Campus
Minister Named Emlenton Pastor:
Summer
at Campus Ministry:
Interfaith
Roundtable Benefits from NESA Involvement:
Part
I of Interfaith Roundtable Identifies Contrasts,
Strengthens Common Ground:
Summary,
Photos
and Audio Files
Husain
Memorial Essay Winners:
Congratulations to students Mohammad Danish Iqbal,
Valentina Wheeler, and Scott Ion on winning the
first Husain Memorial Essay Contest.
Iraqi
Refugees Pose a Looming Humanitarian Crisis:
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The short version of the situation
was in one line of Anastasia Brown's testimony to
a House subcommittee hearing: "The plain and
simple truth is that the United States is not doing
everything in its power to avert a looming humanitarian
crisis in the Middle East." Brown, the director
of refugee programs for Migration and Refugee Services
of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was
among witnesses May 1 describing the situation of
2.2 million Iraqis living as refugees, primarily
in Syria and Jordan, and another 2.7 million "internally
displaced persons," living in Iraq but unable
to return to their own homes. At the joint hearing
of two Foreign Affairs subcommittees -- on International
Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight and on
the Middle East and South Asia -- witnesses and
members of Congress cautioned about letting the
current situation fester. "Years from now,
I can imagine people pointing to the lack of a U.S.
response to the refugee crisis as a turning point
for a new generation of radicals in the Middle East,"
said Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore.
New
Models of Pastoral Leadership Required for a Changing
U.S. Church:
ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) New models of pastoral leadership
will be required for a U.S. church that has changed
significantly from a generation ago and will continue
to change. The changes include an increase in the
number of Catholics, a more-educated laity, a decrease
in the number of priests and vowed religious, an
increase in permanent deacons and professional lay
ecclesial ministers, and growing cultural diversity
in the church. Those changes were identified in
a four-year study conducted in response to ongoing
shifts in the Catholic Church. The study, commissioned
in 2002 by a coalition of six Catholic national
organizations, received a $2 million grant from
the Lilly Endowment to conduct the study and to
assess its findings. Marti R. Jewell, project director
of the Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership Project,
addressed the major findings of the study April
21, the first full day of a national summit in Orlando
to review and build upon the findings. An attentive
audience of nearly 1,200 participants representing
all six groups listened, eager to hear the results.
Clarification
of the Tridentine Good Friday Prayer for Jews:
