March 7, 2003

AS WAR LOOMS U.S. bishops oppose war, pope sends envoy to Bush Catholic News Service As the United States moved closer to war, the nation 's Catholic bishops reiterated their opposition to the war against Iraq , and Pope John Pau l II sent a personal envoy to Washington to confer with President George W. Bush and press for a peacefu l solution to the Iraqi crisis.

"Our bishops ' conference continues to question the moral legitimacy of any pre-emptive, unilateral use of military force to overthrow the government of Iraq, " Bishop Wilton D, Gregory of Belleville , 111., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops , said in a Feb. 26 statement.

06 Bishop Gregory said his fellow prelates "had no b illusions about the behavior and intentions of , or dan% S gers posed by, the Iraqi government. " The bishop said o E the Iraqi government also must do its part to avoid war o by complying with U.N. demands for disarmament and X by abandoning efforts to develop weapons of mass 55 U destruction.

Italian Meanwhile , Cardinal Pio Laghi , arrived in Washington March 3 bearing a pap al message for President Bush. The move, which had been under discussion at the Vatican for weeks, was the pope 's latest effort to head off a war he fears could cause a Cardinal Laghi humanitarian crisis and provoke new global tensions.

Cardinal Laghi is a former Vatican ambassador to the United States and a longtime friend of Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush. In Washington , a spokeswoman for the current papal nuncio , Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo , confi rmed s Zo March 4 that Cardinal Laghi was scheduled to meet < 'with Bush sometime March 5. >Âť ÂŤ Cardinal Laghi told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, "I will insist, in the pope 's name, th at all s . peaceful means be fully explored. Certainly there must 1 be the disarmament of (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein and his regime , but as far as possible this should be done without the use of arms. " In his statement, Bishop Gregory said it was still difficult for the United States to jus tify an invasion of Iraq, "lacking clear and adequate evidence of an imminent attack of a grave nature or Iraq 's involvement in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11" or without the broad support of the international community, Bishop Gregory said.

An attack on Iraq would not meet the "strict conditions in Catholic teaching " that would justify the use of military force, the bishop said.

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JUST WAR CONFLICT Starkly different views at Quinn Colloquium

By Jack Smith Three prominent Catholic lay people presented starkly different appro aches to the war on terror at the Seventh Annual Archbishop John Quinn Colloquium on Catholic Social Teaching, at the University of San Francisco last Saturday.

More than 300 people attended the symposium named after San Francisco 's former archbishop and sponsored jointAt the Quinn Colloquium, from left: Archbishop ly by the Archdiocese and the University John Quinn, George Lopez, Marie Dennis, of San Francisco , and funded in part by George Weigel , Archbishop William Levada the generosity of the clergy of the HHMHB Iraq; George Lopez ' differing opinion of the parameters Archdiocese.

Archbishop William J. Levada provided opening of a just war and his judgement against war with Iraq at remarks and gave th anks for the ministry of Archbishop this time; and Marie Dennis ' p lea for non-violent Quinn who celebrates the 50th anniversary of his ordi- responses to "terrorism and tyranny " born of her belief in the immediate and ultimate futility of War. nation this year.

Mr. Weigel is Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public USF Provost, Dr. Jim Wiser offered prayer and introduced the topic predicting the Catholic community "probPolicy Center and is a well known lay theologian, com-; mentator and writer. He is the author of "Witness to ably does not speak with one voice on these matters. " The perspectives explored included George Weigel's Hope," the biography of Pope John Paul II , and his syndicated column is printed in Catholic San Francisco. exp lanation of jus t war theory and his positive judgQUINN, page 8 ment on the licitness and likely imperative of war with

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bered a story about one ringing in church and the priest telling the owner of the device, "If that isn 't God, you ' re outta ' here."...All hats off at St. Dunstan Parish for John Brucato whose Funeral Mass was prayed at the Millbrae church Feb. 28th. "John was a wonderful and extraordinary person ," said Hol y Ghost Father Frank Mulloy, parochial vicar at St. Dunstan since 1992. "He had a great memory

by Tom Burke of things past." John , born in Sicily, is a former property consultant to late Archbishop Joseph McGucken, a position he accepted after retiring from the San Francisco Honored on his 75th birthday was Dominican Father Felix Cassidy, Water Department in 1970, Father chaplain of his congregation 's St. Jude Shrine and shep herd of "pilMulloy said.... Thanks to Aldiva grims who come by," he said. A native San Franciscan and graduate Fontana for the reminder of St. of St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Father Cassidy is seen here with Elizabeth Parish Flea Market grade school friends from the now-gone Grant Elementary in Pacific tomorrow and Sunday at the church , Heights. From left, Retired Episcopal Father Jerome Politzer, Richie Goettingen and Wayland St., SF. Dunn, Father Cassidy, Lari Stanton. Also in attendance were Father Sponsored by the parish Women's Cassidy 's sister, Evelyn Worner and her husband , Al, whose brother, Club, it 's open Saturday 9 a.m. - 4 Father Bill Worner, "a longtime good friend ," Father Cassid y said , p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. was unable to attend. Remembered were Father Cassidy 's late sisters Don 't miss it!.. . Gus Zipse, long of Kathryn Riedy and Elaine Duncan. Father Cassid y has been a Happy to be pitchin in are, from left, Nuna Altuna, Lucy Walkei St. Gabriel Parish with wife, Dominican for 56 years and a priest for 49. "The evening was awein parishioners of St. Anthony's and Jose and Maria Contreras, Margaret, has put a call out to all he said. "It brought people together and that 's what it's all some ," San Mateo County.

Here they served as emisNorth Fair Oaks , grads, former students and friends of about." Thanks to Daniel Jordan for helpin' to fill us in. saries to those attending the recent announcement of a new St. Peter School , now celebrating parish soccer field. Nuria also serves on the Parish Council.

125 years as a mainstay of the City 's Mission for "lost sheep who are not on the school s mailing list, Gus District. In conjunction with plans for fall com- said. "All Peterites are welcome" to attend as well as "join the Happy, happy birthday to Helen Rice, 100 years old on memoration of the milestone anniversary - including "Mass in planning committee," he added. Call (415) 647-8662. Also January 30th. The lifelong member of Star of the Sea was St. Peter's beautifully restored church" - the school is looking joining in the toil are committee members Mercy Sister Lucy called "a most loyal and generous supporter" of Calvillo, '56; Eva Castro, '51; Joanne Ceballos, the Richmond District parish in a recent bulleti n '64; Betty Cirelli, '50; Edward Coffee, '44; Ethel note recognizing her new centenarian status.. ..A Lagger, '38; Lynn Lee, '60; Marilyn McNamee, rap of the gavel for new officers of the Women '47; Mary O'Rourke, '49; Margarita Valdiviezo, of St. Paul's: Amy Bruce, prez; Katy O'Shea, '67. Gus is class of '39....Wishing Susan Moh'nari veep; and Annette Shubert, treasurer. Originally the best in retirement were her fellow parishioners at the Mothers' Club of the revered and much St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf... .Thank you at St. missed St. Paul's High School, they have met Patrick's to the late Helen Griffin, John H. Rider, under their current title since the 70s, Amy Jr., and Les Whitlow, who all remembered the said....Lent is here and, thanks to our parishes ' Larkspur parish in their wills....Thank you at St. interest in helping us make good use of the most Peter Parish, Pacifica to Eileen Barsi, Mary valuable season, many Lenten Opportunities Brown, Sue Mocklin, Maureen Millard , Suzanne will be coming up mDatebook.Among them will Schneider, Sue Beckmeyer, and Michelle Gaston be Parish Missions, one of which begins this for their hard work on last fall's Women's Retreat.... weekend at St. Pius in Redwood City. Guided Birthdays, births, anniversaries, marriages, engageHappy 50 years married to Anstell and Ronald Ricossa who commemorated by highl y respected educator and writer, Elinor new jobs and all kinds of goings-on are welments, the occasion with Mass and a renewal of vows at Sts. Peter and Paul Ford, the program of exhortation and prayer come here. Remember this is an empty space withChurch in North Beach where they originally made their commitment on promises a great start to these honored 40 days.

February 7, 1953. Their three children and grandchildren "all participated" in out ya'. Send items and a follow up phone number to (See Datebook for more on this and other ways to the liturgy, said their daughter Melinda Ricossa Parker. Also attending and On the Street Where You Live, One Peter Yorke Way, spend some time during Lent).... Helping me SF 94109. Fax (415) 614-5633; e-mail still singing was Cesare Curzi, who also soloed at the 50-years-ago rite. chuckle through the morning again was Jack Here , Anstell and Ronald stand at the steps to the Sts. Peter and Paul sanc- tburke @ cathoIic-sf.org. Do not send attachments Kulp of KOIT radio. Discussing the overtuary with, from left, Salesian Fathers Armand Oliveri, Larry Lorenzoni, and except photos and those in jpeg, please. You can reach whelming presence of the cell phone he rememTom Burke at (415) 614-5634....

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St. Hilary pa rishioner help s bring Called and Gifted to her native land

By Kamille Nixon "One person stepped out ," and a thousand peop le halfway across the world felt the effect , says Vicki Castiglioni Bomstein , a parishioner at Tiburon 's St. Hilary Parish.

That "one person " — Inge Hendromartono - attended a gifts discernment workshop at St. Hilary 's a year ago, heard "a still small voice" nud ging her to bring the workshop to her native Indonesia , answered with a quiet "yes," and rode a wave that carried the endeavor into unantici pated success.

Ms. Hendromartono , a St. Hilary parishioner and independent businesswoman , was feeling unsettled last winter. Raising a family and growing a wholesale handbag design business with her husband of many years, she lives a satisfying life. Still , she told Catholic San Francisco, "I had a strong sense that there is something more that 1 have to do, but I don 't quite know what that is."

