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CXLVII No. 42 25 cents Established in 1844: America’s Oldest Catholic Newspaper In Continuous Publication Friday, January 3, 1992 2 o r d a i n e d a s d e a c o n s Children suffer PITTSBURGH — Aux. Bishop William J. Winter or dained two seminarians to the in Croatian war order of deacon on Dec. 28 at MILAN, Italy (CNS) — Most of the Croatian war refuGees are St.; Paul Cathedral. The children, and they urGently need food and clothinG, said the diaeonate Is the last step in director of Italian Caritas. preparation for priesthood. MsGr. Giuseppe Pasini, who visited Croatia Just before ReceivinG the rite were Christmas, said children and elderly were sufferinG most from Richard A. Infante of Im the effects erf the 6-month-lonG civil war. He made the com maculate Conception Parish, ments in an interview published Dec. 24 by the Italian Catholic Blopmfleld, a student at St. daily, Awenire. Vincent Seminary, and Alan Caritas is Italy's national Catholic charities orGanization. E. Morris of St. Cecilia Parish, Of an estimated 600,000 refuGees in Croatia, children are Rochester, a student at Pon thouGht to number about 360,000, MsGr. Pasini said. tifical ColleGe Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio. “ Many are very small, a few months old. These are children The rite Included the born with nothinG, Just liKe Jesus at Bethlehem,” he said. They bishop's examination of the especially need milK and milK products, other foodstuffs, warm candidates and their public clothinG, blanKets and diapers, he said. commitment to celibacy, MsGr. Pasini said there was an increasinG sense of fear and prayer and obedience. anGer in Croatia as the war is prolonGed. With every news of Then the new deacons were new victims, he said, “there is a GrowinG desire for revenGe and invested with stole and vendetta." dalmatic and presented with He said the 43 Croatian civilians Killed In the villaGe of Vocin the BooK of Gospels. in mid-December were almost all elderly and children, people The new deacons will be or who had decided not to flee because they were defenseless and dained to the priesthood on believed they would not be attacKed. May 30 at St. Paul Cathedral Photo by John Keenan MsGr. Pasini said in another case a woman was "crucified" by Bishop Donald W. Wuerl. on her door and burned to death. There have been massacres T w o other local Ordained to diaeonate even in the smallest towns, he said, the worK of small bands of seminarians, Robert Miller of extremists worKinG to eradicate every expression of Croatian DarlinGton, and William Slple Aux. Bishop William J. Winter ordains priest. Ceremonies mere held Dec. 28 at St. culture. Richard A. Infante (far left), of Immaculate of BrocKway, who are study Paul Cathedral in Oakland. Alan E. Morris EDITOR'S NOTE — Contributions to provide aid to Croatia inG in Rome, will be ordained Conception Parish, Bloomfield, to the o f St. Cecilia Parish, Rochester, also was or may be sent to the diocesan Mission Office, Fr. John A. by Bishop Wuerl in July. diaeonate, the last step before becoming a dained by Bishop Winter. Harvey, 111 Blvd. of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. Bishops give outlook as Church prepares for third m illennium MUNDELEIN, 111. (CNS) — “meGatrends" or the broader faith,” are experiencinG the ship as a positive development U.S. Catholicism is challenGed Church, the parish, the priest, without Communion, or a patterns erf Catholic thouGht weaKnesses and limits of the that is “far from beinG fully the Eucharist.” Communion service — he said by tension, chanGe and uncer and life, there is a “malaise of Church and are struGGlinG explored." He warned sharply aGainst AlasKa’s lonG experience with tainty, said several U.S. neGativity.” throuGh the "fallinG out of But at the same time he bishops in a series of essays focusinG on the popular mission parishes seems to suG He compared the situation love" phase that precedes “a cited a number of issues phrase, "priestless parish,” as Gest a clear answer. about the Church enterinG in of U.S. Catholicism today with more mature and uniquely Catholics must deal with in a frameworK for discussinG