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Archbishop says
Ventura needs lesson
IN HOW CHURCH AIDS
SOCIETY
Saint Paul, MN (CNS)
innesota Governor Jesse
Ventura needs a lesson in how
important church and religion are to
society, according to a Minnesota
archbishop. “We realize that
Governor Ventura is undergoing a
learning process during his first term
in office,” Archbishop Harry J. Flynn
of Saint Paul and Minneapolis said in
a statement about the governor’s
Playboy magazine slam on organized
religion. “Our hope is that as he con
tinues to evaluate and examine what
is necessary to lead our state, he will
choose to educate himself fully on
the importance of church and religion
in our society and perhaps even learn
from our example,” the archbishop
added.
House attempt to cut
FUNDING FOR SOA FAILS
Washington (CNS)
House attempt to cut off funding
for the U.S. Army School of the
Americas was reversed when the bill
reached a House-Senate conference
committee and when the final version
was passed. That portion of the
school’s funding included in the for
eign operations budget was restored
in the final version of the bill
approved by the House October 5
and the Senate October 6.
Meanwhile, the leader of a campaign
to close the School of the Americas,
known as SOA, said he hopes 10,000
people will turn out for an annual
protest at the school in Columbus,
Georgia, and that attention will focus
on separate bills to close the SOA.
Second prosecutor in
BISHOP’S MURDER RESIGNS,
flees Guatemala
San Salvador (CNS)
he special prosecutor investigat
ing the murder of Auxiliary
Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera of
Guatemala City resigned and fled to
Headlnme
the United States with his family,
sources in Guatemala City confirmed
October 7. Special prosecutor Celvin
Galindo told a news agency that he
resigned after having received death
threats since taking on the case in
January. Galindo, his wife and three
children left early October 7 for an
undisclosed location in the United
States.
Lay MOVEMENTS SEEN AS
FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
Vatican City (CNS)
or several participants at the
Synod of Bishops for Europe, the
future of the church can be seen in
the lay movements that continue to
expand on the continent. Czech
Cardinal Miloslav Vlk of Prague,
president of the Council of European
Bishops’ Conferences, sang the prais
es of the movements in a speech on
the synod floor, saying their impact
has been “amazing” and they should
be given room to grow.
Cardinal says time may
BE RIGHT FOR MEETING OF
WORLD’S BISHOPS
Vatican City (CNS)
talian Cardinal Carlo Maria
Martini of Milan said the Catholic
Church may need to bring together
all the world’s bishops “to loosen
doctrinal and disciplinary knots”
causing problems in the church.
Addressing the evening session of the
Synod of Bishops for Europe October
7, Cardinal Martini did not use the
word “council” to describe the meet
ings he envisioned, but said a synod
with only a representative number of
bishops and no real authority was not
enough.
U.S. Ruthenian
Catholic Church sets
new LAWS
Washington(CNS)
fter a year’s delay and some
revisions, the Byzantine-
Ruthenian Catholic Church in the
United States has issued new legisla
tion with a provision that could lead
to ordaining married priests. The leg-
Efopseotelh
islation, which took effect October 1,
makes the Byzantine-Ruthenian
Church the first of the world’s
Eastern Catholic churches to estab
lish its own particular laws based on
the 1990 Code of Canons of the
Eastern Churches, said Father
Michael Jude Wytish, communica
tions director of the Byzantine
Archdiocese of Pittsburgh. One pro
vision of the new norms says married
Ruthenian priests are not to exercise
pastoral ministry in the United States
“unless dispensations are granted by
the (Apostolic) See in individual
cases.”
Religious leaders
applaud Clinton debt
INITIATIVE
Washington (CNS)
eligious leaders have commend
ed President Clinton’s initiative
to forgive the debt of the world’s
poorest countries and have urged
Congress to follow up with funding.
Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick
of Newark, N.J., head of the U.S.
bishops’ International Policy
Committee, said, “The president has
demonstrated the U.S. commitment
to improving the lives and well-being
of millions of the world’s most
impoverished people.” The Rev. Joan
Brown Campbell, general secretary
of the National Council of Churches,
commended Clinton’s “leadership on
this critical moral issue” and added,
“Now it is critical that Congress sup
port this request and that members
act immediately to appropriate the
necessary funds.”
Bishop: “human dignity
is BASIS of law”
Washington (CNS)
inking 350 years of religious and
political tolerance in Maryland to
those same freedoms in the United
States today, the homilist at the Red
Mass in Washington October 3
encouraged over 1,200 government
officials, legal professionals and law
school students to remember that the
human dignity of every individual is
the basis for all law. “Instead of tanks
Thursday, October 14,1999
and guns and land mines, maybe we
have a great opportunity to offer the
world a legal system which guaran
tees elementary human rights and
yes, religious rights, and as a result,
the potential for peace, justice and
economic growth,” said Bishop
Raymond Boland of Kansas City-
Saint Joseph, Missouri.
Cardinal dedicates
OUTPATIENT CLINIC AT
Catholic hospital
New York (CNS)
ardinal John J. O’Connor of New
York, undergoing radiation treat
ment himself, dedicated a new outpa
tient cancer clinic at Saint Vincent’s
Hospital in Greenwich Village
October 4. The hospital, operated by
the Sisters of Charity, said its new
Comprehensive Cancer Center would
be the only one of its kind in New
York that offered 24-hour service
seven days a week. Alfred E. Smith
IV, a board member of Saint
Vincent’s, said he wished he had
been able to go to such a facility
when he had cancer 13 years ago.
Vatican expert’s book
DEFENDS WWII POLICIES
of Pope Pius XII
Vatican City (CNS)
n a book based on 12 volumes of
historical documents, the Vatican’s
leading expert on World War II
defended Pope Pius XII’s quiet diplo
macy and said it helped save thou
sands of Jewish lives. “His public
silence covered a secret activity
through nunciatures and episcopates
aimed at stopping deportations,”
French Jesuit Father Pierre Blet said
October 8. Rejecting the accusation
that Pope Pius was anti-Semitic,
Father Blet said: “He certainly was
not. Look at all the actions he under
took” on behalf of the Jews. Father
Blet spoke at a Vatican press confer
ence to present his Italian-language
book, Pius XII and the Second World
War.
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