--------------- _ F e u d I n s i d e AFL-CIO Cindy Wooden tells of a feud Editorials.............. 4 The AFL-CIO Executive Coun­ taking place at Santa Susanna Letters.................. ........ Page 5 cil, during a recent meeting in on Kathleen Coyne and Church In Rome between 15 Entertainment ........ Page 6 Chicago, adopted a recommenda­ Godspeed’s mission. In addition, Cistercian nuns and American Bible Q u iz............ ........ Page 6 tion to remain neutral on abor­ this week's Catholic Life feature parishioners. The nuns are trying Catholic L ife ........ ........ Page 7 tion. Readers were first made tells of a nun who cares for abus­ to protect an increasingly rare life Classified............. Page 8 aware the AFL-CIO was consider­ ed or neglected children, some of of contemplative prayer and Around Diocese ing a pro-abortion position in a whom have AIDS. Pages 9-12 j Pittsburgh Catholic editorial. manual labor. Pages 4 & 7 ....................................... Page 4 Obituaries............. ..................................... Page 2 PITTSBURGH VI <■ t - CL. 1/1 > CO - -I Z O S 3 U 5 J UJ OC V Z ^ C cc * * _ t <1 UJ </* “ I 146 Yea « *. => ^ £ 20 25 cents Established in 1844: America's Oldest Catholic Newspaper in Continuous Publication Friday, August 3, 1990 o j CJ ■* o j o —i a- R e o _j u s orders leaving parishes throughout U.S. Situation rem ains favorable in Pittsburgh D iocese CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE number of religious orders work­ Center for Applied Research in & PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC ing in the parishes." the Apostolate, a Washington- WASHINGTON (CNS) - A Fr. Guay noted that in the last based organization that studies trend of religious orders pulling year one religious order, the church staffing, is doing a survey their priests out of parish work Capuchins, have taken on an ad­ that includes a question on the apparently is under way in the na­ ditional parish, St. Patrick scope of the shift of religious from tion, although a diocesan official Church in the Strip District. He parish work. said this trend is not occurring in said that when the Parish Self- Jesuit Father Francis Gillespie, Pittsburgh. Study program is completed, new president of the research center, Nationwide, Franciscan priests information might be available, said there was "pressure from are turning six parishes back to but said that he anticipates more bishops upon religious orders" to bishops in four dioceses. Redemp- involvement locally by religious staff parishes because of "the torists will leave four parishes in order priests, not less. shortage of priests." three dioceses this summer, and Religious-order priests in the He said the center's study will the Benedictines left one last fall. United States totaled 18,558 last collect figures and other informa­ As their members age and their year, according to the OiTicial tion on all Religious — Sisters, working numbers decrease, Catholic Directory, down from a Brothers and priests — but “ we religious orders are facing the high of about 23,000 in the don't have hard data" now. need to have diocesan priests take mid-1960s. The figures include How difficult bishops will find it over parish work, when that is retired members of religious to replace the religious in light of more appropriate, so their own orders. the priest shortage is not yet members can help the poor, con­ Provincials of several religious known. Where religious orders duct missions and teach. orders contacted by Catholic have pulled out or have said they Future priests This situation is better in the News Service did not have will, bishops have announced Bishop Donald W. Wuerl (second from left), on seminary rector, and Bishop Wuerl are, from left. Pittsburgh Diocese, however, ac­ statistics readily available, but plans to move in diocesan clergy. behalf of the diocese, accepts three third-year Alan Morris of St. Cecilia, Rochester; Kenneth cording to Father Robert F. Guay, they said there was a trend under Archbishop John L. May of St. seminarians asfornml candidates for ordination Sparks, St. Joseph, Port Vue: and Richard In­ director of the Department of way for orders to re-evaluate their Louis, who recently iost Redemp- to the diaconate and priesthood before their fante oj Ihimaculate Conception, Bloomfield. Clergy Personnel for the diocese. missions and to follow more close­ torists in two parishes and Fran­ families and fellow seminarians. The liturgy and Local clergy attended. Including member-prlests “ Locally, that's not happen­ ly the ideals of their founders. ciscans in another, effective July ceremony were recently held at St. Paul of the diocesan clergy formation board. ing," Fr. Guay said. “ Overall, the No current studies on religious 1, said, "W e will be searching Seminary Chapel. The