Then she attended a "Called and Gifted" workshop at St. Hilary, a weekend discernment program offered by the St. Catherine of Siena Institute , a Seattle-based organization affiliated with the Western Dominican Province. At the end of the workshop, where about 300 lay Catholics took a gifts discernment inventory and learned about "charisms," Ms. Hendromartono fel t a tiny voice nud ging her to ask presenters Sherry Weddell and Dominican Father Michael Sweeney if they had ever presented the workshop in Asia.

She almost told the voice, "no" at that point , she said. "But this small small voice told me 'just do it just ask Father Michael. ' It was really just an urge . I don 't know why I felt compelled. I don ' t know why but I had a strong sense this was meant to be. " So, she asked , quietl y. No, they hadn ' t ever broug ht a workshop to Asia but they were considering the Phili pp ines and might go to Indonesia as well.

"We had never done anything like this before, and never in Asia." said Ms. Weddell, who began what became the Called and Gifted program with a short gifts

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from Dr. Yos Susanto, like Ms. Hendromarton o an alum of Indonesia 's Loyola High School who among other things , had started a hospital in the countryside.

As plans for the program progressed , language became a problem almost immediately, Ms. Weddell said. Usuall y several interviewers are trained to help with the gifts discernment process. In addition , teachers are usuall y trained to continue the parish-based work that the program is designed to begin.

How could all this be accomplished with the language barrier? the organizers wondered. The inventory, itself several pages of somewhat abstract questions, was in English. Visual aids and other materials all needed to be translated , with no one, except Ms. Hendromartono and Dr, Yos, an e-mail acquaintance she had never met in person, capable of doing it.

For her part , Ms. Hendromartono had thought that her part was over once she made the connection between the Siena presenters and Dr. Yos. Not so. Still to come were her countless nights poring over e-mailed documents that needed translating, back-to-back visits to her homeland that were exhausting from the 26-hour flight alone, and a culminating six-week whirlwind trip just one month before the terrorist bombings on the Indonesian island that took more than 180 lives.

If she had been looking for God's work, she seemed to hav e found it.

Meanwhile, Dr. Yos, who is also a university lecturer, had for some time been interested in the relationship between personality and vocations , he told Catholic San Francisco.

He "thought it would be wonderful" to bring such a workshop to Indonesia, but he only found Protestant programs , he said , and he wanted a Catholic one.

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VATICAN CITY — A new encyclical by Pope John Paul II focusing on the Eucharist is expected to be published on Hol y Thursday, which falls on April 17 this year.

Vatican sources said the 67-page document is in final editing stages. The encyclical would be followed this fall by a "doctrinal note " th at is being drafted by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and is aimed at correcting eucharistic abuses , the sources said.

Contrary to recent media speculation , the pope has not scheduled an ordinary assembly next year of the world's bishops to discuss the Eucharist, a Vatican source said.

In recent months the pope repeatedl y has highlighted the Eucharist. Speaking to Brazilian bishops in January, he called the Eucharist the "supreme spiritual good of the church. . . . But to give its full efficacy to the eucharistic sacrifice , it must always be marked by the worthy and genuine celebration of the mystery according to the doctrine and directives of the church ," he told them.

Passage of human cloning ban called a sign of respect for life

WASHINGTON — House passage, in a 241-155 vote, of the Human Cloning Prohibition Act "reflects America's rejection of the notion that human life is a commodity to be created for experimentation ," said Cathy Cleaver of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ' Secretariat for ProLife Activities.

The bill prohibits peop le from knowing l y attempting to perform human cloning or partici pating in such a procedure by shipping or receiving an embryo produced from human cloning.

The Human Cloning Prohibition Act was sponsored

by Reps. Dave Weldon, R-Fla., and Bart Stupak , D-Mich.

It is nearly identical to legislation that was approved by the House last summer, but was never acted on by the Senate. Since then , Republicans have taken control of the Senate .

Cardinal blasts Castro rule, calls fo r relig ious, economic freedom

HAVANA — The Catholic Church needs greater freedom to influence society, and the government needs to relax its firm hold on a society marked by despai r in which fleeing the island nation is increasingly seen as the solution, Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino of Havana said in a 12-page pastoral letter.

The letter was posted on the Cuban bishops ' Web site and contains a sting ing criticism of the society resulting fro m the 44-year rule of President Fidel Castro.

Christ blessed the persecuted seeking justice and "not those who pursue justice with an iron fist ," he added.

Cuban s without relatives abroad sending them money cannot make ends meet, he said. The cardinal asked greater freedom for individuals and groups to pursue economic activities without having to get so expensive, people instead illegally engage in economic activities. The

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Mexican bishop s urge Catholics to vote, candidates to avoid f raud MEXICO CITY — Bishops in Mexico ' s most populous state appealed to Catholics to vote in upcoming local elections and called for politicians not to engage in electoral fraud.

A letter signed b y 12 bishops in the state of Mexico said voting in the March 9 elections is crucial for the "construction of a democratic society" in Mexico. The letter also criticized electoral trickery, dirty campaigning and vote rigging, which it said dishonored the commandments "Thou shall not bear false witness ," "Thou shall not steal ," and , in the worst cases, "Thou shall not kill. " Althoug h there was a change of government in 2000 with the election of President Vicente Fox, there are still widespread allegations of election fraud in local ballots.

On March 9, voters will elect mayors and councilors in the state of Mexico — home to 13 million residents , most of whom live in suburbs around Mexico City.

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Cardinal Francis E. George and other archdiocesan officials announced the campaign 's success at a Feb. 27 news conference at Old St. Mary Church in Chicago.

The goal of the Millennium Campai gn, which has been under way in archdiocesan parishes since 2000, had been $200 million. Several parishes are still comp leting their campaigns and Ray Coughlin , director of the Office for Stewardshi p and Development , said he expected the total proceeds to reach $230 million .

The archdiocese is already using the funds to support education program s, to build new facilities for ministries and services and to renovate scores of schools and churches, including Old St. Mary 's.

"These results are a wonderful expression of faith by parishioners of different cultural and economic backgrounds in our parishes ," Cardinal George said. "They are 'good stewards ' who have responded to the larger needs of the local church in faith and in gratitude for the many gifts the Lord has provided to them."

More than 80 percent of the funds remained in the parishes for capital and ministerial improvements. The remainder will be used to provide grants to assist needy parishes, to fund the Bishop Lyne Retirement Home for Priests in Lemont and for infrastructure repairs at St. Mary of the Lake University/Mundelein Seminary.

Papa l envoy expresses concerns over Haiti 's worsening poverty

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A papal envoy to Haiti expressed his concerns over the worsening poverty in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, a retired French prelate and former head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, spoke about his concerns over the dire socio-economic conditions in Haiti and relayed Pope John Paul IPs fears that at the root of peace and stability must be social ju stice and human rights.

"When decisions are made, Ihe well-being of the people must be taken into account," Cardinal Etchegaray told reporters in late February. He referred to the more than $500 million in aid that has been blocked by the international community since the flawed May 2000 legislative elections. Cardinal Etchegaray said it was the Vatican's position that sanctions often do not achieve their intended outcomes and often result in the suffering of people.

Haitians have seen increasing polarization between supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide 's Lavalas Family party and members of the opposition Democratic Convergence coalition. Aristide, a former priest , was at the ordination Mass.

Advance team visits Mong olia to exp lore possible visit by pope

VATICAN CITY — A papal advance team traveled to Mongolia to explore the possibility of a visit this summer

by Pope John Paul to the predominantl y Tibetan Buddhist country of 2.7 million peop le that has just 94 Catholics , Vatican Radio said.

A Vatican official said the visit was still in its earliest planning stages.

Mongolia 's president extended an invitation to the pope in 2000, and a potential circumstance for the visit could be the inauguration of a Catholic cathedral in the Mongolian capita] a papal spokesman said.

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John J. Mitty: Distant yet effective archbishop the middle , and he was in some ways the quintessence of an earlier clerical culture that cherished remoteness , and "objectivity." But even those put-off by his gruffness acknowled ged him to be a thoroughgoing churchman who , cared little for his own persona but spared no effort to maintain the stature of the Church. Those who remembered him best attest that he resisted the temptation of some in churc h leadershi p to surround himself with the trappings of office and a cult of personality.

His personal quarters at 1100 Franklin were Spartan and he rejected any effort to involve himself in city politics. But at the same time Mitty demanded that the office of the archbishop receive the respect that was due. He vigilantly monitored every situation , ecclesiastical or secular , for any hint that his office was being sli ghted or dishonored. His priest secretary recalled , "He doesn't care what anyone says or thinks about John Mitty, but God help any person who speaks disparag ing ly of the Archbish op of San Francisco."

Mitty 's complex emotional make up was no doubt created by the conditions of his youth. Born Jan. 20, 1884 in Greenwich Village , New York, Mitty was the son of Irish immigrants , Mary Murp h y and John Mitty, both of whom hailed from County Wexford. Sadness and loss punctuated his childhood. In 1888 , his older brother Walter died. Six years later, 1894, his mother Mary died at the age of 51.

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Every public administrator seems to reach a point where they ask themselves: if you had to choose, which would you rather be, effective or loved? John Josep h Mitty would not have agonized for a moment. He would rather be effective.

San Francisco 's fourth archbishop was by all accounts a sh y and somewhat humorless man who disliked pubPR OCL A I M I N G lic appearances rue GOOD NEWS (except liturg ies.) ,o ALL CREATION His language ill**could be at times roug h. He was anything but sentimental. His often harrowing experiences with church scandals of vari'K**' fy&TJTfi ¦\ SI <.Q1 '!i h: ITNN't Al Yf ^fc Of ous kinds , and his MtttSMBRAKCe ASH IllM WAl carefull y cultivatmmmammmmmmmmm ed reputation as an ARCHDIOCKt Of ecclesiastical SAN FRAN C ISCO troubleshooter and "fix-it " man precluded Such a luxmy. Mitty really didn t care about popularity or in cultivating an appealing personality. Mitty would rather be effective than loved.

