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Speaker: Churches may
BE EMPTY BUT INTEREST IN
SPIRITUALITY GREAT
Convent Station, NJ (CNS)
T here has never been a greater
interest in spirituality than
today—even as churches are empty
ing, according to Father Ronald
Rolheiser. This “divorce between the
spiritual and the ecclesiastical” is one
of the three “great divorces” in
today’s world and today’s church,
Father Rolheiser, a member of the
Oblates of Mary Immaculate, said
April 15. He commented in a morn
ing keynote address at the eighth
annual Spirituality Convocation in
Convent Station. Sponsored by the
College of St. Elizabeth’s Center for
Theological and Spiritual Develop
ment, the convocation drew about
1,500 participants.
Cardinal says pope’s dis
ease DECREASES MOBILITY,
BUT MIND INTACT
Paris (CNS)
P ope John Paul IPs neurological
disease is making him more and
more a “prisoner in his body,” but the
pope’s mind and spiritual gifts remain
intact, French Cardinal Jean-Marie
Lustiger of Paris said. Cardinal Lusti-
ger commented in an interview with
the French weekly newspaper Le
Journal du Dimanche. It was pub
lished as the pope—at times looking
drawn and tired—led a heavy sched
ule of Easter activities at the Vatican.
“It is known that his illness is leading
to a progressive paralysis of the body,
but his spiritual faculties remain in
tact,” Cardinal Lustiger was quoted as
saying.
Pope concludes Holy
Week, calls for new
WORLD ORDER OF PEACE
Vatican City (CNS)
S urrounded by an explosion of
springtime color and a multitude
of jubilee year pilgrims, Pope John
Paul II celebrated Easter with a call
for a new world order. “The risen
Christ signals the paths of hope along
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which we can advance together
toward a world more just and mutual
ly supportive, in which the blind ego
ism of the few will not prevail over
the cries of pain of the many,” the
pope said in his traditional Easter
address April 23. Eclipsing all turnout
predictions, a cheering crowd of
150,000 people packed St. Peter’s
Square for the “urbi et orbi” message,
Latin for “to the city and to the
world.”
Settlement reached in
SUIT AGAINST BISHOP,
Santa Rosa Diocese
Santa Rosa, CA (CNS)
T he Santa Rosa Diocese announced
April 24 it had reached a settle
ment in the civil lawsuit brought by a
priest of the diocese against former
Santa Rosa Bishop G. Patrick Ziemann
and the diocese. Officials said the dio
cese wanted to forego a potentially
lengthy and expensive trial as well as
make it easier for its newly appointed
bishop to “give undivided attention” to
his new duties. Paul Gaspari of the law
firm Tobin & Tobin, who is the attor
ney for Santa Rosa Diocese, said the
settlement document “specifically
states that the diocese and Ziemann
admit no liability” to Father Jorge
Hume Salas, “but rather that the pay
ment of funds is solely for the purpose
of settlement.” The insurance carrier of
the diocese will pay the entire settle
ment, which totals $535,(XX), including
attorneys’ fees and counseling ex
penses, according to a statement issued
by the diocese.
Bishop says Vermont gay
UNION VOTE MOCKS
God’s plan
Burlington, VT (CNS)
T he Vermont Senate’s approval of a
“civil unions” bill for same-sex
couples April 19 “mocks God’s most
basic plan,” said Bishop Kenneth A.
Angell of Burlington. When the
Senate the previous day rejected two
proposed constitutional amendments
to affirm marriage as a union between
a man and a woman, Bishop Angell
said, “It is not only marriage that has
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been poorly served. It is democracy
itself that has been wounded.”
Heads of ICEL bishops’
CONFERENCES MEETS
Washington (CNS)
B ishop Joseph A. Fiorenza of
Galveston-Houston, president of
the National Conference of Catholic
Bishops, announced an April 25
meeting in Washington of heads of
major English-speaking bishops’ con
ferences to discuss revision of the
constitution of the International
Commission on English in the
Liturgy. Last October Cardinal Jorge
Medina Estevez, prefect of the
Vatican Congregation for Divine
Worship and the Sacraments,
instructed the episcopal board of the
commission to revise its constitution
“thoroughly and without delay.”
Major abortion, First
Amendment cases in
court’s final round
Washington (CNS)
T wo major cases in the final week
of the Supreme Court’s argument
calendar raise significant questions
about abortion law and about the
competing issues of anti-discrimina
tion law and an organization’s right
to define its own membership. On
April 25, the court was to consider
whether Nebraska’s law prohibiting
partial-birth abortion is constitution
al. The next day, it was scheduled to
hear arguments over a New Jersey
Supreme Court ruling that said
because of anti-discrimination laws
the Boy Scouts may not reject partic
ipation by homosexuals.
Guatemalan church to
ISSUE SHORTENED VERSION
OF ATROCITIES REPORT
Guatemala City (CNS)
G uatemalan church officials
planned to issue a shortened ver
sion of a report on human rights
abuses committed during
Guatemala’s 36-year war. The origi
nal report was released in 1998 by
Guatemala City Auxiliary Bishop
Juan Gerardi Conedera two days
Thursday, April 27, 2000 J
before he was murdered on April 26
of that year. The new document’s
publication was to be a central part of
late April activities to mark the sec
ond anniversary of the bishop’s mur
der, said church officials.
N. Ireland ex-IRA mem
ber WASHES FEET OF
FORMER ENEMY
Belfast (CNS)
I n a Holy Week gesture of reconcilia
tion, a former member of the Irish
Republican Army washed the feet of
his onetime enemy, a former member
of the Ulster Volunteer Force. On
April 17 at a house in Belfast, Tommy
Kelly, a 44-year-old ex-prisoner con
victed for membership in the IRA,
which fights to bring Northern Ireland,
a British province, under Irish rule,
washed the feet of Jim Tate, a 51-year-
old former commander of the Ulster
Volunteer Force. The Ulster Volunteer
Force is one of several Protestant para
military groups formed in 1970 in
response to attacks by the IRA.
Veto of Minnesota
ABORTION INFO BILL DENIES
RIGHTS, OFFICIAL SAYS
Saint Paul, MN (CNS)
T he women’s right-to-know bill
vetoed by Minnesota Gov. Jesse
Ventura was not about abortion but
about human rights, women’s rights
and patients’ rights, said a Catholic
official. “Women were dealt a low
blow” by Ventura’s veto, said Father
David McCauley, director of the
Minnesota Catholic Conference, the
public policy arm of the state’s
Catholic bishops. The bill would
have required that a woman seeking
an abortion receive state-mandated
information about abortions, fetal
development and available aid, then
wait 24 hours before having it.
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