Monsignor Olowin Appointed Campus Minister:

Candidates Issue Calls for Greater Service: WASHINGTON (CNS) -- If there was one day during the marathon presidential campaign when the candidates were not making digs and tossing accusations at each other, it would have been Sept. 11, the seventh anniversary of the terror attacks on American soil. It was that day when Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and John McCain, R-Ariz., the major-party presidential candidates, gave back-to-back live broadcast interviews on service at Columbia University in New York. McCain said that, had he been president during those deadly attacks, he "would have created organizations ranging from neighborhood block watch to making sure that our nuclear power plants are secure." He also would have expanded not only the military but the Peace Corps and AmeriCorps, two federal service organizations. "When I graduated from Columbia, I had a choice. I could pursue a lucrative career on Wall Street or go immediately to law school," Obama said in his interview, "or I could follow through on the inspiration that I had drawn from the civil rights movement -- and from the Kennedy era -- and try to work in the community. And I chose the latter. But it was tough."

Catholic to Be Honored Posthumously for Saving Jews during Holocaust: JERUSALEM (CNS) -- A Polish Catholic woman whose father was German will be honored posthumously 65 years after she risked her life to save Jews on her farm near Warsaw, Poland. Two of the women Stanislawa Slawinska rescued were Esfira Maiman, today 94, and her mother. Maiman and her mother spent two years on the Slawinska farm, which was near an encampment of German soldiers. Slawinska also offered refuge on her farm to other Jews during that time. Slawinska, who was seven years older than Maiman, had no children, but was close to a young nephew, Roman Slawinska, who helped keep his aunt's activities secret. Maiman spent many years trying to reconnect with her rescuers after the war. She recently was able to track down Slawinska's nephew with help from the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, a New-York based organization that aims to identify previously unknown stories of Holocaust rescue. Slawinska will be honored as Righteous Among the Nations during a November ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.

Don't Forget Human Aspect of Wall Street Bailout, Church Leaders Say: WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Church leaders urged members of Congress and the Bush administration to keep the human and ethical dimensions of the economic crisis in mind as they craft a financial bailout package for Wall Street. "This crisis involves far more than just economic or technical matters, but has enormous human impact and clear ethical dimensions which should be at the center of debate and decisions on how to move forward," said Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., in a Sept. 26 letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and key House and Senate leaders. Bishop Murphy, who chairs the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, also stressed responsibility, accountability, awareness of the advantages and limitations of the market, subsidiarity, solidarity and the common good in the search for just and effective responses to the economic crisis. The House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion compromise bailout package Sept. 29.

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Clarification of the Tridentine Good Friday Prayer for Jews: