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Pope John Paul II greets a throng of people gathered for Mass near the Caracas airport in Venezuela in 1996. In 25 years, the pontiff has logged more than 700,000 travel miles visiting 129 countries.

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While governments should not have a religious identity, they weaken democracy if they try to limit their citizens’ expressions of faith to the private sphere, Pope John Paul II said. “While respecting a healthy sense of the state’s secular nature, the positive role of believers in public life should be recognized,” the pope said Oct. 10 during a meeting with the parliamentary assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Some 330 parliamentarians from 49 countries were in Rome for the assembly’s Oct. 9-10 conference on the freedom of religion.

Pope John Paul told the group, “It is true that many young people today grow up without being aware of the spiritual heritage that is theirs.” But, at the same time, he said, religious faith continues to influence large groups of citizens who have a right to bring their religious and moral values to bear on public life. When believers are free to express their faith and when they respect the religious beliefs of others, a “healthy pluralism” and an increase in democracy follow, he said. “When states are disciplined and balanced in the expression of their secular nature, dialogue between the different social sectors is fostered and, consequently, WEAKER DEMOCRACY, page 18

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Democracy weaker if excluded from public life, pope says

Pope John Paul II soon after his election in 1978.

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On The Where You Live by Tom Burke Happy 50 years married to Theresa and John Van Koll parishioners of Holy Name of Jesus for 43 years. Daughters, Barbara, Chris and Theona, and sons, Rich, Bob and John hosted a dinner commemorating the September milestone whose attendees included the couple’s seven grandchildren….Also marking a half-century as husband and wife are Jan and Bill Haley, married October 3, 1953 at St. Raphael Church, San Rafael, and now longtime parishioners of St. Anthony’s in Novato, where Bill chairs the finance council, and Jan is involved

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occasion….Catchin’ up with the Van Kolls and Haleys are Carole and Bill Noonan of Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Daly City, and married 45 years on August 17th. The couple took their vows at San Francisco’s Star of the Sea Church….Hats off to Tracy Sarmiento, a 7th grader at San Francisco’s St. Charles Borromeo Elementary School and God Bless America soloist at a September 13th Ocean Beach memorial service for victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Proud folks are Nelly and Mario. As one who’s cranked it up a coupla’ times, the Irving Berlin classic is a great song to sing. Its simple lyric and unforgettable tune, as well as its long stretch as a Kate Smith signature melody, has made it, as far as I’m concerned, a song for all, a song for the ages…. A recipe for disaster one recent bleary-eyed morning was carrying the trash and my briefcase out the door at the same time. The refuse ended up accompanying me to the office while my papers and such spent the day making new friends among the debris of our regulation 30-gallon receptacle….Welcome aboard at San Francisco’s St. Cecilia Parish to new office manager, Sue Ochoa, who joins a staff that includes parish secretaries Betty O’Neill and Mary Scanlon. Sue brings a “rich experience’ to the post, Msgr. Michael Harriman, pastor, said. Fond farewells were recently offered to secretary, Jeanne Handley, who has retired. Msgr. Harriman thanked Jeanne on behalf of the parish’s “priests, religious and laity for her faithful service.” Again with one voice the parish said “Happy Birthday” to Msgr. John Foudy, retired pastor, St. Anne of the Sunset and in residence at St. Cecilia’s, who was 90 years old on October 1st….All hats off at Our Lady of the Pillar for Adela Orimaco, late mom of Father

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Church should be ‘engaged but not used’ in politics, bishops say By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — In today’s political climate, the U.S. Catholic Church must be “engaged but not used,” the U.S. bishops’ Administrative Committee said in a document designed to promote dialogue before the 2004 elections. The document, “Faithful Citizenship: A Catholic Call to Political Responsibility,” was unanimously approved by the 47-member committee in September and made public Oct. 13. A similar document has been issued before every presidential election for the last 28 years. “We welcome dialogue with political leaders and candidates, seeking to engage and persuade public officials,” the bishops said. “But we must be sure that events and ‘photo ops’ are not substitutes for work on policies that reflect our values.” The Administrative Committee — made up of the executive officers of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, elected committee chairmen and elected regional representatives — is the highest policy- and decisionmaking body of the bishops apart from the entire body when it meets twice a year in general assembly. Much of the 8,500-word document is devoted to a discussion of issues that church leaders would like to see taken up in the presidential campaigns.

“As bishops, we do not wish to instruct persons on how they should vote by endorsing or opposing candidates,” it said. “We hope that voters will examine the position of candidates on a full range of issues, as well as on their personal integrity, philosophy and performance.” The document described “a consistent ethic of life” as the “moral framework” from which Catholic voters should address all issues in the political arena. It quoted extensively from the “Doctrinal Note on Some Questions Regarding the Participation of Catholics in Political Life,” issued in January by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. “For Catholics, the defense of human life and dignity is not a narrow cause, but a way of life and a framework for action,” the bishops said. “As Catholics, we need to share our values, raise our voices and use our votes to shape a society that protects human life, promotes family life, pursues social justice and practices solidarity. These efforts can strengthen our nation and renew our church.” The bishops asked Catholics to look at the political arena in light of the question: “Who has a place at the table of life?” “Where is the place at the table for a million of our nation’s children who are destroyed every year before they are born?” they asked. “How can we secure a place at the table for the hungry and those who lack health care

Archbishop is guest on TV program Oct. 19 Pope John Paul II and his 25-year papacy will be the subject of a conversation between San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada and “For Heaven’s Sake” program host Maury Healy Sunday, October 19 at 6:30 a.m. on KRON-Channel 4. The television program was taped just before Archbishop Levada departed for Rome to attend a follow-up meeting this week of the Synod of Bishops. He planned to remain in Rome for activities marking the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II on October 16, as well as the beatification of Mother Teresa on Oct. 19.

in our own land and around the world? Where is the place at the table for those in our world who lack the freedom to practice their faith or stand up for what they believe?” The bishops also recalled “the people who are now missing at the table of life — those lost in the terror of Sept. 11, in the service of our nation, and in the bloody conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa.” But they said Catholics have “a special table — the altar of sacrifice, where we celebrate the Eucharist” to help them find “the direction and strength to take what we believe into the public square, using our voices and votes to defend life, advance justice, pursue peace and find a place at the table for all God’s children.” The document reviewed Catholic social teaching on a wide range of topics — abortion and assisted suicide, same-sex marriages and school vouchers, affordable housing and foreign aid, workers’ rights and the Middle East. “Faithful citizenship calls Catholics to see civic and political responsibilities through the eyes of faith and to bring our moral convictions to public life,” it said. “People of good will and sound faith can disagree about specific applications of Catholic principles. However, Catholics in public life have a particular responsibility to bring together consistently their faith, moral principles and public responsibilities.” The bishops said some Catholics, looking at the array of issues, “may feel politically homeless, sensing that no political party and too few candidates share a consistent concern for human life and dignity.” “However, this is not a time for retreat or discouragement,” they said. “We need more, not less, engagement in political life. We urge Catholics to become more involved — by running for office; by working within political parties; by contributing money or time to campaigns; and by joining diocesan legislative networks, community organizations and other efforts to apply Catholic principles in the public square.” The document — prepared with the collaboration of 16 USCCB offices, state Catholic conference directors and diocesan social action directors — was to be published in booklet form in November, with a brochure, parish resource kit, videos, and workshops and training packages to come next year. PAID ADVERTISEMENT

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PHILADELPHIA — Pledging to “proclaim Jesus Christ as the son of God and savior of the world,” Cardinaldesignate Justin F. Rigali was installed Oct. 7 as the new archbishop of Philadelphia. The California native, who was archbishop of St. Louis from January 1994 until being named to Philadelphia July 15, is to be elevated to cardinal in ceremonies at the Vatican Oct. 21. In a homily that repeatedly linked holiness and worship of God to service to others, Cardinal-designate Rigali invoked the names of two Philadelphia saints — St. John Nepomucene Neumann and St. Katharine Drexel — and called the soon-to-be-beatified Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India, a model of Christian life and service. Six cardinals, 15 archbishops and about 70 bishops joined in the afternoon installation ceremony at Philadelphia’s Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. Filling the cathedral were some 550 priests, 100 deacons, 75 seminarians, 30 leaders of other Christian and nonChristian faiths and 1,600 invited guests.

U.S. Supreme Court to review Pledge and scholarship cases WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Oct. 6 cleared 70-plus pages of appeals from its “inbox” on the first day of the 2003 term, declining to become involved in cases involving fetal rights and Bible club meetings in schools, among others. There are several high-profile cases among those the court has not yet decided whether to review. They include one asking whether it’s unconstitutional for the Pledge of Allegiance to refer to a nation “under God,” and several cases farther down in the courts about civil rights under post-Sept. 11, 2001, anti-terrorism policies. By the end of the court’s first day, just one case on the docket held interest for those who follow developments in church-state law: Locke vs. Davey, about whether the recipient of a state-funded scholarship can use the funds to study theology. That case, to be argued Dec. 2, asks whether the state of Washington was justified in telling Joshua Davey that by choosing a double major in business administration and pastoral ministry, he became ineligible for his state scholarship of $1,125.

Redefining marriage would harm families, says Boston archbishop WAYLAND, Mass. — “The institution of marriage, so crucial to the raising of children and a sound family life, is in crisis,” Boston Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley said at the “Summit of October to Save Marriage” in Wayland. “Any redefinition of marriage must be seen as an attack on the common good. The weakening of the institution of marriage has already had too high a social cost,” he said Oct. 2. He called for respect for the rights and dignity of homosexuals but said that does not mean that same-sex unions are entitled to be granted the same status in society as marriages. “Marriage is not a creation of the state nor of the church, and neither has the legitimate authority to change its nature,” the archbishop said. “To dismiss people’s legitimate concerns about the institution of marriage as an unjust discrimination against homosexual persons is to miss the point of the centrality of marriage for the wellbeing of society.” About 200 people, including several reli-

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Cardinal-designate Rigali installed in Philadelphia

Cardinal-designate Justin F. Rigali gives Communion during his Mass of installation at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul Oct. 7 in Philadelphia. He became the eighth archbishop of Philadelphia during the service and later in October will be inducted into the College of Cardinals.

gious leaders, attended the summit, organized by the Massachusetts Family Institute and dubbed “SOS Marriage.”

Retired couple gets spiritual books shipped to prisoners CHICAGO — When Jim Carney retired, he made two promises — one to his wife, Lucy, who wanted to go on an Alaskan cruise, and the other to Jesus Christ. But it wasn’t until Carney fulfilled the first that the second was put into action. On the icy Alaskan waters, Carney sat on the cruise ship’s deck delving into a spiritual book when Father George Yany, chaplain at the Rhode Island state prison, casually approached him and asked what he was reading. “We started talking, and Lucy and I got to know Father George very well,” he said. So well that the couple sent the prison chaplain 100 spiritual books when they returned home. “The inmates gobbled up the books,” said Carney, “and quickly asked for more.” That was 10 years ago. Today, the Carneys and six other parishioners from SS. Faith, Hope and Charity Parish in Winnetka have organized a prison ministry called Victory 2000, and have sent more than 1.5 million books to 844 correctional institutions nationwide.