But although Mitty never insp ired warmth among priests or people , he did leave an admirable legacy for the churc h of San Francisco. His 26-year T/MU* S MGIOUS UPPLY tenure as archbishop left ml 0 IV Serving The Catholic - Christian Community since 1904 San Francisco with solid finances , a well-trained and Kaufer's is your source f o r custom work. respected cbrps of native Statues, Woodwork, Marble, clerg y, and a patrimony of brick and mortar that is still Tabernacles and Patens serving San Francisco 55 Beverly St., San Francisco Catholics to this day. Mitty 415-333-4494 • FAX 415-333-0402 appeared old fashioned e-mail: sales@kaufers.com with his Prince Albert coat www.kaufers.com and his hair parted down

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Four years later, his father died , leaving the three Mitty boys , Edward , William , and John , orphans. The three boys were cared for by a cousin who deferred her entrance into a Franciscan cloister until they were settled. Eventuall y the Mitty boys were farmed out to a foster famil y named Walsh by whom they were raised.

At the age of 19, in 1905, Edward died , leaving onl y William and John.

Priests in San Francisco later attributed their archbishop ' s ofte n cold and gruff

exterior to the emotional deprivations of his childhood. Indeed , they may have been right. The loneliness of a young man making his way throug h life without parents and losing most of his famil y before he was 21 no doubt affected him deeply.

Throug hout his life he had few friends , but kept a warm lie with his brother William and his famil y. He spent time with his nieces and nep hews , kept tabs on their education and probabl y hel ped his brother pay for their tuition. His nephew Edward later became a priest.

He excelled at studies and disp layed not onl y a quick native intelli gence but an ability to organize that impressed his teachers. He attended St. Josep h' s Catholic Grammar school , and then went on to DeLaSalle Hi gh School, where he proudly became a "Brother 's Boy ". In 1901 , he entered Manhattan College where he studied one year before he entered St. Josep h' s Seminary, at Dunwoodie , N.Y. In December 1906, he was ordained to the priesthood in the seminary chapel by Cardinal John Farley of New York. Years later, he ordained his nep hew in that same chapel.

Mitty was selected by Cardinal Farley for advanced theological stud y. In 19061907 Mitty studied at the Catholic University of America in Washington , D.C. where he received a bachelor ' s MITTY, page 15

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While people are congratulating my being the firs t Chinese Bishop in America , they also ask why it happened onl y until today. In a simp le answer, there was a lack of Chinese entering and finishing with the seminaries to be ordained as priests to serve the local churches. Many friends came with their young children to the ordination mass and the reception dinner. I wanted very much to greet them one by one; I would like to ask them lo pray for the vocation of their own kids. Regretfully, the overwhelming guests stopped me against my will. Therefore , I am taking the opportunity here to request all of your best effort on the vocation of the American Chinese youth.

The teaching of Jesus actuall y integrates with the Chinese culture . Lun Yu (Confucian Analects) said, "Self Cultivation , Home Harmonization , Nation Pacification , World Unification. " Jesus our Lord gives us the new testaments , "Love th y God, Love th y neighbor." This is the basic character of Self Cultivation . The Church is a big famil y. One responsibility of the priests is to keep it in harmony. Evangelization and social services are the works to build a pacified nation. Ultimatel y, the goal is to bring the Kingdom of God to Earth; the world is unified. This Confucius ' dream of a world commonwealth resembled the news of the Kingdom of God spread by the prop hets. It was just emerged into the traditional Chinese culture Possessing a wealth of Chinese culture , the Chinese youth should devote themselves to serve the Church with this wealth as tool. Since the Second Vatican Council, the Church encourages the integration with traditional cultures for the sake of spreading and understanding the teaching of Jesus. The Chinese pay ing respect to the ancestors and following their ways are some examples. Therefore , Chinese Americans teaching their children about the Chinese traditional cultu re is not just for preserving the strength of the culture.

It should also be used as a tool for evangelization. Let us all pray for this purpose. Hopefull y, before we rest in peace at the home of God our Father after finishing our parts of His work, we can see more young Chinese joining the priesthood to preach and serve the Church. Thus , all the brothers and sisters from within and outside the Church can share the Chinese culture as well. Eventuall y, we all reach the Kingdom of God. In this New Year, may God bless you all!

Servant in Christ: Most Rev. Ignatius C. Wang

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Mr. Weigel said there is "something important about American political culture ... . that the national debate over Iraq . . . has been intuitively conducted in just war categories ."

The categories of consideration we reach for and must fulfill for the justification of war are just cause, confidence in results , legitimate authority, proportionality and such must be used as a last resort , Weigel said. In all these considerations , military action against Iraq fulfills the demands of just war theory, he said.

A just cause is a "response to an aggression under way," he said. In determining how we know whether an aggression is under way, "technology and the nature of certain regimes must bear upon the moral analysis," he said.

The case against Saddam Hussein includes Wis floutin g of international law for decades, invasion of two neighbors , use of weapons of mass destruction against domestic and foreign enemies, use of grotesque form s of torture to control his population , diversion of aid for children to his military, the suppression of all internal political resistance, his daily pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and providing his country as a haven for terrorists , Mr. Weigel said.

Weigel said that just cause is satisfied given th at "Iraq as it is and as it seeks to be is an aggression under way," much the same as Nazi Germany was when it occupied the Rhineland in 1936.

U.S. legitimate authori ty to intervene stems from repeated U.N. demands for Iraqi disarmament absent effective means due to "feckless" western policy over the last 12 years and the "realpolitik" commercial considerations of France, Russia and China, he said. The U.S.-Anglo position is a clear advancement of the "cause of world order," he said.

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action must be considered , Weigel believes the "gravest damage " would result if Saddam were permitted to continue. Far from inciting "chaos on the Arab street ," he said there is reason from past experience to hope action "could have a galvanizing effect throug hout the region for breaking patterns of corruption and oppression. " Mr. Weigel agreed with both the Catechism of the Catholic Church and Pope John Paul II that war must be the last option , but hoped that such "should not be an idle considera tion. " In principle, he said, "one can always imagine," another round of non-violent means. But , he said, fro m the experience of the 1990s, containment has failed , inspection due to non-cooperation has failed and further attempts to stall action have only been used b y Hussein to "aggrandize" his military. The "final choice" is between "appeasement and armed force .

A shared belief in the unique and p recious nature of every human life to loved ones, community and God "has to be the basis of an ethical response to terrorism. " . , and the appeasement of Saddam Hussein is in my mind morall y (unacceptable), " he said.

George Lopez is Senior Fellow and Director of Policy Studies at the Joan B. Kioc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

He is an author and researcher on human rights and state-sanctioned violence.

Dr. Lopez said , the worl d is at a "very perilous m o m e n t . . . a moment brought to us by a paralysis of dialogue as a result of 9/11. " As a result of 9/11 Iraq has become a pivotal case and twisted as a "test of the war on terror ," he said.

"Just war tradition has had a great deal of pressure placed on it by the argument that so much has become uprooted in the past two years . . . pushing us in a direction of presuming that just war theory was constructed in order to validate the march to war," he said.

The damage to the American psyche following 9/11 has led to the presumption of certain contestable facts which are leading us , even within the confines of a just war theory, toward violent action, he said. Among these are the common beliefs that a new kind of "bad actor" has entered the scene, that the U.S. has "exercised remarkable restraint" and it 's time to "take off the handcuffs," that Americans should not be surprised by the lack of support from allies , and that "at the end of the day," such lack of

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"I call this the emergence of Dirty Harry ethics ," he said. Dirty Harry was the fictional San Francisco police officer of the big screen who pretended the moral superiority of flouting established procedure and civil rights in order to catch the bad guys.

This mentality presents "a moral challenge to those who are concerned with balancing ethics and politics and the use of forc e in worl d affairs ," Dr. Lopez said.

Dr. Lopez concedes that this is a different time which requires "reflection and dialogue about the threat and fear that comes with 9/11 . . . but I am not clear that we are at the type of moment that requires relativel y unprecedented action ," he said.

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It is not true that "the risk to order is the highest it has ever been," and he warned that a "checklist approach to just war theory is not the same as prudential jud gement."

Dr. Lopez said that following the cold war, U.S. policy under the assumptions of President George Bush , Sr. and developed concretel y by the Clinton administration has placed "a new and lower grade threshold" on the use of force.

Force has become a mere option like tax and trade policies , he said , leading us to view force not as a last resort, but one where we "lead with the military and let diplomacy catch up. " He said , on the contrary, that just war considerations should become more peaked "because of the singular nature of the dominance we are operating from."

Dr. Lopez questioned how one could press a case for an imminent threat from Iraq, "when there is no war scenario that anticipates us taking more than six to 36 days to occupy and subdue Iraq."

He challenged the assumption that anyone "ever expected Saddam Hussein to cooperate" in inspections or disarmament. Dr. Lopez likened the inspections to a murder investi gation, "We don 't count on the various suspects to come forth with

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He hoped the regime of inspection , given the time authorized by the U.N. Security Council , would produce results and disputed claims by the regime 's detractors. "The truth of the matter is we have never been so dramaticall y uninformed about the effectiveness of UNSCOM (inspection). " He said that from 1991 to 1998, UNSCOM inspectors "supervised the destruction of 460,000 tons of chemical and biological agents and precursors ," and the destruction of a chemical weapons plant.

