Bakhita, a Canossian Sister who will be canonized this fall, 39th Ave. at Lawton St., SF, 9 a.m.

Reception follows in Holy Name's Flanagan Center.

Call (415) 664-8590.

Feb. 10: Father Richard Bain presides at a Mass of Healing at Immaculate Conception Chapel , Fulton at Cesar Chavez , SF at 12 noon.

Oct. 29: "Jubilee Year Mass" at Pac Bell Park.

Archbishop William J. Levada will preside. Call Kathleen Buckley at (415) 565-3672.

Weekdays: Radio Rosary, 7 p.m., 1400 AM KVTO, includes prayer, meditation, news, homilies.

Call (415) 282-0861.

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

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

Thursday: The laity prayer cenacle of Marian Movement ol Priests meets at 7 p.m., St. Mary Star of the Sea Church , 180 Harrison Ave., Sausalito.

Call (415) 331-3306.

Mass in American Sign Language is celebrated each Sun. at 10:30 a.m. at St. Benedict Parish , 1801 Octavia (between Pine and California) in SF. A sign language Mass is celebrated at St. Anthony Parish , 3500 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park on the third Sat. of the month at 10:30 a.m. and later that day at 4 p.m. in the chapel ol Marin Catholic High School , 675 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. (at Bon Air Rd.), Kentlield. For information , call St. Benedict at (415) 567-9855 (voice) or (415) 567-0138 (TDD).

Blessed Sacrament Exposition Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park , 24 hours everyday, (650) 322-3013. St. Sebastian Church, corner of Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae , M - F 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Adoration Chapel, (415) 461-0704. St. Agnes Church , 1025 Masonic (near Page) SF, Fri., 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., (415) 487-8560. Our Lady of Angels Church , 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame , MF after 8 a.m. Mass until 7 p.m. St. John the Evangelist Church, 98 Bosworth St., SF, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. M -F. in Parish Center Chapel, (415) 3344646. St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way, San Rafael , Fri,9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Our Lady of Loretto Church, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, Fri. 9:30 a.m. 6 p.m., 1st Fri. 9:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Sat. St. Bruno Church, 555 W. San Bruno Ave., San Bruno, 24 hours everyday, Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel. SI. Francis of Assisi Shrine , 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, SF, Fri. following 12:15 p.m. Mass until 4:15 p.m. 2nd Sat. at St. Matthew Church, One Notre Dame Way, San Mateo with Nocturnal Adoration Society of San Mateo County. Call Lynn King at (650) 349-0498 or Jim McGill at (650) 5743918 for times. Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo Park , daily from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Call (650) 322-1801.St. Bartholomew Church, 300 Alameda de las Pulgas , San Mateo, 1st Fri. from after 8 a.m. Mass until just before next day's 8 a.m. Mass.; St. Dominic Church, Bush and Steiner St,8:30-9:30 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. each Mon. and Wed. (415) 567-7824. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 3 Oakdale Ave,Mill Valley, Tuesdays, 8:15 a.m. - 5 p.m. St. John of God Church, 1290 5th Ave. at Irving, SF. Mondays afte r 12:10 p.m. Mass , (415) 566-5610; St. Kevin Church, 704 Cortland Ave, SF, 1st Fri. following 9 a.m. Mass until 5:15 p.m. Benediction. Call (415) 648-5751.

Family Life Feb. 12: Anniversary Mass for couples celebrating 25, 50 or more years of marriage in the Jubilee Year.

March 31-April 2: "Catholic Family Life 2000" at the SSF Conference Center , with and outstanding lineup of speakers on topics including marriage and marriage prep. Call Office of Marriage and Family Life (415) 565-3680.

Catholic Charities Foste r Care and Adoption Program offers free information meetings the first Thurs. of every month at 7 p.m. Adults and couples are invited to learn more about adoption and the growing need for permanent families for children.

Meetings are held at Catholic Charities, 814 Mission St,5th Fl,SF. Call (415) 844-4781.

Introductory sessions of Seton Medical Center 's Natural Family Planning program will be held through this fall.. The office also offers educational programs for youth on topics including the changes that occur during puberty and the responsibility of relationships. Health educators are also available to speak about NFP, infertility, adolescent sexuality, preparing for pregnancy, perinatal loss and drug abuse in pregnancy. Call (650) 301-8896.

Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages, has upcoming weekends. Call Lolette or Anthony Campos at (415) 893-1005.

Single, Divorced, Separated Feb. 12: New Wings lunch at Baker 's Square in San Bruno followed by afternoon at the movies.

RSVP to Ron Landucci at (650) 583-6016.

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

For information about additional ministries available to divorced and separated persons in the Archdiocese, call (415) 273-5521.

New Wings at St. Thomas More Church meets on 3rd Thursdays. Call Claudia Devaux at (415) 334-9088 or e-mail stmchurch @hotmail.com.

Lectures/ Classes/Discussions Feb. 5: Annual Religious Education Institute at St. Mary 's Cathedral, Gough and Geary St, SF with theme of "Eucharist: Heroic Act of Love". Topics include sacraments, liturgy and spirituality. $18 per person. Sponsored by Office of Religious Education/Youth Ministry. Call (415) 565-3650.

Feb. 16: First of seven free public Davies Forum lectures on the history and contributions of Asian Pacific Americans to Amer ican society at the University of San Francisco. For specific locations, times and topics , call USF at (415) 422-6147.

Feb. 18: "Searching for Values in China Today," a symposium/art exhibit of University of San Francisco's Ricci Institute, 1-5 p.m. Call (415) 422-6401.

Tuesdays, 8:30 a.m.: Father Jim Aylward presents and discusses Vatican II at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, 3 Oakdale Ave,Mill Valley. All welcome. Coffee and refreshments , too.

Food & Fun Feb. 5: "Grand Dance Party/Ceili Mor" for benefit of St, John of God Parish, No dance experience or partner necessary. Learn Irish dance from 7:30 8:30 p.m. and dance till 11 p.m. to music of The Bridge Gap Ceili Band. Step Dance exhibition, too. $10 adults/$2 children. Call Pat Beaupre at (415) 206-0926 or Patrick McManus at (415) 242-1646.

Feb. 6: Scout Sunday at St. Rita Parish, 100 Marinda Dr., Fairfax with special celebration at 11 a.m, Mass. Call Carmen Vasquez at (415) 485-5632.

Parish Soccer League invites new teams.

Games played on Saturday mornings at 9 and 11 o'clock on Peninsula from Feb. - June. Men and women invited. Call Otto Sterba , commissioner at (650) 968-6708.

Feb 6: 75th anniversary Mass commemorating Notre Dame des Victoires Elementary School , Archbishop William J. Levada presiding, Notre Dame des Vicloires Church. 544 Bush St,SF, 12:15 p.m., reception to follow. Call Valerie Meehan at (415) 421-0069.

Feb. 12: The Black Catholic Apostolate of St. Emydius Parish , 286 Ashton Ave. off Ocean , SF celebrates the culture and heritage of people of African descent beginning at 12 noon in the church.

All are welcome and anyone wishing to wear African attire is invited to do so. Program continues at 5:30 p.m. Mass and at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Masses on Feb. 13. A reception follows the" 10:30 a.m. Mass.

Call (415) 585-9408 or 586-9571.

Feb. 12: "Crab Feast" at St. John the Evangelist school gymnasium, 5:30 p.m. no-host cocktails with dinner at 6:30 p.m., cracked crab, salad, pasta , wine and dessert , $30 per person for benefit of the parish. Call Marie Stanfel at (415) 587-2461 or the parish office at (415) 334-4646.

Feb. 12: "Millennium - Odyssey 2000" the annual black tie gala of Catholic Charities' Little Children's Aid Junior Auxiliary. This year the Juniors honor Charities' Frank Hudson with the annual Alice Phelan Sullivan Award. Benefits programs for children in need. For information , call Maria Cunningham at (415) 643-5043.

Feb. 12: "Monte Carlo Night" at Our Lady of Loretto Parish Hall, Novato, 7 - 1 1 p.m., $25 per person includes chips , catered hors d'oeuvres, and a chance at a bay cruise for 2 on a private 75 foot yacht valued at $1200. Benefits the parish school.

Call (415) 892-8621.

Feb. 18: "America 2000" a card party/luncheon sponsored by Catholic Charities Auxiliary of San Mateo County at San Mateo Garden Club, 605 Parkside Way off Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo at 11:30 a.m. $20 per person. Call (650) 349-4399.

