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Bishop Malone dies;
WAS LEADING U.S.
CHURCH FIGURE
Youngstown, OH (CNS)
ishop James W. Malone, a leader
of U.S. Catholic Church renewal
in the decades after the Second
Vatican Council, died in Youngstown
April 9 of complications following
surgery in March. He was 80 years
old and had retired as head of the
Youngstown Diocese in 1995. Bishop
Malone was the first non-archbishop
to be elected president of the
National Conference of Catholic
Bishops, and from the 1960s until
well into the ’90s, he played impor
tant roles in some of the conference’s
most important projects and activi
ties. Among recognitions of his
accomplishments were more than 30
honorary degrees.
Bishop Walsh of Las
Vegas named head of
Santa Rosa Diocese
Washington (CNS)
ope John Paul II has named
Bishop Daniel F. Walsh of Las
Vegas to head the Diocese of Santa
Rosa in California. Bishop Walsh, a
62-year-old native of San Francisco,
succeeds Bishop G. Patrick Ziemann,
who resigned last July amid charges
of sexual and financial misconduct.
The appointment was announced
April 11 in Washington by Arch
bishop Gabriel Montalvo, apostolic
nuncio to the United States. Bishop
Walsh will be installed as the fifth
bishop of Santa Rosa May 22 at Saint
Eugene Cathedral in Santa Rosa. He
was an auxiliary bishop in San Fran
cisco from 1981 to 1987, when he
was appointed bishop of Reno-Las
Vegas. The diocese that encompassed
all of Nevada was divided in 1995,
and Bishop Walsh was named the
first bishop of Las Vegas at that time.
San Francisco Archbishop William J.
Levada, who has been administrator
of the Santa Rosa Diocese since
Bishop Ziemann’s resignation,
praised Bishop Walsh as “a respect
ed, experienced and pastoral leader.”
Hfeadlme
Vatican urges liturgy
COMMISSION TO GET
Psalms version
OFF MARKET
Washington (CNS)
Vatican official has called on the
International Commission on
English in the Liturgy to do all it can
to halt further publication or distribu
tion of its “doctrinally flawed” 1994
English version of the Psalms. “The
text does not accurately represent the
word of God and therefore risks
being a danger to the faith,” said
Archbishop Francesco Pio Tambur-
rino, secretary of the Vatican
Congregation for Divine Worship and
the Sacraments, in a letter January 14
to ICEL’s chairman, Bishop Maurice
Taylor of Galloway, Scotland. “Such
a text is clearly no more suited for
private prayer than it is for public
proclamation,” he wrote. The transla
tion at issue is known for its use of
inclusive language and reliance on
dynamic equivalence rather than for
mal equivalence as a translation tech
nique. Formal translations are more
literal or word-for-word; dynamic
translations are freer in adapting
thought patterns, linguistic structures
and idioms of one language to the
different patterns, structures and
idioms of the other language.
Senate committee vote
on Pain Relief
Promotion Act delayed
Washington (CNS)
n Oregon senator, by invoking a
little-used rule against commit
tee meetings while the Senate is in
session, thwarted a Senate committee
vote April 6 on legislation that would
bar assisted suicide. Sen. Ron
Wyden, D-Ore., blocked considera
tion of the Pain Relief Promotion Act
by the Senate Judiciary Committee
and has threatened a filibuster against
the bill. In a letter to the committee
before Wyden’s parliamentary
maneuver, Cardinal William H.
Keeler reaffirmed the U.S. bishops’
strong support for the legislation,
which he said was “long overdue.”
The Baltimore archbishop chairs the
bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life
Activities.
Maine priest who ran
GAY Web SITE REMOVED
FROM PARISH
Portland, ME (CNS)
ishop Joseph J. Gerry of Portland
has removed Father John Harris
of Sabattus from his parish and sent
him to a program to reflect on his
future after learning the priest had
been running an Internet newsgroup
for gay priests that included sexually
explicit material. Another Maine
priest who exchanged pictures and e-
mail through the site, retired Father
Antonin Caron of Lewiston, was sus
pended from all priestly ministry. A
third Maine priest, less involved in
the newsgroup, was not publicly
named or disciplined.
Vatican statistics say
NUMBER OF BISHOPS UP 20
PERCENT SINCE 1978
Vatican City (CNS)
he number of Catholic bishops
worldwide grew by almost 20
percent over a 20-year period,
according to the Vatican’s statistics
office. From 1978 to 1998, the num
ber of bishops jumped from just more
than 3,700 to more than 4,400. The
statistic is just one of thousands con
tained in the Annual Statistical
Yearbook of the Church, which was
to be published in mid-April, the
Vatican announced April 3.
Editor says pope’s suc
cessor MIGHT NOT BE
‘CONSERVATIVE’
Ottawa (CNS)
he next pope may not necessarily
be a “conservative,” said the edi
tor of the British Catholic weekly,
The Tablet. Among the key questions
the cardinals will have to ask at the
next conclave, said editor John
Wilkins, is whether they want anoth
er “superpope” and “centralizer.”
Pope John Paul II, “with the heart of
a lion and still with a few remnants
Thursday, April 13, 2000
of the strength of an ox, continues to
dominate his church even now,”
Wilkins said in a speech at Saint Paul
University April 3. “He has been
pope for 22 years. It will be a hard
act to follow.”
Gallup Poll explores
ANTI-CATHOLIC BIAS
Princeton, NJ (CNS)
A Gallup Poll has found that
roughly one-fourth of Americans
have a negative view of the Catholic
religion and nearly two-thirds view it
favorably. Contrary to widespread
opinion that anti-Catholic bias exists
disproportionately among evangelical
or born-again Protestants, the survey
found that only 29 percent of that
group—compared to 30 percent of
Protestants generally—described
Catholicism as “unfavorable.”
Despite recent flaps over alleged
insensitivity to Catholic feelings by
Republican leaders, the poll found
that Democrats and independents are
slightly more likely than Republicans
to view Catholicism negatively.
Republican National
Committee forms
Catholic Task Force
Washington (CNS)
he Republican National Com
mittee has formed a Catholic
Task Force made up of lay Catholics
and headed by a former U.S. ambas
sador to the Vatican. Thomas P.
Melady, the U.S. representative to
Pope John Paul II from 1989 to 1993,
is co-chairman of the task force,
which includes Frank Shakespeare,
Melady’s predecessor as ambassador
from 1985 to 1989. The task force’s
other co-chairman is Bonnie Robi-
chaux Livingston of Louisiana, the
wife of former Republican Rep. Bob
Livingston.
Correction
he picture of Veronica’s Veil by
Jonas N. Jordan on the front
page of The Southern Cross (4/6)
was misidentified. It is from a
stained glass window in Saint Joseph
Church, Macon. The Southern Cross
regrets the error.
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