He further stated that it was disingenuous of President Bush to claim the effectiveness of domestic early warning systems for chemical attacks while denigrating the effectiveness of the same equipment used by inspectors for weapons detection in Iraq.

He said that U.S. deployments and the forging of a coalition at the Security Council to force inspections with teeth were just and benefited the progress of inspections. U.N. Security Council resolution 1284 needed 300 to 330 days to work, Dr. Lopez said, "I see very little need to die over this or to begin killing Iraqis. " Dr. Lopez said that the U.S. is not at the point of last resort and said "There is no argument 1 know of as to why another 180 days of inspections provides a significant threat to American security. " Marie Dennis is the Director of the Mary knoll Office for Global Concerns.

She is an author and sits on the Executive Committee of Pax Christi International.

She is a student of the practical effects of World Bank , International Monetary Fund , United Nations and U.S. forei gn policy.

Ms. Dennis said that her life of missionary work has been spent "trying to put a human face on public policy debate . ..

What lens we look through as we identif y morally acceptable responses to terrorism and tyranny is important. " Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, she said, the American people were told that the "war on terrorism was just, the cause ample and the conduct would be careful . . . The vast majority of U.S. people still believe those to be the case." But Ms. Dennis said, these assurances, "do not bring back the family of the 8 year old Afghani girl I met last June or the Canadian soldiers killed by mistake by U.S. bombs... " "On September 11, planes careened into the soul of U.S. Americans in a manQUINN, page l8

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Abortion protester celebrates Supreme Court victory over NOW

By Jennifer Lindberg INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — To celebrate the Supreme Court's landmark decision that took away a major weapon for abortion clinics to stop protests, Joseph Scheidler is having a victory party.

"I'm going to find a great big hail and have a party with some action," said Scheidler, the man who has been fighting the National Organization for Women in court for 17 years over whether NOW could use a law meant for mobsters against pro-life demonstrators.

"I want to let the abortion industry know they are on their last leg," he said from his Chicago office, where he is the director of the Pro-Life Action League. "America has come to life."

On Feb. 26, the Supreme Court voted 8-1 that supporters of abortion could not use the federal Racketeer Influenced

and Corrupt Organizations Act to sue the Pro-Life Action League, Operation Rescue or their leaders in their campaign against abortion and their protests at abortion clinics.

At the heart of the RICO charge was the claim that Scheidler was extorting abortion clinics because he interfered with an abortion clinic 's ability to conduct business and make money.

The ruling strips NOW and other abortion organizations of a powerful legal weapon and it provides new hope for the pro-life movement.

A former monk at St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana, Scheidler said prayer and trust in God saw him through one of the toughest court battles facing the pro-life movement. He and his wife, Ann , have seven children and nine grandchildren .

In the earl y days of the pro-life movement, abortion protestors would go into clinics and sit in the waiting rooms with women waiting to have aboitions , trying to talk them out of it.

There were the "old lock and block" tactics , where protesters would chain themselves to the abortion clinic door to block women from entering the clinic.

However, those strategies don 't work anymore .

At the beginning of the pro-life movement, people were trying to figure out how to stop abortion and what could be done, Scheidler said.

He lambasted any violence in the pro-life movement, such as someone killing an abortion doctor. He 's also tried to talk to those extremist groups that call themselves pro life but use violence.

Urging people to exercise their right to protest outside abortion clinics , Scheidler said peaceful protests of prayer and sidewalk counseling to women are important. People need to realize they make a difference when they stand outside a clinic and pray for the women who are going to abort their babies, he said.

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Without milk many of these children may not survive, and there is no money to buy more.

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Messag e of Lent Lent, like Christmas, catches many of us by surprise. We should , of course, know better. After all Christmas falls on December 25, year and year out. Lent is not quite as simple - its dates vary from year to year, but the season still arrives year after year.

So here we are again. Ash Wednesday a few days ago , Easter on the horizon six weeks from now. The 40 days of Lent have arrived and, with them , the ageless question: What are you doing for Lent? Or, in the words of earlier generations: What are you giving up for Lent?

For centuries the answers to those questions, at least the initial answers, were easy: Catholics fasted and abstained during Lent. We ate onl y one full meal a day and meat only once a day - not at all on Friday. Some went further: they stopped drinking or going to the movies or eating candy. It was a penitential season, and Catholics did penance.

Over the past few decades, the Church has eased Lenten regulations. Fast and abstinence are required on only Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, abstinence from meat is required only on the Fridays of Lent. (A more detailed description of the requirements is on Page 6 of today 's Catholic San Francisco.)

Now, many preachers emphasize doing good works during Lent rather than giving up things. They are in good company. In his message for this Lent, Pope John Paul II says: "This year, as a guide for our Lenten meditation, I would offer a phrase taken from the Acts of the Apostles: Tt is more blessed to give than to receive.' The inclination to give is rooted in the depths of the human heart . . . everyone finds fulfillment in a free gift of self to others. Our age, regrettably, is particularly susceptible to the temptation toward selfishness which always lurks within the human heart."

"Faced with the tragic situation of persistent poverty which afflicts so many people in our world, how can we fail to see that the quest for profit at any cost and the lack of effective, responsible concern for the common good have concentrated immense resources in the hands of a few while the rest of humanity suffers in poverty and neglect?" the pope says.

Some American Catholics become uneasy when they hear such comments, even when they come from the pope. These words can easily be interpreted as an attack on our economic system and way of life.

That 's an oversimp lification . Pope John Paul II spent much of his adult life under the thumb of a communist regime that impoverished the people of Poland both spiritually and materially. He is a critic only of the excesses of market economies, and he has often praised the generosity of the American people.

"Surel y it is natural and right that people, by using their own gifts and by their own labor, should work to obtain what they need to live," the pope says, "but an excessive desire for possessions prevents human beings from being open to their Creator and to their brothers and sisters. The words of Paul to Timothy remain relevant in every age: 'The love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs.'"

In Mark's Gospel, Jesus watched a woman put two small coins in the temple treasury and then told his disciples: "Amen , I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had , her whole livelihood."

The pope's emphasis on good works during Lent is timely. It is also rooted in tradition. Helping the poor - often described by the old fashioned term, "almsgiving" - has, along with prayer and fasting, long been part of the Lenten observance. These are not competing values.

They all have something in common, something that many of us now - and in past generations - don 't like: self-denial .

But that 's an essential part of Lent - and of life itself: "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?"

In Lent we take up the cross, but not out of some austere and stoic sense of self-denial. Our goal is not the suffering of Good Friday. We know we must travel through Calvary but our final destination is Easter.

PJ

Calling the Feb. 16 anti-war protesters "true pioneers'* for peace, Fr. Gerard O'Rourke fails to differentiate between those who truly want peace — as we all do — and the antiBush mob using Iraq as an excuse to wage war on their President during one of the worst world crises in history. By emboldening Saddam Hussein with their anti-American demonstrations , the "true pioneers" for peace only succeed in bringing.shame to our nation, more bait and switch stalls"by a vile despot, and increased danger to the world.

It 's interesting to note that as noisy as was the rant of those 60,000 or so gathered in San Francisco to protest the prudential decisions being made by qualified statesmen elected to make them, their silence when Clinton was dropping bombs on Kosovo civilians and Sudan aspirin factories was — deafening.

Just as bizane as the ''true pioneer" tag of neace for liberal rabble rousers, was the breathing meditation of Rev. Allen Senauke from the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. By pointing out that we breathe the same air as a Baghdad man cradling his son who has no medicine, Rev Senauke likened this universal breathing to an awareness of our interconnectedness, etc. Has it not occurred to Rev. Senauke that our liberation of the suppressed people of Iraq will not only supply them with needed medicine, but also give them freedom to breathe the fresh air of justice after years of suffocating tyranny under a cruel dictator?

Because of us, the people of Iraq will not only breathe with relief instead of fear, but the defeat of Saddam will prevent his oil-fueled cache of deadly weapons from falling into the hands of al Qaeda and its epigones. World terrorists will then know that we will not tolerate the kind of murderous acts that killed 3,000 innocent Americans.

One hopes the anti-Bush agitators will eventually get the message that resonates throughout our history—it takes a just war to bring about peace.

Jane L.Sears Burlingame

Auschwitz) have become utensils of the bitter anti-Bush and jealou s anti-U.S. sentiment circling the globe. Peace be with you.

Don Schuster San Rafael Editor 's note: The Catholic San Francisco story was written Feb. 17. On that date the Chronicle reported that organizers estimated the crowd at 250,000, police said it was 200,000. The Chronicle reported the 65,000 figure on Feb. 21, two days after the Feb. 21 issue of Catholic San Francisco was printed. In that later story the Chronicle reported that police stood by their estimate of ' 200,000.

Maryknoll responds

I am writing this letter on behalf of the Bay Area Maryknoll Affiliate. In your paper 's fine report of the peace rally and march on February 16, you noted our presence among other religious groups. At our regular meeting last Saturday, we decided to voice our objections to the war by sending letters on behalf of the affiliate to each member of the Security Council requesting that they vote against any resolution authorizing war against Iraq and that they continue to work to disarm Iraq through inspections and diplomacy.

In addition, our members were urged to write or call the White House to protest current United States policy with reference to Iraq and call to the attention of the Administration that unilateral aggressive action contemplated will result in the death of innocent men, women and children and is therefore immoral.

For those who wish to contact the 15 Security Council members, information on phone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses is available from the Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns at ogc@maryknoll.org.

Rich Younkin Novato

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Pacifis t appeasers

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We have had vast differences of opinion regarding the virtues of appeasement and war in Iraq in the past. I can accept that each of us will staunchly hold to our viewpoints forever.

I have continued to allow Catholic San Francisco into my home as I found your columnists helpful in exploring and explaining issues of faith which I have never pondered. No more.