Conference: faith groups must help address substance abuse NEW YORK — The religious community can and should play a role in responding to the problem of substance abuse, representatives of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish groups said at a conference held in New York Oct. 8-10. Appearing the first day of the conference in a program dealing primarily with the medical, psychological and public policy aspects, they said treatment must address the whole person and the spiritual is an essential part of that. The conference was sponsored by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, an agency based in New York and affiliated with Columbia University but operated independently under its own board and not located on the university campus. Holy Cross Father Edward A. Malloy, president of the University of Notre Dame, was the moderator of the panel, titled “So Help Me God: Religion, Spirituality and Substance Abuse.”

U.N. gathering praises peace encyclical on 40th anniversary UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Kofi

Annan said Oct. 7 that Pope John XXIII’s encyclical “Pacem in Terris” “still challenges us as much as it did” when it was issued in 1963. Addressing a Vatican-sponsored gathering of more than 300 participants at U.N. headquarters in New York, he cited in particular the encyclical’s call to adapt the U.N. structure and methods so that it could more effectively safeguard the “universal, inviolable and inalienable” rights of the human person. “That great reforming pope, whose transparent love and compassion touched the hearts of all humanity, had grasped a fundamental point about the nature and purposes of our organization,” Annan said. But he also said Blessed Pope John XXIII recognized that many people had not found the United Nations “an effective safeguard of their rights” because people of a particular nation are represented at the United Nations “by the same state that they are appealing from.” The U.N. charter forbids interference in a country’s domestic affairs, he said.

Vatican’s U.N. nuncio appeals for curb on ‘excesses of weaponry’ UNITED NATIONS — The Vatican nuncio to the United Nations appealed Oct. 8 for action to “curb the excesses of weaponry” as a way of building “the conditions of peace.” Archbishop Celestino Migliore said the nuclear weapons policy known as “mutual assured destruction” should have ended with the Cold War, but has instead “shown a certain resurgence.” Addressing the committee of the U.N. General Assembly that deals with disarmament, he said recent trends had brought a weakening of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and of “multilateral efforts for disarmament.” He said, “By exploiting certain loopholes” in the treaty “and engaging in covert proliferation activities, some states are once again banking their security on the possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons. These steps should be alarming to everyone.” The nuncio also said chemical and biological weapons presented problems, and could be “sold and transported without detection.”

Pope’s faith, intellect still strong, former student says VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Despite his fragile health, Pope John Paul II continues to challenge people with the strength of his faith and his intellect, said a Polish professor who studied under the future pope in Poland. “The contrast between the pope, almost curved

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October 17, 2003 celebrations. The delegation is expected to include 12-15 members, but as of Oct. 9 the list had not been finalized, a spokesman for the embassy said. Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard law professor, told Catholic News Service that she will be a part of the delegation, along with Catholic commentators Mary Ellen Bork and Peggy Noonan. Also part of the delegation will be Sister Mary Rose McGeady, a Daughter of Charity and former Covenant House president.

Pope tells Eastern Europe not to forget roots in search for identity VATICAN CITY — As East European nations establish new identities, Christian lay people “have an irreplaceable role of fundamental importance,” Pope John Paul II told participants in the first Congress of Catholic Laity of Eastern Europe. In a message to the Oct. 8-12 congress in Kiev, Ukraine, the pope said the harsh legacy of totalitarian regimes has “left emptiness and deep scars on consciences.” This requires lay people to rediscover their baptismal dignity as laid out in the Second Vatican Council, he said in the message released Oct. 12. “In particular, you lay people must again take those documents in hand,” he said, quoting from his homily at the Mass celebrating the Jubilee of the Apostolate of the Laity in 2000. “To you, gathered in this marvelous city of Kiev that witnessed the baptism of the ancient Rus, is entrusted the responsibility of passing on to future generations the heritage of Christian faith,” Pope John Paul said. “The council has made this the hour of the laity in the church,” he said.

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under the weight of the cross, and the strength of the Spirit, with which he carries this cross, is becoming more visible,” said Father Tadeusz Sticzen, the former student and successor of Father Karol Wojtyla as professor of ethics at the University of Lublin, Poland. Father Sticzen spoke at an Oct. 13 Vatican press conference launching new Italian collections of the philosophical and theological works of Father Wojtyla before his 1978 election as Pope John Paul II. In his writings and in his ministry, the pope has made clear his fascination with God from a human point of view and his fascination with human beings because they are created in the image and likeness of God, he said.

Nobel committee selects Iranian woman as peace prize recipient VATICAN CITY — Iranian human rights and pro-democracy activist Shirin Ebadi, whose work has focused on protecting the rights of women and children,

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was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2003. Ebadi, Iran’s first woman judge before the Islamic revolution forced her to resign, prevailed in a field of 165 candidates, including Pope John Paul II. The pope had been considered a front-runner for the prize this year, following his strong efforts to prevent the Iraqi war and after nearly 25 years of work for peace and reconciliation in the world. But the Nobel committee instead chose Ebadi, 56, a Muslim who has supported recent protests against the current Iranian regime. The selection was seen as sending a political message to current Iranian leaders as they debate the future political path of the country. The prize, which carries a cash award of $1.3 million, is expected to be handed out in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10. Ebadi is the 11th woman to win the peace prize since it was established in 1901.

Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, addresses a news conference in Paris Oct. 10. She was awarded the prize for her work in defending human rights and promoting democracy.

Bush sister-in-law heads U.S. delegation at papal anniversary ROME — U.S. President George W. Bush named his sister-in-law, Columba Bush, to head his official delegation to Vatican celebrations of Pope John Paul II’s 25th anniversary and the beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The U.S. Embassy to the Vatican also said Ambassador Jim Nicholson would be part of the delegation to the Oct. 16-19

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Fall Fest event for young adults set for Oct. 25 at USF By Jayme George On October 25, the San Francisco Archdiocese’s annual “Fall Fest ” event for young adults will be held at the University of San Francisco. Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Office of Young Adult Ministry in cooperation with the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at USF, this year’s Fall Fest will focus on the 1997 document of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference called “Sons & Daughters of the Light.” Monsignor Harry Schlitt, radio personality for God Squad Productions along with his regular duties as Vicar for Administration in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and Trish Plunkett Hurley, attorney and lecturer at U.C. Berkeley School of Law, will kick off this year’s event as keynote speakers. Msgr. Schlitt also will lead a workshop entitled “Modern Communication and Spirituality.” San Francisco’s Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang will serve as the principal celebrant and homilist. The day concludes with a dinner and dance. The 1997 national conference acknowledged the need for a more unified community of young adults in the

Catholic Church. The document laid the groundwork for what a young adult community should strive for, stating as its goals the importance of connecting young adults with Jesus, the Catholic Church, the Church’s mission, and a peer community. Since its conception in 1997, Fall Fest has succeeded in annually bringing together more than 300 young adults in a celebration of the Catholic faith. This year, Fall Fest will highlight at least one of the four goals put forward in “Sons & Daughters of the Light” in each of the 33 different workshops that focus on current issues of faith. Participants will also be able to view over 30 exhibits featuring service, educational, and spiritual opportunities.

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History of Archdiocese to air on TV Nov. 2 on KRON-Channel 4 The 150 year history of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in its journey from the Gold Rush to today will be presented Nov. 2 at 6:30 p.m. on KRON Channel 4. The half-hour television documentary, titled “Proclaiming the Gospel: A History of the Archdiocese of San Francisco,” will be broadcast without commercial interruption. The history documentary is one of several major events in 2003 marking the sesquicentennial of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, which was established in 1853. Material for the video was drawn largely from the History of the Archdiocese of San Francisco authored by historian Jeffrey Burns, Ph.D. The television script for the documentary was written by Christa Resing, who directed the video, Maurice Healy, director of Communications and Outreach for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, who served as senior producer, and Dr. Burns. The history video contains many historical photographs and archival motion pictures, some of which were

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Pope John Paul II will beatify his friend Mother Teresa of Calcutta on October 19 at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, just three days after the world celebrates his 25th anniversary as Bishop of Rome. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia, the youngest of three children. At an early age she became interested in missionary work under the guidance of a Jesuit priest. She entered the Irish missionary order of the Sisters of Loretto at age 17 taking the name of Saint Therese of Lisieux. Sister Teresa was a teacher and later principal in Calcutta, but was struck with tuberculosis in 1944 and recalled to Darjeeling. On the train ride to Darjeeling she received the call to “leave the convent and work with the poor, living among them.” In 1948 she received permission to follow her calling and in 1949 was joined by former pupils. They rented a room to care for those rejected by hospitals in Calcutta and otherwise condemned to die in the gutter. This group became the Missionaries of Charity. Mother Teresa said of herself, “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.” Mother Teresa died on Sept. 5, 1997. Today her order operates 710 houses in 132 countries. Because of her great holiness, Pope John Paul II dispensed with the nor-

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Back row (l-r): Fr. Mario Farana, Fr. James McDonald, Fr. Antonio Petilla, Msgr. Fred Bitanga, Fr. Michael Padazinski, Fr. Domingo Orimaco. Front row (l-r): Fr. Michael Keane, Fr. Donald D’Angelo, Archbishop William J. Levada, Msgr. Bruce Dreier. Not pictured: Fr. James Tarantino, Fr. Xavier Lavagetto, OP. Recently elected Deans of the Archdiocese met October 9 at a Priest Council meeting with Archbishop William J. Levada. Deans are elected by their fellow priests to represent one of the eleven geographic areas or deaneries of the Archdiocese. Deans represent the Archbishop within their deanery and promote recommendations for collaborative ministry between parishes within a deanery. The Deans hold periodic meetings with priests and staff within a deanery, visit each parish in the deanery at least once a year and serve as a resource for communication between the Archbishop and the parishes. Deans also serve as members of the Council of Priests, along with the bishops of the Archdiocese, Vicars, age group representatives and the College of Consultors.

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An artist paints a mural of Mother Teresa Oct. 3 in the eastern city of Calcutta, India, where she had established her order in 1950. Pope John Paul II will beatify the founder of the Missionaries of Charity Oct. 19 at the Vatican. Beatification is a major step on the way to sainthood.

