ADDENDA - Pax Christi - USA appoints David A. Robinson; Ohio Dominican College appoints Jack P.;American Center for Law and Justice case; - St. Paul's Lutheran Church appoints gay minister; Caritas Internation - Brief Article

National Catholic Reporter, March 23, 2001

PAX CHRISTI USA, the national Catholic peace movement, has selected David A. Robinson as its next national coordinator. Robinson will succeed Nancy Small Aug. 6, following Pax Christi USA's national assembly in Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 3-5. Robinson has held several key positions at the national office in Erie, Pa., including coordinating and directing programs since 1993. Pax Christi USA has about 14,000 members working to transform society through non-violence and advocating peacemaking as a priority in the U.S. Catholic church.

A THEOLOGIAN and 30-year veteran Catholic educator has been named president of Ohio Dominican College in Columbus. Jack P. will succeed Dominican Sr. Mary Andrew Matesich effective the summer of 2001. All 12 of the previous presidents of the 90-year-old liberal arts college have been sisters. Calareso currently serves as president of Briar Cliff College, a Franciscan liberal arts school in Sioux City, Iowa.

THE AMERICAN CENTER for Law and Justice, a law firm founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case concerning the constitutionality of a 43-year-old Ten Commandments monument in Indiana. The case involves a 6-foot-high granite display outside City Hall in Elkhart, Ind. In December 2000, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the monument is unconstitutional, overturning a lower court decision.

ONE OF DENVER'S most historic churches has voted to call a gay man as its new pastor. The Rev. Kevin Maly will be installed March 17 as pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Maly has agreed to the denomination's rule requiring celibacy of unmarried ministers. Although there are many gays in the ministry of the mainline churches, few are openly gay and many congregations won't hire a minister they know is gay.

AS WORLD ATTENTION focused anew in early March on decade-old U.N. sanctions against Iraq, Caritas Internationalis called for an immediate suspension of the economic embargo, saying it had provoked a long-term humanitarian crisis in the Arab country. "Whatever the cause, whoever the adversary, we cannot tolerate the suffering and death of countless innocent people. It is time for new thinking and new approaches," said the organization, a Rome-based umbrella group for Catholic aid organizations, in a March 8 statement.