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2-March 11,1994
SECOND FRONT
Cardinal says upcoming Pro-Life Encyclical should be ‘blockbuster’
YONKERS, N.Y. (CNS)—Pope John Paul IPs expected
encyclical on pro-life issues is bound “to be a blockbuster,”
said Cardinal John J. O’Connor of New York March 5.
It will be “binding in conscience on Catholics all over the
world," he said.
Cardinal O’Connor said he spoke with the pope about the
encyclical, and found him becoming “stronger and stronger
in his denunciations of intrinsic evils,” while also becoming
“more and more loving” toward individuals who fall into
work in the pro-life movement is a lifetime commitment.
Pro-lifers maintain hope, he said, because they have seen
that the darkness of the cross was overcome. ‘This cause
those evils.
The pope has “a new tone in his voice" and shows a “new
determination” in support of pro-life causes, he said.
Cardinal O’Connor made his comments in an address to
some 700 people at the annual Respect for Life Institute
sponsored by the New York Archdiocese at St. Joseph’s
archdiocesan seminary.
He cited the forthcoming encyclical as one of several
developments he said should encourage pro-lifers to main-
tain hope.
Hope was also a principal theme of other speakers. Father
Richard J. Neuhaus, director of the Institute on Religion and
Public Life in New York, acknowledged that “many of you,
like myself’ must at times “grow weary.” He held out no
prospect of victory in the foreseeable future, adding that
will prevail,” he said. “We shall overcome.”
U.S. Rep. Robert K. Doman, R-Calif., said encourage-
ment should be taken from Mother Teresa's statement
against abortion, made at the Washington prayer breakfast
Feb. 3 in the presence of President Clinton and first lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice President and Mrs. AI
Gore.
Columnist Mona Charen said she grew up in a“somewhat
liberal Jewish family" in New Jersey, and only began
thinking about abortion as part of a class assignment while
attending Barnard College in New York. Other students
were shocked when she concluded abortion could be justi-
fied only in rare instances, she said.
Criticizing the feminist movement, she said it supported
abortion as part of its insistence on sexual freedom, and
mistakenly failed to recognize the differences between men
and women and women's need of the support of men.
Ms. Charen also charged that pro-abortion forces were
making “systematic attacks” on adoption and giving undue
publicity to problems experienced by some adopted chil-
dren as a way to justify refusing that alternative to abortion.
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There is no evidence that adopted children experience
more difficulties than others, and because of adoption ageoci
requirements they are in fact more likely to grow up in
stable, two-parent households, said Ms. Charen. She added
that she and her husband have adopted a child. She also gave
birth to another child recently and noted there is no differ
ence in how she feels toward the two children.
Cardinal O'Connor also reported on a new Center for
Life, established at an archdiocesan hospital, St. Agnes it
White Plains, N.Y..
Along with maternity care, he said, it offers natural famih
planning, genetics counseling and other services. The Sis
ters of Life, an order Cardinal O’Connor has established
work there.
Joseph J. Tomaino, a center official, said it deals with life
related issues such as handling terminal illness and geriatrii
conditions, as well as issues arising around the beginnings
life. The center, which gets funding from the Smith Founda
tion, serves undocumented aliens and the uninsured as wel
as those able to pay, Tomaino said. “We turn no one away,'
he said.
Cardinal O'Connor called for unity in the pro-life move-
ment. He deplored "the scandal of dedicated pro-life wort
ers publicly attacking one another on national television.'
Pro-life workers should not attack each other over issue
such as Operation Rescue or whether to support imperfec
legislation, he said. “This is a big movement,” he said
‘There’s room for all.”
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travel to Vietnam in March to discuss with govemmen
authorities problems over the appointment of bishops, Van
can sources said.
Msgr. Claudio Celli, a top assistant to the Vatican seat
tary of state, was to hold talks in Hanoi March 7-13
Afterward he planned to spend two days in Cambodi.
meeting with authorities there, the sources said.
Msgr. Bamabe Nguyen Van Phuong, an official of tb
Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, was I
accompany Msgr. Celli.
The Vatican and Vietnam have held on-again, off-agai
talks on a number of church-state issues, with sporadi
progress reported. The church is pressing for greater fret
dom in areas of hierarchical appointments, seminary open
tion, religious life and daily pastoral activities.
Msgr. Celli had planned to make the trip to Hanoi last fal’
but the visit was postponed. Sources said one reason forth
delay was a conflict over a church appointment for Ho Cl
Minh City.
The coadjutor of the archdiocese, Archbishop Francis J
Nguyen Van Thuan, who spent 13 years in a govemmei
prison camp, came to Rome in 1991 and was advised by tb
government not to return to the country. The head of lb
diocese, Archbishop Paul Nguyen Van Binh, is 83 years ol
and is reportedly ill.
Last year, the Vatican named an apostolic administrate
to the archdiocese. But the appointment was protested b
the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, which si
the Vatican had acted unilaterally in violation of Vietnam
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prior consultation on naming of bishops a question t
national sovereignty. At the Vatican, officials view if
church's freedom to make hierarchical appointments
basic religious right protected by international agreement
Last November, the country’s bishops listed other are*
of concern, including freedom of travel for bishops an
priests, the freedom of bishops to name and transfer pastor
liberalization of rules regarding church publishing activ
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