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Thursday, May 3, 2001
Vatican to display Pope John
XXIII’S BODY BEFORE REBURIAL
Vatican City (CNS)
efore burial in a new tomb in Saint Peter’s Basi
lica, the body of Blessed John XXIII will be
displayed for one day, the Vatican said. The popular
pontiff's body, in a new bronze-and-glass casket,
will be in Saint Peter’s Square for a morning Mass
June 3, the feast of Pentecost and the 38th anniver
sary of Pope John’s death, the Vatican announced
April 30. After a Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul
II, Pope John’s remains will be moved to the basili
ca’s main altar for “veneration by the faithful”
throughout the afternoon, a Vatican statement said.
Pope John Paul beatified Pope John in September.
Pope, archbishop ask president to
stop McVeigh execution
Washington (CNS)
ope John Paul II and Archbishop Daniel M.
Buechlein of Indianapolis have urged President
Bush to commute Timothy McVeigh’s death sen
tence to life imprisonment. In a letter to Bush, the
papal nuncio to the United States, Archbishop
Gabriel Montalvo, relayed the pope’s plea for the
Oklahoma City bomber’s life. Pope John Paul has
repeatedly called on nations to end capital punish
ment and in recent years has requested clemency
for numerous Americans on death row, but Mc
Veigh is by far the most celebrated case in which
he has made such a plea. Archbishop Buechlein, in
whose archdiocese McVeigh is scheduled to die,
also wrote to Bush seeking clemency and on April
26 urged Catholics to join him in his cathedral May
15 for a prayer vigil for an end to violence.
Pope beatifies 5, says Eucharistic
ADORATION KEY TO HOLINESS
Vatican City (CNS)
ailing eucharistic devotion a secret to holiness,
Pope John Paul II beatified five men and
women, including Puerto Rico’s first layman and a
Canadian woman who founded a religious order.
As 3,000 Puerto Ricans cheered and waved their
island’s flag in Saint Peter’s Square April 29, the
pope said the newly Blessed Carlos Manuel Rodri
guez, a lay activist who died in 1963, demonstrates
that all Christians are called to pursue sanctity “in
a conscious and responsible way.” He said Blessed
Mother Marie-Anne Blondin, a Canadian who
founded the Sisters of Saint Anne in 1850 to edu
cate poor children despite resistance from some
church leaders, “is a model of an existence surren
dered to love and marked by the paschal mystery.”
The pope pronounced a Latin formula of beatifica
tion for the five, who included a 20th-century Spa
nish bishop and two 19th-century Italian women
who founded religious orders.
Cardinal Keeler asks ADL for
DIALOGUE BEFORE CRITICISM
Washington (CNS)
t a national Jewish meeting April 29, Cardinal
William H. Keeler of Baltimore praised the
growth in Catholic-Jewish understanding but said
leaders of the two communities should consult with
their counterparts more before issuing public criti
cisms of the other. Cardinal Keeler spoke to more
than 600 Jewish leaders at the opening dinner of
the Anti-Defamation League’s annual National
Leadership Conference. Rabbi Leon Klenicki, who
recently retired as ADL director of interfaith affairs
after 28 years with the league, was honored at the
dinner for his pioneering efforts in Jewish-
Christian, especially Jewish-Catholic, relations.
Bill to ban human cloning goes
to Congress
Washington (CNS)
bill to ban all cloning of human embryos was
introduced in Congress April 26. Strongly
backed by a number of religious groups including
the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the
proposed legislation would impose civil and crimi
nal penalties on anyone who attempts to create a
human clone in the United States. Sen. Sam
Brownback, R-Kan., and Rep. Dave Weldon, R-
Fla., chief sponsors of the bill, announced its intro
duction at a news conference. The bill is called the
Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001.
Brownback said the bill responds to “a deep con
cern in America and the world in general” over
recently announced plans by some to “create
human beings by cloning.” He said the legislation
also would prohibit cloning human embryos “for
research or as sources of cells and tissues for possi
ble treatment of other humans.”
NCCB OFFICIAL BLASTS LETTER
LINKING PRIEST TO VIOLENCE
Washington (CNS)
ailing it “misleading, insulting and inflammato
ry,” the U.S. bishops’ pro-life spokeswoman
denounced a letter written by a New York state sen
ator urging people to demonstrate against a pro-life
group for honoring a priest he said was linked to
violence against abortion clinics. The letter, written
by State Sen. Eric Schneiderman, uiged demonstra
tors to protest the National Right to Life Commit
tee’s annual Proudly Pro-Life awards dinner April
25 in New York City. The event honored Father
Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life.
Schneiderman’s letter linked Father Pavone to those
who have supported acts of violence in the fight
against abortion. Cathleen Cleaver, director of plan
ning and information for the pro-life secretariat of
the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, wrote
to Schneiderman, saying his remarks about Father
Pavone, and “by extension, others in the pro-life
community” could only be described as “mislead
ing, insulting and inflammatory.”
Greek Orthodox protests contin
ue BEFORE PAPAL TRIP
Vatican City (CNS)
rthodox protests continued over Pope John
Paul II’s imminent pilgrimage to Greece, with
monks and other activists staging a prayer vigil and
a march to the Greek Parliament. Meanwhile, the
Vatican dropped a top official, Cardinal Ignace
Moussa Daoud, from the papal entourage because
he is an Eastern Catholic and had drawn Orthodox
criticism. Some 2,000 Orthodox Christians demon
strated against the papal visit April 30 in Athens,
waving flags and carrying banners that denounced
Pope John Paul as “the Antichrist pope.” The
prayer vigil three days earlier was organized by
monks of the Mount Athos monastery, who repre
sent one of the most conservative wings of the
Orthodox Church in Greece and have refused to go
along with official Orthodox acceptance of the
pope’s visit. Cardinal Daoud, head of the Vatican’s
Congregation for Eastern Churches, had been
expected to accompany the pope on his pilgrimage.
Former Pentecostal pastor,
MEMBERS OF HIS FLOCK JOIN CHURCH
Detroit (CNS)
efore he decided to join the Catholic Church,
Alex Jones was pastor of Maranatha Christian
Church, a Pentecostal church in Detroit. The deci
sion came after several years of study of the Fa
thers of the Church that convinced him of the Ca
tholic Church’s teaching that it was the church
established by Jesus Christ. “It was as if they rea
ched out across the centuries and said ‘Here, study
more’,” Jones told The Michigan Catholic, news
paper of the Detroit Archdiocese. Along the way,
Jones took classes at Sacred Heart Major Seminary,
and shared his findings with his congregation. This
year Jones and several members of his former
church were among the hundreds of people who
joined the Catholic Church at Easter Vigil Masses
around the archdiocese of Detroit.
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