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Pope names new Texas bishop,
ACCEPTS RESIGNATIONS
Washington (CNS)
P ope John Paul II has named Auxiliary Bishop
Alvaro Corrado del Rio of Washington, who is
also apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Ca-
guas, Puerto Rico, to head the Diocese of Tyler,
Texas. Bishop Corrado succeeds Bishop Edmond
Carmody, who was appointed to Corpus Christi
last February. The pope also accepted the resigna
tion of Bishop John G. Chedid, 77, of Our Lady of
Lebanon of Los Angeles, a Maronite diocese, and
named as his successor Chorbishop Robert J. Sha-
heen, pastor of Saint Raymond Church in Saint
Louis. The pope also accepted the resignation of
Byzantine-Ruthenian Bishop George M. Kuzma of
Van Nuys, California, 75. No successor was na
med. The changes were announced December 5 in
Washington by Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo,
apostolic nuncio to the United States.
Arrival of RU-486 brings
RENEWED WARNINGS OF DANGERS
Washington (CNS)
A s the abortion pill RU-486 began arriving at
U.S. abortion clinics around the country, pro
life advocates renewed their warnings about the
dangers involved in using the pill. “RU-486 has
the potential to be this generation’s thalidomide or
DES,” said Laura Echevarria, spokeswoman for
the National Right to Life Committee. “American
women need to know just how dangerous this drug
can be.” The sleep-inducing drug thalidomide
caused birth defects when taken by pregnant
women in the 1950s and ’60s, and DES exposure
in pregnancy has been linked to higher frequencies
of cancer and infertility among the children bom of
those pregnancies.
Vatican plans document on AIDS
MINISTRY
Vatican City (CNS)
A s the United Nations released fresh AIDS sta
tistics showing an unexpected worldwide
increase in HIV infections, the Vatican announced
plans to publish a document giving Catholics
moral and practical guidelines for AIDS ministry.
The document will provide Catholics who serve
people with HIV/AIDS with “specific principles
for how to deal with diverse problems that present
themselves,” Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragan,
head of the project, told Catholic News Service
December 4. No date had been set to publish the
document, but “by the end of next year, we could
have something more substantial,” he told CNS.
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French bishops condemn prostitu
tion AMID CALLS FOR LEGALIZATION
Paris (CNS)
F rench bishops condemned prostitution as a
form of human slavery and repeated their
opposition to its legalization. In a December 4
statement, the social affairs commission of the
French bishops’ conference criticized distinctions
between free and forced prostitution. “Cracking
down on sexual exploitation only in cases of vio
lence or constraint presents a grave danger,” wrote
the group. “This distinction implies the legal estab
lishment of a border between ‘good’ and ‘bad’
prostitution.”
Eighty-mile Indiana march oppos
es IMPENDING FEDERAL EXECUTION
Indianapolis (CNS)
W ith the first federal execution since 1963
looming and scheduled for their state, Karen
Burkhart of Plainfield and about 100 other people
took their objections to capital punishment to the
streets—80 miles of streets to be exact. In a five-
day march, Burkhart, a member of Saint Susanna
Parish and coordinator of the Indiana Death Penal
ty Abolition, led marchers from the federal court
house in Indianapolis to the federal prison in Terre
Haute, where Juan Raul Garza is scheduled for
execution on December 12. “We wanted to do
something that would convince President Clinton
to take a historic step for human rights,” Burkhart
told The Criterion, newspaper of the Indianapolis
Archdiocese. “We want the president to stop the
execution of Juan Raul Garza ... and to declare a
moratorium on federal executions.”
Priest’s visit to Vietnam with
Clinton brings echoes of broth
er’s loss
Washington (CNS)
A lthough Spiritan Father William R. Headley
only had 39 hours’ notice that he was to
accompany President Clinton to Vietnam in mid-
November, he knew he had to make one special
phone call. The deputy executive director of
Catholic Relief Services called his younger broth
er, Thomas J. Headley of Honey Brook, Pa., a for
mer Marine who is 100 percent disabled because
of injuries he received fighting in Vietnam. “My
brother’s experiences and his ongoing handicap
have motivated me toward this work,” said Father
Headley in a November 30 telephone interview
from his Baltimore office. The priest’s expertise is
in peace-building. Father Headley was a last-
minute replacement for Bishop John H. Ricard of
Thursday, December 07, 2000
Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, CRS president,
who had to withdraw to attend the funeral of his
friend and fellow Josephite, Archbishop Eugene A.
Marino, who died November 12.
Survey shows Irish becoming like
Americans in matters of faith
Dublin, Ireland (CNS)
T he Irish are becoming more like the Americans
in their attitudes to matters of faith, God and
church, according to a new survey into religious
attitudes and behavior in Ireland. The survey, con
ducted for the Dominican publication Doctrine &
Life and published in late November, also shows
that confidence in church leadership has fallen dra
matically, though confidence in parish priests and
parish curates remains high. Coauthor Father
Andrew Greeley, a professor of sociology at the
University of Chicago, said: “While this decline of
approval for the religious organization in the 1990s
has occurred in most European countries, it is par
ticularly precipitous in Ireland. Indeed, Russians
have more confidence in their religious leaders
than do the Irish.
Pope says Catholics, Orthodox
MUST PERSEVERE ALONG UNITY PATH
Vatican City (CNS)
C atholics and Orthodox must persevere along
the sometime arduous path to unity, Pope John
Paul II told the ecumenical Orthodox patriarch.
Holy Year 2000, the pope said in a message to Pat
riarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, has provid
ed an opportunity for both churches to offer a
“common witness of our faith.” The message,
released at the Vatican November 30, was deliv
ered to the patriarch’s headquarters in Istanbul,
Turkey, by a Vatican delegation.
Vatican says pope to visit
Ukraine June 21-24
Vatican City (CNS)
T he Vatican has announced the dates of Pope
John Paul II’s upcoming trip to Ukraine. In a
November 30 statement, Vatican spokesman
Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the pope would visit
Ukraine June 21-24. Navarro-Valls had confirmed
the trip November 6. While the official schedule
has not been released, the trip likely will include
stops in the cities of Kiev and Lviv and a rest in
the Carpathian Mountains.
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