Feb. 23: Annual Spring Luncheon/Fashion Show of the Good Shepherd Guild at Green Hills Golf and Country Club, Millbrae. Social hour at 11: 30 a.m, lunch at 12:30 p.m. $35 per person. Benefits Good Shepherd Sisters' Grace Center. Call Janet Kelly at (650) 756-4818.

March 4: "A Trip Down the Nile, 2000 BC" a major fundraiser benefiting Notre Dame High School , Belmont at the SF Airport Westin Hotel, Millbrae.

Enjoy a vast silent auction, elegant and exhilarating dining, entertainment and dancing. $75 per person/black tie optional. Call (650) 595-1913 , ext. 305.

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Feb. 18: "When the Pedal Meets the Metal," a trumpet/organ concert by organist Paul Klemme , and trumpeter , Gerald Webster at Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th St. and Dolores, SF. Includes a Feb. 19 Master Class addressing accompanying brass players at the organ, repertoire and other topics.

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Affordable housing discussed More than 200 people took part in the annual convention of Peninsula interfa ith Action (PIA) Monday evening at St. Francis of Assisi Church, East Palo Alto. Among those to address the meeting were, left above: Stewart Hyland a member of St. Francis of Assisi Parish; above center: Father Bob Moran , associate pastor of St. Josep h Parish, Mountain View (both men are PIA co-chairs); lower right Rev. James Abner, pasto r, Resurrection Baptist Church, East Palo Alto. At lower left Jesuit Father John Baumann , listens to the evening's discussion which centered on affordable housing for the Peninsula area. Funded partially by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development , PIA has scheduled a 7 p.m. Feb. 28 public meeting at Gunn High School , Palo Alto, with candidates for San Mateo and Santa Clara County Supervisors .

Ethical challen ges. .. ¦ Continued from page 15 Cloning promises a number of exciting benefits, such as replacing harmful genes with good ones, thereby eradicating hereditary diseases and the like; or producing genetically identical organs for transplant, which would eliminate the possibility of the recipient's body rejecting the new organ.

But , besides separating baby-making from sex, it is a grisly procedure; it requires the destruction of living human beings since the stem cells must be harvested from aborted fetuses or embryos discarded from in vitro fertilization.

The Church must continue to emphasize two things.

First, no one has the ri ght to another human being; we are not objects to be possessed or manipulated; married couples have the right to try to conceive children. Second , the dignity of the human person demands that the child be conceived in a context of love and personal responsibility, to wit , by coital sex. Catholics must proclaim the importance of the male and female body and coital sex as the only legitimate means of procreation. The structure of the sex

act implies that the man and woman be willing to accept the child that may be conceived in a loving and responsible way. In other words, the child will be cherished for him- or herself. And that is how it should be, for human beings are valuable and lovable in themselves , not because they can look good or can be useful for society.

Physician-assisted suicide Once the Supreme Court legalized abortion , it was only a matter of time before euthanasia and physicianassisted suicide gained support. The reason is clear: if you can justif y killing a human being inside the womb , you can justif y killing one outside the womb. Killing the elderl y and chronicall y ill presents itself as an efficient way to head off the bankruptcy of Social Security and Medicare. In addition , many believ e they hav e the moral and legal freedom to decide whether to take their own lives. But Plato wisel y noted that the greed for freedom can produce tyranny. The career of physician-assisted suicide bears this out. The Dutch government 's own report on the practice in Holland reveals that Dutch physicians have killed thousands of peop le without con-

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"A Map of the World" (First Look) Drama in which the life of an unflappable wife and mother (Sigourney Weaver in peak form) living on a farm in Wisconsin is devastating ly altered when an unimag inable accident happens. As directed by Scott Elliott , the films staits out promising ly, but the plot soon becomes overburdened and jumpy, losing its vitality. Shadowy marital

"Play It to the Bone" (Touchstone) Tawdry drama in which best friends who are professional boxing rivals (Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas) battle il E out in Las Vegas for big prize money and a c chance at the middlewei ght championship title. Writer-director Ron Sheiton substitutes brutal boxers, artificiall y voluptuous '-' CAPSULE, next page 5

From left, Sigourney Weaver , Alan Rickman , Tim Allen and Tony Shalhoub play actors drafted into a real space mission in "Galaxy Quest. " The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-ll — adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of Ame rica rating is PG — parental guidance suggested.

