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Official: pope chose “entrust-
ment” over “consecration”
Vatican City (CNS)
E ntrusting the world to Mary October 8, Pope
John Paul II purposefully did not use the word
“consecrate,” a top Vatican official said. Arch
bishop Tarcisio Bertone, secretary of the Congre
gation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the pope’s
decision underlined the fact that he consecrated the
world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in March
1984. The act of consecration “was done and was
done in moral union with the bishops of the world,
so we do not need to repeat it,” Archbishop
Bertone said in an interview with the Portuguese
Catholic radio, Radio Renascenca. The archbishop
said the consecration was requested by Mary when
she appeared to three shepherd children in Fatima,
Portugal, in 1917.
Cardinal Ratzinger says he was
SADDENED BY REACTION
TO DOCUMENT
Vatican City (CNS)
I f the tone of the Vatican’s recent document on
salvation in Christ was problematic, it “should
be explained, not despised,” said Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger, head of the Vatican’s doctrinal congre
gation. The cardinal, responding to criticism of the
congregation’s September declaration, “Dominus
Iesus,” said it was written because Pope John Paul
II “wanted to offer the world a great and solemn
recognition of Jesus Christ as Lord at the culminat
ing moment of the Holy Year.” “I want to express
my sadness and disappointment that public reac
tions, with some praiseworthy exceptions, have
completely ignored the true theme of the declara
tion,” the cardinal said in an interview published
October 8 by L ’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican
newspaper.
Israel Interfaith Association
EXPRESSES SORROW AT VIOLENCE
Jerusalem (CNS)
M embers of the Israel Interfaith Association
expressed “deep sorrow and pain” that
Jerusalem, the “most sacred place for the
Abrahamic religions, and a symbol for the source of
their one belief and (what) unites them,” has turned
into one of the causes of recent bloodshed. These
Palestinian-Israeli clashes, they said, are “in total
contradiction to the spirit of the Abrahamic religions
and to their commandments in regard with the rela
tions between all those created in the image of
God.” The 1,300-member association has been
working in interfaith relations in Israel for 40 years.
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Man pleads guilty to desecrating
STATUES, MAY GET PROBATION
Brooklyn (CNS)
A Brooklyn judge recommended probation for a
man who pleaded guilty to desecrating five
religious statues in the Brooklyn Diocese. Primus
St. Croix, 33, admitted to each count of a 17-count
indictment filed by the King’s County district
attorney in May. St. Croix entered the United
States illegally in 1991 from St. Lucia in the West
Indies. Unable to make his $100,000 bail, he has
been behind bars since last May and was to remain
in jail until after his sentencing hearing. After his
appearance in court, he was undergoing an inter
view with officials from the department of proba
tion. Judge Feldman conducted a general, brief
inquiry to determine St.Croix’s mental capabilities.
He responded by saying he does speak English and
has a fifth-grade education.
Washington cardinal marks mile
stones DURING JUBILEE YEAR
Washington (CNS)
F or Cardinal James A. Hickey, life has come full
circle in his 20 years as archbishop of Wa
shington. At his installation Mass at the Cathedral
of Saint Matthew in August 1980, he said a key
goal would be “as a community of faith to prepare
for a third millennium—the year 2000, a milestone
for civilization and Christianity.” Having reached
the year 2000, Cardinal Hickey presided over the
archdiocese’s first eucharistic congress, held
October 5-8, then he was to lead an archdiocesan
jubilee year pilgrimage to Rome beginning
October 9. While there—on October 11—he was
to celebrate his 80th birthday.
Archbishop Ryan dies; headed An
chorage, MILITARY ARCHDIOCESES
Albany, NY (CNS)
A rchbishop Joseph T. Ryan, whose priestly life
took him from Albany to the farthest reaches
of the United States and around the world, died
October 9 at age 86. His funeral Mass was to be
celebrated at 11:00 a.m. October 14 at the Cathe
dral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany.
Archbishop Ryan was the first archbishop of
Anchorage, Alaska, serving from 1966-75, and
first head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military
Services after it was removed from the jurisdiction
of the archbishop of New York in 1985. He also
served for eight years with the Catholic Near East
Welfare Association, a U.S. church agency estab
lished by papal request to aid the churches and the
people of the Middle East.
Thursday, October 12, 2000
Eileen Egan, longtime CRS exec
utive, PEACE ACTIVIST, DIES AT 88
Washington (CNS)
E ileen Egan, whose decades of work with
Catholic Relief Services, Pax Christi USA and
the Catholic Worker movement reflected a lifelong
commitment to peace and nonviolence, died of
pneumonia October 7 at St. Vincent’s Hospital in
New York at the age of 88. According to a state
ment from her family, Egan “died peacefully,” with
her brother, Jerome, and Kate Hennessy, grand
daughter of Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy
Day, at her bedside. The first woman and first
layperson to join the staff of CRS, Egan was an
executive with the U.S. church’s overseas aid
agency for nearly four decades. She co-founded the
forerunner of Pax Christi USA in the 1960s, and
was active in New York City’s Catholic Worker
hospitality houses throughout her adult life.
Vocations, immigration top con
cerns at Hispanic priests’ meet
New York (CNS)
V ocations and immigration were principal con
cerns at the annual convention of the National
Association of Hispanic Priests, leaders reported.
Members of the association emphasized their desire
to work in solidarity, the leaders said. The associa
tion president, Father J. Fernando Gil, said members
saw themselves as a “cohesive body,” despite the
cultural differences of being priests bom in various
countries of Latin America, in Spain or in the
United States to Hispanic parentage. More than 100
association members attended the convention
October 2-5 at a retreat house in New York.
Vatican bioethicist criticizes U.S.
couple’s genetic screening
Vatican City (CNS)
T he Vatican’s top bioethicist criticized the
genetic screening process a U.S. couple used
to conceive a child in order to save their older
daughter. Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice president of
the Pontifical Academy for Life, said that apart
from the parents’ presumably good intentions in
trying to save a child’s life, the process raised seri
ous moral issues. In a groundbreaking case, Lisa
and Jack Nash of Englewood, Colo., tested
embryos created through in vitro fertilization for
compatibility with the cells of their daughter
Molly, 6, who was bom with Fanconi anemia, a
fatal, inherited bone marrow deficiency.
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