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ArchbishopWilliam J. Levada will ordain 22 men on June 26 as permanentdeaconsfor the Archdioceseof San Francisco during a rite scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. at St. Mary Cathedral

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Happy Father's Day For his first Father's Day in the United States, the father of these children along with their mother has expressed deep gratitude to CaihokSan Francisco readers and members of St, John of God Parish for the support in bringing them out of Guatemala -where they faced death threats -- and uniting them here. Six of the family's seven children (all pictured here) arrived at San Francisco International on June 2 thanks to Frequent Flyer mileage donations from readers.

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St. Matthew sees providence in Marian site

who is celebrating a half century as part of the Hol y Famil y famil y. Sister Marge has been busy as a bee at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo where she's been a pastoral associate since 1992. Her responsibilities are hospitality oriented , an area this wonderful sister knows something about. Her work includes coordinating the RCIA program; ministering to the sick; programs for seniors and RENEW 2000. Sister Marge is a native San Franciscan and an alumna of St. Vincent High School , the school whose commitment to learning, faith and Gospel values is carried out today at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. Sister Marge said her vocation was stirred by visits to her home by members of the Legion of Mary and that she had her cap set for life as a woman reli gious very early on. The St. Tim 's parish famil y led by Father Kieran McCormick , pastor , prayed with and for their Sister Marge at a special Mass on June 6.

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About the cover: At the helm of the Californian is Michelle Sato and shipmate Shannon Wilson. See stories on pages 12-13. Photo of Guatemala family is by Evelyn Zappia; parents are not pictured for safety of family.

ATHOLIC = LC SAN FRANCISCO Official newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Most Reverend William J. Levada, publisher Maurice E. Healy, associate publisher Editorial Staff: Dan Morris-Young, editor; Evelyn Zappia, feature editor; Tom Burke, "On the Street" and Datebook; Sharon Abercrombie, Kamille Maher reporters; Clare Maloney, intern. Advertising Department: Joseph Pena-, director; Britta Tigan, consultant; Mary Podesta, account representative ; Don Feigel, consultant. Production Department: Enrico Risano, manager; Julie Benbow, graphic consultant; Ernie Grafe , Jody Werner, consultants. Business Office: Marta Rebagliati, assistant business manager; Gus Pena, advertising and subscriber services; Karessa McCartney, executive assistant Advisory Board: Noemi Castillo, Sr. Rosina Conrotto, PBVM, Fr. Thomas Daly, Joan Frawley Desmond, James Kelly, Fr. John Penebsky, Kevin Starr, Ph.D., Susan Wi nchell.

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Father Simeon Chang - 1949 and 1999

Keeping the f ires burning...Father Simeon Chang celebrates his 50* anniversary as a priest this year. Now retired , he continues to live and pray at St. Monica Parish where he served as a parochial vicar from 1976-93. Born in China in 1918 in what he remembers as "a beautiful and hill y part of the country," he still has a clear picture of his mom who taught him the faith. "She trained me every night," the priest said. He has been near death twice, once as a boy and again as a Trappist, the community for which he was ordained but later left to become a diocesan priest. The latter illness was Tuberculosis. "I was so sick, I almost wanted to die," he recalls. In 1976, Archbishop Joseph McGucken welcomed Father Chang to the Archdiocese and assigned him to the parish he would make his home and where he would later establish a Legion of Mary and serve as director of religious education. He has returned to China to visit family and friends and once gathered nearly 200 aunts, uncles and cousins for Eucharist. His workload in retirement has been reduced but he remains eager to serve. "I have slowed down a bit," he said, adding, "If I had to thank one person this day, I would thank my mother who is in heaven. I pray to her several times a day and I give thanks to God for her. I would not be a priest if it were not for her." Father Chang was honored at a dinner on April 23 attended by more than 100 parishioners and friends including Father Warren Woods, former pastor of St. Monica; Father John Greene, St. Monica pastor; Father Jonathan Paala , a St. Monica parochial vicar; Msgr. Fred Bitanga, pastor, St. Patrick Parish; Olivia Fisher, St. Monica liturgy committee member and several visiting Trappists from China and Northern California. In a letter to Father Chang, Archbishop William J. Levada said, "During these 50 years, you have served the Church faithfully and well in the priestly assignments that have been entrusted to you. May God, who has begun the good work in you, bring it to completion." Father Chang celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving with the St. Monica community and more than a dozen priest friends on April 25. 50 years and still rarin ' to go... Hats off , thanks and all the doo-dads to Holy Family Sister Marjorie Wakelin

Adnola Chaney; Leona Peltier and Holy Family Sister Marjorie Wakelin. The Class of 1939 from SF's St. Peter 's Academy met for lunch and catchin ' up at the City's Irish Cultural Center recently. Thanks to Doroth y Burns for the great pix of the class. From left: Theresa Guilfoy, Norma Yerman , Aldina Fontana , Helen Murray, Rita McGrath, Irene Seput, Ms.

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St. Gabriel decathlon team members, from left: Kenny Wong, 1" place in math; Keri Mali, 1s' place in litera ture; Michael Weaver, 2iul place in social studies.

More good answers... The academic decathlon team from St. Gabriel Elementary has struck again. The group recently tied for first in the Super Quiz and individual students took lsl p lace in math and literature and 2nd place in social studies at Los Angeles competitions. Sing in ' up a storm... Kathy Holly, the music teacher, recentl y introduced the school choir of Paciftca's Good Shepherd Elementary School to herself in a different role —Kath y Holly, the ___ entertainer — at San Francisco 's Villa D'Este Restaurant where the teacher/ performer regularly sings with her band. Kath y believes that "to learn music, students must experience live performances." Ramon Oropeza, owner of the Ocean Avenu e eatery, „ .. „ .. "invited the students and their chaperones as his guests," Kathy said, adding the choir also sang and wowed lucky patrons. Youth University is the name of summer enrichment program for sixth-fhrough-eighth-graders to be sponsored June 28 through July 15 at the University of San Francisco. Program features exposure to university environment , structured activities, and classes four days per week from 1:30-5 p.m. Call USF for info: (415) 422-5274; or try the website: www.usfca.edu/studentaffairs/yu. Does it bite ? Animals came to St. Finn Barr Elementary School last month . Wild Life Associates of Pacifica provided a menageri e that included a bobcat , red fox , opossum and red-tailed hawk. The visit was a culmination of the school's year-long ani- St. Finn Barr kindergartners Cristian mal sensitivity Guarado and Casandra Vazquez. awareness pro gram. The SPCA and the San Francisco Zoo Mobile visited earlier in the year.

Capital campaign teams from individual parishes received training at archdiocesan meetings June 8,9, and 10. In the photo at left, vicar for administration, Father Harry Schlitt, P.J. Carlesimo of St. Ignatius Parish and Kathleen Mulhern of St. Vincent de Paul Parish share a laugh. At right, Notre Dame des Victoires team members Father Phillip d'Auby, Alvaro Riva, and Ronald Ennis listen to a presentation.

Endowment campaign leadership teams gather Archbishop William J. Levada and archdiocoesan officials of the campaign to raise $30 million to endow tuition assistance for future Catholic school students gathered with parish leadership teams at meetings June 8, 9, and 10 in San Francisco , San Mateo , and Marin counties , respectively. Called the "Today 's Students , Tomorrow's Leaders," the capital drive seeks to dramaticall y increase an existing archdiocesan endowment to provide tuition assistance to Catholic elementary

and high school students. According to school officials, the average grant for elementary school students was 19 percent of the average need last year. Total unfunded need for tuition assistance exceeded $2.1 million. During the meetings it was emphasized that over half of the applications come from ethnic minorities; that nearl y half of the requests for tuition assistance come from single-parent households; and that three out of four of those households are applying for two or more children.

Archbishop Levada: Please make effort to supp ort Peter 's Pence Dear Friends in Christ: In this third and final year of preparation for the great Jubilee of the year 2000, Pope John Paul II asks us to reflect on our calling to be a people of forgiveness and justice on a journey to the Father. The familiar words of Micah offer direction on our journey : "Do Justice. Love Kindness. Walk humbly with your God" (Mi 6:8). Pope John Paul II encourages us to join him in works of justice and kindness through the 1999 Collection for the Works of the Holy Father (Peter's Pence). Our contributions enable the Holy Father to respond to the most needy throughout the world and to offer emergency assistance to those who suffer as a

result of war, oppression , and natural disasters. In the biblical observances of the jubilee year, doing justice was a central theme. Debts were forgiven, lands were restored to their original owners, and slaves were freed (Lev 25:10). In this year, which brings us to the threshold of the Jubilee Year 2000, 1 ask you to make a special effort to give generously to those in our world for whom justice is still a distant dream and to assist our Holy Father in assisting those who turn to him for help.

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The $30 million fund working two or three would add to a current $5 jobs to cover their share million endowment , creatof tuition." ing a princi pal of $35 milfive Meanwhile , "pilot parishes" have conlion , from which approximately $2 million in annutinued their campai gns. al proceeds would become Church of the Epiphany available to assist fami(San Francisco), Holy lies, according tc Angels (Colma), Our Dominican Sister Glenn Lady of Lourdes (San Anne McPhee , superinFrancisco), St. Francis of tendent ot Catholic Assist (bast Halo Alto) Archbishop Levada and St. schools. and St. Gabriel (San Elizabeth team member "The onl y way to Francisco) have been Frank Hapin discuss send a student to Catholic fundraising since April. "Today's Student, school is if the cost-perAlthoug h one of the Tomorrow's Leaders " pup il is covered ," Sister parishes has not met its campaign. Glenn Anne explained. • goal yet, the five together "Cost-per-pupil is covered primarily have raised $1.3 million, nearly double by tuition. If parents are unable to their collective goal .of $683,992 , said pay that tuition then obviously Scott Vachon, a campai gn organizer, attendance at Catholic school is com- emphasizing that the parishes' campaigns promised. We have some families were still in progress.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II expressed regret over the one-year postponement of a CatholicOrthodox dialogue meeting and asked officials involved to use the time to resolve lingering practical problems. "The dialogue cannot only not stop, but must continue with renewed intensity," the pope said in a letter to Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The Vatican published the pope 's letter June 4, two days before the international Catholic-Orthodox dialogue commission was to have met in Mary land. The meeting was postponed until June 2000 because the war in Yugoslavia would have prevented full participation by the Orthodox churches.

