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The Southern Cross, Page 2 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 Headline 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. 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