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POPE JOHN PAUL II: 25 YEARS

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In 1981 Mehmet Ali Agca attempted to assassinate John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square. The Pope received several blood transfusions and contracted a cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection that put his life in grave danger once again, due likely to one or more contaminated blood units. A team of physicians, including Dr. Thomas Merigan from Stanford University, was called in for consultation. These two injurious events coming side by side wounded the Pope’s physical condition, but never stinted his will to live or his determination and emotional enthusiasm to continue his worldwide commitment to evangelization. These daunting attacks on his life example well the deep spiritual ethos of this man: despite human frailty and physical weakness, his papal mission must go on. One often hears these days criticism of the Pope in light of his physical appearance and inability to “perform” as he once did. Should he not retire? Isn’t it time to call it a day? His survival from an assassination attempt and his fight with CMV should situate all replies. Physical infirmity cannot impede the Pope’s universal mission. There are many attempts afloat to categorize his Pontificate: liberal? conservative? polarizing? I would suggest that his papacy should not be interpreted from a single angle, as this type of interpretation will only lead to a selective perception and faulty understanding. A sweeping analysis easily spots these major accomplishments and concerns. Very importantly, though, the words of Pope John XXIII should help in this assessment: “I have to be Pope both for those with their foot on the gas, and those with their foot on the brake:” • Liberator of the peoples behind the Iron Curtain • An historic force in Catholic-Jewish relations (he is the first Pope to speak Yiddish; the first Pope to set foot inside a Roman synagogue (1986); his visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem where he placed a handwritten note expressing regret for centuries of Christian anti-Semitism; and the inspiration for the 2000 Jewish statement Dabru Emet, “It is time for Jews to learn about the efforts of Christians to honor Judaism”) • The first Pope to enter a mosque (Damascus, 2001) and a Pope who met Muslims more than 60 times, including visits to major Islamic nations such as Egypt, Syria, and Morocco; he has been called the “pope who is a friend to Islam,” perhaps most dramatically seen in his strong moral opposition to the war in Iraq • He has appointed women as major spokespersons at international conferences, and named an unprecedented number of

women to pontifical councils and discasteries; he has opposed all discrimination against women in public policy; he has defended the male-female complementarity and equality, seen especially in his 1988 encyclical Mulieris Dignitatem; he has shown a fierce devotion to the Virgin Mary • He has been a relentless critic of social injustice, condemning “social sins” and the disrespect shown peoples around the globe • He has been an aggressive defender of human life and the family • He has been encouraging to “traditionalists” in terms of liturgical and devotional practices • He has supported around the world lay groups which embody spiritual and “enthusiast” religious commitments He has insisted on “traditionalism,” evidenced in his approach to liberation theology, and certain trends in moral theology as evidenced in silencing of theologians such as Curran, Kung and Boff • He has insisted. on absolute fidelity to magisterial authority, especially in sexual and medical ethics All of this being said, what might be a fair overview: • He is a champion of the dignity of the human person, human rights, religious freedom, ecumenisim, and religious dialogue • He has insisted that every human being has basic rights • He has opposed war and the oppression of peoples • He has fought against the “culture of death,” evidenced in his strong stances against abortion, divorce, and “intentional families” produced by types of in vitro fertilization • He has defended respect for homosexual persons, while equally insisting on the rights and supremacy of heterosexual marriage Who is this man? • A universal pastor • A defender of the poor • A preacher of peace • A teacher of the Catholic faith, demonstrated most especially in the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church • A theologian, poet and philosopher • He has embraced the handicapped and those with HIV and AIDS • He demonstrates a profound piety • He identifies with the infirmed and aged • He has published on a legend of topics • He is a global leader who worries about the spirituality of peoples • He defends against moral relativism • He acknowledges errors that the Church has made: e.g., in the condemnation of Galileo, the Inquisition, and the Crusades • He promulgated the new Code of Canon Law • He has canonized over four hundred JOHN PAUL II / CMV, page 15

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Pope John Paul II lies injured in his jeep after being shot by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca May 31, 1981, in St. Peter's Square. Italy granted Agca clemency June 13 after he served 19 years for the assassination attempt.

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POPE JOHN PAUL II: 25 YEARS

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VATICAN CITY -- As Pope John Paul II celebrates 25 years in office, the world is taking stock of a pontificate that has helped shape political events, set new directions for the Catholic Church and offered spiritual inspiration to millions of people around the globe. By any measure, this is a papacy for the ages. Since his election Oct. 16, 1978, Pope John Paul has visited 129 countries -- from the steppes of Asia to the Rocky Mountains. He has implemented the church’s own form of globalization. And in more than 50 major documents, on themes ranging from economics to the rosary, he has brought the Gospel and church teachings to bear on nearly every aspect of modern life. Everyone agrees this pope already has left a moral legacy, inside and outside the church. But the pope also has weathered his share of disappointments in recent years, including the U.S. clerical sex abuse scandal, the ecumenical rupture with Orthodox leaders, legislative defeats on pro-life issues in many countries and the frustration of not being able to visit Russia and China. Vatican officials are focusing on the accomplishments, but are going out of their way to make sure the anniversary celebration does not take on the tone of a retirement party. “The pope still has an important message to deliver, and people are listening - perhaps more than ever,” Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said in an interview with Catholic News Service. “He is the only global leader who is

worried about the spiritual well-being of today’s men and women, as opposed to their material well-being. He asks, ‘Who are you?’ instead of ‘What do you want to do?’ or ‘What do you want to buy?’ And people understand this and respond to it,” he said. At the start of the 21st century, a time of rapid changes in technology and biology, the pope has hewed closer to this dominant theme, Navarro-Valls said. For papal biographer George Weigel, the pope has had tremendous impact on the world and the church precisely because “he’s been the great Christian witness of our time, the man who has most persuasively embodied the liberating power of Christian faith.” “Of course, that had concrete, measurable political results in east c e n t r a l Europe in the revolution of 1989; but it has also had an immeasurable impact on innumerable lives throughout the world,” Weigel said in an interview. So far, the pope has avoided great retrospective speeches or documents on his first quarter-century. In fact, he has spoken more about Mary, to whom he’s dedicated this year in a special way, than about his own accomplishments. At 83, he is frail and hobbled by Parkinson’s disease and other ailments. He no longer walks in public; instead, he sits and rides on a variety of newfangled mechanisms that allow him to keep celebrating liturgies and meeting with groups. Many at the Vatican believe the pope’s infirmities have added a new dimension to his message. “When the Mass is celebrated by someone in his condition, the sacrifice of Christ becomes even more evident,” Cardinal Jozef Tomko, a longtime friend and retired Vatican official, said in an interview.

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An intimate photo of Pope John Paul II is part of a series of images from the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano featured in a special exhibit at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington through January 2004. This photo was captured during the pope's 1984 visit to Canada.

“What comes through is a deep spirituality and the acceptance of his limitations. I think in these conditions he is winning even more people to Christ than before,” Cardinal Tomko said. The first non-Italian pontiff in 455 years, Pope John Paul II declared early on that the Second Vatican Council had set his agenda. In particular, his global ministry quickly focused on Vatican II’s engagement of modern culture. At the teaching level, the pope has penned three major encyclicals on economic and social justice issues and has addressed the rich-poor imbalance continent-by-continent in post-synodal documents. Over the last 10 years, he also has authored three other encyclicals that strongly challenge what he sees as a prevailing moral relativism in post-modern society. “Veritatis Splendor” spoke of the truth of the church’s moral teachings, “Evangelium Vitae” defended the inviolability of human life against what the pope calls a “culture of death,” and “Fides et Ratio” argued that human reason cannot be detached from faith in God. Meanwhile, under his guidance, Vatican agencies have issued important instructions on such specific questions as foreign debt, in vitro fertilization, the arms industry, the role of the mass media and the impact of the Internet. Through all these pronouncements runs a central theme: that human freedom becomes destructive when people forget they are created in God’s image. Whether an unborn child, an impoverished African or an elderly shut-in, the pope says, every human being has a value that goes beyond earthly advan-

tages and accomplishments. While pushing Catholic teaching into virtually every area of modern life, the pope also has taken the measure of the church’s past mistakes. At his insistence, the church acknowledged historical errors in condemning 16th-century astronomer Galileo Galilei, in participating in European religious wars, and even in its missionary approach in some New World territories. Against considerable resistance within his own Vatican hierarchy, the pope commissioned critical studies on the church’s role in the Inquisition and the Crusades and on the failings of Christians during the Holocaust. On an interreligious level, Pope John Paul has reached out in ways that were once considered impossible or even heretical. In 1986 he visited a Jewish synagogue in Rome, then in 2000 prayed at the Western Wall in Jerusalem -- a gesture that won the hearts of many Jews worldwide. In Syria, he became the first pope to visit a mosque, and in Morocco he spoke to thousands of cheering Muslim youths. Twice he convened leaders of other religions and other churches for prayer meetings in Assisi, where participants denounced all acts of war and terrorism carried out in the name of religion. Within the church, the pope has been no less dynamic. He has disciplined dissenting theologians and self-styled “traditionalists,” promulgated a new Code of Canon Law, issued new directives calling for clearer Catholic identity in church universities, and defended with the full weight of his authority the church’s all-male priesthood. 25 YEARS: POPE, page 12

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25 years: Pope . . . ■ Continued from page 11 Some critics have said that in dealing with inthe-field church problems, the pope’s management style is too detached. They cited the clerical sex abuse crisis as an example of where the pontiff should have called bishops and others to closer accountability. Vatican officials reject that criticism, pointing out that the pope has several times pronounced prophetically against sex abuse and other moral failings by church ministers. The pope’s job is not to pore over dossiers but to set clear directions, they say. “This is not a pontificate that acts in a crisis management style. He goes beyond crisis management, to the root of the problem. And in the case of sex abuse, the real problem is in formation,” said Navarro-Valls, the Vatican spokesman. As a teacher of the faith, the pope has been exhaustive, demanding and authoritative. The “Catechism of the Catholic Church” is his longest document and will no doubt be seen as one of the great accomplishments of this pontificate; a shorter compendium of church teaching is also in the works. The pope brooks no dissent among the faithful, and in a 1998 document he invoked penalties against Catholics who reject the church’s wide range of “definitive” positions, including those on human Pope John Paul II made a 23 hour event packed visit sexuality. to San Francisco on September 17 – 18, 1987. He is That has prompted criticism by some groups of shown here visiting the Golden Gate Bridge with then laity and theologians, especially in Europe and the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, United States. Such groups say the pope has presided shortly after arriving by helicopter at Crissy Field. over an excessive centralization of church power and authority at the expense of local churches. While supporting Vatican II’s promotion of the laity in the church, the pope has warned against confusing the roles of lay Catholics and ordained priests. He has supported clerically managed lay organizations like Opus Dei, which has grown in influence. As opposed to models of power-sharing in the church, Pope John Paul has proposed models of holiness to the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics. He has canonized more than 470 people from dozens of countries and beatified more than 1,300 -- including the first lay couple. At the 25-year mark, the pope’s record on ecumenism contains a long list of agreements, joint declarations and mutual gestures of good will, especially with some ancient Eastern churches. But as common ground has been staked out among the churches, the remaining obstacles have stood in even higher relief. The Vatican’s clear injunction against shared Eucharist with Protestant churches may seem arbitrary to critics, but the pope views it as a painful reminder of the distance yet to travel in ecumenical dialogue. In recent years, relations with the Russian Orthodox Church have sharply deteriorated as a result of the pope’s determination to rebuild Catholic communities in Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe. Surely one of the pope’s biggest disappointments after 25 years has been the failure to visit Moscow, which he would undertake only with the Orthodox Church’s blessing. Pope John Paul’s pontificate is the fourth-longest in history, and perhaps more than any of his predecessors he has shaped the hierarchy in his image. He has named more than three-fourths of the world’s active bishops and more than 96 percent of the cardinals who will elect his successor. During his papacy, the church has expanded greatly in Africa and made significant advances in Asia and Oceania. This distinctly Third World tilt has been spotlighted during the pope’s foreign trips, when he has used 25 YEARS: POPE, page 14

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Pope John Paul II waves during his audience at the Vatican May 28, 2003. The pontiff said people should trust in God even in history's darkest moments. Responding to the humanitarian crisis in Iraq, he sent Archbishop Paul Cordes, head of the Vatican's "Cor Unum" aid arm, to coordinate a plan to provide assistance for health and food emergencies in that country.