Armenia trip off, says Vatican

VATICAN CITY (CNS) —The Vatican confirmed Pope John Paul IPs visit to Armenia , scheduled for July 2-4, has been suspended due to the rapidl y declining health of the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church . In a June 11 statement from Warsaw, Poland , where he was accompanying the pope on a 13-day pastoral visit , Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Vails noted that the health of Catholicos Karekin of Etchmiadzin , patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, was worsening.

Auschwitz crosses removed

AUSTIN, Texas (CNS) — Pro-life advocates hailed Texas Gov. George W. Bush's signing into Jaw a bill that will require a minor girl' s parents be notified if she is contemp lating an abortion. "This is one of the most emotional issues we've had in the legislative process, in my experience," said Holy Cross Brother Richard Daly, executive director of the Texas Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state 's Catholic bishops. "It is also the most significant pro-life legislation passed in Texas since Roe vs. Wade," he added , referring to the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Legalizing abortion.

WARSAW, Poland (CNS) — Polish police have removed hundreds of crosses from the former Auschwitz concentration camp after a yearlong occupation of the camp 's "Gravel Pit" by Polish protesters. Meanwhile, the occupation leader remained detained May 28 after threatening to blow up the area. A government statement said more than 300 crosses had been dismantled and taken to a nearby Franciscan monastery on May 28. An exception was made for an existing 26-foot cross erected before the latest occupation. The cross had been used at Pope John Paul IPs Mass at Auschwitz in 1979. Meanwhile, a Polish rabbi asked Pope John Paul II to remove the last cross from the former Nazi death camp, saying its presence prevented Jews from praying at a sacred place of suffering. The pope did not reply directly to the request June 11, but a papal spokesman later indicated the cross would remain, saying most Poles wanted it there.

Parental consent law struck

Disp ute becomes war of words

Parental notif ication law signed

TUCSON , Ariz. (CNS) —The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal s has ruled Arizona's law requiring minors to obtain parental consent before they get an abortion is unconstitutional. The June 9 ruling by the San Francisco-based court marks the second blow to the parental consent statute. Thoug h the Arizona Legislature passed the law three years ago, it never took effect. Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona and Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona challenged its constitutionality in 1996, prompting a federal district court jud ge in Tucson to enjoin its enforcement. The June 9 rulin g by the 9th Circuit upheld that 1996 ruling. It was not clear immediately whether the Arizona attorney general would appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.

MEXICO CITY (CNS) — A long-simmering dispute between Mexican Church and government authorities over the murder of a cardinal six years ago escalated into a war of words in the wake of a new report on the investigation. Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez of Guadalajara said after the release of the report that government officials , including Mexico 's attorney general at the time of the assassination, Jorge Carpizo, lied to cover up a high-level plot to murder Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo. Carpizo, for many years a leading figure in the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, accused Cardinal Sandoval of tr ying to exonerate drug traffickers implicated in the killing because they allegedly contribute to the Church.

Eucharistic Congress: June 2000

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican called on the faithful to prepare for a global meeting on the Eucharist which Pope John Paul II has emphasized as central to the jubilee year. The 2000 International Eucharistic Congress "represents a call to pastors and the faithful to give greater

Refugee violence shows security need

ROME (CNS) — Violent attacks among refugees from the conflict in Kosovo indicate a need for increased security up to and beyond the establishment of peace in Kosovo, said a Catholic Relief Services spokeswoman. Speaking by telephone from Skopje, Macedonia , Nancy M. Shalala said recent incidents in a CRS-administered camp in that country "can be regarded a warning sign against other attacks." "The international community has to take more precau tions against violence among the refugees," Shalala said. "Whether in the camps , or back in Kosovo after a final agreement is reached for refugees ' return , this is an issue which cannot go unexamined." Catholic Relief Services is responsible for day-to-day operations at the Stankovec I ref ugee camp in Macedonia, where a mob of Kosovo refugees attacked a Gypsy family the night of June 5.

Urges new p lan for Viet bishop s

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (CNS) — The faith life of many Catholics in communist-run Vietnam has become inactive due to vacant sees or aging bishops, said a priestresearcher who called for a new system for choosing bishops. The lack or insufficient number of Church leaders has wasted material and human resources and has caused inertia or unrest among Catholics in a number of dioceses, Father Antoine N guyen Ngoc Son of Ho Chi Minn City wrote in a May issue of the Vietnamese bishops' news bulletin.

Catholic student group in Havana

HAVANA (CNS) — A group has forme d in the Archdiocese of Havana to encourage Christian life among Catholic university students in communist-run Cuba. The group has been officially recognized by the Archdiocese of Havana as the Catholic Movement of University Students, known by its Spanish initials as MECU. It will try to revive the lively Catholic campus ministry that existed until 1960 in Cuba. "The movement, for now, will concentrate on praying, exchanging experiences and promoting cultural activities from a Catholic perspective," said an early June archdiocesan statement.

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Underground bishop installed

HONG KONG (CNS) — A bishop secretly ordained in 1991 has been installed in the government-recognized open Church in China ' s Henan Province, where most Catholic leaders belong to the underground Church. UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand , reported June 1 that Bishop Nicolas Shi Jingxian of Shangq iu read a statement pronouncing affiliation with the governmentapproved church during his installation last month at the cathedral in Shangqiu.

Kemp backs health care reform

ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) —Althoug h he said he is "not running for anything," Jack Kemp had plenty to say about health care reform while speaking at the 84th Catholic Health Assembly. The former secretary of Housing and Urban Development, former vice-presidential nominee and former congressman also signed a peti tion drafted by the Catholic Health Association that "provides an opportunity to let the presidential candidates know it's time to address health care reform," according to Father Michael Place, president and CEO of CHA. Persons signing the petition commit themselves to participate in health care reform dialogue and urge presidential candidates to do the same. "I want to set the pace in debate over affordable health care. I will be your voice in the Republican Party to set that pace in 2000," Kemp said, adding he would not support a candidate who would not sign CHA's< pledge. "How can we leave 44 million men, women and children without the basic opportunity, and basic justice of accessible and affordable health care and insurance?" Kemp said.

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Oregon comes to California's aid On June 12, 1 celebrated Mass Father Peter DeSmet, SJ, apostle of at the Shrine of St. Francis in the Blackfeet and Nez Perce North Beach to commemorate the Indians in Idaho and Montana, 150th anniversary of the founding anew ecclesiastical jurisdiction and of St. Francis of Assisi Church in metropolitan province had been 1849. It was a great opportunity to established in Oregon City (now reflect on the early days of Portland) in 1846. Blanchet and California, and to be encouraged DeSmet had proposed to the Holy in our own present day life of the See a grand scheme of eight dioceChurch by the memory of the ses located at the forts scattered struggles and achievements of throughout British Columbia, those who went before. Washington, Oregon, Idaho and In 1849, California was in a western Montana , as a preparation major transition. Gold had just been for an evangelization program of discovered in the Siena Nevada, the receptive Indians of the Pacific and immigrants were flocking to Northwest and to serve the settlers San Francisco and the gold country trekking over the new Oregon in search of their fortunes. Until the Trail. treaty settlement of the Mexican But as the adage goes, "man American War the previous year, proposes, God disposes"; in this o. California was still technically a case, Rome disposed. The Holy part of the Republic of Mexico. A See saw fit to establish a metro"Bear Republic" had been estabpolitan archdiocese in Oregon lished three years earlier by the new City and two suffragan sees in immigrants from the United States, Walla Walla and Victoria, on whose western boundaries stopped Vancouver Island. Father at the edge of the Great Plains and Brouillet, one of the handful of Archbishop Levada presides at the 150* the Rio Grande. French-Canadian missionaries anniversary Mass of the founding of California was between bishwhom then-Bishop Blanchet as St. Francis of Assisi Church. ops. Some nine years before, in vicar apostolic managed to per1840, Bishop Garcia Diego y suade to come to the wilds of the Moreno had been appointed Bishop of both Californias; he Pacific Northwest, was assigned to be vicar general and made his headquarters at Mission Santa Barbara. Bishop everything else to the new bishop of Walla Walla, Bishop Diego y Moreno had died in 1846 and the ensuing Mexican Blanchet's brother, Augustine Magloire Blanchet American War postponed filling that jurisdiction which When the call came from San Francisco for help in stretched from the tip of Baja California to the Oregon border. serving this burgeoning priest-less community, it was to And yet, there were Catholics in no small numbers who Father Brouillet the Bishops Blanchet turned, sending him were among the tens of thousands flocking to San Francisco south to accompany so many of the new Oregonians who had and northern California in search of gold. picked up stakes to go off in search of gold themselves. Mission Dolores — given San Francisco de Asis as its In 1849, Father Brouillet established the Church of St. patron saint by its founding Franciscan Father Palou — had Francis of Assisi in that bayside village of Yerba Buena, just served the tiny community of Yerba Buena and the ranchos on recently renamed for her new patron, San Francisco. the Peninsula for more than a decade. However, after the One year later, Bishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, OP, the Mexican secularization of the missions even there the ser- provincial of the Dominicans in the United States, was vices of priests were not constant or reliable. assigned to a new United States ecclesiastical jurisdiction as To the north, thanks to the grand vision of Father Francis Bishop of Monterey. His jurisdiction initially included even Norbert Blanchet, a French-Canadian missionary sent from the Baja California, much to the consternation of the Mexican Diocese of Quebec in 1838 to evangelize the northwest Indians government. With the continuing influx of immigrants, and serve the French-Canadian fur trappers of the region, and in 1853, Bishop Alemany was named Archbishop of a new

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archdiocese in San Francisco, responsible for the territories of Northern California, Nevada, Utah and the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii. As a gift of Providence, he found the newly established St. Francis of Assisi Church already built in his metropolitan see, and promptly designated it a temporary or pro-cathedral, until a proper new cathedral could be built a few blocks away on the flank of Nob Hill - now our Old St. Mary's Cathedral Parish in Chinatown. Over the span of these past 150 years, St. Francis has served as the parish for North Beach for most of that period. Generations of the faithful, many of them Italians and not a few Chinese, have celebrated there their Sunday worship of God, their baptisms and confirmations, their sacraments of reconciliation and their weddings. With the changing demographics, St. Francis was closed as a parish in 1993. Now, St. Francis of Assisi Church has been able to find its new purpose as the Shrine of St. Francis here in what I like to call "Assisi by the Bay". With the ministry of the Conventual Franciscan Friars, this historic and beautiful church is finding its new role as a spiritual home to residents and visitors alike, a place of pilgrimage and hospitality, a place where San Franciscans can find a spiritual center in the example and witness of the Poor Man of Assisi, and where all of us can find a reminder of the intercession before God by this Patron of our city and our Archdiocese. May this 150th Anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi Church, now the Shrine of St. Francis and soon to be (I hope) designated our National Shrine of St. Francis, be a source of joy and spiritual enrichment of us all for many years to come.

