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The Southern Cross, Page 2 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. To Subscribe Send this in to your parish, together with your check for $15 made out to the parish. For more information call The Southern Cross (912) 238-2320 Name Address I Phone ( ). J Parish I J (USPS 505 680) Deadline: All material for publication on Publisher: Thursday must be received at the latest by noon Most Rev. J. Kevin Boland, D.D. on the previous Friday. Director of Communications: Mrs. Barbara D. King Editor: Rev. Douglas K. 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