May
The Catholic News
29, 1998
World And National News
a lookout point with a restaurant to be
ing at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield,
on the ridge of the hills overlookSome 600,000 Christian pilgrims and 150,000 local tourists visit Ein Kerem every year, said Pnina Ein Mor, a tour guide who heads the Ein Kerem Residents Committee. Catholic Official: 'Poor People
Conn., praised CathoUc efforts to understand Jewish feelings and was optimistic about the recent Christian, Jewish and
ing the village.
Shortchanged' By Voucher Veto PresiWASHINGTON (CNS)
—
phc
Indonesian students celebrate after hearing of President Suharto's resignation Indonesia for 32 years, Suharto stepped down and handed his post to Vice President Jusuf Habibie.
May 21 Leader of .
Liturgy, Social Teacliing, IVIedia
On Bishops' June Agenda WASHINGTON (CNS) — Votes on a Lectionary for
Mass and statements on
Catholic social teaching and on sex and violence in the media are on the agenda for the spring meeting of the U.S. Catholic bishops. The Pittsburgh Hilton and Towers Hotel is the scene of the June
18-20 meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops-U.S. Catholic Conference. Also on the bishops' agenda are discussion of a paper
on reconcilia-
tion for the millennium, discussion of
funding guidelines for the Catholic
Cam-
Human Development, and a Synod of Bishops for America. The meeting will be preceded by a morning workshop June 1 8 on bishops' responses to situations of clergy sexual abuse. About 80 bishops are expected to stay an extra day for a National Symposium on Vocations June 20-21. Learn From For-Profits But Don't paign for
report on last fall's
Be Them, Hospital Heads Told
NEW YORK
(CNS)
hospitals should learn
— Catholic
from
for-profit
become like them, a group of administrators from Catholic hospitals were advised. Robert Kuttner, a nationally prominent analyst of the
hospitals but not
health care field, said nonprofit hospitals
had to become more
efficient so they
could continue their humanitarian work, but not "sell out" by adopting the tactics of their profit-making competitors. "Health care is not something that can work properly when it is motivated by profit," he said. Kuttner, an author of
books and
and co-editor of the policy journal The American Prospect in Cambridge, Mass., spoke to the Catholic
articles
Healthcare Administrative Personnel
program at St.
May
19.
The program
John's University in
is
held
New York
with co-sponsorship by the Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens. Pakistani Bishop's Death Stirring
Attention To
Blasphemy Law
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The May
6 suicide of a Pakistani Catholic bishop
15
Briefs
built
CNS
& Herald
Muslim
interfaith meeting in Poland where participants agreed on steps to
counter political manipulation of religious teachings and to train their clergy to grasp the "fundamental link" between religion and peace.
"We
recognized
all
more has been achieved
dent Clinton's veto of a school voucher
that
program for the District of Columbia means "a lot of poor people are going to
30 years than
we
that
in the last
in the previous 2,000,
and
are living through exceptional
be shortchanged," said Msgr. Thomas J. McDade, U.S. Catholic Conference secretary for education. Clinton May 20 vetoed the District of Columbia Student Opportunity Scholarship Act, which would have provided federally funded tuition scholarships of up to $3,200 for kindergarten through 12th grade to 2,000
times," Rabbi Ehrenkranz said. "Under-
children in low-income families living
a response to an upsurge in violence, thousands of Colombians joined a nationwide peace and reconciliation campaign convoked by the church and other nongovernmental organizations. Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Saenz of Bogota
in the District.
been used
The funds would have
to offset tuition costs to at-
tend public schools in neighboring coun-
neath contemporary violence,
genu-
all
ine religious leaders are trying to bring
people toward a peaceful understanding of their faith," he added.
their
Colombians Join In Nationwide Peace, Reconciliation Campaign BOGOTA, Colombia (CNS) As
—
ties in
Virginia and Maryland or to en-
in protest
of his nation's blasphemy laws prompting strong reaction far beyond the South Asian country's borders. At a
roll in
area private schools, including
is
religious ones.
