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Chicago priest named
new House chaplain
Washington (CNS)
ouse Speaker Dennis Hastert
named a Catholic priest, Father
Daniel Coughlin, as the new House
chaplain March 23, ending a four-
month political quagmire over who
would get the position. Father
Coughlin, vicar for priests in the
Chicago Archdiocese, had not
applied for the position that had
stirred up political controversy in the
House when Democrats accused
Republican leaders of anti-Catholic
bias for not selecting a top candidate,
Father Timothy O’Brien, for the job.
The Rev. Charles Wright, a Presby
terian minister and the primary candi
date for House chaplain, reportedly
offered to withdraw his name for
consideration March 21.
Hispanic vicar named
AUXILIARY BISHOP OF
Orange
Washington (CNS)
ope John Paul II has named Msgr.
Jaime Soto, episcopal vicar for
the Hispanic community of Orange,
California, as auxiliary bishop of
Orange. Archbishop Gabriel Montal
vo, apostolic nuncio to the United
States, announced the appointment
March 23. Bishop-designate Soto,
also episcopal vicar for Catholic
Charities in the Orange Diocese, will
be the 22nd Hispanic bishop current
ly active in the United States and the
youngest U.S. bishop at age 44.
In sermon on the
MOUNT, POPE CALLS
YOUTHS TO FOLLOW JESUS
Korazim, Israel (CNS)
ope John Paul II stood on the
Mount of Beatitudes and called
young people to follow Jesus, confi
dent that the kingdom of heaven can
be theirs. The Ten Commandments
and the Sermon on the Mount “offer
us the road map of our Christian life
and a summary' of our responsibilities
to God and neighbor,’’ the pope said
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during the March 24 Mass. An esti
mated 50,000 people, many of them
young people from around the world,
attended the Mass on the slope of a
hill leading down to the Sea of
Galilee. Hundreds of them spent the
night in huge tents on the lake’s east
ern shore under a heavy rain shower.
At Yad Vashem, pope
says Holocaust “burns
ITSELF ONTO OUR SOULS”
Jerusalem (CNS)
n an emotional reunion with
Jewish death camp survivors from
his hometown, Pope John Paul II vis
ited Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem
Holocaust memorial and said the
Nazi attempt to exterminate Euro
pean Jews was a tragedy that “bums
itself onto our souls.” After praying
silently a few moments before an
eternal flame in the Hall of Remem
brance, a stone monument to the 6
million Jews killed in World War II,
the pope said the Holocaust was
planned and carried out by a “godless
ideology” that must never again be
tolerated. “Here, as at Auschwitz and
many other places in Europe, we are
overcome by the echo of the heart
rending laments of so many,” the
pope said March 23.
Rabbi cites revolution
ary CHANGES IN JEWISH-
Catholic relations
Worcester (CNS)
he last 50 years have brought
extraordinary progress in
Catholic-Jewish relations, the signifi
cance of which is inadequately appre
ciated by people of both faiths,
according to the leader of a major
Jewish organization. In a wide-rang
ing talk at Assumption College in
Worcester, March 23, Rabbi Eric H.
Yoffie, president of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations,
touched on the dramatic changes in
the church’s attitude toward Judaism;
criticisms from some Jewish leaders
that apologies for past wrong-doing
by the Catholic Church are inade
quate; and the tangled nature of
Jewish-Catholic and Vatican-Israeli
relations.
Low-caste bishop's
TRANSFER IN INDIA
BRINGS MIXED REACTION
Hyderabad, India (CNS)
he appointment of India’s first
“dalit” (low caste) archbishop
evoked mixed reactions among
church people in the southern state of
Andhra Pradesh. While some have
criticized the Vatican for ignoring
“ground realities” in transferring
Bishop Marampudi Joji of
Vijayawada to Hyderabad, others
said his promotion as the state’s met
ropolitan archbishop will bring “new
life” to the 1-million-strong Andhra
church. Expressing shock over the
appointment, outgoing Archbishop
Samineni Arulappa of Hyderabad
said, “Rome is being taken for a ride.
Rome does not know the ground real
ities,” reported UCA News, an Asian
church news agency based in
Thailand.
Archbishop apologizes
AFTER PRIEST REFUSES
BOY’S CONFESSION
Rome (CNS)
A n Italian archbishop asked for
giveness of an 11-year-old boy
with Down’s syndrome after the
boy’s parish priest refused to hear his
confession. Archbishop Giovanni
Marra of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucai
del Mela visited the boy’s home in
the Sicilian village of Venetico
March 27, saying he apologized “in
the name of the whole church.” Ve-
netico’s 80-year-old parish priest,
Father Nino Romano, had refused the
sacrament to the disabled child, iden
tified only as Piero, during a March
25 first confession ceremony.
Papacy will never
RELINQUISH GLOBAL ROLE,
Father Dulles says
New York (CNS)
he expanded global role exer
cised by the papacy in recent
times has been necessary to meet the
Thursday, March 30, 2000
conditions of the modem world,
according to Jesuit Father Avery
Dulles. Although Catholics who
advocate a return to the more limited
papal activity in the medieval and
patristic periods call themselves pro
gressives, actually they are “nostalgic
and anachronistic,” he said in a lec
ture on “The Papacy for a Global
Church.” Delivering the spring
McGinley Lecture at Fordham
University March 22, Father Dulles
said the papacy “will never go back”
to the status it had before the devel
opments brought by the First and
Second Vatican Councils.
Court upholds student
ACTIVITY FEES AT PUBLIC
UNIVERSITY
Washington (CNS)
ublic universities may continue
using mandatory activities fees to
subsidize extracurricular programs to
which some students object, the
Supreme Court mled March 22. The
court unanimously found that the
University of Wisconsin-Madison
student activities fee does not
infringe upon the constitutional rights
of students who disagreed with some
of the groups receiving funds. The
fee system had been challenged by
students who objected to parts of
their $167-per-semester activity fee
going to groups involved in activities
they disagreed with.
Mass for Sister
Mary Frances
Sobczak, CDP
Savannah
ishop J. Kevin Boland will cele
brate a memorial Mass for Sister
Mary Frances Sobczak, CDP, former
Superintendent of Schools, at noon,
April 8, in Our Lady’s Chapel in the
Undercroft of the Cathedral of Saint
John the Baptist. A reception will
follow at Notre Dame Academy
immediately after Mass. The public
is invited.
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