ADDENDA

National Catholic Reporter, Jan 26, 2001

TWO LOS ANGELES archdiocesan priests have been named as auxiliary bishops in Southern California. Msgr. Edward W. Clark, president/rector of St. John's Seminary College in Camarillo was named an auxiliary in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony said Clark will be the regional bishop of Our Lady of the Angels Pastoral Region, one of five regions into which the archdiocese is divided. Msgr. Dennis P. O'Neil, pastor of St. Emydius Parish in Lynwood, was named an auxiliary in the San Bernardino diocese. Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, papal nuncio to the United States, announced the appointments in Washington Jan. 16.

A RETIRED BISHOP says he thinks a double standard is applied in this country to the Catholic church and its responsibility to take a stand on political issues. "We [Catholics] are watched with hawk eyes if we dare step over the line. Other people can be in the pulpits of Protestant churches up and down the landscape," said Bishop Thomas J. Welsh, the retired bishop of Allentown, Pa. Welsh said the time might come when the church has to say it will give up its tax-exempt status because its "message isn't getting out."

BISHOP MATTHIAS TUAN IN-MIN, the last Chinese prelate installed as a bishop before China's communist regime forced the Roman Catholic church underground, died Jan. 10 in Beijing at 92. Tuan was bishop of Wanhsien in central China. Pope Plus XII named Tuan a bishop on June 9, 1949, shortly before communist forces established the Republic of China. In 1957, the government established the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which is independent of the Vatican and ordains its own bishops.

CHURCH OFFICIALS welcomed a campaign for all white South Africans to acknowledge their responsibility for apartheid. The "Declaration of Commitment by White South Africans" is a "wake-up call" for the white community, said Fr. Sean O'Leary, acting director of the catechetics institute Lumko in Johannesburg. In the declaration, white South Africans state: "We acknowledge our debt to fellow black South Africans since all whites benefited from systematic racial discrimination."

SOME 20,000 TRIBALS who gathered in a western Indian village to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of a Jesuit lawyer have demanded a separate state to protect their interests. Tribal leaders also stressed tribal unity and denounced Hindu nationalist attempts to call them Hindus. The Jan. 13 event in Rajpipla, Gujarat state, was held to mark the death anniversary of Fr. Joseph Idiakunnel, who died Jan. 11 when his jeep overturned after a tire burst. The late Jesuit founded the Rajpipla Social Service Society in the village some 25 years ago and popularized legal aid among tribals.

NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE Mairead Corrigan Maguire has written to the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, to nominate Mordechai Vanunu for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, for his personal sacrifice and struggle against nuclear weapons in general, and the Israeli nuclear program in particular. Vanunu is now in his 15th year of imprisonment for revealing Israel's secret nuclear program. Vanunu was employed by the Center for Nuclear Research, Israel's nuclear weapons facility in Dimona. Upon discovering the dimensions of Israel's nuclear program, he defied Israeli censorship and turned to the world press to warn the public of Israel's nuclear threat.