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The Southern Cross, Page 2 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- 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 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.” 1 ini© 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.” B i ' Address Phone (_ Parish (USPS 505 680) Publisher: Most Rev. J. Kevin Boland, D.D. 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