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Week of March 15, 1999

Canadian and Foreign News Highlights

Cardinal foresees end to attacks on life, family:

The president of the Pontifical Council for the Family said the outlook which denies support for the family and the right to life will collapse in the coming years. "These positions are not serious," said Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo. "They lack truth, and so they will not be permanent." Lopez Trujillo predicted anti-life and anti-family attitudes will collapse as quickly as communism did in the later 1980s.

Cardinal defends papal authority:

Cardinal Francis George has come to the defence of Pope John Paul's habit of using his own authority to refine and develop Catholic teaching. The pope is often accused of ignoring the college of bishops when issuing encyclicals or other papal letters or treating the individual bishops as branch managers of the Church in their own dioceses. But, in a speech in Toronto Feb. 24, George argued that John Paul is well within his mandate as bishop of Rome.

Bishops chop job of social affairs boss:

The social affairs office of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has come under the knife. Bernard Dufresne, 47, director of the French-sector of the CCCB social affairs office, was notified at the end of February that his three-year contract would not be renewed at the end of May for budgetary reasons.

Que. gov't criticized for response to Duplessis orphans:

Quebec Ombudsman Daniel Jacoby criticized as "unjust" and "humiliating" the settlement offered by the government to the "Duplessis orphans." The government offered $3 million to some 3,000 former residents of Catholic-run institutions who claimed they were abused by institutional staff. "The government's decision to avoid personal compensation trivializes the seriousness of the incidents experienced by the orphans in the institutions," Jacoby said March 8.

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