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Thursday, January 25, 2001
March for Life gives resounding
CHEERS TO NEW ADMINISTRATION
Washington (CNS)
ptimism ran high at the kickoff rally for the
annual March for Life January 22, where do
zens of speakers praised the two-day-old Bush
administration and spoke of upcoming changes to
abortion policy. And toward the end of the two-
hour rally held this year on the mud-covered
grounds of the Washington Monument, participants
cheered an announcement from the White House
saying the Bush administration planned to reinstate
the Mexico City policy, which had denied U.S. for
eign aid to programs overseas that promote abor
tion. President Clinton had reversed the policy in
1993 two days after he became president. The
announcement that President Bush would restore the
previous policy was immediately praised by Rep.
Chris Smith, R-NJ., who said the Bush administra
tion was going to “sever the relationship with those
who promote abortions.” Throughout the rally,
where tens of thousands gathered under a sunny
blue sky but cold temperatures, several speakers
spoke of the end of what they termed the “the long
eight years” of the Clinton administration.
Cardinal decries abortion ‘lit
mus test’ for government service
Washington (CNS)
ardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore
decried a “litmus test” to which government
appointees are being subjected. “It is arrogant and
unacceptable to make unswerving allegiance to
Roe vs. Wade a litmus test for high public office in
the United States,” Cardinal Keeler said during his
homily at a January 21 vigil Mass at the Basilica
of the National Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception, prior to the January 22 March for
Life. His remarks brought a standing ovation from
the estimated crowd of 8,000 inside the church.
New bishops for Duluth, Bridge
port ; Denver gets auxiliary
Washington (CNS)
onsignor Dennis M. Schnurr, general secretary
of the National Conference of Catholic
Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference, has been
named bishop of Duluth, Minnesota, by Pope John
Paul II. Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, apostolic
nuncio to the United States, announced the appoint
ment January 18 in Washington. In Duluth, Bishop-
designate Schnurr succeeds Archbishop Roger L.
Schwietz, who was named coadjutor archbishop of
Anchorage, Alaska, last year. Pope John Paul II has
also named Auxiliary Bishop William E. Lori of
Washington to be the new bishop of Bridgeport,
Connecticut, and Father Jose H. Gomez, vicar dele
gate of Opus Dei for the state of Texas, to be auxil
iary bishop of Denver. Archbishop Montalvo
announced the latter appointments January 23 in
Washington. In Bridgeport, Bishop Lori succeeds
Cardinal-designate Edward M. Egan, who was
named archbishop of New York last May.
Pope John XXIII’s body to be
TRANSFERRED FROM GROTTO TO
BASILICA
Vatican City (CNS)
ope John Paul II, recognizing the extent of
popular devotion to Blessed John XXIII, has
decided his tomb should be in Saint Peter’s
Basilica rather than in the grotto under the church.
The Vatican press office confirmed January 22 that
the body of Pope John, who convoked the Second
Vatican Council, had been removed from the grotto
January 16 after a solemn and formal opening of
the tomb and recognition of the body. The body
will be placed in the basilica to make it easier for
people to visit his tomb, the press office said. A
recognition ceremony usually takes place before a
person is beatified, but Vatican officials did not
want to disturb the tomb during the Holy Year,
when so many visitors wanted to pray there, said
an official at the basilica.
Head of Philippine bishops details
CONCERNS TO NEW PRESIDENT
Manila, Philippines (CNS)
A s a second people’s uprising propelled another
woman to the presidency in the Philippines, the
head of the bishops’ conference detailed the
church’s longstanding social concerns. In a state
ment shortly after President Gloria Macapagal-
Arroyo took the oath of office January 20,
Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato said he
hoped the new president would focus the nation’s
healing process on “the wider divisions of society,
between Muslims, Christians and lumads (indige
nous peoples), and the rich and poor.” The archbish
op, president of the bishops’ conference, implored
Arroyo to veer away from the “political culture of
patronage and personalities,” reported UCA News,
an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.
During a thanksgiving Mass at Mary Queen of
Peace Shrine January 21, Cardinal Jaime Sin of
Manila said, “The true heroes of (People Power) II
are the priests, nuns, parishioners from various dio
ceses, especially our valiant young people.” After
the Mass, former President Corazon Aquino, whose
six-year presidency faced at least five failed military
coups, called for unity and support for Arroyo so
that she could get to work.
U.S. BISHOPS’ collection to aid
REBUILDING SALVADORAN CHURCHES
Washington (CNS)
ome of the money donated to the annual U.S.
bishops’ collection for Latin America will be
used to rebuild churches and chapels in El
Salvador destroyed by a major earthquake, said
Bishop Edmond Carmody of Corpus Christi,
Texas. “We must show our support and concern for
those who have suffered,” said the bishop, chair
man of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee for the
Church in Latin America. Bishop Carmody made
the announcement in a January 19 press release
from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
In earthquake-affected areas, the local church plays
a central role in the lives of people, he said.
New PARTNERSHIP LINKS TEACHERS,
UNDERSTAFFED CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Providence, RI (CNS)
partnership between Providence College and
the Diocese of Providence, aimed at providing
inner-city Catholic schools with a supply of teach
ers, was unveiled January 16 at Holy Name
School. The new Providence Alliance for Catholic
Teachers, or PACT, is the result of Providence
College’s Alliance for Catholic Education pro
gram, in partnership with the University of Notre
Dame in Indiana. “This is money in the bank,
insurance,” said Bishop Robert E. Mulvee of
Providence. “This is an attempt to really fire up
young people. The best is out there and it needs
development.” Holy Cross Brother William
Dygert, diocesan superintendent of schools, said
the joint effort “serves to unite the mission of
Catholic elementary and secondary education in
the diocese with the mission of Catholic higher
education at Providence College, a situation that
can only benefit all whom we serve.”
Pope plans ecumenical service to
close Christian unity week
Vatican City (CNS)
or the third time in his pontificate, Pope John
Paul II planned an ecumenical celebration
rather than a Mass to mark the annual Week of
Prayer for Christian Unity. Orthodox, Anglican and
Protestant representatives were scheduled to attend
the January 25 closing prayer service at Rome’s
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. The theme
of this year’s January 18-25 ecumenical celebration
is taken from Christ’s words in the Gospel of Saint
John: “I am the way, the truth and the life.”
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