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In this play, which takes place in a rest home, an elderly male resident invites a female resident to play gin , with which she is unfamiliar , and they begin what could be a boring and drawn out card game accompanied onl y by incidental remarks about living in the old people 's home. As the inexperienced Fonsia humiliates the gin expert Waller whenever she wins , emotions mount and both the inner desperation of their past lives and the outer conflicts with their living conditions come to the fore . We are soon aware of the desolation of their lives in a rest home where they hear mostly about one another 's aches and pains and, while others receive visitors on Sunday, they have little to look forward to other than their own memories of divorce and alienated children — and their gin game.

As they play, arguments ensue that reveal male pride and female retaliation as well as the inner sufferings of two lonel y seniors who no longer have the love and support of their children nor money or possessions. Yet, the more-they throw blame upon one another for their past actions , the more they cling to one another. When they have wounded one another to the core, what hope will be left for them in their "warehouse for the emotionally and mentall y dead" in which they are imprisoned?

Directed by Paul Silverman at II Teatro 450, the balance between comedy and tragedy in this work is well maintained. On

the surface viewers may laugh but they also cringe over the heartfelt entrapment of the protagonists , caught not only belween the four walls of the rest home but also in the denial of their personal dilemmas. A range of emotions from amiable cordiality to pride , revenge , violence and alienation are played upon.

As Robert Parnell moves throug h this emotional gamut with a forcefu l and imposing stage presence. Elizabeth Benedict creates a naive and reserved woman capable of striking back at the male ego with embittered and poignant feistiness.

Sets by Alan Smithee portray a dingy, unkempt rest home. The "Gin Game" is emotionall y gri pping as well as abrasivel y challenging in its straightforw ard depiction of the struggle against loneliness and emotional and physical erosion. Familiar to the Bay Area for his stage and screen appearances for several decades, Marin resident Robert Parnell may be seen soon at the Magic Theatre at Fort Mason this month in

Robert Parnell and Elizabeth Benedict played at gin and life in "Gin Game " .

the world premiere of John 0' Keefe 's new play, "Bronte". Benedict , also a Marin resident, will perform in "Doing Durang" in March at the Shelton Theatre on Sutter Street with the Free Range Theatre of

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As directed by Thomas Lee, the unbelievable plot development and cardboard acting make it one to skip for all but diehard sci-fi fans. Intermittent , sci-fi violence and a few sexual encounters with nudity.

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Factory direct risk-free offer. This p r o d u c t comes with a one-year manufacturer 's limited warr a n t y and C o mt r a d ' s exclusive risk-free home trial. If you are not satisfied for any reason , simply return it within 90 days for a full "No Questions Asked" refund.

Zenith Crystal Clear Stereo Please specify white or black.

$99.95 $12 s&H

estContro combines electromagnetic technology and ultrasonic waves to solve a variP ety of household pest problems. This amaz- ? ing device uses your home's existing electrical wiring to create a shifting electro-magnetic field.

This creates an environment that is uncomfortable for pests, driving them from their hiding places in walls, ceilings and floors. Simultaneously, a harsh, ultrasonic siren blasts sound from the unit's dual speakers. This sound is inaudible to humans, but it creates an incredible disturbance for pests. In two to four weeks, the pests are driven from the area.

Safe and effective . PestContro is harmless to children and household pets, such as cats, dogs, fish and birds. The unit features a two-setting intensity selector that allows you to adjust the setting for those household pets that may be affected by certain pitches, like lizards, hamsters and gerbils.

Just plug it in. Simply place the PestContro unit in a centrally located area and it goes to work immediately, using a new technology called "phase-shift-current." By shifting the electromagnetic field throughout the home's wiring, it controls pests in the wills, ceilings and floors , where the majority of pests live.

This interference covers an area of up to 5,000 square feet. You can use the intensity selector to customize your control. Lower ultrasonic sounds tend to influence larger creatures, such as rats, lizards, roaches and spiders. The higher setting is more irritating to smaller pests, such as ants, ticks, fleas and other insects.

There's even a Floor Nig ht Lig ht f o r lacement in a hall or dimly lit area. p Repel pests from your home...risk-free.

PestContro comes with a two-year manufacturer 's limited warranty and Comtrad's exclusive risk-free home trial. If you are not satisfied for any reason, simply return it within 90 days for a full "No Questions Asked" refund.

PestContro™ Deluxe Additional Units

$69.95 $7.95 S&H $59.95 each

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