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Q ☆ ☆ 02 < 02 m The ☆ ☆ p - Oe © : C <0 jo w Sou hern - >» 00 !r "T •: CD Co x o ^ o CO Diocese of g Savannah % >oss □_ 00 Vol. 80, No. 40 Thursday, November 16, 2000 mm dH? aw Spotlight on Mount de Sales Academy —pages 6-7 $.50 PER ISSUE U.S. bishops process down the main aisle of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington following Mass Nov. 13. Seven members of a Catholic gay rights group Rainbow Sash sat in a reserved pew near the back (right) Bishops begin work on packed agenda at fall Washington (CNS) pening their fall general meeting November 13 in Washington, the U.S. bishops heard their president promise “no turning back” from the Second Vatican Council and heard sad news about the nation’s first black Catholic archbishop. The first day of the November 13-16 meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill also featured preliminary discussion of documents on the Mideast crisis, the U.S. crimi nal justice system, immigrants, church architecture and art, and the U.S. Supreme Court and the “cul ture of death.” = Further debate and a vote on each of those docu- o ^ ments was scheduled for later in the meeting. The bishops opened their meeting with prayers ir for Archbishop Eugene A. Marino, who died 3 November 12 at the age of 66. The first black H archbishop in the history of the U.S. Catholic Z Church, he resigned in 1990 as archbishop of u Atlanta and admitted to an affair with a woman. Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza of Galveston- Houston, NCCB-USCC president, focused his presidential address on the church’s jubilee-year celebrations. Highlighting the church’s ecumenical commit ment, the beatification of Pope John XXIII and the canonization of Mother Katharine Drexel, the NCCB president stressed the important of the meeting Second Vatican Council in preparing the church to enter the new millennium. “We can assure the faithful and those who have a sincere interest in the work of the church that the Second Vatican Council continues as the instru ment of navigation that sets the course we will fol low,” Bishop Fiorenza said. “There is no turning back from the council.” The only votes on the meeting’s first day were on revised guidelines for retired bishops and on several matters related to conference planning and budgeting. In a series of votes, the bishops approved the retired bishops guidelines, a $52.7 million budget for 2001, an increase in the dioce san assessment by 2.9 percent for 2002, and a new special-emphasis objective giving greater priority in conference activities to the multicultural dimen sion of the church. The day before their meeting, many of the bish ops participated in a workshop on the ecumenical role of bishops. It was led by Australian Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Meanwhile, bishops ordained within the past two or three years had a workshop designed to help them deal with the expectations and responsibili ties of their new job, and another workshop focused on a bishop’s responsibilities toward his diocesan attorneys. (Continued on page I I) Archbishop Marino, first U.S. By Nancy Frazier 0‘Brien Washington (CNS) rchbishop Eugene A. Marino, who was the first black arch bishop in the United States and whose resignation in 1990 was lin ked to his affair with a woman, died unexpectedly November 12 at a re treat house in New York. He was 66. Archbishop Marino, archbishop of Atlanta when he resigned, had been serving for the past five years as spiritual director of an outpatient program for priests with mental ill ness, substance abuse and sexual behavior problems. The Clergy Consultation and Treatment Service is a program of Saint Vincent’s Westchester in Harrison, N.Y., a psychiatric branch of Saint Vincent’s Medical Center in Manhattan. The archbishop found that work “very fulfilling,” said Father Robert M. Kearns, superior general of the Josephites, the order to which Archbishop Marino was ordained in June 1962. Father Kearns said Archbishop Marino suffered an apparent heart attack after participating in a week end retreat at Saint Ignatius Retreat House in Manhasset, N.Y. The retreat had ended Saturday evening with a Mass of anointing of the sick. “The priest anointed the archbishop, then the archbishop anointed the priest,” said Father Keams. Before he went to bed, Archbishop Marino said he was going to leave early to visit his brother in New Jersey, so no one was surprised when he did not appear for breakfast, the Josephite leader said. Archbishop Marino was discov ered dead in bed later that day by a housekeeper, Father Keams said. Funeral Masses were scheduled for black archbishop, dead at 66 November 15 at the Salesian High School chapel in New Rochelle, N.Y., and November 16 at Saint Francis Xavier Church in Baltimore, with a Mass of Christian burial tenta tively set for either November 18 or 20 at the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Biloxi. He was expected to be buried along side his parents at his home church of Our Mother of Sorrows in Biloxi. Archbishop Marino was the rank ing member of the African-American Catholic hierarchy when he admitted in August 1990 that he had been having an two-year affair with Vicki R. Long, a 27-year-old single mother who had earlier claimed that another priest was the father of her daughter. Archbishop Marino had submitted his resignation as archbishop of Atlanta that June, citing “severe Archbishop Eugene Antonio Marino (Continued on page 3) 1934-2000 u