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6 I IN THE NEWS
SOUTH TEXAS CATHOLIC • FEBRUARY 5, 2010
Archbishop Hannan
pulling for New Orleans
Saints to march in
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) - Re-
tired Archbishop Philip M. Hannan
of New Orleans said “it would be
tremendous” if his city’s team, the
Saints, beat the Indianapolis Colts in
Super Bowl XLIV Feb. 7 in Miami.
“As a matter of fact, if it happens,
the downtown parish of the city will
simply explode,” he told the Clarion
Herald, newspaper of the New
Orleans Archdiocese. Archbishop
Gregory M. Aymond, current head
of the archdiocese, and Indianapolis
Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein
placed a friendly wager on the
game. “If we win, he owes me some
southern Indiana pork chops, and if
they win, I owe him some gumbo,”
Archbishop Aymond said. “It should
be fun.” But it was Archbishop Han-
nan, now 96, who was there at the
beginning, when the Saints and their
fans were “newly minted,” as editor
Peter Finney Jr. of the Cla rion Herald
recounted in his column for the Feb.
6 issue of the newspaper. Tlie arch-
bishop, who headed the archdiocese
from 1965-88, even helped name
the Saints. According to Finney, the
archbishop reassured then-Gov. John
McKeithen “that he did not consider
the nickname sacrilegious. 'But I
have to tell you,’ he told McKeithen,
'from the viewpoint of the church,
most of the saints were martyrs.”’
Stronger relations urged
between Catholic college
presidents, bishops
WASHINGTON (CNS) - After
a year of public clashes between
bishops and some Catholic colleges,
U.S. Catholic university presidents
were urged to forge stronger rela-
tionships with their local bishop.
During his plenary address Jan,
31 at the annual meeting of the
Association of Catholic Colleges
and Universities in Washington,
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick
told college presidents they should
reach out to their bishops for more
than just good will. The 79-year-old
retired archbishop of Washington
- a former college president himself
- told the presidents they would get
better cooperation from their dio-
ceses and experience less friction
with the hierarchy if they welcomed
their local bishops onto campus
and included them in the academic
fold of their institutions. Though
he never mentioned the 2009 con-
troversy over the commencement
address by President Barack Obama
at the University of Notre Dame
in Indiana, Cardinal McCarrick
alluded to it in his address. The
decision of Holy Cross Father John
I. Jenkins, president of Notre Dame,
to invite Obama to deliver the May
commencement speech and present
him with an honorary law degree
set off a firestorm of criticism by at
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national debate on the university’s
status as a Catholic institution. Car-
dinal McCarrick, who from 1965 to
1969 was president of the Catholic
University of Puerto Rico, said the
nation currently has a polarized
“partisan society.” But the U.S.
bishops should be optimistic about
Catholic higher education, he said,
and if they are not, they “don’t know
what is going on” academically or
spiritually on the campuses.
Pope marks World
Leprosy Day, notes St.
Damien’s role
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope
Benedict XVI marked World Lep-
rosy Day by remembering St.
Damien de Veuster, the 19th-
century Belgian missionary who
ministered to people with leprosy in
Hawaii before dying of the disease.
St. Damien, whom the pope can-
onized at the Vatican last October,
“gave his life for his brothers and
sisters,” the pope said at his noon
blessing Jan. 31. “To his heavenly
protection I entrust all the people
who unfortunately still suffer from
this disease today, as well as the
health care workers and volunteers
who are doing their best to make
a world without leprosy,” the pope
said. Leprosy, also known as Han-
sen's disease, is curable today but
continues to afflict hundreds of
thousands of people throughout
the world, said Archbishop Zyg-
munt Zimowski, president of the
Pontifical Council for Health Care
Ministry, in his message for the 57th
World Leprosy Day. According to
the most recent statistics released
by the World Health Organization,
210,000 new cases of Hansen’s dis-
ease were registered in 2009.
Church has right to bring
Gospel values to public
debate, pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Catho-
lic teaching and the truths of the
Gospel have a right to be heard in
public debate, especially in a coun-
try where so many people claim to
be Christian, Pope Benedict XVI
told the bishops of England and
Wales. However, the church must
recognize dissent within its own
ranks and not accept it as being
part of a balanced discussion, he
said Feb. 1 in an address to bishops
who were making their “ad limina”
visits. The meeting with the bishops,
who were at the Vatican to report
on the status of their dioceses, took
place as Pope Benedict prepares to
visit Great Britain in September.
Referring to the Equality Bill under
debate in Britain’s Parliament, the
pope said some legislation designed
to guarantee equal opportunity for
all people actually would impose
“unjust limitations on the freedom
of religious communities to act in
accordance with their beliefs.” Cath-
olic bishops have said the bill means
churches could be sued by anyone
who was turned away as a candidate
for the priesthood on grounds of
gender or sexual lifestyle.
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