the “In my early days as a to the third millennium. the settlinG-in period of a mar passionate love.” the transitional years ahead, relationship of those four bishop visitinG AlasKan “2000 and Beyond” was the riaGe, when the infatuation Archbishop Thomas J. Mur amonG them a sortinG out of theme of a special issue of areas. and hiGh expectations of phy of Seattle focused on “ the the identity of priests and lay In Catholic theoloGy, he villaGes where there was no ChicaGo Studies, a Catholic newlyweds beGin to Give way dwindlinG number of priests” leaders and a clarification of priest and only an infrequent theoloGical Journal published said, the diocesan priest is or to the partners' recoGnition of as a central factor shapinG and how a Catholic community dained first of all to serve the Mass, I urGed the people to in Mundelein. Five U.S. each other’s “wants and challenGinG the Church as it Gathers to worship when no come toGether on their own to bishops and an EnGlish monK “local Church,” meaninG the imperfections.'* approaches the third priest is present. sinG, pray and read the Bible,” contributed articles on the diocese, and this approach The era of the Second millennium. Archbishop Francis T. Gives a different perspective to he said. "There were no theme. Vatican Council "was a time of “ Roman Catholics are asKed Hurley of AnchoraGe, AlasKa, Bishop James W. Malone of how the priest Goes about taKers. Once, however, the Ho heady infatuation which was to preserve two essential also spoKe of the smaller "meetinG the needs of the peo ly See Gave permission for lay YounGstown, Ohio, described followed by our fallinG in love values: the celebration of the number of priests as brinGinG ple when there are not enouGh people to distribute Commu U.S. Catholic life at the parish with the Church in a new Eucharist and the existence of ferment in Church life and priests to staff each parish.” nion, they started cominG level as Generally “alive and way,” Bishop Malone said. local parish communities,” he thinKinG in the years to come. On the GrowinG debate today toGether, about half of the peo well” in the final decade of the With a postconclliar said, but a lacK of priests has He said Catholics and over the best way for a com ple at first and, Gradually, 20th century. settlinG-in, he said, he believes placed those values In tension. pastoral planners will need to munity to worship on Sun almost all the others. The But he said he was “deeply that many Catholics, thouGh He viewed more lay par reassess the meaninG of four days without a priest — a sim Eucharist made the difference troubled” that, in terms of “ still wed to the community of ticipation in pastoral leader pivotal areas, “the local ple LiturGy of the Word for the people.” Reorganization, bishops dom inate diocesan new s in 1991 By LAURE TAKACS 22 — A special ceremony far 700 people preparinG to Join PITTSBURGH — DominatinG diocesan news in 1991 was the Catholic Church is held at St. Paul Cathedral in OaKland the onGoinG revitalization and reorGanization project which with Bishop Wuerl presidinG... Father Jam es McBride, pastor affected nine cluster areas of the PittsburGh Diocese. emeritus of Assumption Church. Bellevue, dies at aGe 77. In addition, current and former bishops of the PittsburGh Diocese continued to play a Key role in diocesan, state and na MARCH tional affairs. On the local front, both Bishop Donald W. 1 — Father Paul E. Pindel, a diocesan priest Known to many Wuerl and Aux. Bishop John B.McDowell celebrated anniver as the "PolKa Padre,” dies. Fr. Pindel was 65. saries in reliGious life. 1 9 9 1 Bishop Wuerl marKed his silver anniversary as a priest in 8 — Benedictine Archabbot DouGlas NowicKi is formally in December and Bishop McDowell celebrated the silver Jubilee YEAR IN REVIEW stalled as the 1 1th leader of SL Vincent Archabbey ... Father of his episcopacy in September, marKinG 25 years as a Francis LapczynsKi, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in bishop. Natrona HeiGhts, dead at the aGe of 65 ... Father Aloysius Nationally, former Bishop of PittsburGh Anthony J. Carasella, pastor of St. Bartholomew in Crabtree, Bevilacqua was named to the ColleGe of Cardinals.