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The Southern Cross, Page 2 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.” 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 Address I L Phone L Parish (USPS 505 680) Publisher: Most Rev. J. 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