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Sister Lourdes Sheehan named
ASSOCIATE GENERAL SECRETARY
Washington (CNS)j
M ercy Sister
Lourdes
Sheehan, the U.S.
bishops’ education
secretary, has been
named associate gen
eral secretary of the
National Conference
of Catholic Bishops-
U.S. Catholic Con
ference. Her appoint
ment was announced
October 20 by
Monsignor William
P Fay NCCB-USCC Sister Lo|Jrdes
general secretary-
elect. When the Sheehan, RSM
appointment takes effect January 15, she will join
associate general secretaries Bruce Egnew and
Monsignor David J. Malloy on the executive staff.
Monsignor Fay said Sister Sheehan “is well known
within the conference” and “has the gifts of educa
tion, experience and love of the church that will
well serve the bishops in that position.” Bishop
Joseph A. Fiorenza of Galveston-Houston, NCCB-
USCC president, praised her “distinguished career
in service to Catholic education. The bishops
greatly appreciate her leadership in this field and
are grateful to her for her willingness to take on
the responsibilities of an associate general secre
tary,” he said. Sister Lourdes, a Savannah native,
was USCC secretary of education from 1990 to
1995 and from 1999 to the present. In 1995-96 she
was the first director of the Alliance for Catholic
Education at the University of Notre Dame, a
teacher training program she helped found in 1994.
Diocesan liturgy leaders con
cerned ABOUT NEW INSTRUCTION
Costa Mesa, CA(CNS)
D iocesan liturgical officials expressed concern
during a national meeting in Costa Mesa
about confusion over new liturgical instructions
from Rome and asked the U.S. bishops to form a
special group to study and resolve issues quickly.
The discussion was about the new General In
struction of the Roman Missal, which has not yet
taken effect. It was released in July by the Vatican
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacra
ments. When it takes effect, it will require some
changes in the way Mass is celebrated. The U.S.
bishops have received a Vatican ruling that
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Pope condemns move toward gay
MARRIAGES IN NETHERLANDS
Vatican City (CNS)
H ealthy societies are founded on healthy mar
riages and families, relationships which can
not be replaced by legally recognized gay unions,
Pope John Paul II said. Speaking October 23 to the
Netherlands’ new ambassador to the Vatican, the
pope condemned efforts in the European country to
grant gay couples the same legal status as married
couples and to allow them to adopt children. The
Catholic Church, he said, insists that marriage
between a man and a woman is a fundamental part
of human reality and is the basic unit of society.
Presidential candidates roast
EACH OTHER AT Al SMITH DINNER
New York (CNS)
D iners who paid $800 a plate to attend the Al
Smith Dinner in New York October 19 got
their money’s worth as presidential candidates Al
Gore and George W. Bush roasted each other and
poked fun at themselves and most everything else
on the political horizon. “Whoever is writing your
material, don’t lose him,” New York Archbishop
Edward M. Egan pleaded in a concluding word.
Held in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel, the event this year drew 1,300 people and,
supplemented by larger gifts by some corporations
and individuals, raised $1.6 million.
RU-486 PATIENT SAFETY BILL DEAD
in Congress, sponsor says
Washington (CNS)
T he chief sponsor of legislation designed to
improve safety requirements for use of the
abortion pill RU-486 says the bill is dead for this
session of Congress. Rep. Tom A. Cobum, R-
Okla., told The Tulsa World newspaper October 13
that there would be no vote on his RU-486 Patient
Health and Safety Protection Act before Congress
adjourns later in October. “I can’t get it to the floor
Thursday, October 26, 2000
because we have too many members that don’t
want to even talk about this,” he said. “They don’t
want another abortion vote.” Cobum, a practicing
physician who has delivered thousands of babies
and performed two abortions to save the life of the
mother, is not running for re-election.
Coalition of nuns backs Sister
Jeannine Gramick
Mankato, Minnesota (CNS)
T he National Coalition of American Nuns called
for an end to church sanctions against Sister
Jeannine Gramick during its annual board meeting
October 13-15 in Mankato. In July 1999 the Vatican
ordered Sister Gramick to cease all ministry with
homosexual people or their parents because of what
it called her “doctrinally unacceptable” views.
NCAN, a 32-year-old peace and justice coalition
representing about 1,800 women religious, said the
Vatican sanctions against Sister Gramick should be
lifted. It urged that her case “and any future cases of
this kind be remanded to the jurisdiction of’ the
Leadership Conference of Women Religious and
National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Lutheran bishop installed at
Baltimore Catholic cathedral
Baltimore (CNS)
T he doors of ecumenical cooperation were
thrown open when the Cathedral of Mary Our
Queen in Baltimore became the prayerful setting
for the installation of the Rev. Henry Gerard
Knoche as the third bishop of the Delaware-
Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church of America. Elected in June to lead more
than 96,000 Lutherans, Bishop Knoche succeeds
retiring Bishop George Paul Mocko. Cardinal
William H. Keeler of Baltimore invited the
Lutherans to hold their October 14 installation
service at the cathedral to help accommodate the
large number of guests from throughout Maryland,
Delaware and other regions of the country.
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