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Thursday, May 10, 2001
Vatican issues new liturgy
TRANSLATION RULES
Vatican City (CNS)
he Vatican has issued a new instruction on
translating liturgical texts. Among topics it
addresses are inclusive language—one of the most
sharply contested issues in recent years in the
English-speaking world—and requirements for
exact translation of Latin texts in other languages.
The 34-page instruction covers other areas ranging
from detailed rules on how bishops’ conferences
develop translations, the Vatican’s role in the
process, and procedures for creating new liturgical
texts not contained in the normative Latin ritual
books. The Vatican Congregation for Divine
Worship and the Sacraments posted the instruction
in English, French and Latin on the congregation’s
page of the Vatican Web site late May 7. It de
scribes the new rules as setting the stage “for a
new era of liturgical renewal.”
Church theology expert sug
gests NEW COUNCIL EVERY 50 YEARS
New York (CNS)
esuit theologian Father Francis A. Sullivan sug
gested that the Catholic Church convene a new
ecumenical council every 50 years. He also sug
gested that national bishops’ conferences consider
reviving plenary councils as a “structure of partici
pation” for the church in their region. Speaking at
Fordham University in New York May 2, he said
the church’s magisterium, or teaching authority,
could be enhanced by making church structures of
participation more effective. He called in particular
for more “active participation of the bishops” in
universal church teaching and governance. Father
Sullivan, widely regarded as one of the world’s
leading experts on issues of church teaching
authority, was a professor of ecclesiology at the
Gregorian University in Rome from 1956 to 1992
and is currently a professor of theology at Boston
College.
U.S. NUN SHOT DEAD, VICTIM OF
APPARENT ROBBERY IN GUATEMALA
Washington (CNS)
U.S nun who worked with victims of violence
in Guatemala was shot dead in an apparent
robbery, her religious order said. Charity Sister
Barbara Ann Ford of New York was shot numerous
times in a midday assault in Guatemala City May
5. Sister Ford, 62, worked in Guatemala for 20
years, helping victims of the country’s 36-year civil
war recover from their psychological wounds. “She
had a great love and a great compassion for the
indigenous people, especially the rural poor,” said
Charity Sister Doris Smith, spokeswoman for the
religious order.
New science uncovers brain’s
LINKS TO SPIRITUALITY
New York (CNS)
A new branch of scientific research called neu
rotheology is seeking to uncover the link
between the human brain and religious experi
ences. Neurotheology—the subject of a cover story
in the May 7 issue of Newsweek magazine and of a
new book called Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain
Science and the Biology of Belief—is the study of
the neurobiology of religion and spirituality.
Psychologists and neurologists already have dis
covered through brain imaging that certain parts of
the brain are stimulated and other parts quieted by
religious activities such as meditation and prayer.
For his book, Why God Won’t Go Away, published
in April by Ballantine Books in New York, Dr.
Andrew Newberg and his co-authors used data
from brain imaging of Tibetan Buddhists and
Franciscan nuns during prayer.
Hundreds join in celebration of
Father Berrigan’s birthday
New York (CNS)
undreds of people gathered in New York May
6 to celebrate the approaching 80th birthday
of Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan and to demon
strate that the spirit of resistance was continuing
into the new century. “More than ever we need
Dan Berrigan,” said Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J.
Gumbleton of Detroit. With current attempts to
develop a nuclear defense, the United States is
moving into a situation “even worse” than the vio
lence “our government has been responsible for”
over past decades, the bishop said. The early cele
bration of Father Berrigan’s May 9 birthday was
held in the basement of the Church of Saint Paul
the Apostle. The event was held as a fund-raiser
for the Kairos Community, a peace group in New
York, and to support members of the Plowshares
movement in prison.
Greece and Syria
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leaders gathered in a courtyard of the
eighth-century complex.
After removing his shoes and don
ning a pair of white slippers, he
walked down a long aisle of the
mosque’s prayer hall, pausing occa
sionally for an explanation from his
Muslim guide. Then he stopped
silently for a minute before a memo
rial shrine to Saint John the Baptist,
held by local tradition to be the place
where the saint’s head is buried.
Syria greeted the pope warmly. He
received his first enthusiastic wel
come of the trip at an Orthodox ca
thedral in downtown Damascus May
5. Tens of thousands of cheering
Christians—Catholics and Ortho
dox—lined the streets of the old city
and the courtyard of the church, toss
ing flower petals as he rode in his
popemobile with Greek Orthodox
Patriarch Ignatius IV.
After listening to a chanted prayer,
the pope gave a speech in which he
recalled the flowering of the faith in
Syria during the early centuries of
the church. He said he was pleased at
the generally excellent relations
between Syrian Catholic and
Orthodox churches today, but urged
them to do more in terms of coopera
tion. A prime example in which the
Middle Eastern churches should
show leadership, he said, is reaching
agreement on a common date for the
celebration of Easter.
The pontiff paid a visit to the
Syrian Orthodox cathedral the next
day, meeting with clergy and laity
from all nine of the Catholic and
Orthodox church communities in
Syria. This time he shared his pope-
mobile with the Syrian Orthodox
patriarch.
At a three-hour-long Mass in a
Damascus sports stadium May 6, the
pope told a congregation of about
25,000 Syrians that Christians,
Muslims and Jews were called to
work together for regional peace.
He asked them to remember that
“Christian identity is not defined by
opposition to others but by the ability
to go out of oneself toward one’s
brothers and sisters.”
The pope’s message of interreli
gious and political reconciliation
contrasted with a strident arrival
speech delivered by President Bashar
Assad. It assailed Israel—though not
by name—for its policies in occupied
Palestinian territories and suggested
Israel was acting with “the same
mentality of betraying Jesus Christ
and torturing him.”
A Vatican spokesman downplayed
the remarks, saying they were merely
the Syrian point of view.
For his part, the pope called for
respect for U.N. resolutions, the ban
ning of acquisition of territory by
force and the right of people to self-
determination.
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