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PAGE 7 — The Georgia Bulletin, April 23, 1987 Cathedral Fills For Chrism Mass Celebration Holy Thursday THE RENEWING of the life of the Church is at the heart of the Chrism Mass celebrated at the Cathedral of Christ the King on Holy Thurs day. Several hundred priests came to the Cathedral to renew their commitment and to celebrate “the birthday of the priesthood.” Above, priests enter in procession and at right, renew their service. Above right, Deacon Winston Leverett presents to the archbishop one of the urns containing oil and chrism to be used in the sacramental life of the Church dur ing the coming year. reiser Father Curran To Teach At Cornell In 1987-88 BY JERRY FILTEAU WASHINGTON (NC) - Father Charles E. Cur ran, the moral theologian suspended from teaching at The Catholic University of America because of his dissent from certain church teachings, has accepted a visiting professorship for 1987-88 at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. At a press conference in Washington April 15, Father Curran said he received academic leave from Catholic University to take the one-year ap pointment “without prejudice to my tenured con tract with the (Catholic) University as a professor of theology and without prejudice to the process already under way to take away my canonical mission to teach.” At Cornell he is the university’s first visiting professor of Catholic studies. He is to teach fall courses on the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council and on fundamental moral theology, and a spring course on Catholic social teaching. He is also to deliver a separate series of lectures on religious and theological issues in the spring. He said he looked forward “to the challenge of teaching undergraduates for the first time.” In more than 20 years at Catholic University, Father Curran taught only graduate-level theology courses. One of the Cornell courses is to be open to sophomores and up, the other two to juniors, seniors and graduate students. Father Curran said that at Catholic University some conclusion is expected by June in the inter nal academic review of efforts by Archbishop James Hickey of Washington, university chancellor, to remove his ecclesiastical teaching mandate. The faculty committee assigned to review the case was scheduled to hold a “jurisdictional hear ing" April 20 and “hearings on the substantive aspects of the case” the week of May 4, he said. He said “all sides have agreed” to try to “have the matter before the board of trustees of the Catholic University at their June meeting.” The parties hope for a final decision from the trustees when they meet again in October, he said. To help move that process forward, he has agreed for the present not to press his civil lawsuit against his suspension from teaching students in civil-degree programs. “However, I will press the suit if there is no solution to my case by the fall meeting of the board of trustees.” Barry Adams, academic vice provost at Cornell, said Father Curran was first asked to inaugurate the professorship in Catholic studies more than a year ago, when the case of his dispute with Vatican authorities over church teachings was not yet in the news. The university did not choose Father Curran because he is controversial, Adams said, but because of his solid academic credentials and “scholarly substance.” Oblate Father David Power, chairman of the theology department at Catholic University, said Father Curran was being granted “a regular leave of absence” of the kind typically taken by university professors when they accept a visiting professorship at another institution. — Easter (Continued from page 1) people in St. Peter’s watched as the pope removed his shoes and knelt for the adoration of the cross. The same day, the pope led a nighttime Way of the Cross at Rome’s Colosseum, carrying a large crucifix and stop ping at each of the 14 stations to pray. Hundreds of torches lit the marble ruins of the ancient stadium in the back ground, which is respected by the church as the site where early Christians were martyred. The meditations for the stations were written this year by Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo of Managua, Nicaragua, ac cording to Vatican Radio. The meditations recalled that human beings condemned Christ to death and urged that neither modern politics nor state powers “deceive our cons ciences" and condemn the Lord again. Cardinal Obando Bravo has been a strong critic of Nicaragua’s Sandinista government for its policy toward the church, and particularly for the government’s expul sion of two church leaders and the closing of a Catholic radio station. The outdoor Way of the Cross, begun at the Colosseum by Pope Paul VI in 1964, was televised this year to more than 30 countries in five continents, the Vatican said. On Easter Saturday, the pope led a lengthy vigil service in St. Peter’s, during which 35 adults were baptized. “You have been brought together by the faith, which gives life with the power of the spirit,” the pope told the newly baptized. They came from 17 different countries, in cluding the Soviet Union, Hungary and Syria. As in past years, the most people — 10 — were from South Korea. Later the pope marked and lit the paschal candle, sym bolizing the light of the risen Christ, and the flame was transferred to the thousands of smaller candles held in the darkened basilica. The pope also sent a message to Rome’s Rabbi Elio Toaff, recalling his historic visit to a Rome synagogue a year earlier. The pope said he hoped the Jewish Passover, celebrated in the same period as Easter this year, would “fill your hearts with joy and support you on the way of freedom and hope.”