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On Catholics ' pers onal exp erience of conversion to God...

Following is the May 24 statement of Archbishop Justin F Rigali regarding the Catholic experience of personal conversion to God. From Oct.14-17, 1999, St. Louis will be the location for the Billy Graham Crusade. The (St. Louis) Archdiocese wishes God's blessings on the Rev. Billy Graham, who has long been an established figure in the religious life of our country, conducting crusades throug hout the United States and many other countries. For many years the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which coordinates these crusades , has been very eager to have Catholics as well as other Christians participate. During the crusade, Rev. Graham invites individuals to make a decision for Christ and to come forward for prayer and counseling. These people are asked to fill out a card and if they indicate they are Catholic, their card is sent to their parish. The Association encourages training for congregations and follow-up programs. While many people may profit from the Crusade experience, we as Catholics need to realize that this approach in making a decision for Christ differs greatly from the way we understand personal conversion in our lives. For us, the continuing process of personal conversion, or turning to

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God, involves baptism; it is renewed through the action of Christ in the other sacraments, particularly penance and the Eucharist. Also, for those seeking to come into the Church, the experience of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) remains basic. For these reasons, the Archdiocese of St. Louis is not in a position to actively

support the Billy Graham Crusade. In addition, the Archdiocese is actively engaged in the observance of the Millennium, especially in light of the Holy Father's visit to St Louis. Part of our own plan of prepara-

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present site and many here today were baptized in that font ," Msgr. McKay said. "That's why we incorporated it and the corn erstone into the grotto. We're bringing the past and present together as we continue toward the future." A spot for the grotto, an undeveloped lot

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bordering on El Camino Real and Notre Dame Ave., made perfect sense. "People have pointed to the appropriateness of the grotto's being at the corner of The King 's Highway, named for Christ the King, and Our Lady Avenue," Msgr. McKay said, adding that providence had to be involved in

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Flu and fall slow pope during his pilgrimage to Poland By John Thavis KRAKOW, Poland (CNS) — A mild case of the flu forced Pope John Paul II to cancel a day 's activities in Poland , including a planned papal Mass for more than 1 million peop le in his former Archdiocese of Krakow. The pope was running a fever of about 100 degrees and had been advised to rest for a day June 15, papal spokesman Navarro-Valls told reporters. The spokesman said the pope was taking anti-flu medicine and hoped to resume his scheduled activities the next day. The 79-year-old pontiff was saddened to have to cancel his participation in the Mass, and it took aides a long time to convince him to stay at his residence and rest, Navarro-Valls said. It was the first time bad health had caused the pope to cancel a full day 's events during a forei gn trip. "It was a rather difficult thing for him, but there was no other choice," the spokesman said. He said the pope would stay in bed most of the day and remain under the care of his physician, Dr. Renato Buzzonetti. "Even the pope has to obey someone. In this case, it's the doctor," NavarroValls said.

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Deacons and priests-partners in ministry Deacons have broug ht to par ish and diocesan offices unique p rofessional skills needed but never dev eloped in f o rmation p rogramsfor p riests ' By Father Craig Forner Director, Archdiocesan Vocations Office "When I become a pastor, I' m going to hire someone to pay the bills, fix the boiler, and run the parish so that I will be free to do what priests are supposed to do-serve the spiritual needs of the people." I remember making that statement, naive and unrefined as it is, back in the 1960s when I was a college seminarian. Most of us were unaware in those days that the Church of the Latin Rite had just recently revived the ancient order of deacon as a permanent state in life. Yet even then, in a moment of youthful and perhaps idealistic foresight, I realized the work and ministry of the priest by necessity had to be collaborative and shared with others. We read in the Acts of the Apostles (6:1-6) that the Twelve saw the advantage of having assistants to help them in the apostolic ministry. This scriptural episode, often proclaimed at the ordination of deacons, gives a firm foundation for partnership in ministry. While Scripture scholars debate whether or not this passage actually refers to the institution of the Order of Deacon, we cannot deny the fact that the Twelve, chosen by the Lord Jesus for a particular type of ministry in the world , found themselves unable to provide that ministry adequately by themselves. Certain needs had surfaced in the community which gave rise to the selection of co-workers, partners, if you will, in the mission of the Church. Since the revival of the diaconate as a permanent order three decades ago, the Latin Rite Church, especially here in the United States , has recognized the advan-

tages of selecting men to serve the faithful in collabora- himself to the people of the parish in extraordinary ways. tion with bishops and priests in pastoral work. In that He brought to the ministry personal qualities, which I did not possess, and so served as a wondertime, deacons have continued to provide ful complement to my efforts as pastor invaluable service, ministries , which as well as an outstanding partner in might have been abandoned in the face ministry. In time Deacon John develof a widespread shortage of priests. oped terminal cancer, and it was a beauOften , deacons have brought to parish tiful witness of parish compassion that and diocesan offices unique professionthe people of St. Emydius saw him loval skills needed but never developed in ingly to his death. formation programs for priests, particuIf I had to pick one other Scripture larl y in the areas of administration , perpassage, which describes diaconal minsonnel practices, and social services. istry in partnership with presbyteral Deacons, through their own career and (priestly) ministry, it would also come professional experience, often provide from Luke ' s writings, but this time from complementary skills lacking in the his Gospel. In the tenth chapter of Luke, training of priests. Most importantly, for Jesus appoints 72 disciples to prepare almost 30 years, the deacons of our Father Craig Forner his way. Interestingly, he sends them out Church have offered us a powerful example of Christian service rooted in the Gospel and in pairs, as partners in ministry. Could the Lord himself grounded in the beautiful context of home and family. have foreseen the necessity that ministry must be done in Deacons remind us constantly that Christian service a spirit of shared responsibility and blending of individual talents? I think so. As we anticipate the ordination of yet begins in the sanctuary but ends in the world. Did my college seminary prediction ever become another group of deacons in service to our Archdiocese, we reality? Yes. After I became pastor of St. Emydius Parish can certainly hold the hope that our veteran and new deain San Francisco, the opportunity presented itself to hire cons, our veteran and new priests will share the same spirone of our archdiocesan deacons, the late John Fitzgerald, it of partnership and collaboration. The restored diaconate, now over 30 years old, has to fill the role of pastoral associate. As pastor, I appreciated the fact our deacon relieved me of many of the tedious given the universal and local Church a wonderful sign of and time-consuming chores of administration connected Christ 's servanthood, a living reminder th at service in love with any large parish. Over a few years, Deacon John not remains the heart of the Gospel , and that we share the misonly functioned as my "right hand man," but he endeared sion to love as partners on the journey into the kingdom.

Antonio & Rosita Paulino

Dominick & Mary Ellen Peloso

Maria & Emmanuel Santillan

Bill & Pat Turrentine

William Bruening

Charles McNeil

Holy Angels

St. Emydius

Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Church of the Nativity

St. Rita

Sacred Heart

Faiva & Ofa Pooi

St. Timothy

Michael & Martha Young

Charles Borromeo (San Carlos)

John Bettencourt

Most Holy Redeemer

Georg e & Yvonne Salinger

St. Matthias

Christine & Robert Kahn

Immaculate Heart of Mary

Peter Bouiware

St Mary 's Cathedral

Tall ski p voyage to self discovery

Young women learn about sailing and selves at sea

By Toni N g, Tall Ship cadet question my decision to participate in the People Tall Ship Semester for Girls. Especially after returning home from the sea-training section of the semester, 1 was constantly asked, "Was it worth it?" The answer wasn't exactly as simple as yes or no, but a complicated description of life on board a vessel that took me to places and feelings I'd barely ever known before . Truthfully, I had never expected myself to change dramatically because of my two months at sea. Even now, it is still hard for me to realize what weight

fewer fights. Some things were just not worth arguing about. I picked my fights and let the other ones work themselves out. Regardless of the many quarrels that grew between the cadets, deep relationships developed. 1 found secret

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Life on the Californian was full of hardsh ips and trials I never imagined myself going through . I had never been sailing before , so being in the open ocean for nine days straight on the first leg of the trip was difficult. I became up-close and personal with all the challenges of sailing. The unreliable wind, the struggle with lines or the helm , the constant sail handling. Who enjoys waking up at all hours of the night only to be splattered with freezing salt water? Many times throug hout the trip, I yearned for nothing more than a good night's sleep in my own little hole in the wall. Countless nights I lay awake and wish, for a steady bed beneath me and for the sickness in my stomach to cease. Privacy on board ship was inconceivable. 1 felt as if I was in a prison , with an endless circle of horizon surrounding me, secluding me. I had no possible escape, no way of forgetting it all. I could never shrink from my responsibilities or not confront anything that was aggravating me. In a harmful combination of being physically sick, homesick, and generally annoyed by the difficulty of it all , many unnecessary arguments generated between everyone.

of my accomp lislwents, But thj s is nothing comp areA to what J learned ¦torn livin g vvifK my y Hends , Monika (Kiwi) Mencia ,left, and Toni Ng enjoy calm sea

passions and emotions revealed in the deepest , darkest nights. I discovered myself speaking of things I had barely even admitted to myself. I was often amazed that so many separate people could have so many situations and experiences in common. I made friends on this trip that are incomparable to the ones 1 left at home. I appreciate them and the individuality that each brought to the ship. In no other situation can I imagine people knowing me any better than the 11 other cadets aboard the Californian. I will hold a place for them within my heart for the rest of my life. In the end, I know I have changed. I have a better

understanding of how much pressure is just too much. I have learned how to trust people and depend on them. I can be proud of my accomplishments and better accept compliments. I The Californian may not have found out the meaning of life, but now I But living so close to these strange people became the feel one-step closer to understanding mine. essence of the trip. 1 quickly adopted sailing as my new-found hobby and then made it another part of my daily routine. Yes, sailing taught me to be stronger and Recent MercyHigh graduate, Toni Ng, 18, more proud of my accomplishments. But this is nothp lans to attend Chico State University in thefall ing compared to what I learned from living with my Sh e was selected as one of th ef our cad et ma tes friends. All admired and adopted the virtues of to oversee the last leg of the Californian's journey patience and honesty. I now know that self-control when the cadet crew took full charge of the and conscious indifference led to calmer nights and 110-ton sailingvessel. My new and closer friends yesterday were now my greatest enemies that I would rather drown today. How did 1 get stuck on a boat with these people?