men will be ordained in diocese has been blessed by the priests could be found, but the (Continued on page 2) about two years. Joining Father Charles Bober, — Photo by John C. Keenan Archbishop says acceptance of fornication ‘root cause’ of abortion MIAMI (CNS) — Archbishop Edward A. McCar- jectlvity and impartiality, they become a new father of the unborn baby.” Archbishop McCar­ anti-Catholic bias at work in the debate.” | thy of Miami has called for revealing and reduc- dangerous form of censorship, of manipulating thy said. He said that "underlying fundamental con­ [ ing the "root cause" of most abortions, “ namely, public opinion." He noted that the "vast majority" of women cerns are frequently lost" in the abortion debate, • I the current acceptance in our society of adultery He said the news media make "little reference having abortions are unmarried and that “ very, such as: I and fornication." to the fact that the national women's group very few have conceived as a result of rape, or in­ • Abortion is the taking of a human life, not In a statement on abortion issued in early July, which is promoting abortion so strongly has also cest, or would be in life-threatening danger in simply the termination of a pregnancy or the I the archbishop blamed "distortions by the media lesbianism as one of its top priorities.” giving birth." removal of tissue. I and manipulation by public relations agencies" He did not identify the organization. Seldom questioned, he said, was the “ integri­ • Abortion is not only a religious concern but i | for covering up “ the reality, the wickedness, the The archbishop said abortion was "presented ty” of "politicians who vote for abortion contrary is objectively immoral and is against natural law j \ abhorrence, the betrayal of our American respect as a feminist issue” with little mention that "80 to their personal beliefs." common to all humanity. , for human life.” percent of pro-life activists are women" or that “ Political expediency cannot be regarded as • Abortion is not a private affair of the j "Biased reporting should no longer be "girl babies are aborted more frequently than justifying the annual holocaust of 1.5 million mother since the rights of the child, the father ’ I tolerated by readers, listeners or advertisers,” boy babies” for sex selection. defenseless human lives,” he said. and society also are at stake. Archbishop McCarthy wrote. "Protests are seldom raised or reported over Archbishop McCarthy said the abortion debate • Society — not just pregnant women — j "Used well," he said, the news media and the conduct of males abusing women by placing "is also colored by the fact that the pro-life posi­ needs to reject abortion since community at- ' I public relations "provide an invaluable service to them in the position of experiencing an abortion. tion is often associated with the Catholic Church titudes, such as the stigma of an illegitimate ■ | the people of our nation. Misused, failing in ob- "Little is said about the responsibility of the and, unfortunately, as a result, there is a subtle child, are abortion-motivating forces. W»iwiiiinwri' n-—r m ruT Salvadoran children feel effects of decade-long war EDITOR S NOTE — Barb Froze, phanage about six years. A local Catholic News Service assistant Forced recruiting of minors is one of the pro­ nun explained that she is better foreign editor, traveled in Cen­ off at the orphanage. tral America on a UNICEF- blems affecting children in El Salvador after a Shortly after Ana’s mother died sponsored tour for Journalists. decade-long civil war in which 70,000 people — of illness in 1982, her father was By BARB FRAZE including 60,000 civilians — have died. out shopping with one of her SAN SALVADOR (CNS) - brothers. During the bus trip Seventeen-year-old Marcial Por­ home, soldiers stopped the bus tillo sits in a wheelchair in the and accused Ana's father of being surgical ward of the military UNICEF, the U.N. Children's side the law, but you would ex­ a guerrilla. hospital in San Salvador. His Fund, estimates that 350,000 pect something else from people "There was a man who had put right leg is a stump, blown off up Salvadoran children, or one out of who are working within the law," the finger on him,” Ana said. Her to the hip when he stepped on a every seven, have been directly Msgr. Urioste said. father tried to explain that it was mine. affected by the war. UNICEF Another burden of war borne by impossible for him to be a guer­ Marcial recalls the day, about estimates that half a million peo­ Salvadoran children, he said, is rilla because one of his legs was two years ago, when he and his ple have been displaced by the psychological disorder. The vicar severely crippled. The soldiers twin brother were "recruited" in­ war, and nearly 60 percent of general said they need shot him anyway.