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The Southern Cross, Page 2 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 To Subscribe Send this in to your parish, together with your check for $15, made out to the parish. services and liturgical celebrations. It said a cli mate of “peaceful devotion” should reign in such 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. 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