Top: Barely visible in the sails they are working at dawn are Caitlin Sullivan and Michelle Sato. Aboveright: At the microscop e, AngelaMassoni studies plankton samples. Above: Jeanette Guiral makes calculations as p art of the study of navigational mathematics. Right: Working in the wind, Elizabeth Squire hauls sail lines. Far right: Galley work was part of every-day life on the Calif ornian; Michelle Sato pulls her shift

read up on the next port , took her turn as navigator, and two months at sea, 12 young women from San tested sea water samples for ongoing oceanographic JnFrancisco 's Mercy High School matured from sailing greenhorns to legitimate sailors —• even projects , "A sampling of post-voyage reflections from the taking total charge of "their " 145-foot , 110-ton schooner young cadets: Californian for the final leg of their journey, a 60-hour -) "At 0300 (3 a.m.), the next watch relieves you. Your stretch that included some of the worst weather the crew sleep is deep and blissful for three hours until you are awakened again at 0630 for breakfast . You are hungrier had encountered since debarking San Diego on Valentine 's Day. at sea than you have ever been on land, and you eat a tall stack of pancakes before rolling back into your rack The cadets were inaugural members of the first Tall Ship for a little nap invariably interrupted by emerSemester at Mercy, an academic sail-training program noted unique in the country and perhaps the world, gency drills or sail maneuvers." -) "All the cadets eat, sleep and work in a single cabin. Caitlin Schwarzman , the semester's "principal ". For two months you live To take part in the protogether , discover each gram , the students essenothers ' personal habits; tially became a tiny school within a school , commitand endure annoying little ting themselves to a spequirks. Sometimes it feels like you breathe too much cialized curriculum for an of each others' a ir. " entire semester — coastal -) "The hours of bow history, navigational mathematics , seamanwatch, steering, navigation and hourly engine room ship, maritime literature , checks seem cold and oceanography. empty at first , but develop Three weeks into the into hours of self-reflection semester, the classroom became the Californian, a and contemplation. The engine room is the gaff topsail schooner built in 1984 , a replica of an warmest part of the whole Caitlin Schwarzman 1848 ship. And like its 1848 boat , and often on cold nights thorough you do very , time-consuming checks." prototype, the Californian features hand-operated -) "Night watch has given you the opportunity to discovwinches, pulleys and lines. While the vessel is overseen er a sea of fireflies in the bioluminescent plankton , by a small, professional crew, the Mercy cadets became the operational muscle — and eventushooting stars, and intense hours of self-examination ." -) "Bow watch during the day gives you other opportually know-how — behind the sails. nities. One afternoon a school of dolphins came to play The women stood watch , hoisted with the boat. A bunch of you Oclimb out onto the headmammoth sails, scrubbed decks , rig and nearly touch their sleek backs with your checked engines (not available in dangling feet." 1848), did galley stints, climbed nearly In all the Californian and its crew covered nearly 3,000 100 feet off the deck into the rigging to miles and made 18 ports of call. work sails, and spent hours on marineMuch of the cost of the voyage (roughly $7,000 per cadet) related academics — from celestial was met through sponsorships, scholarships, and the navigation to the lives of gray whales. girls' own labors. Monika Mencia worked in her mother's They also visited remote villages of hair salon all summer, then used her artistic talents and Baja California , walked isolated beachcreated Christmas wreaths and ornaments she sold. Toni es along the Sea oi Cortez, and Ng work full time at an engraving store — and did so well snorkeled coral formations. she was made manager. Andrea Wall held two retail jobs "In a given 24-hours at sea," said all last summer, working seven days per week. Schwarzman, herself a veteran longThe dozen cadets were Michelle Sato, Shelley Best, Toni "each young woman distance sailor, Ng, Ann a Capp, Monique Perez, Elizabeth Squire, Celeste stood two watches, attended two classCroy-Baker, Monika Mencia , Angela Massoni, Jeanette es, ate three meals, and helped wash a Guiral , Caitlin Sullivan , and Andrea Wall. set of dishes. She wrote in her journal ,

Sail on,..

For more information including additional photographs , student reflections, and ways to become a sponsor of Mercy High School's Tall Ship Semester, log onto the Mercy f High webpage -. and "click" on "Tall Ship"; or, write the school at 3250 1 9th Ave., San Francisco 94132

JCATHOLIC

SAN FRANCISCO You can 't change ocean; but you can chang e course

Although she does not share the specific words in her reflection on page 12, Toni Ng makes an observation based on her recent sea voyage that is profound beyond her 18 years: "You can't change the ocean, you can only change your course." If more of us would take that essentially spiritual insight to heart, the world would rapidly become an even more wonderful place. Few of us can realistically make dramatic changes in our life circumstances — our jobs, our education, our health , our relationships. But if we "change course," if we more consciously let Christ help us navigate, we can alter to a potentially incredible degree not only our own sense of those life circumstances — our ocean — but the potential for holiness there. No matter how modest or how challenging those circumstances might be. There is an almost heretical temptation to play down our potential power, "heretical" in that Jesus' instruction to his disciples to go forth into the world and extend his ministry was part-and-parcel an instruction meant f or each of us as well And by virtue of that commission we are handed power — power to heal the sick, power to comfort the grieving, power to embrace the marginalized, power to bring light to others' lives. Jesus tells us that. And he was not pulling our legs, was he?

Happ y Father 's Day

Special thanks go out this Father's Day weekend to parishioners of St. John of God Parish — and members of other "sanctuary" parishes — who sparkplugged the recent effort to bring an entire family to the Archdiocese from Guatemala, a family whose father was nearly killed as a result of his efforts on behalf of justice and peace in his native country. If you have followed Catholic San Francisco coverage of the story, you know the father and mother were slipped out of Guatemala after an assassination attempt on his life for his work on helping document stories and information for the human rights report, "Remembering Our History," headed by Guatemala City Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera. Bishop Gerardi was murdered April 26 of last year, two days after releasing that document. While immediate removal of the parents was imperative, the children stayed. For some time they were kept hidden, awaiting a chance to escape . That chance came as a result of an April 23 appeal in a story by staffer Sharon Abercrombie. Needed: six 35,000-mile Frequent Flyer coupons issued by United Airlines. Not an easy request. Result: you readers provided double that amount. On June 2 the six additional children arrived at San Francisco International (the oldest had flown in sooner). See the photo on this week's cover. At the least your generosity has united a family; and it's not a stretch to conjecture that lives might have been saved. Note: Over the past 13 years St. John of God parishioners have assisted 12 families be reunited here after members had won political asylum.

Summer publishing schedule begins

In keeping with its postal accord and published printing schedule, Catholic San Francisco will not publish next week. The next issue date will be July 2, with deadlines for regular features such as "Datebook" and "On the Street Where You Live" remaining 10 days in advance. After the July 2 edition, summer issue "datelines" (the Friday publication dates of the newspaper) will be July 16 and 30, and Aug. 13 and 27. Weekly publication is scheduled to resume on Sept. 3. For readers' information , Catholic San Francisco actually rolls onto the presses in the late hours of Tuesdays or the early morning hours of Wednesdays. It is then folded, stuffed with any advertising inserts that might be planned, and sorted for the Postal Service. If all goes according to schedule, readers within the Archdiocese should receive their newspapers in the Friday mail.

Thanks from Vati can

The Holy Father has asked me to acknowled ge the offering of $65,391, which you sent through the Apostolic Nunciature as a contributio n to the needs of the Holy See, in accordance with Canon 127 1 of the Code of Canon Law. His Holiness sees this g ift as an expression of communion with the Successor of Peter, whose ministry the Second Vatican Council describes as providing for the common good of the universal Church and for the good of the individual Churches (cf. Christu s Dotninus , 2). The approach of the new Millennium obli ges the whole Church to be ever more active in responding to the evangelizing task which flows fro m fidelity to Christ and which is still far from being fulfilled. For this reason , and in the face of the everincreasing demands made on him , His Holiness is most grateful for the support he receives from the Church' s members. In this final year of preparation for the great Jubilee of the Year 2000, the Holy Father prays that the People of God in San Francisco will have a keen sense of being on a "journey to the Father " and will seek to serve him ever more effectively through Christian charity, in its twofold reality as love of God and love of neighbor (cf. Tertio Millennia Adveniente , 50). As a pledge of grace and peace in our Lord Jesus Christ, he cordially imparts his apostolic blessing. Cardinal Angelo Sodano Vatican Secretary of State (Ed. note : The above letter, dated May 12, 1999, refers to last year 's Peter 's Pence collection. This year 's collection is scheduled June 27 in parishes of the Archdiocese. See related message from A rchbishop William J. Levada on page 5.)

What 's good f or geese...

L E T T E E S

Thank you for the reminder. I fully sympathize with the thoughts expressed in Christine Dubois ' recent column , "Look, it's the snow geese!" Striking a bal ance between reasonable efficiency and smelling the roses is a tig ht-rope walk. Recently I read an article by Robert Warren Cromey, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, in the San Francisco Chronicle. He described the life of a Christian as one of tension. His topic was not geese, but the sentiments expressed were very similar. Maureen Lundy San Francisco

See sin, not sinner

In regard to the three folks commenting in May 28's issue on their view of Henry Hyde's acceptability, their common concern seemed to be his integrity, faulted by his past "indescretions."