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local customs in his liturgies, spoken the native language and praised indigenous writers and thinkers. But the trips have enormous missionary objectives, as well. While respectful of the non-Catholic or non-Christian majorities along his itinerary, the pope has always presented the figure of Christ and the Gospel message to any and all of his listeners. That’s in keeping with the pope’s conviction that while all people can be saved Christ is the unique savior for all people -- a point made forcefully in the controversial document “Dominus Iesus,” which emphasized proclamation of Christ over dialogue. Visiting India in 1999, the pope delineated the church’s approach on the Asian continent, where he predicted “a great harvest of faith” in the years to come. He praised his hosts’ non-Christian spiritual traditions but also preached the Gospel, and said the best way for Christians to evangelize was by living the Gospel values. As the pope has aged, his rapport with young people has remained consistently -- and sometimes amazingly -- fresh and energetic. World Youth Day celebra-

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tions, like the last one in Toronto in 2002, seem to bring out the pope’s good humor and vigor. He jokes more easily with the young, but there is a serious side to all this, too. Papal biographer Weigel, who has attended the youth day celebrations and spoken extensively on Catholic college campuses, said it is striking how young people welcome the pope’s challenge “not to settle for anything less than the religious and moral grandeur that they’re capable of, under grace.” “He’s had a tremendous impact on the young, not by pandering to them, but by holding the bar of expectation high, all the time letting them know that he loves them and that Christ loves them,” Weigel said. As the years of this pontificate roll by, the encyclicals and teaching documents have become fewer and the speeches shorter. Those close to him say the pope has clearly not run out of things to say, however -- he’s just saying them in different ways. “At the start of the 21st century, the pope continues to open people up to the transcendent, telling them that we’re more than genetics, we’re more than psychology, we’re more than DNA,” said Navarro-Valls, the Vatican spokesman. This is a message that is resonating with Catholics and non-Catholics around the world, he said.

Pope John Paul II smiles as a child is held up to him at the end of his Sunday blessing in the courtyard of the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo in Italy this Sept. 7. The pope left Sept. 11 for Slovakia -- his 102nd foreign trip since his election in 1978.

It was a warm summer evening in Casablanca, and at the local soccer stadium 80,000 young Moroccans were giving Pope John Paul II a rousing welcome. Slovak Cardinal Jozef Tomko, who stood behind the pontiff in the tribute of honor, listened to the pope’s French-language speech and watched the crowd. He noticed an amazing thing: These Muslim youths were not just clapping out of excitement or out of respect for the man dressed in white. They were hanging on every word. “This was not preordained applause. They were responding to what he said. As I witnessed this, I was struck by the pope’s great talent for entering into the minds of his listeners,” Cardinal Tomko recalled. In his view, the Morocco encounter in 1985 showed Pope John Paul doing what he does best: evangelizing in a way that respects the sensibilities of others. To his non-Christian audience, the pope spoke not only about belief in God, but also about the Christian conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior of all. He acknowledged that was a deep difference in their faiths and said, “God will enlighten us about it one day, I am sure.” The pope addressed the sensitive

topic of religious freedom and highlighted the many beliefs and hopes shared by Muslims and Christians as they try to build a better world. “It was very interesting. The pope knew how to speak about all these things in a way that moved these young people to applaud,” Cardinal Tomko said. Cardinal Tomko said he has witnessed similar scenes on other continents, as the pope has taken the church’s message to people of every race and every belief. With few exceptions, the pope has made a positive impression, the cardinal said. Although crowds of more than a million people have cheered him, the pope’s success as an evangelizer is not something that can always be measured by the size of his audience, he said. “The approval of the masses is not his main purpose. He doesn’t go about this like a politician in search of votes,” Cardinal Tomko said. “His purpose is to propose the message of Christ, in a spirit not of conquest but respect. If his listeners are a million people in Poland or a few hundred in Mongolia, that’s secondary to the pope,” he said. Even where the crowds are huge, the

pope succeeds in touching individuals. The reason is that he speaks a “language of love,” Cardinal Tomko said. “Not everyone may realize this, but the pope pleases because he loves every single person he encounters — and people understand this,” Cardinal Tomko said. Pope John Paul has been a model evangelizer in many other ways, too, Cardinal Tomko said. He cited the pope’s parish visits in Rome, his weekly audience talks aimed at the church and the world, papal documents that reach out to specific groups and, above all, the 1991 encyclical on the church’s missionary mandate, “Redemptoris Missio” (“The Mission of the Redeemer”). During much of Pope John Paul’s pontificate, the church has experienced a tension between proclaiming the Gospel and holding a dialogue with nonChristians. Some may see a conflict here, but Cardinal Tomko does not. “Evangelization is a rich and complex reality. It includes personal witness, dialogue, human promotion, inculturation and especially proclamation,” he said. But while proclaiming Christ is the apex of evangelization, it is not necessarily the first step, Cardinal Tomko said.

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Pope John Paul II leans on his crosier at Mass Jan. 27, 1999 at the Trans World Dome in St. Louis.

He said that from the beginning of his pontificate the pope has made this clear and has also stressed that the church “proposes Christ, does not impose anything, and respects the conscience of every individual.”

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John Paul II as teacher Christ confers on the whole of the Old Testament tradition about God’s mercy a definitive meaning. Not only does he speak of it and explain it by the use of comparisons and parables, but above all he himself makes it incarnate and personifies it. He himself, in a certain sense, is mercy. To the person who sees it in him – and finds it in him – God becomes ‘visible’ in a particular way as the Father ‘who is rich in mercy.’ — DIVES IN MISERICORDIA (On the Mercy of God) Together with Mary, Mother of Christ, who stood beneath the Cross, we pause beside all crosses of contemporary man. We invoke all the Saints, who down through the centuries in a special way shared in the suffering of Christ. We ask them to support us. We ask precisely you who are weak to become a source of strength for the Church and humanity. In the terrible battle between the forces of good and evil, revealed to our eyes by the modern world, may your suffering in union with the Cross of Christ be victorious. — SALVIFICI DOLORIS (On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering) In the light of the doctrine of the Second Vatican Council, the truth about creation is not merely a truth of faith based on the revelation of the Old and New Testaments. It is also a truth common to all believers ‘no matter what their religion,’ that is to say, all those ‘who recognize the voice and the revelation of the Creator in the language of creatures.’ General audience, 1986.

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The Second Vatican Council, centered primarily on the theme of the Church, reminds us of the Holy Spirit’s activity also ‘outside the visible body of the Church.’ The Council speaks precisely of ‘all people of good will in whose hearts grace works in an unseen way. For, since Christ died for all, and since the ultimate vocation of man is in fact one and divine, we ought to believe that the Holy Spirit in a manner known only to God offers to every man the possibility of being associated with this Paschal Mystery. — DOMINUM ET VIVIFICANTEM (On the Holy Spirit)

25 years: Pope . . . ■ Continued from page 12 people from around the world, and beatified more than 1,300 people, with special esteem for Mother Teresa who he beatifies during his 25th celebrative week He has defended Jesus as the unique savior, as detailed in Dominus Jesus He has defended Jesus as the unique savior, as detailed in Dominus Jesus • He energizes and excites young people to stand for the faith • He has internationalized the Roman curia It’s very easy to cite all of these accomplishments, with no critique. What do I personally think? John Paul II has been and is an extraordinary “messenger of peace” And a “sustainer of the faith.” He has passionately spoken out against war (e.g., at Hiroshima), and has challenged oppressive structures and governments. He has challenged us not to lose our soul in the midst of consumerism and materialism. He has evidenced, a special place in his heart for the youth of the world. Today’s world has a slim and inadequate view of the human person. John Paul II has never tolerated this: he has upheld an exemplary anthropology which begins with the

human creation in God’s image: everything else flows from this fact, everything else about the human person begins with this fact. Why has Pope John Paul II made such an impact? • He is a man of holiness • He is a man of integrity • There is a coherence in his life • He is a very decent man • He is credible as a person and as a priest Not everything in the Church is perfect. There are many difficulties to be solved and questions to be confronted. There are problematic theological issues to face . It would be disingenuous to think of. the Pope’s 25th Anniversary as a retirement party. Too many complex concerns remain. The Pope’s human frailty passes on a torch to his successor and to the church. In our midst, however, is a man of profound personal integrity and holiness. We all would do well to emulate his lifestyle and his hope (not despair) for humanity and the church. Now is not the time to canonize him, nor censure him. Now is the time to learn from him. To do otherwise is foolish and thoughtless. Congratulations to Pope John Paul II on his priesthood well done, despite an assassination attack and CMV.

