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Week of February 22, 1999

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To promote and defend the faith:

Asked about a perception that he and the Vatican congregation he leads are "repressive," Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said "clearly the ideas the media give about our congregation are not correct." "The Catholic faithful have a right to know what is Catholic and what is not Catholic," he said in an interview with Catholic San Francisco Feb. 13.

Church cannot neglect new media, says Dulles:

By his own admission, Jesuit Father Avery Dulles rarely watches television or goes to the movies and has no experience with the World Wide Web. But despite his status as "a survivor of the print generation," the 80-year-old theologian told Catholic communicators that "electronic transmission is dominant" in today's society. Dulles recently warned the electronic revolution "is producing a new mentality that we cannot afford to neglect."

Kilgour seeks common ground:

One of the greatest threats to Christian unity is the gap within denominations between "the religious right" and so-called "liberals or activists," says David Kilgour, Secretary of State for Latin America and Africa. "Thus, Anglicans are divided against Anglicans; United Church members are divided against United Church members," the Edmonton Southeast MP said in a talk for Christian Unity Week. And a Catholic "who is a social activist, tends to feel more affinity with activists from other denominations than with a fellow Roman Catholic who is theologically conservative and whose concerns focus on personal."

Pro-life 'saint' stuck in jail:

Pro-life activist and grandmother Linda Gibbons of Toronto will likely spend more time in jail than Karla Homolka, says Jim Hughes, president of Campaign Life Coalition. Since 1989, Gibbons has spent five years in jail for defying a court injunction banning picketing within an 18-metre "bubble zone" around abortion clinics.

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