Letters welcome

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As Catholics, we 're called to save our bitter words and thoug hts for the sin , not the sinner. At the same time, we 're reminded that hardly a day goes by in a Christian 's life that he doesn 't hear about the Lord 's widely known progenitor, David, and , after him , Solomon. Important here are these men 's relationshi ps in the human order: The Lord' s to David , David to Solomon. The Lord is David' s creator but his many-timesremoved father, while David is father to Solomon. And who is Solomon 's mother, but Bathsheba , who became his mother at the time her valid husband — and that would not be David — was away from home on a battle front. And what of Solomon? His fidelity to the Lord was seriousl y wanting when , as an older man, he deserted the Law for a fling with paganism. Yet it pleases the Lord to leave David where he is, and his son, along with him; mentioned, copied, quoted , accepted. I don 't know about Solomon, but I know David was publicly sorry for his "indescretion ." So was Hyde. Sara Lockwood

About 95% rig ht

I am in agreement with about percent of George Wesolek 's 95 14 column on social justice. It May is well written and recalls thoughts I had long ago when John F. Kennedy was elected president. I wondered how he was going to reconcile certain things taught by the Church with his Catholicism. As of late, at dinners and in social settings, I have been asked if I am a "heretic" — professing to be a Catholic, pro-life, anti-abortion , and being at odds with both my pope and the pastoral letter of my bishops, in my advocacy of the death penalty. The obvious answer is: "Certainly not.". Being an advocate of the death penalty does not make me: a) immoral , b) sinfu l, or c) contrary to any uniform and/or ex cathedra teachings of my Church. When peop le such as Wesolek make what purports to be "basic observations " as his column did, to wit: "Any politics of human life must also work to resist the violence of war (with which I agree) and the scandal of capital punishment ," this is not a "basic observation ". It is an opinion, which in my opinion , is egregiousl y incorrect. The commentary, published in an archdiocesan newspaper , attempts to elevate an anti-death penalty opinion to the lofty position of the official teaching of the Catholic Church spoken ex cathedra on a matter of faith and morals. Clearly, it is not. The death penalty is not scandalous , nor sinful , nor immoral . -This is what I was taught b y the good Jesuits at U.S.F. based on the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theolog ica . As I recall, the death penalty is simpl y a proper, moral functi on of the "body politic " to protect its membership as a whole. The point of this letter : when and if the pope declares , in an encyclical ex cathedra , that the death penalty is either sinful and/or immoral , I will deal with it at that time of its promulgation. For now, the death penalty issue is one that reasonable, moral, non-sinful , intelligent , thinking Catholics can disagree upon without being at odds with their Church. I think the newspaper should make it clear that my advocacy of the death penalty is not contrary to the teachings of my Catholic Church; is not a heretical LETTERS, page 16

Strangersin our midst =================== ^=

14-mile border wall is a scar in need of attention

symbol of a monumental failure of international eco- the press they can be demonized as illegal aliens, but nomic systems to incorporate the poor in any way that each one is a human being struggling to survive and get hel ps them rise out of poverty. The wall is another ahead , oftentimes with great courage and dedication to family. The reverent mention of their names is meant to advantage for the rich , disadvantage for the poor. JDrother Ed Dunn is a great Franciscan, somewhat in I went to the wall on the last Saturday of May. Each be a reminder of their inherent dignity. The wall â&#x20AC;&#x201D;that the mode of Friar Tuck. He combines girth and mirth. He Saturday in May a small gang of 20 from San Diego and scar on the border plateau â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is a symbol of the place of jollies up the justice struggle. In the last years , he has 20 from Tijuana gathered at the border and prayed for burial. By these devotional moments, Brother Ed wants spent his energies and talents in the service of immi- the people who had to transform scarred grants and refugees. As a grandson of Irish immi grants , died crossing the ground to sacred he has remembered well the stories of poverty and border. Since the ground. exploitation which are part of his family history and has wall was built , 400 On the cover of sought creative ways to help immigrants in this time have died crossing the program for the when popular sentiment has turned against them. into California. A prayer service on At one point , Brother Ed organized a paper plate recent study in The the last Saturday of campaign petitioning for Gov. Pete Wilson of I n t e r n a t i o n a l May, Brother Ed California to restore the food stamps which had been Migration Review Dunne quoted an taken away from immigrants in the Welfare Reform cited 1,600 deaths unidentified migrant Act. Immigrants sent 3,000 paper plates , some with totally along the whole length of the border from who responded to the question: "How can we help?" by saying, "Remove the fear from the people." As St. John picture s of their families imprinted on the p late , the California to Texas between 1993 and 1997. sign that plates are empty for this famil y because of The whole gathering experience at the wall was reminds us, "True love casts out fear." (Un 4:18) this law. He organized a long distance call with one of very Franciscan: simp le, prayerful , mindful of poor , May the hard work and example of Bro ther Ed ' the governor s aides and a whole line of people queued desperate people. What impressed me most was the Dunne help cast out that fear and build us up in love up for a hot lunch. All of them talked personally to the reading of the names. Each Saturday, 80 names of the for immigrants and refugees and help us discover more aide about their condition. dead were read aloud followed by some mark of iden- creative and more just ways to respond to their needs. In recent months , Brother Ed has moved into a tification: "male, 20 years old" or "woman and child." house with other Franciscans in National City, a What struck me was the number of young men in their Father Anthony McGuire is a p riest of the suburb of San Diego. He has begun focussing his 20s and , even more chilling, the number of "unidentiArchdiocese of San Francisco on assignment in attention on the 14-mile wall which the Border P-atrol fied males." I could not help but think of wives back Washington, D. C. as director of the U.S. Catholic has set up starting- at Tijuana-San Diego and which home or parents wondering what became of their Conference 's Office of Pastoral Care f o r Migrants blocks out entrance to California. Brother Ed shares husbands or sons. They would never know. Each Robert Frost's sentiments in the poem "Mending person who read off the names was asked to bring the and Refugee Services. He has agreed to provide Fences": "Something there is that doesn 't love a wall , names back home for daily prayer. Catholic San Francisco with periodic that wants it down." I went with Brother Ed once to the commenta ries on refugee issues in a column titled Part of Brother Ed's efforts at the border is to under"Strangers in Our Midst ". wall and that was my sentiment as well. This wall is a line the dignity of each person who crosses the border. In

By Father Anthony McGuire

In the p ress they can be demonized as illegal aliens, hut each one is a human

being strugg ling to survive and get ahead , oftentimes with great courage. ..

The Catholic Difference

An unsung Polish hero

George Weigel JL JLard as it is to believe, it has been 10 years since the Polish Roundtable agreement of April 1989. By providing for semi-free elections that Solidarity swept two months later, the Roundtable accelerated the collapse of European communism. The communist crack-up, in turn , vindicated Pope John Paul IPs revolution of conscience in east central Europe , demonstrating how tru th can speak to power in ways that change history. On this 10th anniversary, there were deserved public accolades to some of the familiar heroes, living and dead , of the Solidarity movement: Lech Walesa, the charismatic Gdansk electrician ; Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the martyr-priest; Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the Catholic editor who became postwar Poland's first non-communist prime minister in September 1989. At the same time, I should like to remember an unsung hero of the revolution â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a man whose moral courage and personal bravery made Solidarity 's eventu-

al triumph in 1989 possible, because he helped prevent a Soviet invasion of Poland in December 1980. In the fall of 1980, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski was an aide to Polish defense minister General Wojciech Jaruzelski and the Polish army's liaison to Soviet Marshal Viktor Kulikov, the commander-in-chief of the Warsaw Pact 's Joint Armed Forces. Twelve years earlier, as a junior officer , Ryszard Kuklinski had been appalled by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, and perhaps even more by the lies that accompanied it. He could not, he decided, serve lies defended by brute force. So in the early 1970s, Kuklinski became an intelligence source for the United States, at grave risk to his life and his family s safety. His greatest service came in the fal l of 1980. Solidarity 's electrifying victory in the negotiations following the Gdansk shipyard strike in August had caused consternation in the Kremlin, where an independent , self-governing trade union was regarded as a mortal threat to the communist system as indeed it was. Solidarity had to go, and throughout the fall of 1980, the Soviet Union was preparing to make it go by force. An invasion of some 18 Warsaw Pact divisions was being planned, to commence in early December. Had it taken place , it also seems likely there would have been summary court-martials and mass execution of thousands of Solidarity leaders. Colonel Kuklinski , who, according to one source, knew more about the invasion plans than even General Jaruzelski, took an enormous chance by providing detailed reports on the Soviet scheme to U.S. intelligence. This intelligence allowed national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to organize a number of initiatives that made it plain to the Soviet leadership that the West would not react as placidly to a Soviet invasion of

Poland in December 1980 as it had to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. One of these initiatives involved the threat of a worldwide trade union boycott of Soviet shipping and air transport a virtual blockade of the USSR which Brzezinski p lanned with AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland. Brzezinski also informed Pope John Paul II of what the U.S. knew, and how which in turn led the pope to take a bold and historic initiative (details of which will be revealed for the first time when Witness to Hope, my biography of the Holy Father, is published in October) . The Soviet leadership finally backed down , canceling,the invasion as Warsaw Pact divisions were heading for the Polish border. Without the information provided by Colonel Kuklinski, it seems unlikely the West could have gathered itself in time to forestall a Soviet invasion of Poland on or about Dec. 8, 1980. And that invasion could well have destroyed the Solidarity movement. Colonel Kuklinski and his family were brought to the United States in late 1981, just as Kuklinski's was about to be arrested, his cover blown. He was condemned to death in absentia by a Warsaw Military District Court in 1984. The guilty verdict was finall y reversed in March 1995 by the Polish Supreme Court, which ruled Kuklinski had honored his soldier 's oath by taking actions that were in the interest of [Polish] sovereignty and independence. When he-finally returned to Poland for a visit last year, the Holy Father quietly let it be known the Church should receive Ryszard Kuklinski as an authentic hero. As, indeed, he was, and is.