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The missionary must be a ‘contemplative in action.’ He finds answers to problems in the light of God’s word and in personal and commentary prayer… Unless the missionary is a contemplative he cannot proclaim Christ in a credible way. He is a witness to the experience of God, and must be able to say with the apostles: ‘That which we have looked upon… concerning the word of life… we proclaim also to you.’ — REDEMPTORIS MISSIO (On the permanent validity of the Church’s missionary mandate) This truth, which God reveals to us in Jesus Christ, is not opposed to the truths which philosophy perceives. On the contrary, the two modes of knowledge lead to truth in all its fullness. The unity of truth is a fundamental premise of human reasoning… Revelation renders this unity certain, showing that the God of creation is also the God of salvation history. It is the one and same God who establishes and guarantees the intelligibility and reasonableness of the natural order of things upon which scientists confidently depend, and who reveals himself as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. — FIDES ET RATIO (On the Relationship between Faith and Reason) The Church must make the crucified and risen Christ the center of her pastoral concern and her evangelizing activity. Everything planned in the Church must have Christ and his Gospel as its starting point. Therefore, the Church in America must speak increasingly of Jesus Christ, the human face of God and the divine face of man. It is this proclamation that truly makes an impact on people, awakens and transforms hearts, in a word converts. Christ must be proclaimed with joy and conviction, but above all by the witness of each one’s life. — ECCLESIA IN AMERICA (On the Church in America) “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” (John 6:68) Around you, you hear all kinds of words. But only Christ speaks words that stand the test of time and remain for all eternity. The time of life that you are living calls for decisive choices on your part: decisions about the direction of your studies, about work, about your role in society and in the Church. It is important to realize that among the many questions surfacing in your minds, the decisive ones are not about “what.” The basic question is “who,” Who” am I to go to, “who” am I to follow, “to whom” should I entrust my life? Homily, Closing of World Youth Day, August 20, 2000 “O Blessed Rosary of Mary, sweet chain which unites us to God, bond of love, which unites us to the angels, tower of salvation against the assaults of Hell, safe port in our universal shipwreck, we will never abandon you. You will be our comfort in the hour of death: yours will be our final kiss as life ebbs away.” — ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE (On the Most Holy Rosary) If there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power. . . . In a world without truth, freedom loses its foundation and man is exposed to the violence of passion and to manipulation, both open and hidden. — CENTESIMUS ANNUS (On the 100th anniversary of Rerum Novarum) A new state of affairs today both in the Church and in social, economic, political and cultural life calls with a particular urgency for the action of the lay faithful. If lack of commitment is always unacceptable, the present time renders it even more so. It is not permissible for anyone to remain idle. — CHRISTIFIDELES LAICI (On the vocation and mission of the lay faithful in the Church and the world) The new evangelization in which the whole continent is engaged means that faith cannot be taken for granted, but must be explicitly proposed in all its breadth and richness. This is the principal objective of catechesis, which by its very nature is an essential aspect of the new evangelization. Catechesis is a process of formation in faith, hope and charity; it shapes the mind and touches the heart, leading the person to embrace Christ fully and completely. It introduces the believer more fully into the Christian life, which involves the liturgical celebration of the mystery of redemption and the Christian service of others. — ECCLESIA IN AMERICA (On the Church in America)

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Above all, a priest Towering intellect and sensitive poet, world-traveling missionary and forceful defender of the faith, key figure in the demise of communism and groundbreaking leader in interfaith relations, friend of youth and advocate for the world’s poor - Pope John Paul II is all of these and more. He is a leader of historic proportions, but he is, above all else, a priest striving to live out his vocation. The priesthood is “the mystery which for fifty years has accompanied and enfolded me,” the pope wrote in “Gift and Mystery,” his 1996 book marking the 50th anniversary of his ordination. To be a priest, he wrote, “means above all to be a steward of the mysteries of God,” entrusted with bringing “the treasures of salvation” to the people he serves. Soon after he was elected pope on Oct. 16, 1978, John Paul II set out on his missionary journeys. In the early years, nonbelievers saw him as a globe-trotting celebrity, intriguing because of his vitality and charisma. They liked his style but took little notice of his substance. Now, as his health fails, they portray John Paul II as a tragic figure, a once powerful leader who has sadly overstayed his welcome. The picture of the pope as seen through the eyes of faith - his and ours - is quite different. The vigorous young pope and the frail old pope differ only on the surface. In 2003, John Paul II is at heart what he has been since his ordination in 1946: a priest of Christ bringing the treasures of faith to the world - not just to Catholics but to people of every faith and none. The words of St. Paul to the Corinthians echo through two millennia: “So though I am not a slave of any man I have made myself the slave of everyone so as to win as many as I could . . . For the weak I made myself weak. I made myself all things to all men in order to save some at any cost; and I still do this, for the sake of the gospel, to have a share in its blessings.” So it is with Pope John Paul II, a missionary without equal. In strength and in weakness, he has traveled the world for the sake of the gospel - to 129 nations, including many where Catholics are a tiny minority. Everywhere he reached out a hand of friendship while firmly proclaiming the Good News of salvation in Christ. Now his hand is weak and his speech often slurred - the cumulative effects of an assassin’s bullets, several operations and the onset of Parkinson’s disease. On his visit to Slovakia last month, the pope was so weak that others read his talks to the crowds. But his message was strong and clear and consistent. In a country where abortion is being debated, he called for “respect for life in all its expressions.” He urged his listeners to bring their “rich Christian tradition” with them when Slovakia enters the European Union next year and to avoid a life that is dominated by the “quest for economic advantage.” We have so often seen John Paul II meeting with the politically powerful - from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush, Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev to Vladimir Putin - it is easy to think of him as simply another world leader, and to judge him by the standards of the world. By those standards, Pope John Paul II may look like a longtime political leader clinging to power as his health fails. To believe that is to completely misunderstand John Paul II. He is not refusing to loosen his grip. He is simply pursuing that vision that led him to the priesthood so long ago, a vision of holiness, not power. “Only a holy priest can become, in an increasingly secularized world, a resounding witness to Christ and his Gospel . . .” he says in Gift and Mystery. “The truest secret to authentic pastoral success does not lie in material means, much less sophisticated programs. The lasting results of pastoral endeavors are born of the holiness of the priest.” “If we take a close look at what contemporary men and women expect from priests,” he writes, “we will see that, in the end, they have but one expectation: they are thirsting for Christ. Everything else - their economic, social and political need - can be met by any number of other people. From the priest, they ask for Christ!” In the early years, John Paul II was the Christ of Palm Sunday, triumphant before the cheering crowds. Now he is Christ the suffering servant, unafraid to stumble before the crowds under the burden of the cross. He is “a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity” - a priest who near the end of his days is still dedicated to bringing the treasure of salvation to the world. PJ

Bartending 101 This is my very first “letter to an editor” but I am so compelled after just finishing the article “Three at the Foot of the Cross.” Father Robert Cipriano, you are a breath of wonderful fresh air! What marvelous insight and love you revealed in your interview. Perhaps a mandatory course in life experience and “bartending 101” is what our seminarians need to help us with the compassion, understanding and wisdom to confront today’s real life difficulties. What a wonderful interview. Thank you Catholic San Francisco for printing it, and to you Father Cipriano for all the bountiful blessings you provide for so many who need to know that Christ is always waiting with outstretched arms full of love and forgiveness. Claire Rovegno Burlingame

Right choice now The problems of teenage pregnancy and related choices for today’s young people have to concern us all. It is my opinion the greatest help that you and I can give to the situation is to concentrate on education before conception rather than what to do afterwards. This applies to the young men as well as the young women. Women have to carry and give birth to the child; most of the men move on to the next girl friend. Young men, if you truly love your teenage girl friend. You must respect her by waiting until you both are ready to be parents. Making the right choice now eliminates having to make difficult choices nine months later. Ed Orr San Carlos

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Creating Christian unity I write to commend you for your outstanding article by Bishop Francis Quinn on the impact of The Second Vatican Council on the Archdiocese of San Francisco as well the two excellent book reviews by Brian Olszewski. Bishop Emeritus Quinn’s summation that “Despite the split over interpretations of the Council, we need both liberal and conservative Catholics. We need progressive Catholics, who truly love the Church, to push us forward to new insights. And we need conservative, traditional Catholics for balance, to provide a challenge to new ideas, to insure that the Faith of the Church is not diluted when old truths are expressed through new models.” This was beautifully framed and the photographs you included with this article were magnificent. The two books that were reviewed, “A People Adrift” by Peter Steinfels and “The Coming Catholic Church” by David Gibson share a distinction of fine writing reminiscent of our own former Archbishop John R. Quinn’s “The Reform of the Papacy” in which he responded to Pope John Paul’s call for insights as to how the primacy of Peter can be exercised and renewed towards a goal of Christian unity. Well done, Catholic San Francisco. You have demonstrated there is no realistic hope for real Christian unity unless our Catholic Church is willing to take a serious look at itself as our Holy Father, the Pope has asked. Pope John Paul’s Encyclical, Ut unum sint, is a courageous and holy sign that we are on the right track. Christopher Smith San Francisco

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San Francisco has a large gay and lesbian community. By some counts it comprises over twenty percent of the population. Thus for most of the faithful here in the City, gay people are more than the theoretical “homosexual persons” referred to in the recent Vatican document on civil unions. Rather, they are our friends, neighbors and coworkers. In that vein, I’d like to respectfully suggest that a passage in the document, as well as some of Fr. Coleman’s comments, contradict the reality of life as many of us know it. First, the document argues against adoption by same gender couples, suggesting that this violates the best interests of the child. I know several lesbian couples who have, or plan to have, children through artificial insemination. In such an alternative family, adoption by the “non biological mother” gives her the legal ability to share day to day parenting chores and to secure the child’s well being in serious areas such as authorizing emergency care or the sad event of the biological mother’s death. In such instances it’s hard to see how such second parent adoptions are less than beneficial to the child. Second, the understanding of gay peo-

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ple expressed in Fr. Coleman’s “Homosexualizing of Society” doesn’t appear to square with the “real world” of many San Francisco Catholics. He paints a picture of a group of promiscuous people who define themselves primarily or exclusively by their sexual desires. Again, my gay and lesbian friends seem to define the “gay part” of their lives in terms of love for a long term partner, sharing the same joys and pains as those of us who are married. The Vatican document is significant. I hope that informed and respectful discussion of it will continue in our Catholic San Francisco community. Greg Smith San Francisco

Still trusts judges I always enjoy reading James O. Clifford’s thoughtful letters in Catholic San Francisco. He is serious, professional and succinct. He also provided readers with a good example of “slippery-slope” reasoning. His argument works backward from a belief in “the media’s agenda” and an unstated fear that our justices are basing their interpretations of law more on “the (news) papers” than on legal precedent and constitutional law. Concern for public morality is well placed in an age where over 50 percent of the population get 100 percent of their information from television (and the Web). The ability of the media to shape attitudes is well known and judging from California’s recent recall election, this power is used 24 hours a day. Our print media often lag just enough behind their electronic counterparts as to be secondclass influences. (As a matter of fact, we need to train the next generation to read about public affairs and not just “watch.”) Mr. Clifford is absolutely right to worry about a media agenda; however, I still have faith that our justices will confine themselves to limited legal principles, such as privacy, and, using the constitutional law as their reference, not stray into sweeping libertarian social theories. Michael McGinley San Francisco

October 17, 2003

Catholic San Francisco

The Catholic Difference I didn’t keep very accurate daybooks in the first years of my professional life, so I’m not sure whether I first met Robert Pickus in November 1976 or May 1977. Perhaps we can sort it out someday. Whenever that meeting was, it was surely one of the three or four most important in my life. A veteran of the OSS in World War II, “Pick” (as everyone called him) had done doctoral studies in political theory during the University of Chicago’s glory years; as a graduate student, he worked with Mortimer Adler on the “Great Books of the Western World,” with a special interest in what the “great ideas” said about revolution and war. He then migrated to Berkeley, where he launched a series of peace organizations that culminated in the World Without War Council. I became Scholar-in-Residence at the Council’s Seattle office in 1977 and began twelve years of intense collaboration with a most remarkable man. It was Pick, a Jew, who reminded me that, since Augustine, Catholicism had conceived of peace as the “tranquillity of order” – the fruit of law and politics. It was Pick, a pacifist, who showed me, a theologian committed to the just war tradition, how these two moral commitments could be harnessed when work for peace focused on building legal and political alternatives to war rather than on attacking America’s alleged “militarism.” It was Pick who insisted that peace and freedom are inseparable and who convinced me to think about human rights in a disciplined way, rather than labeling every social good a “right.” It was Pick, who had opposed both Hanoi’s war and the

