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Pope names first Moscow bishop in half-century VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has named the first resident bishop of Moscow in 55 years, created new dioceses in Byelorussia and named bishops for new apostolic administrations in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Bishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, apostolic administrator of Minsk, Byelorussia, was named an archbishop and head of the restored apostolic administration of Moscow April 13. Moscow had an apostolic administrator from 1926 to 1936. The new church jurisdictions reflect the fact that "70 years of state atheism with periods of intense religious persecution have changed the religious topography" of the Soviet Union, a Vatican statement said. Boundaries have been redrawn so that all the territory of each diocese or apostolic administration is contained within the Soviet republic it serves - to avoid crossing political borders. Boundaries were last settled prior to World War II, before the Soviet Union took its current shape and when paTt of Byelorussia was under Polish rule. A Jesuit, Bishop-designate Joseph Werth, was picked to head the new Apostolic Administration of Novosibirsk, the Siberian capital. The territory's Catholics are descents of believers, dissidents and political prisoners placed in internal exile after the Russian Revolution and during the Stali-
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£list crackdowns on religion in the I940s. Bishop-designate Werth was born in October 1952 to an ethnic German family in Kazakhstan. He has been a pastor in Marks on the Volga River, southeast of Moscow. Passage by the Soviet Union last year of a freedom of conscience law has allowed the church to establish the new jurisdictions, the Vatican said. Archbishop Kondrusiewicz, 45, had been responsible for the pastoral care of Byelorussia's 1.5 million Catholics since 1989. His apostolic administration of Moscow will include all of the Russian territory in Europe, west of the Ural Mountains. The Novosibirsk see will cover the area of the Russian Republic east of the p{ountains. The Vatican estimates there are 60,000 Catholics in Russia, including 10,000 in leningrad, which will be under the Apostolic Administration of Moscow. It did not release figures on the Catholic population of the Soviet capital. An ethnic Pole, Bishop-designate Jan lenga was appointed to the Apostolic Administration of Kazakhstan, which includes some 500,000 Catholics, mostly ethnic Germans, Poles and Ukrainianrite faithful forced to live there' after World War II. Bishop-designate Jan lenga, 41, was born in the Ukraine. He studied clandestinely for the priesthood, and was ordained in Lithuania in 1979. He is a member of the Marian Fathers and has been a pastor in Kazakhstan and Tadzhikistan. , The main see in Byelorussia will be the new archdiocese of Minsk and Mogilev with about 350,000 Catholics, some 70 parishes and 32 . priests. The archdiocese will be headed by Archbishop-designate Kazimierz Swiatek, the 76-year-old vicar general of the diocese or' Pinsk. The Vatican statement said the archbishop-designate also will "temporarily" serve as apostolic administrator of Pinsk, which has about 100,000 Catholics, 32 parishes and 20 priests. Ordained to the priesthood in . 1939, he spent more than 10 years in Soviet concentration and prison . camps. Pope John Paul also established the new diocese of Grodno, near the northern part of Byelorussia's border with Poland. Father Aleksander Kaszkiewicz, a 41-year-old pastor in the lithuanian capital of Vilnius, was named bishop of Grodno. It will be the smallest Byelorussian diocese geographically, but it will be the largest in terms of Catholic population. The Vatican estimates that 900,000 of its 1.2 million people are Catholic. It has 122 parishes.
