150th Year, CL No. 15 30* Established in 1844: America’s Oldest Catholic Newspaper in Continuous Publication _________ Friday, June 24, 1994 New diocesan video T h e n e w tells the Good News about sex c a t e c h i s m By JAMES McCOY D iocese gets the gift For the generation grown up with J u n e 2 9 sex on videos, the Church of Pitts­ burgh offers a new video on sex. The local “The Church’s Good News: A Church will re- Modem Approach to Natural Family celve the authori­ Planning" will be sent to pastors tative catechism throughout the diocese in coming Wednesday, June weeks. 29 — from the The 32-minute video was pro­ local Church’s duced by the diocesan Natural premiere catechetical authority. Family Planning Advisory Commit­ That day, at noon Mass at St. tee. formed four years ago by Mary of Mercy Church, Downtown, Bishop Donald Wuerl to provide a Bishop Donald Wuerl will officially “comprehensive, credible and Cath­ Inaugurate the use of the new C ate­ olic" understanding about natural chism of the Catholic Church in the family planning (NFP). In the video’s Diocese of Pittsburgh. final segment. Bishop Wuerl ex­ Religious educators will receive plained how the program did the text on behalf of the people of precisely that. the diocese. Recently the pastor of St. Joseph, “This shows us in a graphic way,” Verona, Msgr. John Seli, showed it said Father Kris Stubna, assistant to 30 couples in a marriage prepa­ secretary for education, “that the ration class, “and it turned out very catechism is a gift from the teach­ McKnight well, and was enJoyed by the ing authority of the Church to the Bishop Donald W. Wuerl will and Gregorian University in couples." people of the Church. ordain seven men to the priest­ Seven to be Rome, receiving a bachelor’s de­ He said that a number of young “It’s especially appropriate that hood at St. Paul Cathedral, Oak­ gree in sacred theology from the couples “had not really adverted to Bishop Wuerl give us the cate­ land, on Saturday, June 25, at o r d a i n e d latter institution. He was or­ what NFP meant — so this was an chism," he added, “since he’s done 10 a.m. dained a deacon in 1993. eye-opener.” so much to prepare this English The future priests include Caridi spent two summers in a In the video, Len and Kathy edition, by serving on the U.S. bish­ Michael A. Caridi, John E. Forbi- J u n e 2 5 pastoral experience program at Ghilani describe their search for the ops' implementation committee." dussi, James R. Gretz, John B. St. Malaehy. Kenmawr. truth about their marital sexuality. Fr. Stubna, who will become di­ Lendvai, Kevin F. McKnight, F. Vincent de Paul, New Castle, July Forbidussi will celebrate his ocesan secretary for education on Raymond Trance and Michael L. 1 , will be master of ceremonies. first Mass on June 26 at 2 p.m. Sharing July 1, will concelebrate the Mass Yaksick. Concelebrants include Father in his home parish church, St. During their engagement, Len with Bishop Wuerl. The ordination ceremony will Dominic J. Olivieri, retired pastor Basil. Carrick. said, contraceptive method was a The new catechism reached U.S. be televised live on Christian As­ of Immaculate Conception, Father Father Silvan Rouse, CP, St. nonissue: “it was all an option to bookstores June 22. It ts the first sociates Channel 9, available to Thomas J. Harvey, administrator of Mary's House, Bedford, Pa., will us." catechism issued for the universal TCI of Pennsylvania cable sub­ Immaculate Conception; and Ta give the homily. Mark Thomas, a But when Kathy got negative Church in 400 years and presents scribers in the city if Pittsburgh, ther Michael J. Vecchio, pastor, seminarian, will be master of cer­ feedback about contraception from the unchanging Catholic doctrine in as well as over the VISN network, Madonna of Jerusalem, Sharps- emonies. Concelebrants include her mother and her sister, an NFP modem language and context. It is available to TCI customers on burg. Father William Kiel, Blessed Sac­ practitioner, she began to read up an instrument for transmitting the Channel 45 in nearly 50 commu­ A reception in the church social rament Cathedral, Greensburg; on the subject. essential content of the Catholic nities. hall will follow the Mass. Father Robert J. Meyer, pastor, Natural family planning, Len faith and morals. And it is a refer­ Caridi will celebrate his first Caridi. the son of Marion and St. Basil; Father Joseph M. Mele, thought, was “another fancy name ence work for those engaged in cat- Mass on June 26 at 2 pm. in his the late Anthony Caridi. attended pastor, St. John the Baptist, Uni­ for rhythm — until I really