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Bible scholars critical of
Vatican translation document
Washington (CNS)
eaders of the Catholic Biblical Association of
America have said some parts of the Vatican’s
recent instruction on liturgical translation are so
“ill-advised as to be the likely occasion of embar
rassment to the church.” The instruction “can have
a seriously detrimental impact on the reverence and
love for as well as study and knowledge of the
Bible,” the association’s executive board said in a
letter sent to all U.S. bishops August 13. It was
released to Catholic News Service August 16.
Accompanying the letter was a seven-page critique
of the instruction, “Liturgiam Authenticam” (“The
Authentic Liturgy”), which the Vatican
Congregation for Divine Worship and the
Sacraments issued in May. The Vatican document
sets out detailed norms for translating into other
languages all Latin liturgical texts and all Bible
texts intended for liturgical use.
Pope names synod members,
INCLUDING FIVE FROM U.S., ONE
from Canada
Vatican City (CNS)
ope John Paul II has named 32 prelates, includ
ing five from the United States and one from
Canada, to participate in a special Vatican meeting
that will examine the role of the bishop. Among the
papal appointees to the Synod of Bishops were
Cardinal Edward M. Egan of New York; Cardinal
Edmund C. Szoka, governor of Vatican City; Arch
bishop Justin F. Rigali of Saint Louis; Ukrainian
Archbishop Stefan Soroka of Philadelphia; Auxi
liary Bishop Robert P. Maginnis of Philadelphia;
and Maronite Bishop Joseph Khoury of Saint
Maron of Montreal. The pope’s nominations for the
September 30-October 27 Synod of Bishops were
published by the Vatican August 24.
Catholic colleges mobilizing to
ENROLL HlSPANICS
Washington (CNS)
s the Hispanic population grows, U.S. Cath
ode colleges and universities are mobilizing to
enroll greater numbers. Approaches range from tra
ditional scholarships to going into the homes of
poor families to create the building blocks of a
21st-century learning environment such as comput
er literacy. Programs include creating a welcoming
campus environment for students not culturally
attuned to higher education, and community out
reach programs to prepare students for college
while they are at an early age. Especially targeted
are Hispanic youths who cannot afford higher edu
cation and whose parents did not attend or com
plete a four-year college course.
In letter to pope, archbishop
RENOUNCES TIES TO WIFE, REVEREND
Moon
Vatican City (CNS)
rchbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who married in
a ceremony performed by the Reverend Sun
Myung Moon three months ago, has written to
Pope John Paul II renouncing his ties to his Korean
wife and Reverend Moon’s movement. “At this
moment I recommit with all my heart to my life in
the Catholic Church,” the Zambian archbishop said
in an August 11 letter released by the Vatican Aug
ust 14. Maria Sung, the archbishop’s 43-year-old
Korean wife, denounced the letter as either fake or
coerced through drugs, and said she was sure the
Vatican was holding her husband prisoner. After
holding out for days the possibility that she might
be carrying the archbishop’s child, Sung told
reporters August 17 that a pregnancy blood test
that morning came back negative.
Belmont Abbey College gets new
PRESIDENT
Belmont Abbey, NC (CNS)
ames L. Gearity, former provost and professor of
history at Our Lady of the Lake University in
San Antonio, is the new president of Belmont Abb
ey College. He succeeds Robert A. Preston, who
will return to teaching and direct the college’s Bra
dley Institute for the Study of Christian Culture.
Gearity has almost 30 years of experience in higher
education as a faculty member and administrator,
most of it at Catholic colleges and universities.
Father of boy killed in shooting
CONTINUES PROTEST
Fairfax, VA (CNS)
om Mauser, an outspoken gun-control advocate
since his son's death in the 1999 shootings at
Columbine High School, was cleared of trespassing
charges August 22 for his June protest in front of
the National Rifle Association headquarters in
Thursday, August 30, 2001
Fairfax. Mauser, a parishioner at Saint Frances
Cabrini Parish in Littleton, Colorado, had refused
to leave the driveway of the gun lobby’s headquar
ters June 13 as he marched around in a circle car
rying a sign with a photo of his murdered son,
Daniel. Judge Lorraine Nordlund dismissed the
charges against him August 22 because the arrest
ing officer was no longer with the police force and
had failed to subpoena any NRA officials to testify.
After the case was dropped, Mauser again returned
to the NRA headquarters, wearing his slain son’s
sneakers and carrying his photograph as he
marched for an hour along a public sidewalk.
POSTULATOR FORMALLY TURNS OVER
Mother Teresa’s file to Vatican
Vatican City (CNS)
he postulator of Mother Teresa’s cause for
sainthood formally turned over her 35,000-
page case file—minus one box—to the Vatican.
Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, helped by about a
dozen other male and female members of the
Missionaries of Charity, the order Mother Teresa
founded, unloaded 22 bubble-wrapped cardboard
boxes from a battered white van August 22 at the
sainthood congregation's offices, just off Saint
Peter's Square. The documents are the fruit of a
two-year inquiry by the Archdiocese of Calcutta,
India. Airline baggage handlers lost one box of
documents somewhere between Calcutta and
Rome. Father Kolodiejchuk said it had been locat
ed in London and was en route to Rome August 22.
New Saint Augustine bishop urges
making Jesus ‘Lord of our lives’
Saint Augustine, FL (CNS)
ith nearly 1,000 representatives of Florida’s
Catholic community and others on hand for
an often-emotional celebration, Miami Archbishop
John C. Favalora presided at the ordination and
installation of Bishop Victor B. Galeone August 21
as the ninth bishop of Saint Augustine. The cele
bration represented both new beginnings and end
ings, as the son of Italian immigrants who spent
much of his life as a priest of the Archdiocese of
Baltimore and working in the missions was pro
pelled to serve as new shepherd for the church in
northeast Florida. At age 65, Bishop Galeone
leaves behind family and friends in Maryland to
shape a new vision in Florida’s oldest diocese,
founded in 1870, with former Savannah Bishop
Augustin Verot as its first bishop.
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