UNITED STATES


Top church official in abuse indictment


Michael Sean Winters In Washington


A PHILADELPHIA Grand Jury last week indicted three clergy and a lay teacher on charges of child molestation and rape. For the first time since the sex-abuse scandals broke, a key chancery official accused of reck- lessly endangering children was also indicted. Mgr William Lynn, who was in charge of priest personnel assignments in the archdio- cese from 1992 until 2004, faces 14 years in jail if convicted of failing to take adequate action to protect children from those accused of abusing children. The three priests charged with sex abuse have all been laicised or removed from ministry.


■Renewal in the Church is often led by the lay faithful, according to Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, writes Michael Sean Winters. Addressing hundreds of Catholic


activists at the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington this week he noted that this year marks the 120th anniversary of the publication of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum and traced the historical development of the Church’s social teaching through the years. “This history provides us with a glimpse of how renewal in the Church often


INDONESIA


Religious leaders accuse Government


INDONESIA’S religious leaders – including Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, and Muslim – have launched a “Movement against Lies” initiative, criticising their Government’s failure to keep its word over various national issues, primarily to do with poverty and education, writes Ellen Teague. At a recent meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, they said that he had failed to carry out the people’s mandate. Religious leaders pointed to inadequate state security after three Christian churches and a Catholic-run school in Java’s Temanggung district were ransacked on 8 February. Mobs ran amok after a court jailed a Christian for five years for insulting Islam, judging the sentence too lenient. Fr Benny Susetyo, of the bishops’ conference’s Interreligious Dialogue commission, urged the Government to address the growing problem of anti-Christian violence.


The Grand Jury report also claimed that there was “no doubt” Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua’s actions during his 15-year tenure endangered children, but they declined to bring charges noting the cardinal’s age and infirmity. “As a Roman Catholic myself, this is not a happy thing for me to have to do,” said District Attorney Seth Williams, announcing the charges. “The criminal acts that occurred here are not representative of my religion ... But I am sworn to uphold the law, and I will do what is necessary to protect children.” Cardinal Justin Rigali, the Archbishop of Philadelphia, said the archdiocese was cooperating fully with the civil authorities “in this and all related matters”.


is anticipated by the concrete actions of the faithful and thus anticipates the eventual official position of the hierarchy,” he said. He also pointed to Cardinal Roger Mahony’s 2006 call for civil disobedience in the face of unjust immigration laws as a model for social activism by the Church.


UKRAINE


Cardinal’s retirement opens way for new generation of leaders


THE POPE has accepted the resignation of Ukraine’s Greek Catholic cardinal, Lubomir Huzar, who was widely credited with improving his Church’s standing in the country, as well as with creating better relations with its three rival Orthodox denominations after bitter feuding in the 1990s, writes Jonathan Luxmoore. A church source said the retirement of the cardinal, who was a close associate of the Church’s exiled Soviet-era leader, Cardinal Josif Slipyi, would herald a new generation of church leaders in Ukraine, where Catholics have complained of discrimination under the pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovich. They added that Cardinal Huzar’s main achievements included returning his Church’s chief see from Lviv to Kiev in 2005, when he assumed the title of Major Archbishop of Kiev-Galicia, as well as improving the media image of Greek Catholics, who combine the eastern liturgy with loyalty to Rome and are known pejoratively as “Uniates” by Orthodox leaders.


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