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Bishop Hughes of Baton Rouge
NAMED COADJUTOR OF NEW ORLEANS
Washington (CNS)
P ope John Paul II has named Bishop Alfred C.
Hughes of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as coadju
tor archbishop of New Orleans. The appointment
was announced in Washington February 16 by
Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, apostolic nuncio to
the United States. Archbishop Hughes, 68, will
assist Archbishop Francis B. Schulte in the gover
nance of the archdiocese, the second-oldest diocese
in the United States, and will succeed him as the
18th leader of the archdiocese when Archbishop
Schulte steps down. “Life is full of surprises!”
Archbishop Hughes said at a news conference at
the Notre Dame Seminary chapel. “I thought that
after Baton Rouge there was only heaven!”
Cohabitation a challenging issue
FOR CHURCH LEADERS
Erie, Pennsylvania (CNS)
W hen engaged couples send applications to the
family ministries’ office in the Erie Diocese
to attend marriage preparation programs, Mary
Maxwell has noticed a disturbing trend. A growing
number of engaged men and woman share the
same address. Maxwell, director of the diocesan
Office of Family Ministries of Catholic Charities,
said there has been a 45-percent rise in couples
cohabiting, without being married, since 1970.
Marriage, she added, does not have the central
place it once had in our society. “It’s such a perva
sive phenomenon. It’s an anti-marriage kind of a
climate out there,” she said in an interview with the
Lake Shore Visitor, Erie’s diocesan newspaper.
Bishops of Americas discuss
GREATER TIES ON MIGRATION ISSUES
Washington (CNS)
B ishops from the Americas, meeting February
12-14, pledged greater cooperation on migra
tion issues and asked government leaders to solve
economic problems that cause massive migrations.
Closer cooperation is needed to find pastoral re
sponses to the causes and effects of migration, said
the bishops from Latin America, Canada and the
United States. More than 20 bishops representing
the Latin American bishops’ council, the Canadian
Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United
States met in Clearwater, Florida, to talk about
migration in the Americas. Government leaders
need “to humanize economic globalization by tak
ing more fully into account the challenges of
migration,” they said in a closing statement.
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Priest says Pius XII knew Rome
INSTITUTIONS SHELTERED JEWS
Rome (CNS)
T he Catholic convents, parishes and institutions
in Rome that hid and saved more than 4,400
Jews from the Nazis would not have taken such a
risk without the approval of Pope Pius XII, said
Jesuit Father Peter Gumpel. The priest, who is
working on Pope Pius’ cause for beatification, said
the stories of Jews sheltered by Catholic priests
and religious in Rome have been “unknown or pur
posefully ignored” in discussions about the pope’s
actions during the war. Within one of the most
“barbaric periods of history, there were lights of
humanity, courageous actions by a wide variety of
people, including Pius XII in an exceptional way,”
he said. Father Gumpel spoke February 16 during
the presentation of an Italian language book, The
Jews Saved by Pius XII by Antonio Gaspari.
Religious leaders acclaim new
Ukrainian Catholic leader
Lviv, Ukraine (CNS)
R eligious leaders in Ukraine expressed enthusi
asm at the election of Cardinal-designate Lu-
bomyr Husar as head of the Ukrainian Catholic
Church. “I know Husar personally and this is a po
sitive development,” said Lviv Pentecostal Bishop
Vasily Boyechko. “He lived practically his whole
life in America, and he has a more progressive out
look than many local clerics.” The 7-million-mem
ber Ukrainian Catholic Church is based in Lviv,
Western Ukraine, the region where it is strongest. It
is in union with Rome but keeps most of the tradi
tions of the Eastern churches. Banned and persecu
ted for more than 40 years by communist authori
ties, the Ukrainian Catholic Church now enjoys
considerable political clout in Western Ukraine.
Russian Orthodox describes rela
tions with Catholics as ‘cold war’
Rome (CNS)
T he head of ecumenical relations for the Russian
Orthodox Church has described relations with
the Roman Catholic Church as being in a state of
“cold war.” A visit by Pope John Paul II to the “ca
nonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church,”
including Ukraine, would not be appropriate when
relations are so strained, said Metropolitan Kirill of
Smolensk and Kaliningrad, chairman of the
church’s department for external church relations.
Pope John Paul is scheduled to visit Ukraine June
23-27. Officials of the Russian Orthodox Church
and members of its hierarchy in Ukraine have
asked the pope to postpone his visit. Members of
Thursday, February 22, 2001
the two other Orthodox churches in Ukraine have
not opposed the trip.
Judge delays start of trial for
1998 MURDER OF GUATEMALAN BISHOP
Guatemala City (CNS)
O utside the Guatemala City courthouse, church
and human rights workers extended colorful
banners demanding justice for the death of the
“martyr of truth,” as many refer to the late Auxili
ary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera of Guatemala
City. But the protesters and many around the world
waiting anxiously for the Bishop Gerardi murder
trial to commence will have to wait: At the hour
the trial was set to open February 15, the president
of the three-judge tribunal announced the trial
would be suspended until further notification. This
most recent delay in the case is a result of an
objection filed by defense lawyers against one of
the three judges selected to preside over the trial.
Vandals burn controversial
Vatican Christmas tree
Rome (CNS)
V andals burned a controversial Christmas tree
given to Pope John Paul II by a right-wing
Austrian politician and later replanted in southern
Italy, police said. Only the top branches of the 89-
foot-tall fir tree remained after the arsonists struck
February 12 near the city of Acerra. The tree had
been replanted two days earlier at the site, where a
dispute has raged over plans to build a large treat
ment plant for garbage. The tree was the object of
protests in December at the Vatican, where it was
erected in Saint Peter’s Square. It was presented by
a delegation led by the governor of Austria’s Ca-
rinthia province, Jorg-Haider, who is known for his
anti-immigrant views and past statements of sym
pathy for some Nazi policies.
Bishop says Brooklyn art exhibit
shows ‘religious insensitivity’
Brooklyn, NY (CNS)
B ishop Thomas V. Daily of Brooklyn said in a
statement February 15 that he was “disturbed
by another display of insensitivity toward religion at
the Brooklyn Museum of Art.” The statement refer
red to an exhibition, “Committed to the Image; Con
temporary Black Photographers,” opening February
16 and on view through April 29. Controversy arose
over a 15-foot, five-panel photographic work by Re
nee Cox titled “Yo Mama’s Last Supper.” It includes
a picture of herself nude taking the place of Jesus in
a depiction of the Last Supper. The apostles she pic
tures are 12 clothed black men. Cox’s work is one of
188 by 94 black Americans.
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