U.S. war in Vietnam, who persuaded me that America could lead in pursuit of a world governed by law and politics rather than by mass violence – even as he understood that, in getting from here to there, proportionate and discriminate armed force would have to be used when other remedies had failed. And it was Pick who encouraged me to apply for a year-long fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, then housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. I thought he was crazy: how could a thirty-two year old defrocked academic working for an organization with the improbable name “World Without War Council” possibly land one of the plumb sabbatical positions in American intellectual life? He insisted it could be done, and, with the help of several other friends, it was. So Pick, in effect, sent me to Washington, where we worked together another three years in a sister-organization of the World Without War Council, the James Madison Foundation. If I’ve survived the Washington scene for almost twenty years, it’s in part due to Pick’s teaching me more than I ever learned from school about the ways in which non-governmental organizations and government interact in the complex formation of public will and public policy. In all of this, I’ve come to revere Robert Pickus as a man of singular vocational integrity. A half-century ago, he discerned what he was to do with his life. He was to build what he came to call “a peace effort worthy of the name,” one that cherished American democracy, stoutly resisted

communism and other forms of tyranny, defended civil rights and political freedoms, understood the imperfections of this world, didn’t make excuses for leftist revolutionary violence, honored George Weigel the rule of law, acknowledged the present failures and corruptions of international organizations and worked steadily on their reform. Pick would be the last person to claim success in this endeavor. Much of what calls itself “work for peace” in the United States today disturbs him – even appalls him. And yet he persists in building a “peace effort worthy of the name,” while also turning his still formidable energies to questions of citizenship-education and citizen-formation in the America he loves as perhaps only the son of immigrants can. I’ve often thought it appropriate that Pick’s birthday should be October 31 – a day short of All Saints’ Day. He’s not a saint, yet. But he’s getting there. And as he prepares for his eightieth birthday this coming All Hallows’ Eve, I thank the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus that we met. George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Family Life

God helps the humble helpless “I used to think it was the children who made me late,” a mother of six once told me. “But now that they are grown and out of the house, I am still rarely on time. And I have no one to blame but myself.” Like this woman, my husband and I have tended to believe that our general lack of punctuality was because of our four children, for when they were much smaller, it certainly did seem like an ordeal simply packing for a walk around the block. But last week, as we were preparing to fly out of town for a wedding, the children, who pack themselves nowadays, were ready to go long before their father and I were. They were sitting on the doorstep waiting for us, as my husband was writing an urgent, last-minute e-mail and I was deciding whether or not to bring a coat. After we were a couple of miles from home, we realized we had left behind something very important and returned to fetch it. By the time we were back on the road, we were a good half hour off schedule, and we had not left ourselves a lot of time to begin with.

“We’re doomed,” I groaned. “We’ll never make it to the airport in time.” “All we can do now is pray and trust the Lord,” said my ten-year-old daughter. “Yes,” I agreed, “but I feel so stupid asking God for help when we have acted like such idiots. It is our own fault that we are late.” “That’s just it,” said my husband. “God is always helping us because we are always idiots.” Somehow that did not sound very comforting, but what else was there to do? Fret, scream, point and wag the finger at somebody, brood? None of these seemed terribly helpful. So, we prayed a rosary, and I tried not to worry. Given that it was start of rush hour, the traffic was not half bad, and we pulled into a parking space in the longterm lot just as the shuttle arrived to take us to the terminal. We checked our bags and passed through security without any long waits. And we made it to the gate at boarding

time, with none of us panting for breath or scowling at each other. Of course, I was grateful, but I felt so undeserving of divine favor. Yes, I want to be helped when I need it, who doesn’t? But I don’t want to be so Vivian W. Dudro needy as to look foolish in my own eyes. What is that, though, but pride? “The Lord helps those who help themselves,” the saying goes. But it seems more true to say, the Lord helps those who are helpless and humble enough to admit it. Vivian W. Dudro is a parishioner at St. Mary’s Cathedral and the mother of four children, ages 7 to 16.

Spirituality

Dark Nights of the Soul When Therese of Lisieux entered the Carmelites at age 15, she tried to anticipate the difficulties she would face there. She knew that many would see this as the misguided notion of an immature child, entering a convent to be with her older sisters who were already there. She knew, too, that because of her age she would draw unhealthy reactions from every side and would either be doted on as the darling little child or scorned as the spoiled brat. She knew, too, that the monastic routine would be hard: Spartan living conditions, early rising for prayer, poor food, inadequate heat. Nor was she naïve about the petty human tensions she would find there. She had prepared herself for all of this and felt she was ready for whatever awaited her. But dark nights of the soul strike where you least expect, where you’re vulnerable and don’t know it. She had anticipated all the things that might shake her foundations, except the one that actually did. Not long after she entered Carmel, her father became mentally ill and his personality changed completely. This was particularly devastating for Therese since, not only was there no understanding of his condition as a disease then, but her father had been, to that moment, such an exceptional, faith-filled, gentle, kind-hearted man, who had doted on her, his youngest daughter, that he had been, for her, the incarnation of God’s gentle, steady love. Therese knew the truth of God’s love because she knew the truth of her father’s love. God could be trusted because her father could be trusted. Her father’s illness turned that upside down. Not only did she lose her father, but she was left with questions that rocked the foundations of her beliefs. If a love that is so beautiful and trustworthy can become something so totally other, what can be trusted? If

she had been so wrong about her father, might she be just as wrong about God, about faith, about things in general? It took Therese a long time to come to peace with his, but eventually she did and, afterward, her faith was more mature. Undergoing this crisis freed her from much false romanticism and illusion. What she underwent in this crisis is what, classically, Christian mysticism calls a “dark night of the soul.” A dark night of the soul is a crisis that shakes our deepest conviction about how God, faith, the world, and our own personalities work. But, by doing this, these dark nights also shake us in our complacency, expose our illusions and false romanticism, show us where we most need God, and invite us to a deeper level of maturity. Scripture has its own language for “dark nights of the soul.” In the Hebrew Scriptures we see that virtually every defeat, every drought, every humiliation, and every disappointment that Israel experiences is interpreted as somehow coming from God’s hand and coming to her as an invitation to repentance, to a deeper relationship with God, to more mature faith. The Gospels speak of Jesus as having a crisis of soul in Gethsemane (“he sweated blood”) and then again on the cross when he felt as if God had abandoned him. In some wonderful imagery in his Second Letter to the Corinthians, Paul speaks of his outer nature as crumpling away, even as his inner nature is becoming firmer. That aptly captures what a dark night of the soul does, both in terms of pain and effect; it cracks our outer shell, even as it firms up what’s deepest inside us. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, in a letter to his provincial at a particularly painful time in his life when he was being silenced by the church and shunned by some of his former

colleagues, wrote that, because of this, some of his old certitudes were crumpling, but, also because of this, at a deeper level, he was becoming more “riveted” to Christ and to his commitment to commuFather nity and service. That’s Ron Rolheiser a pretty apt description of what was happening to Jesus on the cross. The mystics speak of these “dark nights” as “coming from God,” though they don’t mean that God actively causes the set of circumstances that trigger them. God doesn’t cause illness, rejection, failure, or any of the other things that can rip our lives apart. God speaks through these events, just as God spoke to Therese through her father’s illness, and just as Jesus saw his Father as sending him “the cup” that he had to drink on Good Friday. Every one of us will undergo “dark nights of the soul.” It’s important to understand this because our natural tendency in any crisis (illness, rejection, failure, disappointment, exclusion, broken relationships) is to see only the negative and not see that, in this crumpling, there is a needed purification and there is an invitation from God to a new maturity. It’s bad when the storm shows up in our lives, but it’s worse if the storm never shows. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.

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Robert Pickus – a life lived vocationally

Catholic San Francisco

October 17, 2003

Pope tells Eastern Europe not to forget roots in search for identity By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As East European nations establish new identities, Christian lay people “have an irreplaceable role of fundamental importance,” Pope John Paul II told participants in the first Congress of Catholic Laity of Eastern Europe. In a message to the Oct. 8-12 congress in Kiev, Ukraine, the pope said the harsh legacy of totalitarian regimes has “left emptiness and deep scars on consciences.” This requires lay people to rediscover their baptismal dignity as laid out in the Second Vatican Council, he said in the message released Oct. 12. “In particular, you lay people must again take those

Weaker democracy . . . ■ Continued from cover transparent and frequent cooperation between civil and religious society is promoted, which benefits the common good,” the pope said. The defense of religious freedom, he said, “is a strong deterrent to the violation of human rights on the part of communities that exploit religion for purposes that are foreign to it.” Bruce George, a member of the British Parliament and president of the OSCE parliamentary assembly, congratulated the pope on behalf of the group. “In these past 25 years, the world has significantly changed,” he said. “We all appreciate with great gratitude your important contribution and your efforts to shape this new world.”

documents in hand,” he said, quoting from his homily at the Mass celebrating the Jubilee of the Apostolate of the Laity in 2000. “To you, gathered in this marvelous city of Kiev that witnessed the baptism of the ancient Rus, is entrusted the responsibility of passing on to future generations the heritage of Christian faith,” Pope John Paul said. “The council has made this the hour of the laity in the church,” he said. Pope John Paul urged lay people to draw strength from the example and intercession of the church’s martyrs. “You have regained freedom at the price of great suffering; do not let it ever devolve into the pursuit of false ideals suggested by the utilitarianism, individualistic

hedonism or unrestrained consumerism that characterize so much of modern culture,” he said. “An old Europe, from west to east, is looking for a new identity,” he said. “In this process, it must not forget its roots. Europe must remember that Christianity has been the lifeblood from which it has drawn the noblest inspirations of its spirit for 2000 years.” As the nations of Eastern Europe renew their history and cultural dignity, “You, the Christian lay faithful, have an irreplaceable role of fundamental importance,” he said. “The Lord asks you who have been stalwart witnesses of faith in times of trial and persecution and in the time that has now seen you regain religious freedom to prepare the soil for a vigorous rebirth of the church in your countries,” he said.