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

On BeingCatholic

The question of divine gender

approaching death than the birth pangs of an expectant mother. (Jn 16:21) But the language of "Father " and "Son" is more than metaphor; Jesus does not say that God is "like" a Father to him, nor is he "like" a Son to God. God is his Father, He is God's Son. Just as we cannot comprehend Father/Son apart from before/after — and yet we profess this — so we cannot comprehend Father/Son without thinking "male". Our limitation is that we cannot imagine a being who is personal without being male or female, and yet that is who God is. In our finite human experience , a personal being is always "gendered" and so we cannot help using the language 'of gender when speaking of God, even though JLn my last column I mentioned the controversy pro- we know God as God is neither voked by Arius in the fourth century ; he denied the full male nor female. While recognizing the difdivinity of Christ. Bishops were imprisoned or exiled over the question of the eternity of the Son of God. The ficulty some people have in issue which triggers passions today is not whether the using "male " language for Son was begotten or made, but the use "Father " and God , I feel the alternatives often proposed threaten the "Son" for God. Genesis tells us God created Man in the divine crucial truth of God as personimage; "male and female he created them." (Gen 1:27) al. To consistently replace "he" with "God", or "himThat male and female both share in the divine image self with "Godself' leads us away from the God of salproclaims that God is not male, that God is above the vation history, the God of Jesus Christ, a personal God distinctions of gender. Still, we are told "He " created of passionate love, and leaves us only the abstract them , and throughout Scripture God is spoken of in "deity " of the philosophers. Nor is the hermaphroditic masculine terms. When we come to the Gospels, we "He/She " helpful: we all have masculine and feminine encounter the language of "Father" and "Son." This is traits , but we are women or men; we cannot help but more than metaphorical imagery. In his teaching, Jesus refer to a person as "him" or "her". We can certainly say used both male and female images for God: for exam- that God is "like" a mother to us, just as God is "like" a ple, God is as much like a woman searching for a lost father to us. To say God is Father and Mother moves us coin as a shep herd searching for a lost sheep. (Lk 15:4- from the world of real experience to that of artificial 10) Jesu s likens himself to a mother hen gathering her abstraction. God is neither male nor female, yet intenseyoung (Mt 23:37) and can find no better image for his ly personal . To paraphrase St. Augustine, we must say

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"Father " and "Son " when speaking of the Trinity, because otherwise we could say nothing at all. We also believe that through Christ and the Holy Spirit God has shared with us something of his own inner identity, although God will always be infinitely beyond our ability to comprehend. Thus , the temptation to replace "Father , Son and Holy Sp irit " with "Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier" is misguided. First, it is simp ly not true: the work of creation, redemption and sanctification is entirely the work of God, and all three Persons are involved in each of these works. It also imolies that the distinctions between Father, Son and Holy Spirit are simply differences in the way God deals with us. The profession of Catholic faith is that with the revelation of Father, Son and Holy Spirit we learn that God is in himself , apart from creation , inherently relational . What is revealed of God in the experience of Christ and the Holy Spirit goes beyond our human comprehension, since God is infinitely beyond our understanding. But , let us recall the profound teaching of St. Paul: the Spirit we receive searches the very depths of God, and we receive this Spirit "that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God." (1 Cor 2:12) It is the Holy Spirit praying in us who enables us to address God as "Abba," the very word used by the Eternal Son who in taking on our humanity has made us his sisters and brothers .

...the temptation to rep lace "Father, Son and

Holy Spirit" with "Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier " is misguided.

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veto power makes it difficult to mobilize UN forces. However, this difficulty does not excuse NATO setting ¦ Continued from page 14 itself up as a rival security force. History teaches that when military alliances are position; is not something subjecting me to ex-communi- formed , competing military alliances spring up to form a cation. It should be made clear that George Wesolek, the counterbalance. These balances of power are always prebishops and the pope have only expressed their personal carious , and twice in this century have resulted in world opinions on the subject. war. The United Nations was organized to make these Your publications should make it clear there is room alliances obsolete. When the Warsaw Pact collapsed , in the Church for men of good will to espouse an opinion NATO should have gracefully retired. Yet it has aggreson the subject which is at odds with the pope and the sively expanded in the face of no apparent enemy. Now bishops. NATO, an exclusive, minority organization , seeks to supMichael Farrah, Sr. plant the UN as the properly constituted authority to remSan Francisco edy international injustice and defend international order. If NATO makes the UN obsolete , other nations will look outside the UN to defend themselves from NATO. In his May 21 column, George Weigel wonders if NATO's actions in Serbia are immoral not simply gross incompetence by the "properly constituted authori- because they are unconstitutional (or as Weigel suggests, ty" conducting a war makes it necessary to jud ge that the because they are being bungled) . They are immoral war is not morall y justifiable. Although I find nothing to because they undermine the UN , encourage exclusive dispute in Weigel's argument, I am disappointed he chose military alliances, and will lead to a dangerous destabito skirt the more immediate and pressing moral question: lizatiOn on the world scene. had the war been declared by the properl y constituted Kevin Rush authority ? San Francisco My reading of the U.S. Constitution tells me only Congress can declare war. The Congress did not declare war on Serbia. Congress did vote to go along with the The article "Catholic hospital s breathin g easier President 's determination that NATO force should be used, after defeat of AB525" was very good. I was unaware of but this is not the same thing as declaring war. If the the threat by the legislature . Would you please print the Congress passes the buck, aren't they also passing the names of the Bay Area Assembl y members and how they authority to a body, which is not the properly constituted voted , in order to help form a right conscience next year authority ? at the polls? Mr. Weigel's comfort with NATO as a properl y conVincent P. Welch stituted authority is distressing . NATO has been a mutuSan Rafael al defense pact , pledged to defend any member nation. The Serbian civil war has not spilled into the territory of (Ed. note: Catholic San Francisco working in any NATO member. It is a stretch at best to conclude conjunction with the California Catholic Conference NATO is the proper body to deal with this crisis. and the Archdiocese 's Office of Public Policy and The properl y constituted authori ty is the United Social Concerns hopes to carry a comprehensive Nations, which I recal l , has a Security Council. The fact report on leg islative voting records in the fall which that permanent members of the Security Council have will include this information.)

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Dads help us grow fast every morning—eggs or hot cereal in an orderly rotation; pancakes on Sunday; cold cereal on Saturday only, no matter how much we begged. We spent a lot of time running errands. My dad knew almost everyone in town by name, and if he didn 't , he 'd talk to them anyway. Mom used to complain that it took him half-an-hour to buy a tank of gas. "What 's your father doing in there?" she'd say, increasingly exasperated as the minutes ticked by. He s had time to buy the p lace!" As a child, of course, 1 took many of my father ' s sacrifices for granted. Like the time Mom decided raising giant silk moths at home would be a rewarding educational experience for us children. I can still see Dad up on the ladder in the living room, trying to coax the moths down from the curtains. Or the time he took us camping—he hated camping—and the stove in our rented camper broke down and we had to eat fi g bars for breakfast. That was aftei being awakened at 1 a.m. by neighboring campers whc had found my little sister wandering around trying to find her way back from the outhouse. People who 've met my dad say it 's easy to see why I turned out the way I am. I take that as a compliment. Ask my kids about their father and they'll say he likes tea and books and watching the Seattle Mariners on

cable TV. And he spends a lot of time writing stories on his laptop computer. But his specialty is fun and games. When the boys were younger, Steve would delight them with the silly antics of stuffed animals and Lego people. Nowadays Steve and the boys make up card games with rules so intricate 1can't follow them. They take action figures into other dimensions to save the universe. They shine flashlights through a prism to make rainbows on the ceiling. I can already see Steve's zany creativity rubbing off on our sons. Nine-year-old Lucas writes and illustrates his own comics, and 5-year-old Gabe recently taught the babysitter a card game he made up—and beat her every time. Fathers give us a glimpse of our own future. Whether they 're playing cards, running errands, or just catching a few zzz 's beside us, our fathers—by their very presence—help shape the people we become. This year, when I'm picking out that perfect Father 's Day present, I'll be thinking of all the gifts I've received from my dad. What better time to thank him— and God—for his love.

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p resence—hel p shap e the peop le we become.

Christine Dubois V_-/ne of my favorite famil y photos shows a touching father-and-son moment. I had left Lucas , then about 3 months old , in the motel room with my husband , Steve, while I ran out for a soda. I came back to find them lying side by side on the bed, both fast asleep . It's not easy being a dad today. Today' s dads are changing diapers, checking homework, and cooking dinner , and today 's kids are so much the richer for it. My own father was slightly ahead of his time. A college professor, his schedule gave him more time at home than other dads in the neighborhood. He took us for long walks, showed us the constellations in the night sky, and treated us to Cracker Jacks at the zoo. He cooked break-

Sainthood of Mary, the Mother of God: is she 'above' saints? Q. We always f ind yourr column J^ q Ues . helpful for our faith and have a quesler tion. When was Mary, the mother of God, f irst called a saint? Why i^^ are churches and other institu- ^ tions called St. Mary 's ? ^^| 7 always think of her as above sainthood , not as one of the list of saints. Can you clarify ? (Illinois)

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Another word , "dulia ," refers in theology to the veneration and honor properl y given to anyone besides God , to the angels and the hol y ones who have gone before us and who are honored as saints. Because of Mary 's role in God's plan of salvation , and her unmatched surrender and fulfillment of God's will in her life , the varieties of unique honor we v_misuaiis give her Christians uci have nav been termed "hyperdulia," superhonor if you will. Whatever words we use in reverence toward those in heaven — honor, devotion , veneration and any others — and when we speak of "pray ing to" the saints (including Mary), asking their intercession before God , we need to remember those distinctions. Referring to her as St. Mary is common in Christian history. Perhaps the most renowned example is the Liberian Basilica in Rome , built during the 300s and rededicated to the mother of Christ in 431. Known as St. Mary Major, it is one of the four major Roman basilicas. (Questions for this column should be sent to Father

Christine Dubois is a widely published freelance write r who lives with her famil y near Seattle. Contact her at: chriscolumn@juno.com.

