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Thursday, October 19, 2000
Pope, Queen Elizabeth express
hopes for Christian unity
Vatican City (CNS)
ope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth II of the
United Kingdom, meeting at the Vatican,
expressed their hopes that the jubilee year would
bring progress in Christian unity and in assistance to
the world’s poorest people. The pope welcomed the
queen to the Vatican October 17, 20 years to the day
after Queen Elizabeth’s first meeting with the pope
at the Vatican. Pope John Paul told the queen, who
is head of the Church of England, that the “sad
years of division” between Catholics and Anglicans
and between the Vatican and the United Kingdom
have ended, but more must be done to move toward
Christian unity. “In recent years there has emerged
between us a cordiality more in keeping with the
harmony of earlier times and more genuinely
expressive of our common spiritual roots,” the pope
said. “There can be no turning back from the ecu
menical goal we have set ourselves in obedience to
the Lord’s command,” Pope John Paul said. The
queen told the pope, “One of the themes you have
set for this jubilee year is reconciliation between
different cultures and faith communities. I am
pleased to note the important progress that has been
made in overcoming historic differences between
Anglicans and Roman Catholics,” she said. “I trust
that we shall continue to advance along the path
which leads to Christian unity.”
In new study, bishops say RCIA
RENEWING LIFE OF U.S. CHURCH
Washington (CNS)
he Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is
renewing the U.S. church and must continue to
be a major priority for local churches, according to
a new study by the U.S. bishops. The study was
released jointly Oct. 16 in Washington by five
committees of the National Conference of Catholic
Bishops. The committees, which worked together
over a three-year period to produce this first com
prehensive national study, are those on ecumenical
and interreligious affairs, education, evangelism,
liturgy and pastoral practices.
Cardinal calls for ‘moral lead
ership’ by Israelis, Palestinians
Washington (CNS)
he head of the U.S. bishops’ International
Policy Committee called on Palestinian and
Israeli leaders to exercise “moral leadership” and
to “unequivocally” condemn mob violence as a
first step to resolving the crisis in the Middle East.
Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston called for those
actions in an October 16 statement titled “Woun
ded Peace: Conflict in the Holy Land.” “This is not
a time for blame and recrimination,” the cardinal
said. “It is a time to break the escalating cycle of
violence, and to uncover the embers of hope that
remain for a just peace.”
Pope marks 22nd anniversary as
PONTIFF BY MEETING WITH POLES
Vatican City (CNS)
ope John Paul II marked his 22nd anniversary
as the first Polish pontiff by meeting with thou
sands of Poles. In the Paul VI Audience Hall
October 16 the pope received some 6,000 Polish
pilgrims who participated in the October 14-15
Jubilee for Families. “What great value every
human life, every human being, even those not yet
bom but already alive in a mother’s womb, must
have in the eyes of the creator,” he said. “You
came here to give your ‘yes’ to love, to a noble,
chaste love, to a love that gives life,” he told the
jubilee participants.
Cardinal tells Jewish audience
MEDIA DISTORTED VATICAN TEXT
Virginia Beach, VA (CNS)
ardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore told a
Jewish congregation in Virginia Beach Oct. 8
that media misrepresentation caused the controversy
over a recent Vatican declaration on Christ and the
church. The declaration, Dominus Iesus, said salva
tion comes from Christ alone, and the church he
founded “continues to exist fully only in the
Catholic Church.” Addressing about 400 people at
the Yom Kippur evening service in Beth Chaverim
temple, Cardinal Keeler said: “The document itself
simply restated materials already present in the
Second Vatican Council documents of some 35
years ago. This is a technical document, intended
for Catholic theologians in Asia and in some teach
ing centers, and it became the object of controversy
because of certain quotations lifted out of context.”
Vatican delegation to visit
N. Korea, says S. Korean official
Vatican City (CNS)
Vatican delegation will visit North Korea in
October to discuss the Holy See’s humanitari
an work for the communist nation, said a South
Korean church official who recently visited the
North. “The Vatican will dispatch its delegation to
North Korea within this month,” Father John Kim
Jong-su told Seoul Archdiocese’s Pyonghwa
Broadcasting Corp. cable TV October 15. His
remarks were reported by UCA News, an Asian
church news agency based in Thailand. Father
Kim, secretary-general of the Catholic Bishops’
Conference of Korea, said he delivered the mes
sage to Samuel Chang Jae-on, president of the
(North) Korean Roman Catholics’ Association,
October 13 during his visit to Pyongyang.
Nobel winner has credited
Catholic faith with helping him
Seoul (CNS)
outh Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who
won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize, has credited
his Catholic faith for helping him through periods
of torture and imprisonment. Kim, whose baptis
mal name is Thomas More, converted to Catho
licism as an adult in the late 1950s. Under previous
government administrations, he faced kidnapping,
exile, the death penalty and beatings. Kim won the
Nobel Peace Prize for his persistent peace efforts
with North Korea and his commitment to human
rights and democracy.
North American Orthodox,
Catholic bishops meet in Crete
Washington (CNS)
he North American Joint Committee of
Orthodox and Catholic Bishops combined dia
logue and pilgrimage as it met for the first time in
Greece, on the island of Crete. In a statement, the
participants expressed joy and gratitude at the
advances in Catholic-Orthodox relations over the
past four decades. “The difficulties that have
recently beset the international dialogue do not
alter our conviction that continued dialogue in love
is the only way that our churches can be faithful to
our Lord’s command to love one another and to be
reconciled,” they said. The meeting, held at the
Orthodox Academy of Crete near Hania, took
place October 2-4.
Archbishop stresses union with
Vatican on doctrinal matters
Cornwall, Ontario (CNS)
ishops’ conferences must be united with the
Holy See on questions of church doctrine, said
Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, secretary of the
Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith. He told the bishops of Canada at their annu
al plenary meeting October 16 that the task of pro
tecting the faith at the local level is that of bishops
using resources of their doctrinal commission. But,
he added, “the principle remains that the Holy See
can intervene and must intervene when the influ
ence of a particular booklet or publication goes
beyond the borders of a given episcopal confer
ence.”
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