The misinforming article on the front page of your February 21 issue has crossed the line. Style points aside, the worst part of this "reporting" was the quadrupling (Even promoters of the march were only emboldened to triple) the number of participants.

To its credit , the SF Chronicle 's research has revealed but 65,000 were there, not 250,000!

Enough is enough. The march's promoters have little to do with "peace". Your newspaper and (giving them the benefit of doubt) perhaps thousands of pacifist appeasers (those who allowed the ovens of Dachau and

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Interfaith action

As a parishioner of St. John of God parish, I was very proud of your coverage of the interfaith rally on Sunday, February 18, preceding the march of peace. It is true that there was a large group from St. John of God but, I think it is important to know that there were several other parishes that came to the vigil and the march as a group including St. Boniface, St. Ignatius and many other faith based organizations. And the interfaith prayer vigil could not have happened without the help of the SF Interfaith Council and several other organizers, particularly, Alan Solomonow, American Friends Service Committee and Alan Jones, San Francisco United Methodist Mission.

Thanks to everyone who participated and thanks to interfaith action.

Jim McDonald San Francisco

Cloaking socialism

Fr. Rolheiser ' s litany of "moral truths " reads like a quote from the Communist Manifesto (cf Part 11-1848 document).

I wonder if closer to the truth is not the observation in Ellul's "Subversion to Christianity": "Theologians.. . first take up political or moralistic positions and then toss in some theology to justif y themselves, to give themselves a good conscience to give validity to the use of the term Christianity."

1weary of the socialist bent of your paper.

I weary too of the philosophy that everyone become a non-entity to oblige some unattainable goal of equality. God did not make all equal. What he did was to provide each with some distinct talent for survival within a world full of the wherewithal to achieve i t . . . including each other 's help within that wherewithal .

"Four close but several trees, each green, none equal They are the glory of this countryside." (D. Davie) It is " . . . the axe of the leveller Tarquin" one must guard against.

As for capitalism, surely it serves for annual appeals and solicitations. Is this not a truth?

Olga Kaczorowski San Mateo

The Catholic Diff erence

In Carmel of Cologne: presence of a saint Edith Stein, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, co-patroness of Europe and martyr of Auschwitz, was one of the most remarkable women of the modern Church. Bom into a devout Jewish family, she lost her faith in God as a teenager and sought the truth in academic life. At a time when women weren 't supposed to do philosophy, she became one of Germany's most brilliant young thinkers, working under the guidance of Edmund Husserl (whose philosophical method — "phenomenology " — would play a crucial role in the thought of Pope John Paul II).

Staying one night with Lutheran friends, Edith Stein borrowed a copy of the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila from their library — and literall y couldn 't put it down. As night gave way to day, she finished the book, said to herself, 'This is the truth," and immediately set out to become a Catholic. Her mother was heartbroken. But Frau Stein would later say, of Edith's sitting beside her in the synagogue and reciting the psalms in Latin, "I have never seen anyone pray the way Edith prayed. " After several years as an active laywoman, rising intellectual, and pioneer feminist, Edith Stein entered the Carmel of Cologne where she devoted herself to contemplative prayer and philosophical work.

After the Nazi Kristallnacht, it was thought safer to move Sister Teresa Benedicta to a Carmel in Holland; it was from that convent that she made the final trip to Auschwitz, when the Nazis rounded up Jewish Catholics in retaliation for the Dutch bishops ' public protest against Nazi anti-Semitism. As far as we

know, Edith Stein died on August 9, 1942; August 9 is her feast day in Europe (and should be in the United States, too).

Having long been fascinated by this brilliant, courageous , and warmly human mystic and scholar, I wanted to visit the Carmel of Cologne when I went to that city last October. A friend had prepared the way with a phone call , so after attending the evening Mass at the Carmelites' church, I presented myself at the convent and asked to speak to the superior.

Sister Ancilla of the Maternity of Mary came to meet me in one of small parlors outside the cloister. She couldn 't have been more gracious, but when it became clear that the name "Weigel" didn 't necessarily indicate fluent German , she sent for Sister Verena of the Body of Christ, whose excellent English made conversation much easier.

We talked of many things , but chiefly of Edith Stein.

Only one of the Cologne Carmelites, now 92, knew Sister Teresa Benedicta personally, but her presence was almost palpable in the house (which holds her archives), as it is in many parts of Catholic Cologne. Everyone spoke, as if it were the most normal thing imaginable, of the drama of Edith Stein's last moments in Cologne: on December 30, 1938, Sister Teresa Benedicta spent die night in solitary vigil before the convent 's statue of Our Lady of Peace, reputed to be wonder-working, before setting out on what would become her personal Way of the Cross.

After about forty minutes, the superior, Sister Ancilla, excused herself and said she'd be right back. Sister Verena and I

kept talking, and when Sister Ancilla returned, she § 5 had a surprise that left me ow speechless. fn a book about the g saint's life in the Carmel of s o Cologne, Sister Ancilla showed me the photo of Edith Stein in a wedding dress on the day of her "enclosure:" the day of her solemn vows. Sister Ancilla then turned the pages to show me the white chasuble that the Pope had worn when beatifying Edith Stein in Cologne in 1987 — it had been made from the material in the wedding dress. But some material had been left over and cut into small pieces for preservation in reliquaries. It was one of these reliquaries that Sister Ancilla entrusted to me; I keep it now in my study, beside the portrait of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross that has watched over my work for years.

In the Carmel of Cologne, the "communion of saints" is a living reality.

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

Our Turn

Tradition and Ritual After Children Arrive I ve noticed an interesting trend among my youngadult friends. As soon as couples in their 20s and 30s recite matrimonial vows, nest a little and start their own families, they suddenly appreciate, even demand , a little tradition or ritual in their lives.

That's consistent with recent research about young adults, especially the book "Young Adult Catholics," b y Dean Hoge, William Dinges, Mary Johnson and Juan Gonzales, documenting focus groups of young adults and a survey of Catholics between the ages of 18 to 39.

According to their research, about 70 percent of young adults drop all religious activity when they pack their bags for college. About half return to the church upon leaving the maternity ward with a cherubic infant. These Catholics weren ' t interested in rituals or tradition or anything holy as soon as they could make that decision for themselves, but they surely want it for their own children.

Why ? Because ritual and tradition are good for families. And good for the soul. So even if a couple doesn 't get anything out of Mass, they 'll be there for the children.

Recentl y Syracuse University psychology professor Barbara Fiese was part of a group of psychologists who examined 32 clinical studies of family rituals. The results confirmed what we Catholics always have known:

Meaningful rituals and symbols strengthen and solidify the foundation of family life, and profoundly impact the sense of security and well-being of a child.

I'm always intrigued when a friend who hasn 't stepped inside a church in 10 years is so anxious to baptize her infant; when a colleague who previously denounced all things religious is caught purchasing a children 's Bible at the local Christian bookstore; or when an acquaintance trades in his long nights at the pub to say prayers over his daughter's crib.

It 's a natural evolution in some sense: the frightening notion that we, in fact , do become our parents.

"The traditional stuff is still the best," my husband said to me one night when we tucked our then-9-month-old into bed after we returned from a dinner party.

He was referring to a couple we had met that evening who explained to us that they had no immediate plans of marrying, even though they'd been with each other for five years.

"Maybe when we 're 40 and bored," they casually remarked. For the time being they were content hanging out , playing the guitar and tambourine as part of a latenight band, and drinking cocktails with boring married folk like my husband and me.

As I packed up my son's bottles, rattles, blankets and diapers, and rushed out the door before 10 o'clock, part of me

envied their freedom from attachment: the idea of staying out all night and sleeping in all morning. After two seconds of daydreaming, my senses returned, and I realized that the boring folks with a routine — with church in the morning and prayers at night and family activities — are really the lucky ones.

We belong to something larger than ourselves. Our son belongs to something too. And even though he will soon resist all structure and ritual and tradition as part of his adolescence and early manhood, he will one day appreciate it and pass it on to his children.

We should be so lucky !

Therese J. Bochard

Therese Borchard is a columnist for the Catholic News Service

Sp irituality

Our born-again and devotionally-oriented Siblings Twenty years ago, the renowned Scripture scholar.

Raymond Brown, gave a series of lectures to an ecumenical audience on how the various New Testament writers understood the church that Jesus left us. At one stage, reflecting on how the Evangelist , John , understood the church, he made a comment to this effect: Those parishes and worshipping communities that most stress good theology and proper liturgy as a healthy corrective to privatized and devotional sp irituality often find , to their surprise and consternation, that they are losing parishioners to reli gious groups that stress a personal relationshi p to Jesus, that is , groups that come out of oldstyle Roman Catholic devotions or out of Protestant , "bornagain" fundamentalism.

Mainline pastors argue that this is not a healthy development and state, correctl y, that liturg ical worship should be the central p iece to any ecclesiology and sp irituality. But they are also learning, hard, that communal worship alone, even when done with the greatest attention to proper ritual and good aesthetics, can lack something, namely, an accompanying personal spirituality. Jesus needs a personal face and those conducting liturgy must hel p the community to know that face; otherwise, liturgy alone leaves the community wanting for something.

Brown goes on to suggest that mainline Christians

sometimes speak of "born-again Christians" pejoratively suggesting that their stress on a privatized, salvific relationship to Jesus is not healthy. However, Brown suggests that the Evangelist, John, might ask the mainline churches (and our liturgists and theologians) to be a little more sympathetic toward our devotionally-oriented and "bornagain " siblings because, for John , church membershi p alone is not a sufficient goal and liturgy is adequate only when it also helps effect a personal , affective relationshi p to Jesus.

