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Bishops call for ‘new
KIND OF POLITICS’ IN NEXT
MILLENNIUM
Washington (CNS)
ailing for “a new kind of poli
tics” in the year 2000, the U.S.
bishops’ Administrative Board is urg
ing Catholic voters to measure each
candidate, policy and political plat
form by “whether they enhance or
diminish human life, dignity and
human rights.” The call comes in the
latest version of what was formerly
called the bishops’ political responsi
bility statement. Released October
20, the document for the year 2000
elections is called “Faithful
Citizenship: Civic Responsibility for
a New Millennium.”
Synod delegate says
Curia blocks discussion
OF SOME TOPICS
Vatican City (CNS)
hile some members of the
Synod of Bishops for Europe
would favor admitting more married
men to the priesthood, the suggestion
will not find its way into the synod’s
conclusions, a Scottish archbishop
said. “In our group, it certainly was
discussed, as it had been during the
synod for Oceania, but it didn’t get
very far” because of opposition from
synod members from the Roman
Curia, the Vatican’s central offices,
said Archbishop Keith O’Brien of
Saint Andrews and Edinburgh. “It
does cause tension; I would not say it
came to blows, but views are
expressed very, very strongly,” he
told reporters October 20.
Vatican document
URGES RECOVERY OF
Eastern Catholic
TRADITIONS
Vatican City (CNS)
he Holy Year renewal of the
Catholic Church must include the
recovery of traditions the Eastern
Catholic Churches have lost or
allowed to lapse, said a new Vatican
document. For the jubilee year to be
an event lived and celebrated by the
universal church, each church must
participate according to its own tradi
tion and share that tradition with the
wider church, said Cardinal Achille
Silvestrini, prefect of the
Congregation for Eastern Churches.
During an October 21 press confer
ence, the cardinal presented a hand
book for the Holy Year, The Great
Jubilee 2000 and the Eastern
Catholic Churches.
Phoenix bishop honored
by Jewish group
Scotsdale, AZ (CNS)
he Phoenix chapter of the
American Jewish Committee
honored Bishop Thomas J. O’Brien
of Phoenix October 14 for his long
time efforts in support of interfaith
relations and dignity for all people.
The bishop received the annual
Institute of Human Relations Award,
a two-foot-tall statue of the prophet
Isaiah, holding a piece of broken
sword to be turned into a plow, from
the biblical verse about beating
swords into plowshares and turning
away from war. Rabbi Robert L.
Kravitz, executive director of the
committee’s Phoenix chapter,
referred to Bishop O’Brien as “my
friend” and said, “for this bishop ...
we are blessed.”
Bishops named for
VACANT DIOCESES IN NEW
York, Tennessee
Washington (CNS)
ope John Paul II named a
Brooklyn bishop and a Penn
sylvania priest to fill vacant posts in
New York and Tennessee on October
26. Auxiliary Bishop Gerald M.
Barbarito of Brooklyn was appointed
bishop of Ogdensburg, N., and
Monsignor Joseph E. Kurtz, director
of Catholic Charities in the Diocese
of Allentown, PA, will head the
Diocese of Knoxville, TN. Bishop
Barbarito succeeds Bishop Paul S.
Loverde, who was named to the
Diocese of Arlington, VA, in January.
Bishop-elect Kurtz succeeds Bishop
Anthony J. O’Connell, who was
appointed bishop of Palm Beach, FL,
in November 1998.
Rev. Leon Sullivan
NAMED 1999 WINNER OF
Notre Dame Award
Notre Dame, IN (CNS)
he Rev. Leon Sullivan, civil
rights leader and pastor emeritus
of Zion Baptist Church in
Philadelphia, has been named the
winner of the 1999 Notre Dame
Award for international humanitarian
service. He was to receive the award
and address the Notre Dame commu
nity during a campus ceremony Nov.
3. “Leon Sullivan’s struggle against
racial prejudice and economic injus
tice have been lifelong, exemplary
and inspiring,” said Holy Cross
Father Edward A. Malloy, Notre
Dame president, in announcing the
award. “In honoring his life and
work, we hope to recommit ourselves
to the same struggle.”
Cardinal O’Connor
RETURNS TO SAINT
Patrick’s Cathedral
New York (CNS)
ardinal John J. O’Connor of New
York returned to the pulpit at
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New
York October 24 after missing two
Sundays because of illness. “This is
only the beginning — I’ll be back,”
he said to enthusiastic applause at the
end of the Mass. The cardinal was
greeted with a standing ovation when
he entered the sanctuary before the
Mass processional began, and
applause interrupted him as he started
to deliver his homily. After undergo
ing surgery for removal of a brain
tumor August 31, Cardinal O'Connor
had nearly five weeks of five-day-a-
week radiation treatments that left
him partly dehydrated and too tired
to make public appearances for a
time. He also developed a blood clot
in his left leg that doctors controlled
by inserting a filter to keep the clot
from moving. For the October 24
Mass, he let Archbishop Jean-Louis
Tauran, the Vatican’s secretary for
relations with states, preside and cel
ebrate the Eucharist.
Thursday, October 28, 1999
General secretary-
elect TO BE CHOSEN BY
BISHOPS
Washington (CNS)
D uring their Nov. 15-18 general
meeting, the U.S. bishops will
choose a new general secretary to run
the day-to-day operations at their
Washington headquarters. And if a
procedural recommendation is
accepted, for the first time the bish
ops will pick a general secretary-
elect, who would train under the cur
rent general secretary before begin
ning his own five-year term on Feb.
3, 2001.
MENEM’S STRATEGY BACK
FIRES: EX-WIFE SAYS SHE
HAD ABORTION
Buenos Aires (CNS)
A rgentine President Carlos
Menem’s effort to inject abortion
as an election issue backfired on him.
Shortly after he accused the opposi
tion candidate for a key governorship
of being pro-abortion, Menem’s ex-
wife said she had had an abortion
with his consent while they were mar
ried. The statement was doubly em
barrassing for Menem, who earlier
this year received a Vatican award for
supporting Vatican pro-life stands at
U.N.-sponsored international confer
ences. Menem, a convert to Catho
licism from Islam, had also declared
March 25 in Argentina as the Day of
the Unborn Child.
Nyerere was man of
FAITH, SAYS MISSIONARY
Washington (CNS)
T he late president of Tanzania was
a man of faith who worked for
the common good, said a Maryknoll
missionary. “He was a true African in
that he put the common good of all
people before his own individual
needs,” said Maryknoll Sister
Margaret Rose Winkelmann, a mis
sionary in Tanzania from 1948 to
1992. Julius Kambarage Nyerere, 77,
a Catholic, died October 14 after a
massive stroke in a London hospital,
where had been in intensive care
since October 1.
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