Cardinal Arinze Supports Religious Plurality

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By ERIN PIROTEK Gold Medallion by the Arinze’s qualifications News Writer International Council of also include his Vatican Christians and Jews, is dedi experience and close rela In 1932, a boy was born in cated to promoting coopera tionship to the pope. Onitsha, Nigeria, to a family tion between different reli “The guessing game is that observed traditional gious groups. always a lot of fun, but it’s African animist beliefs. “Religious plurality is a not always a sure thing.” Today he is a Catholic car fact. Many problems and cautioned Cunningham. dinal, the president of the challenges E x c e lle n t Vatican Council for Inter- do n o t q u a l i f i c a Religious Dialogue and con respect “Religious plurality is atio n s and sidered by some as the r e l i g i o u s the public’s probable successor of Pope f r o n t ie r s . fact. Many problems and approval by John Paul II. T h e re is challenges do not respect no m e a n s Cardinal Francis Arinze no Catholic religious frontiers. ” g u a r a n te e will give a public lecture, h u r r ic a n e selection. “Message of the Gospel to a or Baptist Several Religiously Pluralistic World d r o u g h t . Cardinal Francis Arinze popes this at the Threshold of the T h e re is president of Vatican Council for c e n tu r y — no J e w is h John XXIII, Third Millennium ,” at 8 Inter-Religous Dialogue p.m., tonight, in the inflation or John Paul I McKenna Hall Auditorium. Muslim a n d J o h n Arinze was baptized u n e m p lo y P a u l II — Catholic at the age of 9 — to ment. There is no Buddhist can be considered surpris the disappointment of his drug addiction or Hindu ing choices. parents — and entered the AIDS,” Arinze said, in the Arinze’s visit to Notre seminary at 13. He was 1999 commencement Dame is at the invitation of ordained in 195 8 and in address at Wake Forest professor John Cavadini, 1965 became the bishop of University. chairman of the department Onitsha. At 32 he was the Because of the fragile of theology. Arinze will youngest bishop in the health of the pope, possible meet with Notre Dame pres Catholic Church. successors have been an ident Father Edward Malloy He had a significant role increasingly popular topic as well as with faculty, stu in the mobilization of of discussion. Arinze and dents and Holy Cross com Nigerian clergy, religious Cardinal Carlo Maria munity members. Arinze and laity that aided evange Martini, the archbishop of w ill also celebrate Mass in lization following Nigeria’s Milan, Italy, top the list of South Bend and Fort civil war in the late 1960s. favorites. Wayne, as well as meet JOE STARK/The Observer When Pope John Paul II “lArinze] would certainly Bishop John D’Arcy of the Cardinal Francis Arinze celebrates Mass Monday at the Basilica of called him to Rome as a car be a symbol of the univer diocese of Fort Wayne- the Sacred Heart. Arinze will discuss religious plurality tonight in dinal in April 1984, 65.5 sality of the church,” said South Bend. the McKenna auditorium at 8 p.m. Health services offers Immersion teaches culture flu shots Wednesday want to get out of their pre The group traveled to the By NELLIE WILLIAMS sent situation,” she said. states of Sao Paulo and News Writer “ I re a lly P a ra n a , “The vaccine out now is very effec e n j o y e d e x p e r i By JESSICA DAUES tive, and the more people that get the Lingering in the shadows m e e t i n g e n c in g News Writer “It was somewhat vaccine the less the amount of flu of extreme poverty and a the people p o ve rty, cases on campus,” said Rita Rossigno, widening gap between the and the shocking in a way to seein te ra c t With winter weather just around a nurse at the University Health rich and the poor, the chil fa c t th a t the beautiful dancers anding w ith the bend, Notre Dame and Saint Center. dren of Brazil dance. they then see how they want t h e Mary’s students are preparing for College students are more suscepti For six Saint Mary’s stu allow ed us to get out o f their present S is t e r s more than just snowballs and hot ble to the flu and other viruses dents and Sister Linda Kors, to go into o f the chocolate. They are preparing for Ilu because of the speed at which they the dancing children were their lives,” situation. ” Holy season. spread in a dorm environment. just one example of beauty in said Jessica C r o s s , University Health Services is offer “Kids here come from all over the a culture that has become Delgado, a v is it in g Sister Linda Kors ing free Ilu shots from 9 a.m. to 4 country and all over the world,” used to living in a shadow. sophomore schools, p.m., today and Wednesday at the Rossino said. “Many times, the flu The group had the opportu w ho w e n t director Spes Unica Resource a n d llesburgh Library Concourse and in may be more prevalent in some areas nity to observe a school play on the trip. and Volunteer Center e x p e r i 108 LaFortune. Vaccinations will of the world than others, and as stu in one of Brazil’s poverty “I enjoyed encing a also be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., dents travel for fall break or stricken barrios as a part of the k id s. d iffe re n t Thursday, Nov.4, at the llesburgh Christmas break, they travel to places Saint Mary’s inaugural They were very respectful.” culture. Library Concourse and the Mason that may or may not have the flu. immersion trip during Kors and the student rep The group stayed with the Service Center. They return and campus can become October break. resentatives were the first Sisters of the I loly Cross, vis Saint Mary’s students may contact a breeding ground for the Ilu virus.” “It was somewhat shock group to take an immersion ited a paper factory, shopped I lealth Services for information about Influenza is a highly contagious res- ing in a way to see the beau trip to Brazil, where partici at a street market, and free Ilu shots at various locations on tiful dancers and then see pants would study culture, campus. how they live and how they economics, and lifestyles. see FLU/page 4 see BRAZIL/page 4 page 2 The Observer ♦ INSIDE Tuesday, November 2, 1999 I n s id e C o l u m n Q u o te s o f t h e W eek “He knew so much about 7 can tell you today “On the one side, I feel it’s The power of the game and really cared that [the struggle] necessary for learning. But on about the players who is hopeful. ’’ the other side, I feel it’s an an instant played for him. He was unnecessary waste o f life. ’’ a great man." Joanna Deeter on recovering from Junior Christina Pride Julie Radke on late SMC eating disorders on animal dissection It was the Monday of fall break, and no one basketball coach Marv Wood was around. I was enjoying the beauty of campus that we so often take for granted in the hustle and bus tle of our schedules when it happened. The sun was shining through the canopy of changing leaves, creating beams of light across the paths around the Compiled from U-Wire reports lakes. The ducks and the O u t s id e t h e D o m e geese and the swans were gliding gracefully across the surface of the waters, com Colorado students’ Halloween parties turn to riots pleting the serenity of the scene. BOULDER, Colo. “People need to vent. It’sin its front window with a crutch. And I was having the Colleen A section of University Hill “People need to vent,” he said.

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