A little theology and a little liturgy can be a dangerous thing. Fortunately, the deeper wells in both teach that , while gathering in liturgy is central , Jesus must also touch each of us in a deep, personal way. Thus, for instance, suppose, as a priest, I say this: "My spirituality and prayer is the spirituality and prayer of the church. Liturgy and the divine office are enough; I' ve no need for private, devotional-type prayer, either for myself or to encourage it for others."

The danger in that is that I can easily end up a pure functionary, someone who perhaps celebrates liturgy well aestheticall y, offers solid scriptural reflections on the word of God, and has some skills in community building. But I will lack the power — that "authority" that people saw in Jesus — to lead people to Christ because my own soul is

insufficiently engaged in that very process.

The same holds true for everyone else involved in conducting liturgy.

There 's a principle in psychology which says that I can educe love out of others onl y if I, myself, have first experienced it. The same is true for liturgy and spirituality; I can help effect a personal relationship to God in someone else only if I have, first , experienced this myself — good ritual, beautiful aesthetics, sound theology, and "ex opere operato " notwithstanding.

Annie Dillard, in one of her earl y books, makes this comment: Sharing why she worshipped in a fundamental ist, sectarian church (when her natural temperament was toward Roman Catholicism or high-church Protestantism) she simply says: I go to that particular church because I like the minister. He actually believes what he preache s and when he says a prayer he really means it.

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St. Hilary ÂŚ Continued from page 3 who got lost for years, then all of a sudden an unexpecte d person came and showed the way," he said.

"That was why, without thinking, I said , 'Yes' to Inge. And , thank God , later on I realized that the Called and Gifted workshop was much deeper than the kind of workshop I had dreamed of. In reflection , it seems to me that Someone had arranged things so that the Called and Gifted workshop could be conducted in Indonesia."

"I still remember, in his first e-mail, Father Michael wrote if there is God' s will , there is always a way," Dr. Yos said. ". . . I was always confident and positive that the workshop would be a success. However, I was still surprised with the results. It was way beyond my expectation. I was thinking that around a coup le hundred participants would register for the workshops."

Dr. Yos said he will never forget how the first day of the workshop some of the members of St. Hilary ' s parish gathered in the church to pray for their Indonesian brothers and sisters. "It was very comforting and it did touch our hearts to learn that some peop le so far away, who do not personally know us , care so much for us," Dr. Yos said. "I feel that in Him, poor or rich, male or female, old or young, educated or less educated , American or Asian, we really are bi g families."

The big families came. A mad rush to finish translating, and detailed travel p lan s underwri t ten by Ms. Hendromartono and Dr. Yos, gave way to an Indonesian hospitality that included several 50-member parish-based groups providing food and greetings to participants.

"A thousand people came. It was just insane. The cardinal was involved ," Ms. Hendromartono said.

Two of the biggest parishes in Indonesia were filled beyond capacity.

She said participants included television and IBM executives , plus doctors and lawyers. In addition , teenagers from you th groups joined villagers in their 80s.

Results of the two weekend workshops continue to be realized. Upwards of 24 peop le were trained as interviewers so they can continue the workshops in a country

Opening day at St. James Parish in East Jakarta.

where a scant 3 percent of the population is Catholic. An e-mail list moderated by Dr. Yos is ongoing.

With the help of the workshop, Dominican Sister Alexa, who helps street kids, now understands why she is drawn toward doing her work , and feels more committed to continuing.

"It's very sobering to realize what it means to them," Ms. Weddell said. "I was moved and intimidated."

"They are in a totally different situation ," she said, pointing to a four-years-running economic collapse , a nearly non-existent infrastructure that has left no drinking water, for example, and street rioting that typicall y targets Catholics.

"This is the world they live in," she said. "When you talk about being an apostle in that setting, where the

When you 're stopp ed at a street lig ht and hordes of children p lay instruments

or try to sell you a paper so they can earn a few rup ia, what are the ramifications of being called , anointed , gifted and supernaturally empowered? "

From left, Sherry Weddell, Inge Hendromartono , Father Sweeney, Dr. Yos Susanto .

Rolheiser . . . ÂŚ Continued from page 13 Implied in that, sadly, is the comment that, in our high churches, that is not always so evident of those reading the word, leading the prayers, conducting the music, and doing the preaching.

I want to say this sympathetically, as Brown did, and yet not mute its challenge. For those of us who are "High Church," either by temperament or denomination, it 's too easy to look at the devotional stream within Roman Catholicism or the "Low Church" tradition within Protestantism and see it simply as "Jesus and I" spirituali-

ty, as excessivel y privatized, as seeking the wrong kind of security, as spiritually immature, as theological and liturgical backwater, and as deflecting people from the real center, worship in liturgy.

In making such an assessment, partially, we are dangerously wrong, at least according to one New Testament writer.

In John 's Gospel, ecclesiology and liturgy are subservient to the person of Jesus and a personal relationship to him. To teach this, John presents the image of "the beloved disciple," one who has a special intimacy with Jesus. For John, this intimacy outweighs everything else, including special service in the church. Thus, at the Last Supper, Peter, the head of the apostles, may not even talk

structures that we take for granted are not available , and there 's no network , your choices have a tremendous impact. . . . When you 're stopped at a street light and hordes of children play instruments or try to sell you a paper so th ey can earn a few rupia, what are the ramifications of being called , anointed , gifted and supernaturally empowered?"

"God doesn 't enter the world unilaterally, but through the assent and cooperation of human beings ," she said.

The six-member team of the Siena Institute continues its work , with workshops planned for the Indonesian community in Los Angeles , plus Catholics in Spain , China, South Africa and India , and the dioceses of Boise, Idaho , San Francisco , Oakland , San Diego, Phoenix and Reno.

How program works The Called and Gifted program helps Catholics develop themselves as lay apostles. Participants take a g ifts inventory during a six-hour introductory workshop which emphasizes three ideas: l)The Church' s primary mission is toward evangelizing the world, not toward maintaining its own structures.

2) Every baptized person is an apostle.

3) As such, every baptized person is empowered to accomplish his or her mission through gifts, or charisms , which are different from natural talents or skills in that they have a supernatural fruitfulness for the kingdom of God. While the Called and Gifted workshops are a "fast way to get into discernment, " Ms. Weddell said, "discernment needs to happen in real life." Introductory workshops like the ones in Indonesia introduce these key concepts and explain the 24 most common charisms.

The gifts survey includes 120 statements to which participants answer with a 0, 1, 2, or 3. Below are three examples:.

1) When I find myself in a disorg anized situation , 1 help things become better organized.

2) When making important life decisions, I rely upon the guidance , love and pro vidence of God to an unusual degree.

3) One of my favorite ways to live out my faith is to use my abilities to personally hel p someone else accomplish a task or life work to which God has called him or her.

A Called and Gifted workshop is scheduled for May 9 and 10 in Oakland. More information is available at the Web site www.siena.org. directly to Jesus, but has to channel his question through the one who has this special intimacy with Jesus. In John, everything is second to this particular relationship.

If this is tme, and it is, then we who are "High Church" have something to learn from our "Low Church" and more devotionall y-oriented siblings: Jesus is our personal savior !

Oblate Father Ron Rolh eiser, a theolog ian, teacher and award-winning author, serves in Rome as general councilor for Canada f o r the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

Mitty . . . ÂŚ Continued from page 5 degree in sacred theology. New York archdioce san authorities then sent him for a "finishing year" in Rome where he received a doctorate in Sacred Theology. On his own in the summer and fall of 1908, he spent a brief time stud y ing "experimental psychology " with Professor Wilhelm Wundt of the University of Munich.

During the course of his studies , he had a near brush with ecclesiastical disaster when he and other New York students in Rome were accused of associating with "modernists " - theologians and scholars who had recentl y been condemned by Rome for their unorthodox teaching. Mitly escaped with his reputation in tact. In earl y 1909, he was made an assistant at his home parish of St. Veronica. By the middle of the year, he was sent to assume the chair of dogmatic theology at St. Josep h' s Seminary.

As a young priest Mitty continued to impress his superiors by his ability to get things done. He was also a shrewd jud ge of character able , by one famil y member ' s recollection , to evaluate peop le devoid of piety and sentimentality. At the same time , he was utterl y loyal to the church and deeply reverenced its hierarchical structure.

Mitty 's love of a clear chain of command made him a natural for the next phase of his life: the military. When the United States entered World War I, Mitty volunteered for chap lain duty. He saw action at the front in the bloody Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918.

In 1925, he revisited the French battlefields and wrote back to Cardinal Hayes of a visit to Verdun, which he had seen in ruins in 1918. "Tomorrow we go on to the north [the site of Meuse Argonne] where I did my little bit and there Romaque Cemetery...." In a uncharacteristically sentimental aside he noted to Hayes, "I have enjoyed this part of the trip most of all - it brings back so many memories and makes me so thankful to God for the many blessings he gave me here and since."

Upon his return to New York in 1919, Archbishop Patrick Hayes appointed him to the pastorate of Sacred Heart Church in Highland Falls , New York. He also assumed the chap laincy of nearb y West Point which had just lost its Catholic chap lain. Mitty worked hard to maintain the Catholic faith of cadets , offering Mass , hearing confession and marking the annual graduation with separate Catholic ceremonies.

Here he met and became friends with the military academy 's superintendent , Douglas MacArthur who likewise loved the pomp and ceremony of Catholic ritual. In cajoling Hayes to send a handsomel y garbed delegate to the Mass preceding the commencement , Mitty remarked , "The general [MacArthur] is desirous that we should make the exercises as impressive and solemn as possible. " MacArthur remained a life-long friend , and when he came to San Francisco in 1951 after his dismissal from the Korean command by President Truman , he publicly acknowled ged his friendshi p with the former West Point chap lain.