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Speakers at Notre Dame conference advocate renewal of culture By Ann Carey Catholic News Service NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) — Those who see Pope John Paul II as a taskmaster who is restraining those who try to break free of authority have an adolescent approach to the pope, Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago said at the University of Notre Dame. Such an approach dismisses the pope’s true role as the “bearer of a vision that could give us insights into the ways of God,” the cardinal said at an Oct. 2-4 conference on the renewal and formation of the culture. “The topic of renewal of culture falls easily along with the celebration of the 25th anniversary of a pontificate which has made the dialogue between faith and culture part of the theological conversation as well as general conversation,” Cardinal George said in his Oct. 2 keynote talk. In its constant search for ways of understanding God’s way with his creatures, the church has a wonderful resource in Pope John Paul’s images of God and his witness as theologian to the church’s apostolic faith, the cardinal said. The pope’s vision of renewal of the culture is set forth

in his encyclicals, but also in his poetry and plays, said Cardinal George, noting that these creative works offer wonderful insights into the pontiff’s imagination and mystic spirituality. Pope John Paul’s consistent image is of a God “preoccupied with humanity who takes his creation to heart,” Cardinal George said, adding that the pope often compares God to harmony, truth and beauty, “the bright one who brings light.” The remaining two days of the conference, which was sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, were devoted to more than 100 other presentations on politics, education, health care, religion, ethics, law, the family and society. In a talk on “The Confused and Bifurcated State of the Catholic Voter,” George Wesolek, director of public policy and social concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, called the California recall election a “metaphor for the sorry state of politics in the United States.” He said that for many years the issues that concern Catholics have been at the very bottom of legislative priorities in California, with the social justice and life issues putting Catholics in the minority position.

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Oct. 17, 18, 19: St, Dunstan Parish Fall Festival, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, with Friday evening Kick-off dance from 7 – 10 p.m. featuring music of Hightop Posse, $15. Enjoy bingo, casino night, silent auction, Roast Beef Dinner, rides, games, raffles. Starts Fri. at 5 p.m. and continues Sat. noon – 10 p.m. and Sun. noon – 8 p.m. Call (650) 697-4730. Acclaimed organist, Maryliz Smith, Oct. 17, 18, 19: Let’s Play, St. Cecilia Parish Festival 2003 at the parish school, 660 Vicente St. between will perform in concert at St. Stephen Church, 17th and 18th Ave., SF. Fri. 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat noon – 5 451 Eucalyptus, San Francisco on All Souls Day, p.m. and 7 – 10 p.m. with dinner from 5 – 7 p.m.; Sun. noon – 6 p.m. Games, crafts, raffle and silent auction. November 2, 2003 at 4 p.m. The program, dedicated to the Snack bar, too. Call (415) 664-8481. memory of lost loved ones, will feature the artist’s own Oct. 18, 19: Craft Fair sponsored by Serra Circle compositions as well as a selection by Samuel Barber. of St. Veronica Parish, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco. Sat. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sun. 9 a.m. – 1:30 Maryliz, who is music director at St. Stephen’s, is known p.m. All proceeds benefit parish. Raffle, gifts for purfor her “evocative, luminous and intensely-felt music.” chase as wel as lunch. Call Yvonne Warren at (650) She has performed previously in countries including 589-5751. Ireland, Australia, and Canada. Suggested donation of $10 Oct. 18, 19: 2003 Holiday Boutique benefiting Sisters of the Holy Family at the Holy Family Motherhouse, 159 benefits St. Stephen Music Ministry. Washington Blvd. off Bryant Terrace, Fremont. 10 a.m. – Call (415) 681-2444. 4 p.m. both days. Needlework, seasonal items, holiday decorations, baked goods and refreshments, plus many door prizes. Oct. 25: Annual Halloween Luncheon Fundraiser Oct. 18: Octoberfest Fall Carnival. Fun games, great of Dolores #7 Young Ladies Institute in St. Cecilia food, pumpkin patch and more. Silent auction. 10 a.m. – Parish lower church hall beginning at 11 a.m. Oct. 25: Class of ’78, Our Lady of Angels Elementary 4 p.m. Panarama School, 25 Bellevue Ave., Daly City. Tickets $12. Call Claire Kendall at (415) 751-5875. School, Burlingame at Doubletree Hotel in B’game. Still Oct: 20: Regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. with official looking for some classmates. Contact Robin Rando Del Oct. 18: Monte Carlo Night benefiting Good Shepherd Parish, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica, 7 – visit from Grand President Barbara Lovio. Call Rose Pape at (650) 759-5926, robindelpape@comcast.com; or Julie Britton Kanzaki at (650) 464-2354 or kanza11 p.m. “Wear your best Hawaiian shirt.” Tickets at Marie at (415) 753-5680. $25 include gaming tokens, all you can eat buffet, Oct. 25, 26: Holiday Craft Fair benefiting St. kis@pacbell.net. drink coupons and fun!! Call (650) 355-2593. Gabriel Elementary School, 41st Ave. and Taraval, Oct. 31, Nov. 2: Class reunions and Alumnae Oct. 19: Happy 50th birthday to auxiliary of Mt. St. SF. Items include scarves, jewelry, soaps, tote bags, Mass and Brunch honoring classes of ’58, ’63, ’68, Joseph – St. Elizabeth, SF. Big birthday party com- ornaments and candles. Sat. 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.; ’73, ’78, ’83, ’88, ’93, ’98 at Notre Dame High memorates the occasion from 2 – 6 p.m. Cocktails Sun. 12:30 – 4 p.m. takes place in parish’s Bedford School, Belmont. Contact alumnae office at (650) 595-1913, ext. 351 or alumnae@ndhsb.org. and bountiful hors d’oeuvres. $50 donation benefits Hall. Call (415) 566-0314. the children and families of Mt. St. Joseph – St. Oct. 27: SF County Council of Catholic Women Looking for members of the class of ’53, Star of Elizabeth. Call (415) 587-1439 or (415) 386-1135. meets at St. Philip Parish at 7:30 p.m. parking in the Sea Elementary, SF. 50th reunion is being schoolyard off Elizabeth between Diamond and planned. Contact Rose Fitzpatrick Barnett, (650) Oct. 23: Fall Fundraising Dinner benefiting La Madre de los Pobres Foundation, and honoring Salesian Castro. Speaker is representative from SF League 589-2231, Merle Caruso Bellanti, (650) 366-3200, Father Larry Lorenzoni at Spanish Cultural Center, of Women Voters. Refreshments and meeting follow. Carole Musante Noonan, (650) 756-6699, Virginia Reyes Frenkel, (650) 755-6550. 2850 Alemany Blvd., SF, 6:30 p.m. Tickets at $75 “help Call Cathy Mibach at (415) 753-0234. support orphans around the Oct. 29: Annual Octoberfest world.” Call (925) 846-7031. Luncheon and Bingo Party St. Thomas the Apostle continues Oct. 25: Christmas in October celebrations of its 80 Years of sponsored by the Good Oct. 18: Rosary Procession and Mass, 11 a.m. at Boutique commemorating the Serving God and Community with a Shepherd Guild of Grace St. Thomas More Church, Junipero Serra Blvd. and 119th year of the University liturgy October 19th at 11 a.m. honor- Center, SF. Takes place at Brotherhood Way, SF with Msgr. John Sweeny, Mound Ladies Home, 350 ing those who entered the priesthood Basque Cultural Center, 599 founder of Santa Clara’s Our Lady of Peace Shrine. University Ave., SF from 1 – 3 or religious life from the Richmond Railroad Ave., SSF beginning at Celebrates the conclusion of the Year of the Holy p.m. This annual fundraiser has district parish. Couples married there 11:30 a.m. Tickets $35. Call Rosary. Sponsored by the Legion of Mary at the “purchased a large screen televi- will be honored Nov. 16th. Parish Beverly Desmond at (415) 587invitation of St. Thomas More pastor, Father Labib 5374. sion, built and furnished a lovely school, Religious Education program Kopti. Call (650) 992-8049. sun room” and redecorated sever- and Chinese School graduates will be Nov. 1, 2: InStyle, 34th annual Oct. 19: National Catholic Daughters Sunday is comal additional rooms making “daily remembered on Dec. 7. Parishioners Fashion Show benefiting St. life more comfortable” for resi- and friends from then and now are Ignatius College Preparatory memorated at St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1000 dents. Call (415) 239-6696. School, SF, an event “that has Cambridge St., Novato at 11 a.m. Mass. All are invited invited. Call (415) 387-5545. raised millions of dollars for the to pray with and learn more about the group. Oct. 25: Festival of Songs SI scholarship fund,” the school Oct. 20: Special morning of reflection and conversaand Dances 2003 benefiting said. “The paparazzi will be there and the runway tion on the Earth Charter, 10 a.m. – noon, with Notre Franciscan Friars of Immaculate Conception Chapel, SF and children suffering from tuberculosis filled with fashionable models.” Tickets to Saturday’s Dame Sisters Sharon Joyer and Pat Nagle, founders of Earth Home Ministries and pioneers and advocates in in the Philippines. Takes pl;ace at 6:30 p.m. South Evening Gala are $125. Sunday luncheon tickets City High School Auditorium, 398 B St., SSF. Tickets are $75. Sponsorship and other underwriting oppor- “getting people together to work the ground to create tunities are still available. Call Jeannie Barulich at beautiful and productive community gardens.” The event $15/$25. Call (650) 991-3921. (650) 373-4140, or Theresa Moore at (415) 586- is free. Box lunches are available for $10. Takes place at Oct. 24, 25, 26: Endless Summer, a Fall Fun Fest 8051. the Sisters’ Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave., across benefiting Good Shepherd Parish, 901 Oceana Blvd., Nov. 6: Annual Brennan Dinner of San Francisco’s from Ralston Hall on the college campus. Contact Shryl Pacifica featuring games, rides, food, classic car show, McCormick at (650) 593-2045, ext. 350 or St. Vincent de Paul Society honors Peter Brusati at karaoke, live music. Fun for all ages!! “Pacifica’s biggest St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF mccormicks@SNDdeN.org. Sisters of Notre Dame de beach party.” Fri. 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat. noon – 10 p.m.; Sun. beginning at 6 p.m. Cocktails, dinner, silent auc- Namur also offer Saturday Morning Prayer 9:30 – 11:30 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Call (650) 355-2593. tion.Tickets $150 per person. Call Tina McGovern at each 2nd Sat. of the month. Oct. 25: Nightmare on St. Thomas More Way, annual (415) 661-2645. Oct. 25: Dinner commemorating 140th anniverFall Festival benefiting St. Thomas More Elementary Nov. 7: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club gathers. sary of San Francisco’s St. Brigid Church at Holiday School at 50 Thomas More Way off Brotherhood Way, Inn, 1500 Van Ness Ave., SF beginning at 6 p.m. Now in its 10th year the morning begins with Mass SF, 11:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. “Booths, games, food and plenMusic by Wish You Were Here. For ticket informaat 7 a.m. in St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and ty of fun for the entire family.” Call Patricia at (650) 756Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield, with breakfast tion, call (415) 364-1511. 9525 or Linda at (650) 755-1297. and presentation following in parish hall. Today’s Oct. 25, 26: The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Oct. 25: Pre-Halloween Zydeco Dance in the O’Reilly speaker is Jesuit Father Joe Eagan. Reservations Jose invite women interested in religious life to join them Center of St. Emydius Parish, 255 Jules Ave, at Ashton, required to Sugaremy@aol.com or (415) 461-0704 for a weekend retreat at their motherhouse in Fremont. SF, from 9 p.m. – 1 a.m. Music by Andre Thierry and daily. Members $7, others $10. Dues $20 per year. Open to women college age to 40. Contact Sister Helena Zydeco Magic. “Grub and Grog” available. Tickets $12 Dec. 5: Archbishop William J. Levada. at (510) 657-2468 or helena@msjdominicans.org. advance/$15 at door. Call (415) 333-0808.

