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Pope at Palm Sunday
Mass urges youths to
follow Christ
Vatican City (CNS)
P ope John Paul II opened Holy
Week with a colorful Mass on
Palm Sunday, leading a procession
through Saint Peter’s Square in front
of 100,000 Holy Year pilgrims. Pre
ceded by lay people, bishops and car
dinals dressed in bright red vestments,
the pope rode on a white jeep through
the packed square April 16 as faithful
from all over the world waved palm
fronds and olive branches, in remem
brance of Jesus’ triumphal entrance
into Jerusalem a week before his
death. Among those at the head of the
procession were groups of young peo
ple—including five from the United
States—who squinted in the sunshine
as the 79-year-old pontiff prayed at
the start of the liturgy.
Vatican to publish new
GENERAL INSTRUCTION ON
liturgy in June
Vatican City (CNS)
T he Vatican plans to publish
updated instructions for celebrat
ing the Mass when it releases the
third Latin edition of the Roman
Missal in early June. Archbishop
Francesco Tamburrino, secretary of
the Congregation for Divine Worship
and the Sacraments, said the revised
General Instruction of the Roman
Missal will be released around
Pentecost, June 11. The archbishop
said the instruction will be dated
April 20, Holy Thursday.
Haider expected to meet
POPE AT DONATION OF
Christmas tree
Vatican City (CNS)
A s the government leader of the
Austrian province donating this
year’s Vatican Christmas tree, far-right
politician Jorg Haider is expected to
meet Pope John Paul II in December,
a Vatican official confirmed. But
Bishop Gianni Danzi, secretary of the
Pontifical Commission for Vatican
City State, rejected political interpreta-
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tions given the expected meeting by
Italian newspapers. “Any (media) con
struction of a political nature is com
pletely absurd,” he told Catholic News
Service April 17. The Vatican accept
ed the offer of a Christmas tree from
the Austrian province of Carinthia
three years ago, Bishop Danzi said,
long before Haider was elected the
province’s governor in 1999.
Anglican, Catholic
bishops to meet in May
Vatican City (CNS)
nnhirty Anglican and Roman Catho-
X he bishops wih meet near Toronto
in May to review the progress in their
30 years of ecumenical dialogue. “This
high-level meeting is happening at a
time when Anglicans and Roman
Catholics around the world are explor
ing the possibilities for further steps
toward visible unity,” said a April 17
Vatican statement. The May 14-20
meeting at the Queen of Apostles
Renewal Center in Mississauga will be
led by Anglican Archbishop George
Carey of Canterbury, primate of the
worldwide Anglican Communion, and
Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, president
of the Pontifical Council for Promo
ting Christian Unity.
Oklahoma Republican
TO INTRODUCE RESOLUTION
ON “PRESENCE OF LIFE”
Washington (CNS)
A n Oklahoma congressman and
physician plans to introduce a
“sense of Congress” resolution that
will declare that human life is present
when a heartbeat and brain waves
can be detected. Republican Rep.
Tom A. Cobum, a practicing physi
cian who has delivered 3,500 babies,
announced April 12 that he would
introduce the so-called Presence of
Life resolution, which has at least 28
House co-sponsors, including House
Majority Whip Tom Delay, R-Texas.
At a Washington press conference,
Cobum said the fact that human life
is present long before birth “is a bio
logical fact and a legal reality.”
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Project Rachel ad “not
FOR PROSELYTIZING”
Washington (CNS)
T he national advertising program
for Project Rachel, the Catholic
Church’s post-abortion reconciliation
ministry, is not aimed at “returning
Catholics to the faith nor proselytiz
ing,” a spokeswoman for the U.S.
bishops’ pro-life efforts said April
12. Helen Alvare, director of plan
ning and information for the bishops’
Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities,
said in a statement that the purpose
of the ad campaign and of Project
Rachel “is to offer women and men
suffering after abortion any help they
need.” She said widespread interest
across the United States and interna
tionally had prompted stories that
contained some “inaccuracies which
should be corrected.”
Noted Dominican
Mariologist and
THEOLOGIAN DIES
Baltimore (CNS)
D ominican Father Frederick M.
Jelly, a theology professor at
Mount Saint Mary's Seminary in Em-
mitsburg in the Baltimore Archdio
cese, died April 14 at Georgetown
University Medical Center in Wa
shington following a lengthy illness.
A funeral Mass was celebrated for the
73-year-old Dominican priest April 18
at Saint Dominic Church and Priory in
Washington. Father Jelly, one of the
leading Mariologists of the U.S.
Catholic Church, was bom in Ba
yonne, NJ, and ordained in 1956.
Cardinal: Extend
RELIGIOUS WORKERS VISAS
Washington (CNS)
A bill to permanently extend a visa
program for religious workers is
critical to many pastoral ministries,
Detroit Cardinal Adam J. Maida told
a Senate subcommittee. “The work of
the Catholic Church in the United
States would suffer dramatically
without the assistance of non-minis
ter religious workers,” said Cardinal
Maida in April 13 testimony to the
House Judiciary subcommittee on
Thursday, April 20, 2000
immigration. The 5,000 visas ap
proved annually for nonminister for
eign church workers benefit more
than half the U.S. dioceses, he said.
The nuns, religious brothers and oth
ers given the visas work in health
care, parish ministry, teaching, nurs
ing and counseling.
Chicago Archdiocese
TAKES PART IN “No
Sweatshop” campaign
Chicago (CNS)
C hicago’s archbishop said his arch
diocese has joined a national anti
sweatshop campaign because the
church is called in a jubilee year to
proclaim “‘liberty to captives’, includ
ing those ‘enslaved to undignified
working conditions’.” In a statement
April 12, Cardinal Francis E. George
said the archdiocese is working to
make sure that school uniforms are
made “sweat-labor free.” He noted
that similar campaigns are under way
in the Archdioceses of Philadelphia
and Newark. He said the U.S. Labor
Department has been asked by the
archdiocese to review a list of 19 uni
form vendors known to be used by
Catholic school personnel “in an effort
to identify the source of manufactur
ers of school and sports uniforms.”
Canadian bishop says
he’ll forgive being
CALLED “TWERP”
Calgary, Alberta (CNS)
ishop Frederick Henry said he
1 would forgive media baron Con
rad Black after the Southam Inc.
chair called him “a jumped-up little
twerp of a bishop.” The head of the
Calgary Diocese said he would not
engage in a name-calling exercise
with Black but regrets the fact Black
has chosen that route. “I regard the
comments really as cheap shots,”
Bishop Henry said April 11. “I think
they are hitting below the belt.” The
heads of Calgary’s mainline churches
have come to Bishop Henry’s de
fense, calling Black’s remarks “outra
geous and un-Christian.”
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