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Thursday, April 19, 2001
Cincinnati curfew affects Holy
Week services
Cincinnati, Ohio (CNS)
n response to an April 12 declaration of a state of
emergency in Cincinnati, Holy Thursday evening
services, and quite possibly Easter Vigil services,
were being canceled in churches throughout the city.
Cincinnati Mayor Charles Luken declared the state
of emergency following several days of rioting after
the April 7 death of an African American teen-ager
who was fatally shot as he was fleeing a police offi
cer. The imposed mandatory curfew, from 8:00 p.m.
to 6:00 a.m., was for all city residents for as long as
the state of emergency was in effect. More than 35
Catholic parishes with services scheduled for Holy
Thursday evening could be affected. In response to
the mayor’s curfew, Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel
E. Pilarczyk urged Cincinnati’s Catholic churches to
“obey the law.”
Spain’s royal couple pay visit to
Miami Archdiocese
Miami (CNS)
ather Jose Luis Menendez had never celebrated
Mass for a real-life king. But while preparing
to celebrate Mass for King Juan Carlos and Queen
Sofia of Spain, the Miami pastor thought back to
his daily celebration of the Eucharist and calmed
his nerves. “Every day I come before the King of
Kings,” he told himself as he prepared to celebrate
a simple, 25-minute Sunday liturgy for the Spanish
monarchs. The Mass was celebrated April 1 in a
room of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, where the
royal couple stayed during their two-day visit to
Florida, which included stops in Saint Augustine
and Miami. On April 2, Archbishop John C. Fava-
lora of Miami delivered the invocation during a
gala dinner that marked the end of the monarchs’
seven-day U.S. tour.
Catholic health system, union
SET EXPEDITED ELECTION RULES
Washington (CNS)
atholic Healthcare West and the Service Em
ployees International Union have signed a land
mark agreement on procedures and conduct for ex
pedited union representation elections. The 15-page
accord between the nation’s largest health care union
and the West Coast’s largest Catholic health system
was released April 6. It provides for representation
elections within 35 days after authorization cards are
presented by at least 30 percent of the employees in
a potential bargaining unit. It sets procedures to hire
a mutually agreed elections official to oversee the
election. It commits both sides to expedited media
tion and arbitration procedures to resolve disagree
ments. Veteran labor rights leader Monsignor
George G. Higgins called it “a historic document”
that “goes far beyond” any previous labor-manage
ment agreement in the health care field.
Pope writes to Orthodox leader
WHO ASKED HIM NOT TO VISIT
Ukraine
Vatican City (CNS)
ope John Paul II has written a personal letter to
the leader of Ukraine’s largest Orthodox Church
after the leader publicly asked that the pope not visit
his country in June. Joaquin Navarro-Vails, Vatican
spokesman, said the letter was delivered to Metro
politan Vladimir of Kiev April 7 by Cardinal Ro
berto Tucci, chief organizer of papal trips. The
spokesman said the text of the letter would be
released once the Vatican was sure Metropolitan
Vladimir had a chance to read it. “We hope there
will be a response,” Navarro-Vails told reporters
April 10. Metropolitan Vladimir heads the Ukrainian
Orthodox Church which is in communion with the
Russian Orthodox Church. Ukraine has two smaller
Orthodox communities which have not opposed the
June 23-27 papal visit.
Vatican Radio to reduce broad
casts FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REASONS
Vatican City (CNS)
atican Radio announced that it would halve its
daily AM transmissions after a joint commis
sion determined that the medium-wave broadcasts
violate Italy’s strict limits on electromagnetic radi
ation. In a statement April 9, the radio said it also
was planning other “significant modifications” to
the operation of its transmission center in Rome’s
outskirts “to respond to the resident population’s
expectations of environmental safety.” Residents
around the transmission center say the electromag
netic radiation disrupts household appliances and
has increased the risk of leukemia in the area.
Preliminary measurements taken by a joint team of
technicians from Vatican Radio and the Italian
ministries of health and the environment confirmed
April 9 that some of the radio’s transmissions
exceeded by as much as three times the Italian lim
its on electromagnetic emissions.
Scientists: “stem cells from pla
centa CAN BYPASS EMBRYO DEBATE”
Washington (CNS)
cientists at Anthrogenesis Corp. announced
April 11 that they have developed a way to
obtain a large supply of useful human stem cells
from the placenta expelled by a mother after child
birth. The new technology could change the eco
nomics of stem-cell research and its applications
without the ethical controversies surrounding the
harvesting of stem cells from human embryos or
fetuses, they said. The New Jersey biotechnology
firm, also known as AnthroGen, made its
announcement in a teleconference with journalists.
John Haines, AnthroGen president and chief execu
tive officer, said the company’s scientists “have
discovered a unique, multipotent stem cell in the
placenta” and “a process for recovering large quan
tities of these stem cells.” He called the discoveries
“a major advance in the availability of stem cells
and the pace of clinical research using stem cells.”
Church leaders condemn legal
ized EUTHANASIA IN NETHERLANDS
Vatican City (CNS)
he Vatican and Dutch church leaders con
demned the Netherlands’ decision to legalize
euthanasia, saying the move allows a doctor to
assume the role of “executioner.” The vote April
10 by the Dutch Parliament marked the first time
any country has legalized assisted suicide, and
some Catholics said they feared a “domino effect”
in other countries. “I look at the reality in Western
Europe and I’m afraid that this legalization will
have many consequences in other countries. I hope
good sense will prevail among other peoples, but
I'm afraid,” Dutch Cardinal Adrianus Simonis of
Utrecht told Vatican Radio. The Vatican newspa
per, L ’Osservatore Romano, said in an editorial
that the Dutch decision was “the choice of despera
tion.” The newspaper said, “It is difficult to believe
how such a macabre choice can be called ‘civil’
and ‘humanitarian’.”
Pope names new secretary for
Eastern Churches
Vatican City (CNS)
ope John Paul II has named a Vatican diplomat,
Archbishop Antonio Veglio, to be the new sec
retary of the Congregation for Eastern Churches.
The Italian archbishop, 63, has been the Vatican
nuncio to Lebanon and Kuwait and its representa
tive on the Arab Peninsula since 1997. He succeeds
76-year-old Archbishop Miroslav Marusyn, a
Ukrainian who had held the post since 1982 after
serving eight years as the bishop for Ukrainian
Catholics in Western Europe. The Congregation for
Eastern Churches has responsibility for the
Eastern-rite churches in communion with Rome, as
well as for Catholic communities in the Middle
East and North Africa.
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