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A. I'm not sure what you mean by "above sainthood." Others like you have questioned the appropriateness of calling her St. Mary, but the title is an ancient one. Christian theolog ical tradition always carefull y distinguishes the honor g iven to God from honor given to any other being. The Latin word "latria" stands for the worship, prayer and other forms of honor which are due, and should be given, to God alone. This is in obedience to the first commandment that we must have and venerate the one God and have no other gods beside him. Obviously, Jesus Christ , the eternal Son of God who became a human being, shares in that divine honor. No other human , however holy or honorable, is equal to or takes the p lace of God in our lives. Usually the English terms "worshi p " and "adoration" refer exclusivel y to God.

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13 Catholic high schools send graduates into world

For vast maj ority of graduating seniors higher education will be their next step Marin Catholic High School , Kentfield Marin Catholic High School , celebrating its 50th anniversary, graduated 168 seniors during ceremonies at the school on lune 5. All members of the Class of 1999 have p lans to attend colleges including Harvard , UC Berkeley, United States Air Force Academy and UCLA. Class valedictorian was Kevin White. William Isetta Marin Catholic principal , William Isetta, retired this year after more than three decades at the school. . Announced as coprincipals for the 1999-2000 school year are Marin Catholic faculty members George Grandemange and Donald Ritchie.

Jesuit Brother Douglas Draper , who has served as St. Ignatius ' dean of students since 1969, smiles alongside the seniors who led the way into the school's Baccalaureate Mass at St. Mary Cathedral on June 3. The graduates , who all played in the school orchestra at the Mass , are (from left) Jeannine Marques, Vicki Hartanto, Chris Frank , Ryan Juan and Allison Cota

Senior Susan Ayoob (left) follows classmate Chrissy Wise to receive Communion from Msgr. Steven D. Otellini, Marin Catholic president.

San Domenico School San Anselmo San Domenico School, founded in 1850 and the oldest independent Catholic school in California , graduated 35 women, all of whom plan to go on to higher education , on lune 5. President of San Domenico School is Dominican Sister Gervaise Valpey. Princi pal of the high school is John Bowermaster. San Domenico is home to a nationally recognized music conservatory that includes a pre-professional virtuoso program for string musicians, one of only four in the United States. The school also offers a competitive sports program, a dramatic arts program, an on-campus equestrian facility and an environmental education program.

St Ignatius College Preparatory School, San Francisco St. Ignatius College Preparatory School graduated 369 men and women during commencement ceremonies at St. Ignatius Church on June 1. Valedictorian was Brian Hurley. At a previousl y held awards ceremony, Carleton Cheng delivered a salutatory address. Principal is Charles Dullea. Approximately 10 percent of the graduates will attend two-year colleges with 90 percent going on to some 120 four-

year schools including Princeton , Duke , and Fordham. St. Ignatius was founded in 1855 by the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. Last year, the school ranked among the top 20 schools in the nation for its Advanced Placement program, both for the number of advanced p lacement exams taken and the number passed. Its girls crew and boys varsity Lacrosse teams took first in the state and the girls Lacrosse team finished second in the state.

Mercy High School, San Francisco

Gina Lee (left) and Lois McCubbin were chosen 1999 class representatives and honored at the Senior Tea on May 14.

Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, San Francisco

Mercy High School, San Francisco, has 133 students in its 1999 graduating class. The class valedictorian is Maria Nozzolino, and the salutatorian is Jennifer Turek. Principal is Dotty McCrea. Mercy seniors, 98 percent of whom will attend college in the fall , have traditionally gone on to attend schools in both the California State University and University of California systems as well as private universities including Stanford and the University of San Francisco. Mercy is a sing le-gender school for girls, founded in 1952 by the Sisters of Mercy.

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With Sacred Heart in their backgrounds and college in the future, from left: Adriana Irvine, Colorado State; Shaun Ghafouri, UC Davis; Marissa Muller, UC Berkeley; Jeremy Mascia , University of Redlands , Cal.; Kendra Crawford , Vanderbilt; Ryan Teuscher, UC Santa Cruz. From left, Convent of the Sacred Heart graduates Amanda Burkett, Emily Di Capua Lauren Luke, Erica Terrell and Christine Hiler.

Commencement exercises for Convent of the Sacred Heart High School were held on June 4. The 46 young women of the Class of 1999 were the school's 112th graduating class. Valedictorian was Lilian Chau. All of the graduates are scheduled to attend college with Stanford , MIT,

Sacred Heart Preparatory School, Atherton

Sacred Heart Preparatory School conferred diplomas on 88 graduates during University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown ceremonies at the school on June 10. and Yale among them. Valedictorian was Cassidy Lange. Conferring the awards and diplomas were Salutatorian was Anna Ferrari. Mary Magnano Smith, director, Schools of Achievements of the students were the Sacred Heart; Stanley R. Baker, chair, recognized by Sacred Heart Sister Joan board of trustees; and Douglas Grant, head, McKenna, director of Sacred Heart Convent of the Sacred Heart High School. Preparatory and its sister school , St.

Joseph Elementary, and Richard A. Dioli. Sacred Heart Preparatory princi pal, at an Honors Convocation earlier in the day. All members of the gradu ating class will attend college in the fall with 34 studying at schools in California. Others have selected schools all over the United States and two will stud y at the ÂŚUniversity of St. Andrew 's in Scotland.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep, San Francisco Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory can trace its roots of serving the youth of the Archdiocese to 1852. For 147 years the Christian Brothers and Daughters of Charity, along with dedicated lay faculty, have been preparing young men and women to serve the Church and society. On May 29 , the school added 277 seniors to its alumni ranks. Meghan Duff was salutatorian with Stacie Solt delivering the valedictory address. Approximatel y 99 percent of the class will study at colleges across the United States from Stanford in the West to MIT in the East. Christi an Brother Christopher Brad y, a Sacred Heart Cathedral alumnus who leaves the school this year after 12 years as principal , officiated. John F. Scudder, Jr., who graduated from the school in 1973, served on its faculty since 1980 and been its associate principal since 1997, has been announced as new principal. In closing

Woodside Priory School, Portola Valley

Christian Brother Christopher Brady, principal , with Sacred Heart Cathedral graduate Melissa Brady following commencement exercises at St. Mary Cathedral. remarks, Mr. Scudder thanked Brother Chris "for his superior stewardship over Sacred Heart Cathedral...and most importantly for his friendship and vision of Catholic education in San Francisco."

Immaculate Conception Academy, San Francisco Saying that "the century had trul y saved the best for last ," Immaculate Conception Academy valedictorian Teresa Lazzaretto spoke for the 105th graduating class of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose School at commencement ceremonies at St. Mary Cathedral on May 29. Teresa is a Life Member of the California Scholarship Federation. From left: Teresa Benitez, Vita Paramo , Daniela Earlier in the day at the Ornelas and Karen Flores smile before entering school' s Baccalaureate Mass , Baccalaureate Mass on May 29. Jackie Curran delivered a salutatory address. Jackie is a National Cruz; Dominican College and a number of Merit finalist. More than 95 percent of the 62 women California State University campuses. Principal is Dominican Sister Janice in the Class of 1999 will attend colleges and universities including Spelman in Therese Wellington. Immaculate Conception Atlanta; St. Mary's in Moraga; University Academy was founded in 1883 by the of California at Davis, Berkeley, and Santa Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose.

Woodside Priory School's graduating class of 37 young men and women marched the traditional procession to Church Square patio for graduation ceremonies on May 29. Headmaster Tim Molak and Board of Trustees Chair Art Schultz presented diplomas. All graduates will go on to college at summer's end. Guest speaker was actress and ambassador Shirley Temple Black , whose granddaughter, Teresa Falaschi, was among the graduating seniors. Valedictorian was Mike Mastman , a National Merit Finalist and a Stanford freshman in the fall. Salutatorian Carl Spanoghe will attend Loyola Marymount University.

From left: Woodside Priory seniors Tom Alexander, Jenny Upjohn, Peter Newman. The class was honored at events throughout the week including Baccalaureate Mass, a dinner with teachers and parents and breakfast with the junior class.

Notre Dame High School, Belmont Notre Dame Hi gh School's Class of 1999 graduation ceremony was held on June 5 at St. Bartholomew Church, San Mateo. Valedictorian was Jenny Windstrup. Salutatorian was Sarah Bow les. Princi pal is Rita Gleason. This is the school's 148th graduating class and 99 percent of its 164 members will attend college. Notre Dame 's young women have been accepted at schools including Boston University, Bryn Mawr, Cornell , NYU and Stanford . Notre Dame was established by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1851 in San Jose. The school moved to the Belmont campus in 1923.

From left: Notre Dame High School seniors Stephanie Schneider, Gina Labozetta and Kristen Karcich before proceeding to annual class day ceremonies.

Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco On May 30, Archbishop Riordan High School held its annual graduation exercises in its Lindland Theatre. Marianist Father Tim Kenney, princ ipal, handed diplomas to 156 young men. The Class of 1999 is the 50th graduating class at the school which has provided a Catholic education in the Marianist tradition to young men of San Francisco since 1949. Valedictorian was Troy Lionberger, a National Merit scholar. Salutatorian was Student Body President Isaac Muwaswes. More than 99 percent will continue on to schools of higher learning including Northwestern University, University of Oregon, United States Air Force Academy, the Marianists ' Chaminade University and all campuses of the University of California and Calfornia State University systems.

Recipients of Mercy, Burlingame 's highest awards with Mercy Sister Rosann Fraher, Principal. From left: Nicole Jane Ramos , Board of Directors Award for Academic Excellence; Katherine Michelle Olson , Siste r Mary Gabriel Awa rd for Excellence in Sportsmanship; twin sisters Emily Jean and Natalie Michelle Frye, Mother Baptist Russell Award; Vashti Ricardo Sinigayan, Sister Amy Bayley Leadership Award; Gina Kathleen Rosaia , Principal's Award for General Excellence.

Mercy High School, Burlingame On May 7, Archbishop Riordan High School alumni welcomed the Class of 1999 into its fold at the annual Senior ' Farewell Prayer Service and Networking Luncheon. From left: Ralph Olcese , Riordan '62; and seniors Ryan Salonga , Vincent Ramirez and Jonathan Barretto.