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"DISCOVERING OUR GIFTS," a leadership seminar developed by the National Council of Catholic Women, was sponsored recently at LaSalette Center of Christian Living, Attleboro, by the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. Sessions covered qualities and self-empowering, techniques for leaders; recognition of one's gifts and responses to them; lay ministry; organizational, time management and planning skills; stress and perceptions. From left, trainers Kate Boucher, a psychotherapist and Pat Treadway, a dynamics instructor; NCCW president Beverly Medved, who took part in a special session on NCCW expectations; DCCW president and site chairman Madeline Wojcik; immediate past NCCW president and trainer Mary Ann Kramer. (Lavoie photo)
Family pastoral planning discussed HOLYOKE, Mass. (CNS) Participants at a New England conference were told that understanding the birth order of siblings and differences among families is key to developing a family perspective in pastoral planning. Teams from 10 New England dioceses attended the Interministry Family Perspective Training Conference held April9-11 in Holyoke. Participants discussed ways to implement the U.S. bishops: document titled, "A Family PerspeCtive in Church and Society: A Manual for All Pastoral I,-eaders." Sixteen bishops, including Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, attended a one-day workshop on key points of the document that stressed the importance of a family perspective in pastoral planning. Others in attendance from the Fall River diocese included representatives of the Offices of Family Ministry, Catholic Youth Ministry and Communications, of the Departments of Pastoral Care for the Sick and Education and of Attleboro Catholic Social Servi2es. Also present were Msgr. and Father John J. Oliveira and Fathers John A. Perry and Thomas C. Mayhew. Valerie Dillon, family life,director for the diocese of Indianapolis, among main speakers, said in order
to develop a family perspective people must understand their families of origin. "We can't presume that everyone's family prepared them to trust or see God as a loving father," she told the Catholic Observer, newspaper of the Springfield diocese. "But if our family perspective is not all that we want it to be we can change and heal," !;he said. Ms. Dillon took note that many at the conference were oldest children, saying it was not surprising because oldest siblings tend to be leaders and take on responsibilities. ' She and other presenters also stressed the importance of recognizing the diversity of families. "The traditional family is still there but there are large numbers of single-parent families and blended families," she said. Ms. Dillon noted that those who minister must recognize that there is a great economic differential, especially in single-parent homes, most of which are headed by women; and said research is critical to a family perspective. "U nless we know the territory, how can we devise programs and set up policies that respect and take into account different needs," she said. At the conclusion of the work-
Scripture, tradition are dialogue topics LANTANA, Fla. (CNS) - U.S. lutheran and Catholic scholars meeting in lantana agreed on "Scripture and Tradition" as the topic for their next phase of dialogue. They developed an outline and selected a drafting team to work on the statement, for which they set September,1992 as a target date for completion. Catholics on the drafting team are Jesuit Father Avery Dulles of Fordham University, New York. and Assumptionist Father George Tavard of Brighton, Mass.
'Forde of Luther Northwestern Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. . The lutheran,Roman Catholic dialogue is the oldest continuous ecumenical dialogue in which the U.S. Catholic Church is involved, and many ecumenists consider it one of the most successful. Its two most recent statements were the land mark agreements "Justification by Faith," issued in 1983 after six years of work, and ."The One Mediator, the Saints and Mary," issued in 1990 after seven years of work.
Lutherans are Eric Gritsch of Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa., and Gerhard O.
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shops, the dioceses represented offered plans of action, most of which focused, on trying to raise the consciousness of people at all levels of the church to the need for a family perspective. Mary McMahon, a pastoral minister at St. Mary's parish in Northampton, said that "we have to'stop bemoaning the fact that families are different." • "Family life is messy' but it is holy ground. We have to celebrate what is different and not wish for the traditional family," she said.
CRS seeks to aid Kurdish refugees BALTIMORE (CNS) - Catholic Relief Services has sent workers from its Cairo regional office to' northern Turkey to assess the health, medical, nutrition and sanitation needs of thousands ofKurdish refugees. "It's difficult to say" how soon CRS will be able to mount a relief effort, said CRS spokeswoman Jennifer Habte. The agency has not had a program in Turkey since 1967, but the Turkish government's appeal for. refugee help did not exclude CRS, she said. Kurdish refugee relief is the latest CRS effort to aid people affected by the Gulf war. CRS has already helped refugees passing through Jordan and has assisted people in returning to their home countries. The agency is also sending medicine to Iraq, and will, if necessary, add food to the medical shipments. Donations to CRS' Gulf-related relief efforts may be made to Persian Gulf Fund 432, Catholic Relief Services, P.O. Box 17226, Baltimore, MD 21297-0304. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
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