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Thursday, November 30, 2000
Cardinal Hickey resigns;
Archbishop McCarrick named
successor
Washington (CNS)
P ope John Paul II has accepted the resignation
of Cardinal James A. Hickey of Washington
and has named Archbishop Theodore E. McCar
rick of Newark, N.J., to succeed him. Archbishop
Gabriel Montalvo, apostolic nuncio to the United
States, announced the resignation and appointment
November 21 in Washington. The announcement
said Cardinal Hickey, 80, would be apostolic admi
nistrator of the Archdiocese of Washington until
Archbishop McCarrick’s installation. Archbishop
McCarrick, 70, has headed the Newark Arch
diocese for 14 years. He is to take canonical pos
session of the Washington Archdiocese January 3
in ceremonies at St. Matthew’s Cathedral. At a
press conference the same day at the Washington
Pastoral Center, Archbishop McCarrick said his
first interests will be to continue Cardinal Hickey’s
efforts on behalf of the poor, minorities and
Catholic schools and to emphasize the need for
vocations—for lay leadership as well as for the
priesthood and religious life.
U.S. Jewish groups dislike bish
ops’ Mideast message
Washington (CNS)
T he American Jewish Committee and the Anti-
Defamation League expressed disappointment
over the U.S. bishops’ special message on
“Returning to the Path of Peace in the Middle
East,” issued November 15. ADL National
Director Abraham H. Foxman said, “We are dis
mayed by the position taken by the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops. ... In the efforts to
deal with this issue evenhandedly, they sidestep the
underlying problem of the Palestinian Authority’s
unwillingness to curb the violence or to protect
Jewish holy sites from being vandalized and dese
crated.” In a 500-word statement the American
Jewish Committee said it is “disappointed for what
is omitted” in the message.
Vatican issues norms on faith
healing SERVICES
Vatican City (CNS)
T he Vatican issued norms on faith-healing serv
ices say prayer meetings for healing need the
approval of local church authorities and must
avoid “anything resembling hysteria.” While rec
ognizing that prayers for healing have a long and
legitimate tradition in the church, the Vatican said
there should be no confusion between these special
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services, and if healings occur they should be
reported and documented to competent church offi
cials. The norms were issued November 23 by the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith as part
of a 17-page “Instruction on Prayers for Healing.”
The text was approved by Pope John Paul II.
3,600 RISK ARREST AT THIS YEAR’S
School of the Americas protest
Columbus, GA (CNS)
44T Tere I am, Lord.” So said close to 10,000
JTTpeople who gathered November 19 at the
gates of Fort Benning in Columbus to demand the
closing of the U.S. Army School of the Americas.
About 3,600 people walked onto the military
installation, risking arrest and prosecution, in an
act of peaceful civil disobedience. Some of the
school’s graduates have been implicated in the
murders of hundreds of people in Latin American
countries. The demonstration, now in its 11th year,
was organized by SOA Watch, led by Maryknoll
Father Roy Bourgeois.
Rome university to start person
alized STEM-CELL BANK
Rome (CNS)
T he Rome-based medical school of Sacred
Heart University will inaugurate Italy’s first
personalized stem-cell bank early next year, allow
ing parents to set aside their children’s cells for
future use against disease. Salvatore Mancuso,
director of the Catholic university’s obstetrics and
gynecological clinic, announced November 21 that
the cell bank would be up and running in January.
Doctors will take stem cells from the umbilical
cords of newborn babies, then freeze them,
Mancuso told Catholic News Service November
22. While other cell banks exist in Italy, he said,
they collect voluntary, anonymous donations, mak
ing the Sacred Heart’s bank the first of its kind in
the country.
Pope names San Francisco arch
bishop TO DOCTRINAL
CONGREGATION
Vatican City (CNS)
P ope John Paul II named Archbishop William J.
Levada of San Francisco as a member of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Archbishop Levada, 64, is already familiar with
the inner workings of the doctrinal congregation,
having worked there from 1976 to 1982, before his
episcopal ordination. The archbishop, who has a
doctorate in dogmatic theology from Rome’s
Jesuit-run Gregorian University, has also served on
the Doctrine Committee of the U.S. bishops’ con
ference and is a past chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral
Education and Research Center in Massachusetts.
Vatican says unique legal status
OF MARRIAGE MUST BE DEFENDED
Vatican City (CNS)
I n a detailed document on cohabitation, the
Vatican said the unique legal status of marriage
and the family must be defended as indispensable
goods for society. Far from merely being tradition
al models, the document said marriage and the
family express the most fundamental truths about
human love and social relations—a truth it said
Christian families are called to make apparent with
their lives. The 77-page document, “Family,
Marriage and ‘De Facto’ Unions,” was released at
the Vatican November 21.
Pope names Eastern patriarch to
head Vatican congregation
Vatican City (CNS)
P ope John Paul II has named Syrian Patriarch
Ignace Moussa I Daoud of Antioch to be the
first Eastern Catholic patriarch to head the Vatican
Congregation for Eastern Churches. Patriarch
Daoud, 70, succeeds 77-year-old Italian Cardinal
Achille Silvestrini, who had led the congregation
since 1991. The Vatican announced the appoint
ment and Cardinal Silvestrini’s retirement
November 25. The Congregation for Eastern
Churches cares for the 22 Eastern Catholic church
es that originated in the Middle East, Eastern
Europe and North Africa and maintain distinctive
liturgical and legal systems. The congregation’s
responsibilities for the Eastern churches include
those that the congregations for bishops, clergy,
religious and Catholic education have for Latin-rite
Catholics. In addition, the congregation has juris
diction over all of the churches in Egypt, Eritrea
and northern Ethiopia, southern Albania, Bulgaria,
Cyprus, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine,
Syria, Jordan, Turkey and Afghanistan.
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