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The Southern Cross, Page 2 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. tar (USPS 505 680) Publisher: Most Rev. J. Kevin Boland, D.D. *eMBDirector of Communications: Mrs. Barbara D. King |( c P a )| Editor: '*fss R ev Douglas K. Clark, S.T.L. Editorial and Business Office: Catholic Pastoral Center 601 E. 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