Hayes soon came to rel y on the business-like Mitty as a trouble shooter and problem solver for various archdiocesan needs . Mitty served a one year stint as superintendent of the archdiocesan schools and also as Hayes ' liaison with organized labor. In 1922 , Hayes appointed him to St. Luke ' s parish in the Bronx , where he settled into four years of more traditional pastoral work.

In far-off Salt Lake City, the administration of Vincentian Bishop Joseph Sarsfield Glass came to an end in 1926. The cultured and likeable Glass had cultivated any number of rich and famous benefactors during his years in Los Angeles, including the oil millionaires Joseph and Estelle Doheny. With Doheny money, Glass had refurbished , the Salt Lake Cathed ral, purchased a number of art works and attempted to enhance the reputation and standing of the Catholic church in the center of America 's Mormon capital. But the extravagant Glass had spent more than the poverty stricken diocese could afford . By the time he succumbed to cancer in January 1926, the farflung diocese (it included all of Utah and eastern Nevada) was deeply in debt. On September 8, 1926, Mitty was consecrated the third bishop of Salt Lake City in a ceremony at St. Patrick's Cathedral presided over by his patron , Cardinal Hayes.

Once he adjusted to the physical and social terrain of Mormon Utah , Mitty set to work to unravel the web of Glass's financial dealings. He discovered that the diocese had $250,000 in debt and an annual income of only $40,000. Appalled at Glass 's extravagance , Mitty had to raise money through appeals to his priest friends and sought help from his former archbishop in securing loans from New York banks. Mitty also put a fire under the somewhat dispirited 28 diocesan clergy of the diocese and insisted that they do more to help pay down the debt through promotion of a new fund drive. Mitty brooked no recalcitrance and bragged to Hayes, "I scared the life out of a lazy pastor by the threat of removal if he did not get results."

But harsh words for a stubborn pastor notwithstanding Mitty 's heart went out to his priests, some of whom he found in desperate situations. As he traversed the dio-

Lto R: Archbishop John Mitty, Mayor Angelo Rossi , Archbishop Edward Hanna and Governor James Rolph.

cese, he discovered clerics who had to travel hundreds of miles for the celebration of Mass or sick calls. Some he found were suffering from malnutrition and others, he reported in a letter to the east , had "lost their minds from lonesomeness. " Throug h appeals to the Church Extension Society and begging letters to his former colleagues in New York, Mitty managed to pay down the debt. Mitty helped lo consolidate educational resources and dedicated a small but thriving Catholic college run by the Holy Cross Sisters , St. Mary of the Wasatch. He relied heavil y on the personable Monsi gnor Duane Hunt , a convert to Catholicism , who helped him mediate some of the hurdles of living in the predominantl y Mormon area. Hunt would eventuall y succeed him in Salt Lake.

In 1932, the physical and emotional decline of San Francisco Archbishop Edward A. Hanna set off alarm bells in the American hierarchy. In 1932 , Mitty was dispatched from Salt Lake to appointment as coadjutor with ri ght of succession to Hanna. Gingerly retrieving the financial administration of the See from the failing Hanna ' s hands , Mitty carefull y began to work throug h the worst aspects of San Francisco ' s economic problems.

In Marc h 1935, Hanna finall y retired and Mitty received the pallium of archbishop.

Mitty moved quickl y to "regularize clerical life by the convocation of a diocesan synod in 1936. From this meeting issued a series of rules and regulations that governed archdiocesan life and practice until Vatican II. Mitty created a centralized banking system for the diocese and avoided the heavy interest and bonded indebtedness of previous eras. He insiste d that various diocesan departments support themselves. The editor of the San Francisco Monitor, Msgr. Walter Tappe. recalled that the newspaper "never received a penny of subsid y" during his editorshi p and in fact , "I had to pay a larg e monthly rent as well as give an annual 'gift ' to the Chancery."

Tappe also remembered that Mitty used the Monitor printshop for chancery materials. "Ah, Archbishop Mitty, " the editor noted , "The Wall Street financiers were pikers in contrast."

Mitty left his deepest impression on the character of San Francisco Catholicism by his training of priests. Few American bishops cared as much as Mitty did about the quality of his diocesan clergy. It was Mitty, the son of Irish immigrant parents , who demanded that San Francisco raise up a native clergy. At his directive , foreign-born Irish priests were no longer admitted to the ranks of the San Francisco clergy. This ended the "open door " policy of California in which Irish-born clerg y came to dominate nearby dioceses of Sacramento , Monterey-Fresno, and even Los Angeles. Deeply sensitive to accusations that diocesan priests were not as well educated as the priests of religious communities (he had an ongoing feud with the Jesuits of San Francisco on this score), he sent off a host of bri ght San Francisco priests (59 by one count), to the Catholic University in Washington , DC, insisting that they have professional training in education , theology, history, and journalism.

Others went to New York to stud y social work . Trained professionals staffed the marriage tribunal , the education department , and the ranks of Catholic Charities.

As was the case of many of his brother bishops of the day, his reputation for sternness often dissolved when faced with a priest who had problems. His occasional tirades and blasts were often for effect and the priests

who took them were often astounded to find the prelate held no grud ges and even tolerated "back-talk" .

In thirty years, he ordained nearl y 800 men to the priesthood. Six of his priests (Thomas Connoll y, James J. Sweeney, Hugh Donohoe, James T. O'Dowd , Merlin Guilfoy le, and John J. Scanlan) became bishops. Two others , former Utah priests Duane Hunt and Robert Dwyer, were also consecrated by Mitty.

But the chief challenge was Catholic growth. The post-war era of the San Francisco archdiocese was one of the sing le l argest periods of expansion in its history. In order to accommodate the flow of new Catholics into the archdiocese , San Francisco went on a building spre e, adding 84 new parishes , 13 new hi gh schools and grade schools , health care institutions , rectories , and school and church enlargements. Mitty was quick to recognize the significance of California 's rapid growth (which superceded his native New York as the most populous state in 1962.)

The rapid growth of California not onl y brought a shift in numbers but also where Catholics lived. As demograp hic patterns played themselves out , San Francisco, long the "Catholic capital" of California, was compelled to cede its traditional pride of place to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. No doubt to Mitty 's unhappiness , Los Angeles was elevated to the status of an archiepiscopal See in 1936 (making California the only state that has two archdioceses within its boundaries.)

Los Angeles archbishop John J. Cantwell (whose priestbrother James had served Hanna), soon asserted his independence of Mitty by backing out of a plan submitted b y the San Francisco prelate in the 1930s to form a unified California Catholic lobby ing office in Sacramento. Mitty was even less pleased when he saw his See eclipsed by a former student of his, James Francis Mclntyre , who came from New York in 1948 to succeed Cantwell. Mclntyre aggressively built Los Angeles into a major metropolitan See and in 1954 was awarded a cardinal' s hat.

Mitty 's last years were lived a virtual isolation in the episcopal residence on the grounds of St. Patrick' s Seminary. Relying on his faithful secretary (and later bishop) Leo T. Maher to carry out his decisions, Mitty appeared infrequently in public and almost never at statewide functions , choosing to cede the honor to the scarlet-attired Mclntyre. He died in October 196 1 as the church was preparing for Vatican II which would open a year later.

How Mitty would have adjusted to the demanding times in the church and U.S. culture in the 1960s is not difficult to imagine. Mitty 's "no-nonsense" approach to problems and his tight-fisted administrative style would not have gone down well with a sometimes rebellious clerg y and a feisty laity. The demands for a more approachable and "pastoral" episcopal style would have driven him to distraction. He would have been told that to be effective he would have to be loved.

Steve Avella, a professor of history at Marquette University, is a widely published writer on U.S. Catholic history. This is one in a series of sesquicentennial articles on the history of the A rchdiocese of San Francisco. The series is coordinated by Jeffrey M . Burns, archdiocesan archivist and author of a history of the archdiocese.

Datebook

Lenten Opportunities March 9: A gathering of the Militia Immaculata at St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St. oil Monterey Blvd., SF. Families, singles religious are welcome. Mass at 3 p.m., followed by talk by Brother Louis Schmid and potluck meal. Please bring a disli if staying for the meal. Contact Nellie at (415) 387-8431 or Nellie@ignatius.com.

March 11 and subsequent Tuesdays In Lent: Lenten Lecture Series at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St. al Columbus, SF, at 7:15 p.m. Call (415) 983-0405. Begins with Religion, War and Repentance with Steve Snyder; March 18: a preview of the Failh and Values film The Reluctant Saint, Francis of Assisi; March 25: St. Francis and the Seraph wilh Franciscan Sister Ramona Miller; April 1: Franciscan Father Daniel Lacke; April 8: Dante's Comedia - A Lenten Journey with Steve Cordova.

March 10, 11, 12, 13: Parish Mission, St. Pius Churc h, 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City at 7:30 p.m. with well-known publisher and champion of the Catholic faith, Dr. Elinor Ford. Topics include Finding Joy in Who You Are!; Embracing Hope Through Healing and Forgiveness!; I Can Do This: Living the Vocation God has Given; Going Forth as Bearers of God's Joy and Hope. Dr. Ford, the first woman Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of New York, has been named among the most influential people in Catholic education. Dr. Ford will also speak at all weekend Masses of March 8 and 9.

March 15: Praise! Prayer! Worship Explosion! At St. Cecilia Church hall, 17th and Vicente St., SF from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Father James Tarantino will preside. Music by Gospel Jubilation Singers. Call Norma at (650) 875-4265.

Marc h 22: Divine Mercy Conference , St. Mary's Cathedral, Gough St. and Geary Blvd., SF, 8 a.m. 6 p.m. Tickets at $35-adults/$20 youth include lunch in advance, $40 at door with no lunch. Free admission to religious, clergy. Speakers include Redemptorist Father Tom Forest, Jesuit Father George Schultze, and Msgr. James Lisante. Call (510) 412-4715 or JesusMary@juno.com.