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Retreats/Days of Recollection VALLOMBROSA CENTER 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees, times and details about these and other offerings call (650) 325-5614. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, Program Director. Oct. 31, Nov. 1, 2: What is Prayer?, an endeavor to deepen understanding of prayer and its practice. Holy Ghost Father Tom Timmins facilitates the weekend. Time for prayer, penance Mass and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

MERCY CENTER 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. For fees, times and other offerings, call (650) 340-7474 or www.mercy-center.org. Nov 8: 12-step Spirituality: A Fresh Approach, a retreat for people in any 12-step recovery program. Contact Ed Semansky at (650) 685-6243, EdSemansky@aol.com or www.mercy-center.org.

Divorced/Separated Sundays, through Nov. 23: Divorce Recovery Course, 7 p.m., O’Reilly Parish Center, 451 Eucalyptus, San Francisco. $45 fee includes materials. “Provides a chance to understand the emotional journey begun with the loss of a marriage,” said Separated and Divorced ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco sponsor of the sessions. Call Susan at (415) 752-1308 or Vonnie at (650) 873-4236. Oct. 24 - 26: Beginning Experience weekend at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Time is “designed to be a powerful, positive growth experience’ and help those suffering significant loss “move on to the future with renewed hope.” Call Nicole at (408) 5785654, Alan at (415) 584-2861 or Ward at (415) 821-3390. Nov. 15: San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester will preside at a Mass of Thanksgiving at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Mill Valley at 1 p.m. Pot luck reception follows. Call Pat Harder at (415) 492-3331.

Returning Catholics Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: St. Philip the Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call the parish office at (415) 282-0141; St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, parish office at (415) 453-2342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani at (415) 461-7060; Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, SF, Michael Adams at (415) 6952707; St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus, SF, Dennis Rivera at (415) 6648590; St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336, Elaine Yastishock at (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Dorothy Heinrichs or Maria Cianci at (650) 347-7768; St. Dunstan, Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Chris Booker at (650) 7381398; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea or Diane Claire at (415) 388-4190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco at (415) 331-7949.

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The Gospel of John By David DiCerto Catholic News Service NEW YORK (CNS) — As suggested by its title, “The Gospel of John” (ThinkFilm) is a reverently filmed, word-for-word version of the life, ministry and death of Jesus Christ, as recounted by the fourth evangelist. Beautifully shot on a modest budget and with a running time of three hours, the film, directed by Philip Saville, eschews biblical pageantry in order to paint an intimate portrait of Christ true to its source material. Far from the stolid good shepherd of “King of Kings” (1961) and “The Greatest Story Ever Told” (1965) — which tended to shy away from, if not completely ignore, Christ’s humanity — Saville’s Jesus (played by Henry Ian Cusick) is a flesh-and-blood manly savior. Though filling Christ’s sandals is a bit much to ask any actor, Cusick admirably brings an appealing blend of warmth and virility to the role, by turns gentle and full of a relentless self-assertiveness bordering on arrogance. His is no milquetoast messiah, but a true lion of Judah, a firebrand rabble-rouser only too eager to ruffle the status-quo feathers of the Temple authorities in order to complete his appointed mission. From its magnificent opening prologue (“In the beginning was the Word”), the unadorned film captures the poetic lyricism of the Johannine text. Following John’s Gospel to the letter, the narrative commences with John the Baptist foretelling Christ’s coming. An adult Jesus is introduced soon after, already engaged in a life as an itinerant rabbi. While much of his public ministry as told by John is paralleled in the other three canonical versions, many scriptural touch-

stones found in the synoptic gospels of Mathew, Mark and Luke — including the Nativity, the Sermon on the Mount, the parables and the institution of the Eucharist — are not recorded by the fourth evangelist. Yet in their absence, John’s Gospel contains some of the most spiritually pregnant passages in the New Testament, among them the protracted Last Supper discourses leading up to Christ’s passion. The wordy narrative is held together by the soulful reading of the text by Christopher Plummer. Written two generations after Jesus’ death (around the year 90 A.D.), well after the other three Gospels, the Gospel of John employs a more lyrical style of prose, suffused with mystical signs and allusions. Highly literate and symbolic, it focuses on Jesus as the incarnate Word and image of the Father. In it, common everyday objects like fish, bread, water and wine take on spiritual significance, serving as metaphors for divine truths. Despite its literary eloquence, St. John’s text was written as Scripture, not as a screenplay. And while adhering to it word-for-word affords viewers an opportunity to experience the Gospel message undiluted, many of the passages which make up the film’s dialogue contain superfluous redundancies. This narrative repetition (a style of prose common throughout the Bible), though highly effective for contemplative reading of Scripture, at times weighs down the pacing of the film. When dealing with dramatizations of Christ’s passion and death, Catholics and others should keep in mind the words of the Second Vatican Council’s “Nostra Aetate” that, while Jewish authorities and their followers “pressed for the death of Christ,” at the same time “his passion cannot be charged

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against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today.” Saville’s handling of this interreligious hornets’ nest may get mixed reviews from people of both faiths. The film opens with onscreen text affirming the Jewishness of Jesus and his disciples and explaining that John’s Gospel was written during a period of factional tension between the early Christian communities and the Jewish establishment. In an effort to avoid broad brushstrokes when assigning blame for Jesus’ death, Saville has gone with the Good News Bible’s translation of the original Greek “Ioudaioi” as meaning “the Jewish authorities” rather than the more collective “the Jews.” However, these attempts to sidestep controversy are undermined by a caricatured depiction of several Jewish characters — among them a villainous-looking Pharisee. And though balanced by sympathetic portrayals of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, the film comes close to casting the Jewish populace in an unflattering light — as either beard-twirling cabalists or members of stone-hurling mobs. The film’s tasteful handling of Jesus’ death

achieves equilibrium between the salvific suffering and the redemptive triumph of the cross, without fixating on its more grisly aspects. Despite some hokey moments — including Jesus’ baptism, where he rises out of the water like a glittering shampoo model — Catholic viewers cannot help but be moved by the sublime power of the divinely inspired, if at times uncomfortably challenging, words. And while some may feel their viewing is hampered by the restrictions imposed by the film’s verbal straitjacketed literalness, others may find its unapologetically unwatered-down approach spiritually edifying. Due to crucifixion violence, the USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-II — adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 — parents are strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. DiCerto is on the staff of the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of September HOLY CROSS COLMA Osie R. Adams Loretta M. Agliolo Henry Ahumada Isabel M. Alexander Alejandro P. Alido Meredith L. Anderson Roberto C. Arias Gerardo C. Arriola Lydia Arruabarrena Rosemary D. Ayres Virginia Badzik Richard T. Bagnall, Sr. Dorothy Barbieri Dolores M. Deasy Barsanti Minnie M. Belluomini Katherine Josephine Bensen Alice M. Bertram Richard Mario Bianchi George J. Blundell Maria Esperanza Bonequi Faustina Brussa Walter J. Brust Margaret J. Buckley Elpidio D. Cabaoig, Sr. Carmen R. Carrillo Candelaria E. Castellon Harriet J. Chalmers Margaret Cleek Eleanor R. Collins Augusto O. Colombana Myles M. Cosgrove Helen M. Creighton Alfred R. Cremolini Ernest H. Croteau Angelito Cubillos-Gutierrez Sam Wildene Dela Cruz Bebs Delos Santos

Raymond O. Diaz Patrick W. DiMaggio John F. Donis Rose A. Elb Hugh C. Elbert, Sr. Michael Ferrario Bernice Fioresi Benedetta Fiorucci Adrienne E. Fogarty Estelle L. Gaddini Nettie Gagliolo Mario Louis Gaidano Jose DeJesus Garcia, Jr. Alberto Rangel Garduno Eva M. Gomez Anjelica Lara Goto Kathryn C. Hardey Marie B. Hebert John E. Hopkins Josephine J. Howe Yola Mary Hutchins Lourdes C. Ibarra Frank Bassett Ingersoll Leonard Jones Leo P. Kangoony Dorothy I. Kehoe Josephine King Charlie LaChapelle Patricia J. Leo Antoinette Lesco Darrell E. Lewis Lillian Page Loscutoff William A. Love L. C. Lovings Leo T. Lyman Evano J. Maionchi Ann E. Malizia Josephine V. Marshall Josefa S. Martinez Peter P. Martinez Raymond J. Mattias, Sr.

Mary Colter McDonald Thomas M. McLaughlin Lois M. Meader Peter Meyer Mary D. Meza Giovanni Mezzetta Donald E. Molinari Angelina Monastiere Erlinda O. Morales Michael G. Mulligan Giacomino R. Negro Dolores E. Curry Negro Evangeline F. O'Brien June A. O'Brien Timothy Augustine O'Donnell Stanford R. O'Meir, Jr. Eva J. Oneto Philip B. Ordonio Fred Orlovich Richard P. Parrino Salvatore "Sam" Passanisi Lorenzo A. Picchi Orlando D. Pitts Anthony Milton Podgornik Rose M. Portillo Marshall Quon Erlinda M. Ramirez John B. Reilly Rosa Elena Moreno Reyes Helen A. Rice Phillip C. Richards Enrique R. Robles Blanca Rodriguez Raymond R. Rosario John A. Ruffini, Jr. Augusto A. Salazar Annette R. Santry Leona R. Scafire Mary Natividad Schroeder William Henry Schroeder Lois I. Schweitzer

Maria Pia Shirar Tony Joseph Silvestri Robert (Bob) Charles Simon Evelyn E. Sinclair Lorraine F. Sutter Eleanor R. Thomas Angelina Tina-An Antonio Tirona John K. Touron Peter C. Vigna Josephine Anne Wattson Loretta M. Young Romaldo Zamora

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Adelia A. Cruz Cortez Louis Angel Gaitan Cruz James W. Foley Rosario Galvan Ellen P. Garrett Mary McCue Tuite Suzanne M. Walsh

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Lorraine Angelica Azevedo James Frank Beard Elmer H. Forsher Florence L. Foster John N. Miller Albert P. “Sonny” Nerviani Louise K. Robello Brand Sabraw

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA CALENDAR OF EVENTS All Saints Day Mass Todos Los Santos – All Souls’ Day Celebration Saturday, November 1st – 11:00 a.m. Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel Archbishop William J. Levada, Celebrant

Veterans’ Day Memorial Service

Christmas Remembrance Service

(No Mass) Tuesday, November 11th – 11:00 a.m. Veterans’ Section

All Saints Mausoleum Chapel (No Mass) Saturday, December 13th – 11:00 a.m. Rev. John Talesfore, Officiating

Monthly Mass – 1st Saturdays – 11:00 a.m. All Saints Mausoleum Chapel

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 94014 650-756-2060

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-6375

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 94903 415-479-9020

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.