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Conference on Justice, Peace to Tackle Social
Issues
By LARRY B. STAMMER
A conference on justice and peace sponsored
by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and featuring Cardinal
Roger M. Mahony and a Vatican archbishop is planned March 17 at Loyola
Marymount University.
Workshops will be held on issues involving
a living wage, housing, environmental justice, organized labor, immigration
reform, Catholic social teaching and labor and the death penalty.
Participants are to include Mahony, the
archbishop of Los Angeles; Archbishop Francois X. Nguyen Van Thuan, president
of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican; Cardinal
Oscar Rodriguez of Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop
Gabino Zavala; sister Christine Tan, a religious leader and activist in
the Philippines; and Wetshotsile Joe Seremane, a member of the South African
parliament.
Although the theme is "Reconciling God's
People," members of Dignity--the unofficial organization of gay, lesbian,
transgendered and bisexual Catholics--have complained that the archdiocese
has refused to include the organization among official sponsors. Dignity
Vice President John Butkis called Dignity's exclusion "unfair and ironic."
But an archdiocesan spokesman, Tod Tamberg,
said that because Dignity publicly disagrees with the church's teaching
against homosexual acts, the church was not obligated to accept it as
a sponsor.
The conference will run 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The campus is at 7900 Loyola Blvd., Los Angeles. Individual registration,
$25. (213) 637-7550.
* * *
EVENTS
"The Equivocal Attitude of Buddhism Toward
Women" is to be the subject of a talk by UC Santa Barbara's religious
studies lecturer Vesna Wallace at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the University
Club, 1332 Santa Barbara St., Santa Barbara. Tickets $5 to $8. (805) 893-4388.
* The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the
Unification Church, will be the keynote speaker at a Los Angeles banquet
Thursday as part of a 50-state tour he hopes will lead to inter-religious
cooperation on behalf of world peace. The banquet doors are to open at
5:30 p.m. at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, 404 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles.
The cost is $25 a plate. Reservations (626) 792-8673.
* The gospel music play "Fall on Your Knees,"
written and produced by Michelle Robinson, will be staged today at 8 p.m.
and Sunday at 3 and 7:30 p.m. at West Angeles Performing Arts Theater,
3020 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles. Tickets are $15 for adults, $7.50 for
children 12 and younger. (323) 733-8707.
* The Jewish Book Group of Beth Chayim Chadashim
will discuss Tova Mirvis' novel, "The Ladies Auxiliary," set in an Orthodox
Memphis community, on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the synagogue, 6000 W. Pico
Blvd., Los Angeles. (323) 931-7023.
* * *
MUSIC
"A Lenten Concert: Holy Traditions of the
Orthodox World," will be performed Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at St. Sophia Greek
Orthodox Cathedral, 1324 S. Normandie Ave., Los Angeles. The program will
feature the Los Angeles Byzantine Chorale, composed of Orthodox Christian
singers from the Los Angeles area Antiochian, Greek, Romanian, Russian
and Serbian Orthodox traditions. Offering. (323) 737-2424.
* Chang Kyun Chong, music minister at the
World Agape Mission Church, will play three saxophones at once as part
of a Jazz Gospel Concert featuring three youth gospel bands and an opera
from the California Youth Choir on Sunday at 7 p.m. at Wilshire United
Methodist Church, 4350 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. Admission is free.
(323) 939-7784.
* Flamenco dance and guitar by Arriba Dance
Productions will be presented by St. James Presbyterian Church's concert
series on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the church, 19414 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana.
Admission is free. (818) 345-2057.
* Mozart's Grand Mass in C Minor and Prokofiev's
Piano Concerto No. 1 will be performed by choir and orchestra directed
by James Vail Sunday at 4 p.m. at St. Alban's Episcopal Church, 580 Hilgard
Ave., Westwood. Tickets are $10, $6 for seniors and students. (310) 208-6516.
* Israeli folk dancing with David Edery
will be performed tonight at 8 p.m. at the Westside Jewish Community Center,
5870 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles. Tickets are $6, $5 for members. (323)
938-2532, Ext. 2225.
* The world premiere of Falcone's Elegy
for Four Horns, Strings and Harp, Ravel's homage to Couperin and music
of Mozart will be performed at 8 p.m. Friday by soprano Maurita Phillips-Thornburgh
and the St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church,
1031 Bienveneda Ave., Pacific Palisades. Tickets are $15, $10 for students.
(310) 573-7787, Ext. 2.
Notices may be mailed for consideration
to Southern California File, c/o Religion Editor, Los Angeles Times, 202
W. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012; faxed to Southern California File at
(213) 237-2358; or e-mailed to religion@latimes.com. Items should
arrive two to three weeks before the event and should include pertinent
details about the people and organizations with address, phone number,
date and time. Because of the volume of submissions, we cannot guarantee
publication.
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