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Thursday, February 10, 2000
Bishop Carmody of
Tyler, Texas, named to
head Corpus Christi
Washington (CNS)
P ope John Paul II has appointed
Bishop Edmond Carmody of Tyler,
Texas, to head the Diocese of Corpus
Christi. Bishop Carmody succeeds
Archbishop Roberto O. Gonzalez, who
was installed last May as head of the
Archdiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico,
and had been serving as administrator
of Corpus Christi until a successor
could be named. The appointment was
announced February 3 in Washington
by Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo,
apostolic nuncio to the United States.
Newspaper: Seton Hall
FIRE BELIEVED TO BE
DELIBERATELY SET
Newark, NJ (CNS)
wo weeks after a dormitory fire
that killed three students and
injured 58 others at Seton Hall
University, investigators believe the
fire was deliberately set, The Star-
Ledger newspaper of Newark report
ed February 2. The report said inves
tigators were seeking four suspects
and were focusing on a dispute
between students in the freshman
dormitory and three nonstudents who
were asked to leave the dorm less
than an hour before the January 19
fire broke out. “This was not an acci
dental fire. Someone started the fire,”
said an anonymous official quoted in
the newspaper.
World Catholic
POPULATION UP, NUMBER
OF PRIESTS RISES
Vatican City (CNS)
he number of Catholics reached
1.045 billion, about 17.4 percent
of the global population, the Vatican
reported. The statistics, from 1998,
were included in an updated pontifi
cal yearbook presented to Pope John
Paul II on February 5. The number of
Catholics represented a new high, up
about 40 million from 1997, and the
percentage of the global population
marked a slight increase, too. The
Americas, considered as a single con
tinent by the Vatican, had the
strongest concentration of Catholics
in the general population, with 63.1
percent. It was followed by Europe
with 41.4 percent, Oceania with 26.9
percent, Africa with 15.6 percent and
Asia with 3.1 percent.
Father Rung says
church IN
“unhealthy situation”
Cape Town, South Africa (CNS)
prominent theologian said the
shortage of priests, the estrange
ment of women and young people
from the Catholic Church, and epis
copal intimidation by the Roman
Curia has put the church in a “very
unhealthy situation.” Father Hans
Kiing, 71, a professor of theology at
the University of Tubingen, Ger
many, referred specifically to the sit
uation in the United States and
Europe when he said: “You only have
to look at the seminaries, our parish
es without priests, and the women
who have left the church, at least the
younger ones. And women were
always the most faithful.”
Cardinal, Vatican
OFFICIAL DIFFER ON
CHURCH RESPONSE TO
PROBLEMS
Rome (CNS)
n an unusual public exchange with
a leading Vatican official, a French
cardinal has suggested that the
church show more openness as it
confronts modem doctrinal and disci
plinary problems. Cardinal Pierre Eyt
of Bordeaux said that while today’s
lay Catholics have ideas to contribute
on questions of theology, politics,
bioethics and other issues, the hierar
chy’s dialogue with them seems to be
going nowhere. He wondered
whether the church might not expose
its concepts more to modem ways of
thinking. Writing in the French
Catholic newspaper La Croix,
Cardinal Eyt directed his comments
to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of
the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith, of which Cardinal Eyt is
also a member. Responding in the
same newspaper, Cardinal Ratzinger
said he thought so-called “institution
al” problems in the church were the
reflection of a deeper crisis of faith.
Maryland firm stops
SELLING BODY PARTS FROM
ABORTIONS
Baltimore (CNS)
A decision by a Maryland company
to stop procuring and distributing
body parts obtained from aborted
fetuses is drawing praise from pro-life
supporters who had protested the prac
tice as abhorrent and inhumane. The
Anatomic Gift Foundation, based in
Laurel, announced in late December it
would “no longer procure or provide
human tissue derived from elective
pregnancy terminations for research
and education.” State Sen. Martin G.
Madden, a Republican representing the
district where the company is located,
said he was “very pleased” with the
company’s decision and hopes that it
does not change that stand.
Vatican confirms
BEATIFICATION DATE FOR
John XXIII, Pius IX
Vatican City (CNS)
he Vatican has confirmed that
Pope Pius IX and Pope John
XXIII will be beatified in a September
3 ceremony, along with three other
churchmen. Archbishop Jose Saraiva
Martins, prefect of the Congregation
for Sainthood Causes, made the
announcement February 7 as he
presided at a memorial Mass on the
anniversary of Pope Pius’ death. Pope
Pius, who reigned from 1846 to 1878,
convoked the First Vatican Council,
solemnly declared the dogma of
Mary’s Immaculate Conception and
led the church during the rocky period
in which the papacy lost its temporal
control over Rome and the papal
states. Pope John, pontiff from 1958
to 1963, convoked the Second Vatican
Council and presided over its first ses
sions. He wrote the landmark social
encyclical, Pacem in Terris (“Peace
on Earth”). An Irish Benedictine
abbot, the French founder of the
Marianists and an Italian archbishop
will be beatified along with the two
popes during the September Mass, a
congregation official said.
Pope names Cardinal
Law member of
Congregation for
Bishops
Vatican City (CNS)
ope John Paul II named U.S.
Cardinal Bernard F. Law of
Boston as a member of the Congre
gation for Bishops. The announcement
February 2 increases the number of
U.S. cardinal members of the congre
gation to five out of 26. The congre
gation is in charge of preparing the
pope’s nominations of bishops around
the world. Cardinal Law is already a
member of Vatican congregations for
Eastern churches, sacraments, evange
lization of peoples, religious, clergy
and education. He is also a member of
the Vatican councils for culture and
the family.
Vatican reserves
JUDGMENT ON AUSTRIAN
FAR-RIGHT PARTY
Vatican City (CNS)
mid European Union outcry
over the inclusion of a far-right
political party in Austria’s new gov
ernment, the Vatican reserved judg
ment. “The Holy See does not have a
tradition of pronouncing preventive
judgments on people or programs,”
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the
Vatican’s secretary of state, said
February 3. “When a government’s
plan is made known, then a judgment
can be made,” he said. The only
instance where the Vatican might
intervene, said the cardinal, would be
if governmental programs go “against
Christian morality.” Austria’s 14
partners in the European Union have
all expressed grave concern over the
inclusion of Jorg Haider’s Freedom
Party in the country’s new coalition
government.
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