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PAGE 2 — The Southern Cross, May 31, 1990
NATION
Welcome Acceptance
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Family plan
ning and abortion foes May 29 welcomed
Supreme Court acceptance ot a dispute
over abortion counseling and referrals by
federally funded family planning clinics.
As usual, the justices gave no reason for
their action. Lower courts had issued con
flicting opinions in the case. Rust vs.
Sullivan. At issue are rules by the Reagan
administration forbidding Title X family
planning services from encouraging abor
tion or “disseminating in any way
materials ... advocating abortion’ as a
family planning option.
Weakland: I Strongly
Uphold Catholic Teaching
MILWAUKEE (CNS) - Responding to
press reports on his May 20 statement on
abortion, Archbishop Rembert G.
Weakland of Milwaukee wrote to a local
paper, “I ... strongly uphold Catholic
teaching and that certainly includes the
church’s teaching on abortion. “Abortion
is the taking of human life and therefore
morally wrong,’’ he added. Archbishop
Weakland made his comments in a letter
to the Milwaukee Sentinel, the city’s daily
morning newspaper, after the paper ran a
Page One story in its May 21 edition that
carried portions of an interview with him
under the headline, “Weakland: Pro-
choice could be OK.’’ A subhead declared
the archbishop’s stance “at odds with U S.
conference of bishops.”
Disagrees
With Approach
CAMDEN, N.J. (CNS) - Bishop James
T. McHugh of Camden, who has announc
ed plans for a diocesan policy against
church honors or offices for public ad
vocates of a “pro-choice’’ position on abor
tion. said he disagrees with the apnroach
to the abortion issue taken this spring by
Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland ol
Milwaukee. In an interview with his
diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Star
Herald, Bishop McHugh said he disagreed
specifically with the way the Wisconsin
archbishop described the pro-life move
ment and with his decision to restrict re
cent “listening sessions’ on abortion to
women. In a formal response to the listen
ing sessions released May 20. Archbishop
Weakland had criticized the apparent
“narrowness of so many in the pro-life
movement,’’ saying some of their tactics
and a wide perception that many of them
were one-issue people deterred many
Catholic opponents of abortion from join
ing their ranks.
U.S. Bishops' Assembly
WASHINGTON (CNS) - About 200 U.S.
bishops are expected to attend an
assembly for reflection and prayer June
21-27 at the Jesuit-run University of Santa
Clara in Santa Clara, Calif. The theme of
the special assembly is “The Bishop: A
Person Called to Be Priest, Prophet and
Leader.” Cardinal Godtried Danneels of
Malines-Brussels, Belgium, is to lead the
bishops in a series of daily reflections and
to give an address June 25 on “The Bishop
as Prophet.
WORLD
Seeks End Of Fighting
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John
Paul II, in a videotaped message to
Lebanese Catholic leaders, pleaded for an
end to inter-Christian f ighting and said he
wanted “more than ever” to visit the Mid
dle Eastern country. The day after the
pope’s May 25 message. Christian military
leaders in the Lebanese capital of Beirut
agreed to a truce that would end months of
bloody clashes in Christian zones, the
Italian newspaper Avvemre reported.
“The fighting which has been taking place
for months in the Christian sector of the
country is a cause of great sorrow tor me,’
the pope said.
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Christian Leaders
Cancel Celebrations
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Christian
leaders in Jerusalem canceled traditional
Ascension Day celebrations at the Mount
of Olives because of the tense situation be
tween Israelis and Palestinians. Vatican
Radio reported. The decision was made by
the Catholic and Orthodox patriarchs and
Franciscan leaders in charge of Catholic
sites in the area and came several days
after an Israeli machine-gunned to death
seven Palestinians, said Vatican Radio
The massacre triggered renewed battles
between Palestinian protesters in Israeli-
occupied territories and Israeli security
forces, causing the death of at least 15
more Palestinians and injuring hundreds
more.
Peruvian Elections
Set For June 10
LIMA, Peru (CNS) — An archbishop’s
warning that evangelicals will wield
political power if Alberto Fujimon wins
Peru’s June 10 presidential elections has
been interpreted as tacit church support
for Fujimori’s opponent, Peruvian novelist
Mario Vargas Llosa. Archbishop Augusto
Vargas Alzamora of Lima issued a written
statement advising voters that
evangelicals comprise an important part
of Fujimori’s support in the upcoming
runoff election. Without naming Fujimori
or his Cambio ’90 independent party
directly, the document referred to the
“threat” posed to Catholics by the
evangelicals. It said they will be “using
the political power gained through the
elections,” presumably to the detriment of
Catholics.
Synod Focus: Increase
In Spiritual Preparation
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The October
world Synod of Bishops probably will focus
on ways to increase spiritual preparation
among priesthood candidates and
strengthen their formal education at
seminaries, said a top Vatican synod of
ficial. Archbishop Jan P. Schotte, general
secretary of the Synod of Bishops, said
worldwide responses to a synod
preparatory document emphasized a
“need for better and deeper spiritual for
mation for candidates” who are entering
seminaries from a fast-changing society
The monthlong synod will take up the
theme, “The Formation of Priests in Cir
cumstances of the Present Day." A basic
concern is that support tor priests in their
own faith communities is eroding Arch
bishop Schotte said in an interview May 23.
Czech Bishops
Encourage Vote
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The bishops of
Czechoslovakia have encouraged
Catholics to vote in June elections so that
for the first time in 40 years they can have
a voice in their destiny. At the same time,
the bishops have steered clear of support
ing any party or candidates in the
multiparty national elections scheduled
for June 8. The elections are the first
multiparty vote since the communists
came to power in 1948. The purpose is to
choose a long-term government to replace
the temporary government that took office
last December after popular street pro
tests toppled the communists from power
PEOPLE
Bishops Disagree
On AAedjugorje
WASHINGTON (CNS) - Bishop Pavao
Zanic and Archbishop Frane Frame have
faced off again in a public exchange accus
ing each other of misrepresenting the facts
of the alleged Marian apparitions at Med-
jugorje, Yugoslavia. Archbishop Frame
has issued a response to Bishop Zamc of
the Mostar-Duvno Diocese, where Med-
jugorje is located, who denounced the ap
paritions in a 16-page tract he delivered to
Vatican officials in mid-April. The bishop
accused the alleged visionaries and the
Franciscan priests who support them of
lies, manipulation and •'fabricated
miracles.” The archbishop, recently
retired head of the neighboring Arch
diocese of Split-Makarska. responded
with an open letter to his fellow bishop,
made available to Catholic News Service
in Washington May 23. He accused Bishop
Zanic of “poor knowledge of mystical
theology” and of making false and un-
provable accusations against some of the
Franciscan priests promoting the appari
tions.
BLESSING OF NEW C.C.D. BUILDING at Saint John Vianney,
Camilla. Pictured left to right: Fr. Roch Coogan O.F.M., Pastor of Our
Divine Savior, Tifton, Fr. Robert Chaney, Associate Pastor, St.
Teresa’s, Albany, Bishop Raymond W. Lessard, Fr. Edward R. Frank,
Pastor, Lonnie Bass, Altar Boy, Mr. Philip J. Walsh, Deacon.