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The Southern Cross, Page 2 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. 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 Headline Hopscotch 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. Address 1 L Phone L Parish (USPS 505 680) Publisher: Most Rev. J. Kevin Boland, D.D. Director of Communications: Mrs. Barbara D. King t(cpa)j Editor. ^fss ^ Rev. Douglas K. Clark, S.T.L. Editorial and Business Office: Catholic Pastoral Center 601 E. Liberty Street Savannah, GA 31401-5196 (912) 238-2320 FAX: (912) 238-2339 E-mail: DCIark5735@aol.com or Southerncross@ix.netcom.com Internet Home Page: ' http://www.dioceseofsavannah.org Deadline: All material for publication on Thursday must be received at the latest by noon on the previous Friday. POSTMASTER: Send Change of Address to circulation office: Chalker Publishing Southern Cross Subscription Department P. O. 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