started echesis. home parish church, Immaculate St. Maiy and St. Bonaventure Ele­ ty; Father Thomas Thompson, to look into it, and saw that there’s “The primary catechists are Conception, Bloomfield. All are mentary Schools in Glenshaw and SM. University of Dayton; and Fr. really a lot of merit to the program. parents," Fr. Stubna said. “So every welcome to attend. North Catholic High School. Rouse. “We looked further and further family should own a copy of the Aux. Bishop Thomas J. Tobin He earned a bachelor's degree A reception in the church so­ and discussed even more and new catechism, as every family will give the homily. Father from Duquesne University and cial hall will follow Mass. more," he said. They concluded that should have a Bible. Parents have Daniel Vallecorsa, who will be­ studied at St. Paul Seminary, Pitts­ Forbidussi, the son of Leo and they didn't like the other options, to know the faith before they can come a parochial vicar at St. burgh, and North American College See SEVEN on page 2 and that natural family planning pass it on." BQ was “the natural, spontaneous pro­ gram" they were looking for. “One of the things we didn’t like V a t i c a n , Israel exchange am bassadors about artificial birth control," said VATICAN CITY (CNS) —The Vati­ diplomat who was named a person­ Kathy, “is that it became one can and Israel announced the es­ al envoy to the Vatican earlier this person's responsibility." With NFP, tablishment of full diplomatic year. “it was both of us. We can both look relations and the exchange of am­ The Vatican and Israel had at a chart and see when was my bassadors, crowning a two- more fertile time, when we would be agreed to upgrade their relations to more likely to have a baby and year-long process of delicate ambassador-level within four negotiations. when we wouldn't." months of ratification of the “fun­ Periodic abstinence is “not a hor­ The Vatican, announcing the damental agreement." Both states step June 15, said diplomatic rela­ rible burden,” Kathy said. Ken con­ ratified the accord in March. The curred: “It allows us to talk together tions will provide “a privileged agreement outlined principles of re­ channel of dialogue between the and to do the things that put us ligious freedom and church-state together in the first place." Holy See and the state of Israel for relations, leaving the more difficult the promotion of the great values of issues — such as the Church’s tax peace, freedom and Justice." Essential differences status and property holdings — to The middle segment is a basic The move will also aid the de­ subsequent joint commissions. fense of Jerusalem and the Holy orientation into the method by Pope John Paul II, speaking to Photo by Salvador Portugal Mary Sloan, a Mercy Hospital in­ Land as a unique historic, cultural Dr. Asa Hilliard addresses those gathered at Duquesne University for a and religious patrimony, the Vati­ the world’s cardinals June 13, cited structor of CMBBT. the normalization of relations with recent day of reflection sponsored by the diocesan Office for Black “I’d like to start by answering a can said. Catholic Ministries. Named as Vatican nuncio to Is­ Israel as one of the most important question that I’m most commonly rael was Archbishop Andrea recent accomplishments of Vatican asked about CMMBT," she said: Cordero Lanza de Montezemolo, a diplomacy. He was careful, howev­ Prof tells fam ilies how racism lies “■What is CMBBT?’" er, to link it to the establishment of It turns out that it stands for longtime apostolic delegate to By PHIL TAYLOR Jerusalem and a special represen­ similar relations with Jordan and Cervical Mucous and Basal Body tative to Israel since January. The what he called the “significant de­ Temperature. Both of these bodily velopment of dialogue with the Pal­ Defamation of the African culture is responsible in part for many current signs measurably change according Italian archbishop was one of the social problems black families experience, according to a prominent sociol­ chief architects of a historic “fun­ estine Liberation Organization." to where a woman is in her fertility The Vatican and Israel still have ogist and psychologist. cycle. damental agreement" reached last He also attributed the rise of gangs to a serious lack of socialization and year between Israel and the Vati­ maJor differences over the status of With CMBBT, the couple can Jerusalem, which Israel claims as cultural enrichment unavailable to low-income blacks, made worse when know where the woman is in her can, which opened the way to the adults do not share time with youth.