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Chicago pastor appointed
AUXILIARY BISHOP
Washington (CNS)
F ather Jerome E. Listecki, pastor of Saint Ig
natius Parish in Chicago, has been appointed
an auxiliary bishop of Chicago by Pope John Paul
II. The appointment was announced November 7
in Washington by Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo,
the papal nuncio to the United States. Bishop-des
ignate Listecki, ordained 25 years ago, was
appointed pastor at Saint Ignatius earlier this year.
Bom March 12, 1949, the Chicago native attended
Quigley South High School, Loyola University,
both in Chicago, and Saint Mary of the Lake
Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois. He later earned a
law degree at De Paul University College of Law.
British archbishop, urged to
RESIGN, ASKS POPE FOR COADJUTOR
Manchester, England (CNS)
F ollowing calls for his resignation and allegations
that he ignored cases of pedophilia, Archbishop
John Ward of Cardiff, Wales, has asked Pope John
Paul II to appoint a coadjutor archbishop to work
alongside him. A television documentary program,
“Panorama,” shown November 5 on the British
Broadcasting Corp., included allegations that
Archbishop Ward, 71, ignored warnings about two
pedophile priests who worked in his archdiocese,
enabling them to continue abusing children in their
care. But the archbishop said he had been consider
ing requesting a coadjutor bishop since his strength
was diminished by a recent stroke.
Religious worker visa program
EXTENDED THREE MORE YEARS
Washington (CNS)
A bill temporarily extending for another three
years a program that grants visas to nonclergy
religious workers was signed into law November 1
after efforts to make the program permanent failed.
President Clinton signed the bill after the House ap
proved it September 19 and the Senate signed off on
it October 19. The extension came a full month after
the previous temporary law expired, leaving the ap
plication process in limbo during that time. The pro
gram has been “temporary,” for 10 years, and sup
porters had hoped to end the periodic reauthoriza
tion hassle by making the visa category permanent.
Cardinal Law lauds debt relief,
shift on Cuba embargo
Washington (CNS)
C ardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston, chairman of
the U.S. bishops’ International Policy Com
mittee, has praised congressional action on debt
relief for poor countries. He also welcomed “the
fact that, for the first time in many years, the
majority of the members of Congress have
expressed their clear will that the outmoded Cuban
embargo must, sooner rather than later, be aban
doned.” He said those two international issues
“have been of particular concern to the U.S.
Catholic bishops.”
Vatican confirms papal trip to
Ukraine in June
Vatican City (CNS)
P ope John Paul II will visit Ukraine in June,
Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said.
The spokesman confirmed the trip in a November
6 statement after months of Vatican evaluation of a
trip’s potential impact on ecumenical relations. As
soon as Ukraine gained independence from the
Soviet Union in 1991, Catholics in the country
began asking for a papal visit. Initially it was
hoped the pope would travel to Ukraine to mark
the 400th anniversary of the 1595-96 Union of
Brest, which re-established full communion
between Rome and the Ukrainian Catholic Church.
Verdict in Salvador generals’
CASE CRITICIZED BY BISHOP
West Palm Beach (CNS)
A Florida jury’s decision to clear two retired
Salvadoran army generals of all responsibility
for the 1980 murder and rape of four U.S. mission
aries provoked mixed reactions in El Salvador.
Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San
Salvador said November 5 he regretted the verdict,
but added that the civil case had been “an interest
ing lesson” for those accused of human rights vio
lations. Bishop Rosa said: “The two men accused
felt safe in that country (the United States). This
has been an interesting lesson showing that human
rights violators have nowhere to hide.”
Canadian bishops hope for canon
ization of Kateri Tekakwitha
Vatican City (CNS)
I n conjunction with World Youth Day 2002,
Canadian bishops are hoping for the canoniza
tion of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. “She would be
a model of inspiration, of encouragement for
young people,” said the president of the Canadian
Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop Gerald
Wiesner of Prince George, British Columbia, in a
November 3 interview with Catholic News
Service. Blessed Kateri is the first Native
American to be beatified. The July 18-28, 2002,
World Youth Day celebrations will be centered in
Thursday, November 9, 2000
Toronto. In a meeting with Pope John Paul II dur
ing the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’
officers’ annual visit to the Vatican October 26-
November 3, Bishop Wiesner said he brought up
Blessed Kateri’s sainthood cause. “The Holy
Father was quite enthusiastic,” he said.
Catholic, Lutheran leaders
praise Jewish statement
Washington (CNS)
Tf ey U.S. Catholic and Lutheran leaders have
JN^publicly thanked a group of Jewish scholars
and religious leaders for issuing “Dabru Emet. A
Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity.” A
group of Catholic bishops said they welcome the
“gesture of reconciliation” and “urge Catholics
throughout the United States to read it with care and
loving respect.” Lutheran representatives called the
document a “bold step” and thanked the Jewish
scholars for their efforts. Dabru emet, Hebrew for
“speak the truth,” is an instruction from the Lord in
the book of Zechariah. The Jewish statement,
signed by 170 scholars and religious leaders, was
issued September 10 as a full-page ad in The New
York Times and The (Baltimore) Sun. It said that
“Christianity has changed dramatically” in its views
of Jews and Judaism, and it urged Jews to respond
in kind with a new attitude toward Christians.
Nun, priest dismissed in Boston
after she baptized baby
Boston (CNS)
A Catholic nun who was relieved of her duties
at the Jesuit Urban Center in Boston for help
ing to perform baptismal rites normally reserved
for priests said she was shocked and upset by the
punishment’s severity. Sister Jeannette Normandin,
a Sister of Saint Ann who had worked at the center
for 11 years, maintained after her October 24 dis
missal that the baptism was not an attempt to make
a statement about the role of women in the church
but rather a matter of liturgical naivete. Mean
while, Jesuit Urban Center officials said they were
not convinced of the nun’s naivete and said the
baptismal action and other sacramental irregulari
ties associated with the nun and her ministry at the
center are just cause for her dismissal. Sister
Normandin and Jesuit Father George Winchester,
the celebrant of the October 8 baptism in question,
were dismissed from their duties as members of
the pastoral staff of the center in the South End
after each reportedly baptized and anointed one of
two boys.
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