After Upheaveal, Indonesia Faces
tivities at
May
Long Recovery, Says CRS
press their rejection of violence in the
19 forum at the U.S. Capitol, a
member of the political staff at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington said the
invited
Official
WASHINGTON (CNS) — After ri-
ots,
economic upheaval and drought,
In-
embassy had received hundreds of calls from all over the United States about the death of Bishop John Joseph of Faisalabad. Masood Khan, of the Pakistani Embassy staff in Washington, said his country's government and its consti-
donesia faces a long road to recovery, said James De Harpporte, Catholic Relief Services' regional director for Southeast and East Asia. Indonesia already was suffering from an economic crisis before
tution support equal treatment for
dent Suharto
riots leading to the resignation
of Presi-
Colombians to stop their acnoon May 19 and publicly ex-
all
Most Catholic schools throughColombia joined the campaign with marches in the streets, while at
country.
out
silent
noon, the bells of all Catholic churches and chapels tolled, marking a moment of silence and prayer for peace. As the bells tolled, thousands of people assembled in Simon Bolivar Square began
though he acknowledged that there is some concern that the blasphemy law might be abused. Sinatra Used Gift Of 'Splendid Voice' For Others, Cardinal Says
he
left some 500 people dead, "There has been a tremendous amount of destruction," De Harpporte told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview. De Harpporte spoke May 20, the day before Suharto stepped down after 32 years in office. Catholic
waving white handkerchiefs, white paper or white balloons. They chanted: "Enough already, we ask for peace."
Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony said Frank Sinatra understood his voice as a gift from God and used it for the good of others. "Frank Sinatra recognized the great gift God had given him with such a splendid voice, and developed that gift for the good of others bringing joy, relaxation and hope to countless millions of people around the world," the cardinal said at the May 20 funeral Mass, according to a homily outline released by the Los Angeles Archdiocese. Cardinal Mahony was principal celebrant for the invitation-only noon liturgy at Good Shepherd Catholic Church
Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' over-
would make
seas relief and development agency, do-
out of state for an abortion
all,
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (CNS) —
—
in
Beverly
Hills.
He
also presided at a
said.
ate assistance to the
who had
lost their
homeless and people jobs because of the
political upheaval.
Detroit
Summit A 'Fresh Movement' To End Labor Dispute
In Effort
DETROIT (CNS)
— One
panelist at
summit conference on the ongoing Detroit newspaper labor dispute called the gathering "a fresh movement" in the effort to end the dispute. More than 300 people attended the "Communities for a a
Settlement" conference held
at
Sacred
when 2,500 workers from
village
on the
—
a crime to take
bill that
minor girls
if their
home
consent law. Rep.
The
of the House version of the
May
labor dispute began in July 1995,
six unions struck the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News. Detroit Newspapers, which manages business affairs for the
two papers, began hiring permanent replacement workers by Labor Day and although the unions have called off the strike, many workers have not gotten
bill,
said in
her May 2 1 testimony:
"Much of America arms and outraged that cigarette ads are enticing youth to smoke. ... Yet (is)
May
— —
it
state has a parental
18.
little
debating the merits of a
lleana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Ra., co-sponsor
Heart Major Seminary in Detroit
western edge of Jerusalem the traditional birthplace of John the Baptist and the town where Mary went to visit her cousin, Elizabeth residents are coming up with a plan of their own. They
is
Caritas office to help provide immedi-
Spanish-style stucco church. Sinatra died
velopers are eyeing a
WASHINGTON (CNS) — A House
panel
nated $20,000 to the Indonesian national
vigil service held the night before in the
14 in Los Angeles. He was 82. Residents Seek To Save Cherished Biblical Village From Developers JERUSALEM (CNS) While de-
Would Prevent Taking Minors Across State Lines For Abortion
Bill
up
in
many of these same people who set out to rescue our children from the dangers of this
worid have remained silent on ads that young girls to violate the law and
entice
obtain a life-threatening procedure."
Catholic Plowshares Activists Arraigned In Air Show Protest GREENBELT, Md. (CNS) Five Catholic peace activists calling themselves the Gods of Metal Plowshares were
—
arraigned in federal court after they
May
18, a
day
hammered and poured blood on
B-52 bomber at an air show near Washington. The activists, including two priests and two nuns, were charged in U.S. Disa
Court in Greenbelt, Md., with injury exceeding $1,000 to government proptrict
erty,
which
carries a
maximum
sentence
their jobs back.
of 10 years and a $250,000 fine. The group
fear that a plan to build almost 2,000
Rabbi Praises Catholic Efforts To Understand Jewish Feelings
units, including two 17-foot towdestroy the beauty of the viland are calling for a promenade and
WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Rabbi Joseph H. Ehrenkranz, director of the Center for Christian- Jewish Understand-
was arrested May 17 during an annual Department of Defense open house at Andrews Air Force Base, located in
housing
ers, will
lage,
—
Prince George's County, Md., just outside Washington.