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National Catholic Reporter, May 28, 1999

ST. BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY in New York will use a $3 million gift from the estate of a former trustee to add a new art museum to its Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. Construction will begin this summer on the F. Donald Kenney Museum and Art Study Wing, a two-story, $1.8 million addition to the arts center. It is named for an international investment banker who served for nearly a decade on St. Bonaventure's board of trustees.

DOROTHY BROWN has been named provost of Georgetown University, the first woman to hold the position at the Jesuit university. Brown, whose appointment was announced in April by Jesuit Fr. Leo O'Donovan, university president, has been serving as interim provost since last July. As provost, she is the university's chief academic officer.

A CATHOLIC LAYMAN from St. Louis has been named the new president and chief executive officer of the National Interfaith Cable Coalition. Edward J. Murray will lead the New York-based consortium of 80 diverse faith groups that founded a cable network featuring faith-and-values programming in 1988. The network, now known as Odyssey, is co-owned by the coalition, Hallmark Entertainment, the Jim Henson Company and Liberty Media Corp.

THE UNITED STATES ARMY has recognized Wicca as a religion and has appointed chaplains to oversee pagan ceremonies on at least five bases. There were believed to be at least 100 witches attending covens at Fort Hood, Texas, the Army's largest base with more than 42,000 troops, a Pentagon spokesman said.

JERRY AND GWEN CONIKER, cofounders of the Apostolate for Family Consecration, have been named members of the Pontifical Council for the Family by Pope John Paul II. The Conikers, along with several of their 12 children, created Catholic Familyland outside of Steubenville, Ohio, a retreat center for families styled as a "spiritual boot camp" (NCR, Oct. 3, 1997).

THE LATIN AMERICA bishops' council elected Colombian Bishop Jorge Jimenez Carvajal of Zipaquira as its new president. Jimenez, who will serve for the 1999-2003 term, was secretary-general of the council, known as CELAM. Two former Vatican officials were elected as vice presidents: Archbishops Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa of Santiago, Chile, and Geraldo Majella Agnelo of Sao Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

THE PORTUGESE-APPOINTED governor of Macau has invited Pope John Paul II to visit the territory just before it reverts to Chinese control in December. Gen. Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira personally delivered his invitation as well as that of the local bishop to the pope May 17 at the Vatican. The pope "was very interested in the idea and had many questions about Macau," Rocha said.