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Nun who hosted
GRANDMOTHERS SAYS
Elian should stay
Miami (CNS)
nee neutral in the battle over
whether 6-year-old Elian
Gonzalez should go back to Cuba,
Dominican Sister Jeanne O’Laughlin
has now placed herself firmly on the
side of those who want him to remain
in the United States. Sister O’Laugh
lin, president of Dominican-run
Barry University, told reporters
January 28 that she was “no longer
neutral” about Elian’s fate following
a 90-minute private meeting she host
ed January 26 between the child and
his grandmothers, Mariela Quintana
and Raquel Rodriguez. She said she
would work with Sen. Connie Mack,
R-Fla., in support of legislation that
would keep Elian in the United
States, “even if there aren’t enough
votes to pass it.” She also said she
was open to other options that would
be “legal and possible.”
Pope clears way for
Pope John XXIII's
BEATIFICATION
Vatican City (CNS)
ope John Paul II, recognizing as
miraculous a healing of an Italian
nun, cleared the way for the beatifi
cation of Pope John XXIII. Sister
Caterina Capitani, a member of the
Daughters of Charity, attended the
January 27 Vatican session at which
the pope recognized her healing as a
miracle attributed to the intervention
of Pope John. The decree clears the
way for the beatification of Pope
John, pontiff from 1958 to 1963.
Although the Vatican has not
announced a date for the ceremony,
officials have said September 3 is the
most likely date.
Pope plans to canonize
Blessed Katharine
Drexel
Vatican City (CNS)
ope John Paul II plans to canon T
ize Blessed Katharine Drexel, the
U.S. heiress who dedicated her life to
defending and educating African-
Americans and Native Americans.
During a January 27 meeting with the
Congregation for Sainthood Causes,
the pope published a decree recogniz
ing as a miracle the 1994 healing,
following prayers to Blessed
Katharine, of a U.S. toddler bom
deaf. The Vatican did not announce a
date for the canonization ceremony,
but people familiar with Pope John
Paul’s Holy Year calendar said
Blessed Katharine probably would be
declared a saint during an October 1
Mass at the Vatican.
Tucson priest named in
THREE LAWSUITS
Tuscon, AZ (CNS)
A priest of the Tucson Diocese has
been named in three separate law
suits that allege he molested children
during the 1970s. The suits also name
the diocese as a defendant. Monsignor
Robert Trupia was named last April in
a suit alleging he abused children
while he was in residence at Our
Mother of Sorrows Parish in Tucson.
Attorneys brought two additional suits
naming Monsignor Tmpia to the atten
tion of the news media the first week
of January. The suits, filed on behalf of
two men, allege child abuse in 1975 at
Saint Francis of Assisi Parish in Yuma.
Monsignor Tmpia was assigned to the
parish in 1975.
Patriarch decries
DISPUTES OVER EASTERN
Catholic churches
Warsaw (CNS)
cumenical Patriarch Bartholo
mew of Constantinople, leader of
the world’s 200 million Orthodox
Christians, warned that disputes over
Eastern Catholic churches will over
shadow the planned reopening of a
major Catholic-Orthodox commis
sion. But the head of Poland’s
Ukrainian Catholic Church criticized
the patriarch’s remarks, saying they
would have “negative repercussions”
for interchurch relations. After
addressing the Polish parliament in
mid-January, Patriarch Bartholomew
told journalists, “The fraternal
Catholic Church counts on closing
this difficult debate about uniatism
and returning to older topics.”
Boston secretary of
EDUCATION NAMED
AUXILIARY BISHOP
Boston (CNS)
ope John Paul II has named the
secretary of education for the
Boston Archdiocese, Father Richard
J. Malone, as an auxiliary bishop of
Boston. The appointment was
announced January 27 in Washington
by Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo,
Vatican nuncio to the United States.
In a January 27 statement, the bish
op-designate said he had experienced
“shock, joy, awe, exhilaration,
unworthiness, some anxiety — and
the greatest gratitude,” about the
upcoming appointment and that
Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston
had told him that “all of this was
most normal.”
Archbishop, Santa
Rosa priests discuss
PLANS FOR DIOCESE
San Francisco (CNS)
rchbishop William J. Levada of
San Francisco and more than 60
priests from the Diocese of Santa
Rosa have met to discuss recommen
dations the priests made for restoring
the financially devastated diocese.
The Santa Rosa Diocese stands
roughly $16 million in debt. The
recovery effort has forced postpone
ment of projects from Ukiah to
Petaluma. The summary said that
during the past three years the dio
cese’s operating deficit exceeded $5
million, and legal settlements for
priest misconduct amounted to $5.3
million, of which $3.3 million was
not covered by insurance. “It was a
serious, respectful meeting and a
good exchange between the priests
and the archbishop,” said Maurice
Healy, director of communications
for the San Francisco Archdiocese,
about the January 12 meeting. “The
Thursday, February 3, 2000
archbishop said he would be willing
to meet with them again.” In
December, the priests had submitted
to Archbishop Levada a list of rec
ommendations “for uniting
Archbishop Levada, the clergy, reli
gious, and laity into joint ownership
of the diocese, in order to restore
trust and financial integrity, and to
strengthen personnel.”
Pro-life comments to
NIH URGED ON STEM
CELL RESEARCH
Washington (CNS)
he U.S. bishops’ pro-life office
and a coalition of scientists and
ethicists are leading a last-ditch effort
to stop the National Institutes of
Health from allowing federal funding
of stem-cell research involving em
bryos. A flier distributed by the bish
ops’ office before and during the
January 24 March for Life said the
NIH had set a January 31 deadline for
public comment on its draft guidelines
for federal funding of embryonic
stem-cell research. “The guidelines
tell researchers how to obtain and
destroy live human embryos from fer
tility clinics, so the embryos’ inner
cells can be cultured for taxpayer-
funded research,” the flier said.
Maryland governor
PROPOSES $6 MILLION FOR
NONPUBLIC SCHOOL AID
Baltimore (CNS)
ailing it “the right thing to do,”
Maryland Gov. Parris N.
Glendening included $6 million in
his budget to help Catholic, other
religious and private schools pur
chase nonreligious textbooks. If
approved by the Legislature, the
money will come from the state’s
$4.7 billion tobacco settlement and
will be distributed to a clearinghouse
that will purchase the textbooks for
the schools. Since the book money
will not be drawn from the state’s $1
billion budget surplus, no taxpayers’
money would be used to fund the
proposal.
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