Aug. 5, 1994 by Catholic News Herald

1994

jgust 5,

World and National Briefs At Hispanic Meeting Urges

irdinal

(

Ighting Anti-immigrant Measure

LOS ANGELES (CNS)

tive that

— An mi-

would cut off public services

not cope with this mass of impacted humanity !" said a July 2 1 memo to diocesan social action and resettlement officials from Jesuit Father Drew

^people suspected of being illegal aliens

Christiansen, director of the

^ould motivate Californians to work for

fice for International Justice

Los Angeles Cardinal M. Mahony. In a speech to the

| defeat, said j)ger

spanic Evangelization Conference July

]

Mahony

called the "Save on the November Hot an "attempt to deal with the immifcition issue in ways which are simplis-

Cardinal

fc,

lir State" initiative

USCC Of-

and Peace, and John Swenson, associate executive director of Migration and Refugee Services. Action by the bishops' conference on the refugee crisis also included a July 21 letter to Secretary of State Warren Christopher from Bishop Daniel P. Reilly

of Norwich, Conn., chairman of the bish-

attempt to control religion by requiring all religious groups, including those pre-

government. The "carnew policy, say China observ-

allowing groups previously banned

archbishop of Westminster, said the debt

the state-approved patriotic religious

payments being made by the poorest

associations.

ment

The

"stick"

to register, they say,

countries are greater than the aid they

have received from wealthy nations over

Chinese authorities the tools to restrict and control the burgeoning number of unofficial religious groups in the coun-

fund-raising and cost-cutting efforts, the

retirement liability for members of U.S.

t d in Spanish.

religious orders increased by $ 1 .4 billion

believe the 66-year-old prelate

over the past two years to reach $6.3 billion. Information about the shortfall

target of gunmen, not the accidental victim of the crossfire of rival gangs, as

was released in mid- July by the account-

government investigators have asserted. Five or six eyewitnesses, "who were

Demands Deadline Ir His Return To Haiti istide

WASHINGTON

(CNS)

— Exiled

try.

Archdiocese Says Witnesses Claim Slain Mexican Cardinal Targeted

MEXICO CITY

$6.3 Billion

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Despite

Co.,

Washington July 26. "A date my return and for the deparle of coup leaders must be set in order sustain the hope of the nation that Inocracy will be restored." Father ^ stide, elected by a landslide in 1990 sed in

•tain for

II forced to flee Haiti in a 1991 coup, a d

praised three religious workers

—

from Guatemala and Canada and lun from Brazil who set sail in a |all boat from Haiti "to immerse them>sts

|ves jit)

—

in the suffering of the (Haitian

people."

Shops' Officials Appeal For mediate Aid To Rwandan Refugees i

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Fearful

hundreds of thousands of Rwandan igees will die without immediate inliational intervention, officials of the K. Catholic Conference are urging t

C holics to flood the

White House and

1987 failed to

British Marist Brother

— A 43-

year old British Marist brother, a

missing in Rwanda. Marist Brother Christopher Mannion entered Rwanda June 29. The last confirmed reports of his whereabouts came in early July, said a statement faxed to Catholic News Service by Brother Sean Sammon, vicar general of the Marist Brothers in Rome. Information sent by the Marists indicated the order has received conflicting reports about Brother Mannion' s whereabouts.

All Religious

Groups

Or Else

Free To Register,

and private relief oriiizations are overwhelmed They can-

inaugurated what observers say

HONG KONG (CNS) — China has

ill international

mem-

ber of the order's Rome-based general governing council, has been reported

China Says

new

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Bomb Blast Damages 13thcentury Hungarian Church VATICAN CITY (CNS) A 13thcentury Catholic Church in Budapest, Hungary, was damaged by a bomb blast July 23, Vatican Radio reported. The explosion shortly after 4 a.m. damaged a

—

information related to the bombing. Friezes sculpted in stone

was clearly

a direct attack," archdiocesan spokes-

way

was a mistake." The witnesses

responded to a plea for information issued in May by Guadalajara's new archbishop, Juan Sandoval Iniguez.

building, and several

fell

hundreds of years old broke, the Vatican Radio report said.

Pope Names 23- Year Diplomat As First Nuncio To Jordan John Paul

Haitian Bishop Denounces U.S. Refugee Policy, Haiti Repression

PORT-AU-PRINCE,

Haiti

has

—

(CNS) Pope named Msgr. Giuseppe

Lazzarotto, an official in the Vatican

(CNS)

Secretariat of State and former staff

— A Haitian bishop denounced U.S.

member

policy toward refugees from his country

Jerusalem, to be the

and condemned a wave of military repression against Haitian civilians by his country's military-backed government.

dan. In addition to naming the monsignor

In a statement July 25, prior to departing

Bishop Willy Romelus of Jeremie called the for a visit to the United States,

of the Vatican delegation in first nuncio to Jor-

an archbishop July 23, the pope appointed him apostolic nuncio to Iraq. The 52-year-old Italian was ordained to the priesthood in 1 967 and entered the Vatican's diplomatic service in 1971,

Zambia, Belgium, Cuba and

U.S. decision to repatriate Haitian boat

working

people an "international crime." "It's a crime to send back the people to their killers," he told a local news agency.

Jerusalem before becoming an official in the secretariat. The Vatican and Jordan

Thousands of Haitians have been intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard sailing away from their island-nation in small craft. Most have been returned to Haiti. Others have been taken to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for asylum.

established formal diplomatic relations in

mid-March.

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he said, that "it was neither confusion, nor crossfire ... that the bishop never got caught in crossfire and that there is no

cover even the retirement cost increases attributable to inflation alone, estimated at $200 million per year, the report said.

for retired religious since

in fi-

July 26 telephone interview. All agree,

I her Aristide said in a statement re-

Sbarture of the de facto military leaders

much again in debt

man Father Adalberto Gonzalez said in a

million raised in six national collections

return to Haiti and for the

rich countries half as

side entrance to the gothic St. Matthew's Church, the report said. Damage was estimated at about $250,000 and Hungarian police are offering a reward for

jathe Caribbean nation. "The wait for iJnocracy must not endure any longer,"

set for his

—

(CNS)

there at the scene (say) that

istide said that a "date certain" must

the last decade, the

poorest countries have had to pay the

repayment as they have received

which prepared the 1994 Retirement Needs Survey report from data provided by U.S. religious institutes to the TriConference Retirement Office. The $ 1 50

iitian president Father Jean-Bertrand

"Over

the years.

nancial assistance," he told an audience

For Retired Religious

ing firm of Arthur Andersen

the require-

I;ted of being in the country illegally, I explained. His remarks were deliv-

Rises

evening for vic-

cardinal,

which gives

Archdiocese of Guadalajara said that eyewitnesses to the 1993 shooting death of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo

Shortfall

that

who

one of

tims of the civil war in Rwanda.

Mass

The

countries poorer.

tions without first having to join

example of struggling the outcasts of society. The initiative mid deny public social services, pubIly funded education and all but emerfcicy public health care to anyone sus-

a memorial

—

England's Cardinal George Basil Hume said that global trade practices and foreign debt burdens are making the poor

to register as legal religious organiza-

ops' International Policy Committee, and

Jesus'

Poor Nations

On Debt, Trade LOURDES, France (CNS)

Shortchanged

viously barred from the official rolls, to

$ and ill-willed." He said current anti| migrant sentiment provides a chance

British Cardinal Says

St.

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Steve Kuzma, Director Catholic Church

Member of St. Matthew

and the Knights of Columbus