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Week of May 10, 1999

Canadian and Foreign News Highlights

Pope calls for month of prayer:

Pope John Paul, appealing for an end to death, destruction and atrocities in Yugoslavia, has proclaimed May as a month of prayer for peace worldwide. The pope asked all Catholics to pray intensely during May, "to ask the Madonna for the gift of peace in the Balkans, and in the other too numerous places in the world where violence reigns."

Roots of violence run deep in society, says archbishop:

Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput said only "a relentless commitment to respect the sanctity of each human life" can reverse the embrace of violence in the United States. "The roots of violence in our culture are much more complicated than just bad rock lyrics or brutal screenplays," he said May 4 at a Senate hearing on Marketing Violence to Children. "But common sense tells us that the violence of our music, our video games, our films and our television has to go somewhere," he added, "and it goes straight into the hearts of our children, to bear fruit in ways we can't imagine - until something like Littleton happens."

Manning's wife reflects on parenting:

The wife of Reform Party leader Preston Manning isn't among those who blame the shootings at schools in Littleton, Colo., and Taber, Alta., on bad parenting. "What a child decides to do at 17 or 18, I don't believe is necessarily about the parent," Sandra Manning said in an address at Ottawa's St. Patrick's Basilica April 28. "I've personally seen way too many parents destroy themselves because of what almost-adult or adult children decided to do," she added.

Strenthen city parishes, pope urges Ont. bishops:

The violence which marks the large cities of Canada and other countries is fostered by the disappointment, loneliness and poverty of many of their residents, Pope John Paul said. "The cities hold out the promise of employment and entertainment, appearing to be the answer to poverty and boredom when in fact they generate new forms of both," the pope wrote in a message handed to the Ontario bishops May 4. The bishops were in Rome for their ad limina visits.

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