March 22: Life in the Spirit Seminar at Corpus Christi Church, 62 Santa RosaAve . atAlemany Blvd., SF, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Call Norma at (415) 468-8369.

Mass is celebrated each first Saturday of the month in the chapel of All Saints Mausoleum at Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Rd., Colma. Priests of the Archdiocese preside. Call (650) 756-2060.

Food & Fun March 8, 9: Flea Market at St. Elizabeth Parish, Goettingen and Wayland St., SF. A bundle of fun and treasures including a snack bar. Sponsored by the parish Women's Club. Sat. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m. -3p.m.

March 8: Shamrock Shenanigans, annual St. Patrick's Day luncheon and fashion show of the Catholic Professional Women's Club at the United Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. and Sloat Blvd., SF with no-host cocktails at 11:30 a.m. and luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Ticket$35.

Proceeds benefit scholarship program aiding students from Catholic high schools. Music, entertainment and fashions by Shahin's Gallery. Call (415) 584-2983.

March 15: Mardi Gras - Unmasked, a dinner, dance and auction benefiting Notre Dame High School, Belmont takes place at the Crown Plaza Hotel, Foster City. Evening includes cocktails, dancing to the music of SF Party Band, The Cheeseballs, an elegant New Orleans style buffet dinner, silent and live auctions, and raffle for a new Ford Escape. Tickets $100 per person. Call (650) 595-1913, ext. 446.

March 15: The family of the late Marcos Gutierrez, Jr., and Archbishop Riordan High School, where he graduated in 2000, have announced the first of what will be an annual dinner benefiting a.scholarship fund named for Marcos who died tragically in an automobile accident April 14, 2002. For information about tickets at $50 per person and other opportunities to support the program, call the Archbishop Riordan Development Office at (415) 586-9190.

March 29: Hooray for Hollywood, a silent auction, dinner and dance benefiting St. Cecilia Elementary School, SF, at the Weslin Hotel, Old Bayshore Highway, Millbrae beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets $75.

Call Debbie Monfredini at (415) 664-4056.

March 30: Irish tenor, Mark Forrest in concert at St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St. at Hearst, SF. 7:30 p.m..

Tickets $15. Corned beef and cabbage dinner with enter-

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3rd Thurs.: Meetings at 7:30 p.m. for New Wings at St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. at Brotherhood Way, SF. Call (415) 452-9634 or www.stmchurch.com. March 15: Potluck; March 20: The Enneagram with family therapist Lila Caffery. Learn your personality type; March 23: Bowling in Pacifica at Sea Bowl at 2:30 p.m.; April 26: Buffet brunch at Lucky Chance's Rene's Fine Dining, Colma at 11:30 a.m.

Catholic Adult Singles Assoc, of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 8970639 for information.

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The Mothers' Auxiliary of Junipero Serra High School announces Italian Holiday, a fashion show and luncheon on April 6,2003 benefiting the school. The afternoon begins with no host cocktails at 11 a.m. and luncheon at noon. Takes place at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Foster City. Tickets $50 per person available by calling Kathy Lavezzo at (650) 3457836. Chairing the event are , from left, Pauline Picchi, Anna Ramaciotti, Pat Cannizzaro. tainment from the Meehan Brothers beginning at 5:30 p.m. in parish hall. Tickets $10. Call (415) 333-3627.

April 4: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club meets. Mass at 7 a.m. in St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentlield, with breakfast and presentation following in parish hall. Today's speaker is San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang; May 2: Father Lowell Case. Reservations required to Sugaremy@aol.com or (415) 461-0704 daily.

Members $5, others $10. Dues $15 per year.

3rd Wed.: All you can eat Spaghetti Luncheon at Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, 3255 Folsom up the hill from Cesar Chavez, SF. $7 per person. A San Francisco tradition for decades. Reservations not required. Call (415) 824-1762.

3rd Sat.: Handicapables gather for Mass and lunch at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, at noon.

Volunteer drivers always needed. Call (415) 584-5823.

4th Sat.: Handicapables of Marin meet at noon in the recreation room of the Maria B. Freitas Senior Community adjacentto St Isabella Church,Terra Linda, for Mass, lunch and entertainment. Call (415) 457-7859.

Performance Admission free unless otherwise noted.

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

Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral at 3:30 p.m. Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) 5672020 ext. 213. Concerts are open to the public.

Reunions March 15: St. Cecilia Elementary, SF, class of '78.

Classmates should call Deirdre Deasy McGovern at (650) 991-4518; or Ann Margaret Carlin Rohrs at (415) 665-6957.

April 5: Golden Jubilee Celebration of Holy Angels School, Colma begins with Mass at 10 a.m. and Open House at 11 a.m. Alumni, former students and friends should call (650) 755-0220.

April 6: SF's St. Gabriel Elementary School, class of '53, commemorates its 50th year since then with Mass in the parish church at11:30 a.m. followed by a reception in the school library. Call Vicki Castiglioni-Bornstein at (415) 566-0314.

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Respect Life/FamilyLife Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available from the Office of Marriage and Family Life of the Archdiocese, Chris Lyford, director, at (415) 614-5680.

Sat. at 9 a.m.: Pray the Rosary for Life at 815 Eddy St. between Franklin and Van Ness, SF. Call (415) 752-4922.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends can add to a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 568-3018.

Seton Medical Center Natural Family Planning/Fertility Care Sen/ices offers classes in the Creighton Model of NFP. Health educators are also available to speak to youth and adults on topics of puberty, responsible relationships, adolescent sexuality, the use of NFP throughout a woman's reproductive life, and infertility. Call (650) 301-8896 Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages. The weekend and follow up sessions help couples heal and renew their families.

Presenters are three couples and a Catholic priest. Call Peg or Ed Gleason at (415) 221-4269 or edgleason@ webtv.net or Pat and Tony Fernandez at (415) 893-1005.

The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers free adoption information meetings twice a month. Singles and married couples are invited to learn more about adopting a child from foster care .

Call (415) 406-2387 for information. .

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

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

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

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Ms. Dennis believes that much can be done by "probing that wound" and using that "brokeness and vulnerability in our national experience to ponder the possibility for developing alternatives to war. " We learned from 9/11 that it was not "economic or military power or rank or job descri ption . . . but life itself and the relationships that nurture life," which are trul y important , she said.

Ms. Dennis said that a shared belief in the uni que and precious nature of every human life to loved ones, community and God "has to be the basis of an ethical response to terrorism. " We have, thus far, failed to build peace on that foundation , she said.

She said that as "Catholic-Christians we are obli gated to resist tyranny and promote life," but "how?"

War looms . . . ¦ Continued from cover continue to work through the United Nations to "contain , deter and disarm Iraq, " Bishop Gregory said.

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Ms. Dennis made a tri p to El Salvador where she met peasant farmers unable to p lant their crops for fear of land mines. When they were finally able to produce crops they sent her a bag of beans and seeds. After Ms. Dennis ' cousin died in the World Trade Center attack , she brought some of those seeds to the site and p lanted them. "Those seeds I believe carried great weight, the weight of what might blossom were we to open our hearts as a nation to a way of life provo cative of peace , even as it does justice ," she said.

Ms. Dennis said that her non-violent approach does not mean non-action. To stop tyrants and terrorists and make peace , we must develop the "habit of accompaniment and the virtue of solidarity, " she said. Examples include "those who have gone to Iraq, " some serving as human shields , but most important , "building bridges of

understanding and solidarity which 1 believe are the essential counter-terrorist tools. " She rejected a just war theory "used more often to j ustify than preclude war," and which fails to adequately apply moral principals once war has begun.

That an effective non-violent approach has not been developed, "does not excuse us from the moral and ethical imperative of finding a non-violent way to respond," she said.

We must examine the "full range of historical factors ," leading to terror and tyranny to make a proper response.

These include resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, curtailing the "ad hoc nature of U.S. foreign diplomacy," and addressing the "lack of future " for children in developing countries stemming from poverty, poor education and few job opportunities.

In the end, she said, isolating terrorists and not ourselves from the international community, fostering relations with all possible countries , working for a just global economy, eliminating weapons of mass destruction , "including our own," and cooperating in nuclear threat reduction programs are preferable to the ravages and "futility of war."

such a future ? Is it right to create a new gulf between people?" he said.

Cardinal Laghi said he also would underscore the Vatican's position that decisions on Iraq be made by the United Nations.

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PRINCIPAL Mercy High School - Burlingame Mercy High Schoo! is a Catholic preparatory school dedicated to educating young women of all cultural and economic backgrounds for academic excellence, compassionate service, Christian leadership, global awareness, and life-long learning. It is sponsored by the Sistets of Mercy of the Burlingame Region. The Principal has overall responsibility for the fullest attainment of the school's mission, the education and development programs, integration of faith and culture within the high school community, the business affairs and facilities, petsonnel , budget and operations.

Qualities and Competencies • Capable of serving as a role model to the school constituencies by demonstrating a strong commitment to a Catholic education • Ability to work in a divers e setting with complex relationships • Energetic , innovative , forward-looking and can build on the school's successes but is capable of assessing and implementing change • Experience working directl y with Board of Directors • Demonstrated leadersh ip, organizational and administrative skills • Establish ability to develop and foster the leadership team and integrate collaboration and accountability • Proven positive outcomes with students, parents, sponsors and community relations, including fundraising; experience in budget development and fiscal operations of a school • An educator with knowledge of curriculum , cognitive theories , current edivcational researches, and effective teaching strategies • A Roman Catholic with at least five years administrative experience in a school setting • A Master 's degree in Education or related field • California Teaching Credential • Minimum of five years teaching experience Administrative Credential preferred

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