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Pope names seven more new
CARDINALS, BRINGS TOTAL TO 44
Vatican City (CNS)
n a surprising and unprecedented move, Pope
John Paul II named seven new cardinals on
January 28, after appointing 37 just a week earlier.
The new nominees included archbishops from
Ukraine and Latvia whom the pope had designated
cardinals in pectore—in his heart—in 1998, but
whose names could not be divulged until now. Ad
ditionally, he named two prelates from Germany, the
first black cardinal from South Africa, a Bolivian
and the head of the Ukrainian Eastern-rite church.
The two in pectore cardinals-designate were:
—Marian Jaworski, 74, the Latin-rite archbishop
of Lviv, Ukraine, and a close personal friend of
Pope John Paul. Many of his faithful of about
175,000 are of Polish ethnic origin. Because of the
delicate relations among Christian communities in
Ukraine, his nomination was considered a sensitive
issue.
—Janis Pujats, 70, the archbishop of Riga,
Latvia. In 1998, the last time the pope named car
dinals, the archbishop was making news by pub
licly urging Russia to stop interfering in Latvia’s
internal affairs, particularly on the status of
Latvia’s Russian minority.
Speaking from his apartment window above
Saint Peter’s Square, the pope said he had several
other new cardinals in mind which, for various rea
sons, could not be announced the previous week.
They included Cardinal-designate Lubomyr
Husar of Lviv, head of the Eastern-rite Ukrainian
Catholic Church, who was elected to his post by a
Ukrainian synod January 25 and approved by the
pope the next day. The Ukrainian-born prelate is
also a naturalized U.S. citizen. He will turn 68 on
February 26.
The pope said that with the naming of Cardinals-
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designate Husar, Jaworski and Pujats, he wanted to
honor East European Catholic communities that
offered heroic example to the rest of the church in
the 20th century. “They knew how to witness their
faith among sufferings of every kind, which not
infrequently culminated in the sacrifice of one’s
life,” he said. Cardinals-designate Husar and Ja
worski are expected to take leading roles in prepar
ing the pope’s June 23-27 pastoral visit to Ukraine.
The pope, without further explanation, then
named four “well-deserving pastors” to the list of
new cardinals:
—Johannes Joachim Degenhardt of Paderbom,
Germany, who turns 75 Jan. 31.
—Julio Terrazas Sandoval of Santa Cruz de la
Sierra, Bolivia, 64.
—Wilfrid Fox Napier of Durban, South Africa,
59.
—Karl Lehmann of Mainz, Germany, 64.
The pope said he recognized that he would be
further exceeding the technical limit of 120 cardi
nal-electors, who are under age 80 and eligible to
vote in a papal conclave. After they accept their
“red hats” at a consistory February 21, the total
number of cardinal electors will be 135. Barring
deaths, the latest appointments will leave the
College of Cardinals with a record-high member
ship of 185.
Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said
the pope’s decision to name cardinals in two
groups a week apart hinged on the fact that
Cardinal-designate Husar was up for election by
the Ukrainian Eastern-rite synod in late January.
The pope wanted to name most of the cardinals
in mid-January, so they would have time to prepare
for the February consistory. But he held back sev
eral names so that Cardinal-designate Husar would
not be the only one nominated on January 28,
Navarro-Valls said.
Thursday, February 1, 2001
German diocese to continue
OFFERING COUNSELING CERTIFICATE
Cologne, Germany (CNS)
ermany’s Diocese of Limburg, which has con
tinued offering a certificate allowing women
counseled by the diocese to obtain an abortion,
will be permitted to keep its current practice until
the end of the year. In a statement issued simulta
neously in Rome and Limburg January 22, Bishop
Franz Kamphaus of Limburg said that at the end of
2001, the diocesan counseling system would be
evaluated to see if it had been successful in encou
raging women not to seek an abortion. Bishop
Kamphaus said that, at his request, he met January
13 at the Vatican with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,
head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, and Cardinal-designate Giovanni Battista
Re, head of the Congregation for Bishops.
Pope offers prayers, support for
Indian earthquake victims
Vatican City (CNS)
R esponding to news of an earthquake that dev
astated northwestern India, Pope John Paul II
prayed for victims and survivors. At his January 28
weekly Angelus prayer, the pope said he was fol
lowing the latest reports from India “with great
concern.” U.S seismologists measured the January
26 quake, centered in India’s western Gujarat state
and also felt in neighboring Pakistan, at magnitude
7.9, making it the strongest to strike India in 50
years. Indian officials feared the death toll could
rise to 20,000 people. Pakistan has reported a do
zen deaths. The pope called on all people to “unite
their moral and material forces, so our brothers and
sisters so harshly tried get the necessary relief.
While I pray for the victims,” he said, “I assure my
closeness, with sentiments of deep solidarity, to the
Indian and Pakistani populations struck by this
appalling disaster.”
Deacon James Clayton Burke dies
R ev. Mr. James Clayton Burke, a retired permanent deacon of the Diocese of
Savannah, died January 23 in Atlanta. A long-time magistrate in Soperton,
Burke was a member of the diocese’s first permanent diaconate formation class. He
was ordained to the order of deacon on June 2, 1979 by Bishop Raymond W.
Lessard. He was assigned to Sacred Heart Parish, Vidalia, until his retirement from
the active ministry in 1994 and subsequently moved to Atlanta with his wife Rita,
who passed away in 1997. His funeral Mass was celebrated at Sacred Heart Church,
Atlanta, on January 27. He is survived by his son, James Clayton Burke, III, his
daughters Clare Roozen, Melanie Brantley, and Pamela Graham, seven grandchil
dren and two great grandchildren.
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