Mercy High School , Burlingame graduated 96 seniors at St, Ignatiu s Church on June 6. Valedictorian was Nicole Jane Ramos. Salutatorian was Yvette Alzugaray. Principal is Mercy Sister Rosann Fraher. This year, 99 percent of Mercy 's graduates will go on to colleges including Santa Clara University, UC Berkeley, Southern

Oregon University, Loyola Marymount University and Cal Poly, Pomona. Mercy was founded in 1931 by the Sisters of Mercy and continues to be sponsored by them today. Mercy Sister Rosann Fraher has been Mercy's principal since 1993. This is the school' s 67th graduating class. Mercy is a single gender, all girls, college preparatory school.

Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo Juni pero Serra High School' s gradu ation Mass and commencement exercises took place on June 5 at St. Mary Cathedral. Father Stephen Howell, Serra president , presided . Michael Peterson , princi pal , awarded dip lomas to the 200 graduates, 98 percent of whom are college bound. Valedictorian was Keith Rauenbuehler. Some of the schools the young men, who have won more than $1.3 million in scholarships, will attend are United States Naval Academy, Boston College , University of Nebraska, and Amherst College.

The Class of 1999 has fielded winning teams and individuals in all 12 of its varsity sports and contributed to one of the most accomplished jazz bands and symphonic bands in the school's 55-year history. In addition they were a major part of this year 's Tri-School musical , "Oklahoma," the largest in Serra 's history. They also have been extensively involved in Christian service projects including the Catholic Worker House and building low-income housing in Mexico and at home.

From left: Keith Rauenbuehler, valedictorian, plans to attend the University of Notre Dame; Ryan Howard , Indiana University; Mark Sorhouet, Santa Clara University; Student Body President Chris Darmanin, George Washington University; and Serra Principal Michael Peterson.

c Readings: Get over yourself and get real' "Get over yourself and get real!" the Word of God insists this Sunday. Yes, "Throug h one man sin entered the world and throug h sin , death." (Sunday 's second leading) Yes, sin has proliferated. Yes, senseless violence , colossal disrespect for human life , willful plundering Jeremiah 20:10-13; Psalm 69; of the environRomans 5:12-15; Matthew 10:26-33 ment that supports human life, and a "culture of death" slap s us in the face not onl y in the newspapers , on television , and in other media but in our own lives. But a longer and louder yes, "the gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one man many died, how much more did the grace of God and the gracious gift of the one man Jesus Christ overflow for the many." This "gracious gift ," however, can go unnoticed and breadth of vision: to bear God's Word and presence to unappreciated because it shines brilliantly only in human God's People! But a reality check appears when the prophet meets a adversity, in the midst of persecution , in the daily struggle to proclaim God's saving intervention through Jesus stiff-necked , hard-hearted people. It is deja vu for any Christ in the Spirit-filled community. Truth to say, it is pastoral minister, D.R.E., educator, R.C.I.A. team, parish easier to cave in, give up, raise the white flag of surren- pastoral council, pastoral staff , men and women, youth , der than to stay in the fray, resist with might and mane, young adults , and children who take the Gospel seriousand discover the divine energy promised to those who ly: it sounded so wonderful at the outset , but then " 'O Lord , you have enticed me, and I was enticed; you have take risks. Jeremiah the person is an excellent case in point. overpowered me and you have prevailed. I hear the whisThrough his disciples who compiled the book named after perings of many: Terror on every side! Denounce! Let us him, we get a picture that seems all too familiar to us. He denounce him! All those who were my friends are on the tried to beg off from his vocation, ""Oh, Lord God! Behold watch for any misstep of mine.'" (Sunday 's first reading) I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.' But the There awaits the proclaimer of God's Word an enormous Lord said to me, 'Do not say, I am only a youth; for to all struggle to keep on with this ministry. Matthew has Jesus to whom I send you you shall go, and whatever I command say to us , his apostolic Church, "What I say to you in the you you shall speak. Be not afraid of them, for I am with darkness, speak in the light; what you hear whispered, you to deliver you.'" (Jer T.6-8) What excitement and what proclaim on the housetops. And do not be afraid of those

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Father David M. Pettingill

who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and bod y in Gehenna." (Sunday 's Gospel) The stories we are sent to proclaim have some danger in them for us. But the only way we can feel the power of God at work in us, accomplishing "immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine," is to risk the continued witness to the Word. Then and only then do the words of Jeremiah make any sense, "But the Lord is with me like a mi ghty champion: my persecutors will stumble, they will not triumph. In their failure they will be put to utter shame, to lasting, unforgettable confusion." Then and onl y then do the words in Matthew make any sense, "Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father 's knowledge. Even all the hairs of your head are counted. So do not be afraid; you 're worth more than many sparrows. This is the "gracious gift" God holds out to his proclaiming Church as it confronts human misery and human sin (an on-target Church word): missioned by the Sunday Eucharist into our world, put yourself at risk, dare to live differently and to say why, put your life on the line and be amazed at the energy and support the Lord God gives in the midst of the struggle and the first installment of ultimate vindication , "Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father." Questions for RENEW 2000 communities: When have you stood up for the Gospel? How did you feel? What were the consequences? What areas of the Gospel do you find neglected in youi group? In your parish? How can you begin addressing them? mm i «^——

Father David Pettingill is director of the archdiocesan Off ice of Parish Life.

Sunday: weekly holy day takes no summer holiday It is said that we Americans play as hard as we work. We approach our sporting and social lives with an intensity not unlike the work ethic for which we are known around the world. Given the fast pace of our work and recreation, it is no wonder people find it difficult to make time for the Eucharist on Sunday. Those people who do carve out some time for rest on Sunday can actually resent the Mass for encroaching upon their weekend. However, we should remember that it is only because of the Mass that Sunday became a free day in the first place. Day of rest For centuries before it became an official day of rest, Sunday was just another weekday and Christians made worship a priority either in the morning before going to work or in the evening after the day's labor. Some may be surprised to learn that it was not until the year 321 that the Emperor Constantine finally proclaimed Sunday a public holiday so Christians could arrange their day around the celebration of the Eucharist without distractions. Over the course of much time the Church has come to transfer some of the Jewish meaning of Sabbath to the Christian Sunday as a "day of rest." In his apostolic letter Dies Domini, on observing and celebrating Sunday, Pope John Paul II includes this theme in a rather comprehensive lesson on the full meaning of Lord 's Day in Christian tradition. As the Christian day of rest, Sunday affirms both the "absolute primacy of God" and also the "primacy and dignity of the person with respect to the demands of social and economic life." A day of rest expresses our utter dependence upon God as the source of life and salvation. At the same time it liberates us from the drudgery of labor and from any illusions we might have about our own self sufficiency. Slimmer break What better context could there be for the celebration of Eucharist than the Sunday break? A day of rest provides the perfect pace for entering into Christian worship without distraction. Nevertheless it is more often the case that Mass is considered an obligation which cuts into our free time. Sadly in many parishes this attitude is only compounded on the

Surely this tone will grate on the nerves of those who want to rest during the summer. If so, the work of the liturgy and particularly the Scriptures proclaimed during the upcoming months will be grating as well. There is an urgency with which Christ proclaims the life of disci p leship in the Gospels during these months of Ordinary Time. If such urgency seems at odds with the pace of summer 's rest, we might do well to remember a Latin adage. "Festina lente." Hurry slowly !

Father John Talesfore Sundays of the summer when the work of the liturgy is all but suspended out of respect for the secular season of rest. At first glance a liturgical hiatus probably seems natural. After all, parish schools are closed for vacation, committees suspend their monthly meetings until the fall and people tend to be traveling at one poin t or another during the summer months. Why not cut back on Sunday Eucharist as well? Choirs take a break and there actually may be no music at all. Liturgical ministries are reduced and countless other details go without attention. Clearly the energy that most parishes now put into summer Sundays is a far cry from the high priority that early Christians gave to worship in the midst of the then busy workday. With more free time available to us, shouldn 't we give a little more to the liturgy instead of less? Lectors and homilists might take advantage of some extra time to prepare themselves more effectively for proclaiming the Word. Members of the assembly might leave the house a few minutes earlier and enjoy the luxury of more time to ready themselves for the liturgy in the peace and beauty of the church. Choirs might actually consider planning additional workshops to develop their skills instead of canceling rehearsals. Summer might just be the time to develop good habits instead of reinforcing bad.

Director of the archdiocesan Office of Worship, Father John Talesfore holds a licentiate degree in sacred liturgy f rom the Pontifica l Liturgical Institute, Sant 'Anselmo , Rome.

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Mosaic, a publ ic affairs television program produced by the Archdiocese 's Office of Communications in cooperation with CBS, will air shows with a Catholic perspective beginning June 20. , The show airs Sundays at 6 a.m. and repeats Fridays at 3:37 a.m. on KPIX Channel 5. Featured on June 20 will be Dominican Sister Glenn Anne McPhee, superintendent of Catholic schools , and Michael Michael DeNunzio Sister Glenn Anne DeNunzio, director of development McPhee, OP for the Archdiocese. They will discuss the Archdiocese's $30 released history of the Archdiocese of San million educational endowment campaign Francisco. Auxiliary Bishop John Wester will "Today's Students, Tomorrow's Leaders." talk about his first year as a member of the "The emphasis of the campaign are the episcopate on July 4. Two representatives of 1,500 to 2,000 students who need tuition Catholic Charities will discuss the agency's assistance," DeNunzio said recently at his Adoption Network that was recently featured Chancery office. Sister Glenn Anne called the in Catholic San Francisco, the newspaper of effort a "great opportunity " for Catholics here the Archdiocese. to continue support of Catholic education. Deacon Leon Kortenkamp will talk about Other upcoming guests and topics on the permanent diaconate, the ordained office Mosaic include Archivist Jeffrey Burns , he and more than 60 other men in the Ph.D. who will discuss on June 27 the newly Archdiocese hold on July 17.

Priory students aid Kosovar refugees Inspired by a social justice course, juniors at the Woodside Priory School in Portola Valley recently raised $3,203 for medical and sanitary supplies for the Kosovar refugees. The fundraising activities organized entirely by the students included a 10-day interclass penny competition and a daily bake sale. Both were supported generously by students and faculty, school officials said. Home mailings were sent to promote their efforts and parents contributed donations of money and supplies. According to Tom Webb, social justice instructor, "The students expressed their excitement at being able to contribute to those in need ."

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