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delegate present for feast of St. Benedict at St. Meinrad
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thy Sweeney said the commu-
nity at St. Meinrad was very
honored to host the Pro-Nun-
cio, especially for the feast day.
"For some decades now, it has
been our custom to invite a
prominent Church leader to
celebrate with us the Feast of
St. Benedict or the Feast of St.
Meinrad.
"Benedictines, by their vow
of stability, have always in-
serted themselves for life into
a given geographic area. It is
important for us to be re-
minded of the larger Church
and for the larger Church to be
personally aware of the pres-
ence of St. Meinrad! Certainly
the representative of the Holy
Father is one who, by his very
presence, reminds us of the
larger Church."
During the reception which
followed the Mass, members of
the Benedictine community,
students and guests had the
opportunity to meet the Pro-
Nuncio. "Given the presences
of our seminary school and the
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The Benedictine community
of St. Meinrad was officially
dedicated 140 years ago on
March 21, the Feast of St.
Benedict, and consisted of four
monks, one Brother candidate
and two Oblates. At that time,
the monastery was a simple
log cabin. The day of the bless-
ing began with a solemn High
Mass by Father Joseph Kun-
dek in Ferdinand, and then a
procession to the site at St.
Meinrad. More than 1,500
stood in the pouring rain as
Father Kundek blessed the
monastery.
The Benedictine community
currently consists of 140
monks.
"We pray that God grant us
at least another lt0 years to
be of assistance," said Archab-
bet Timothy, "not only to our
Church, but to our neighbors
here in southern Indiana."
Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, apostolic pro.nuncio to
the United States visits St. Meinrad Archabbey for the
Feast of St. Benedict. Above, are Archbishop Cacciavillan
and Benedictine Archabbot Timothy Sweeney.
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OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
By INDIANA CATHOLIC
CONFERENCE
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Mem-
bership in most of the 15
largest U.S. Christian denomi-
nations was stable or increased
Canadian Churches 1994.
Among the top 15, only two
showed losses -- the Evangeli-
cal Lutheran Church in Amer-
Indiana residents who are
not registered to vote have
until April 8 to register to vote
in the May 3 primary election.
They may register at their
county clerk's office.
Other Hoosier residents who
New Yearbook of churches shows membership stable or increasing
down 0.53 percent.
The largest gain numerically
was in the Roman Catholic
Church, which reported nearly
a million more members
from 58,267,424 in 1991 to
59,220,723 in 1992 -- for an in-
crease of 1.63 percent.
Highest reported rates of
• growth among the largest de-
nominations were the National
Baptist Convention U.S.A.,
with a 2.5 percent increase,
and the Mormons, with an in-
crease of 2.16 percent.
Among Canadian churches,
however, three of the top 10
showed membership losses, in
amounts ranging from 1 per-
cent to 5 percent. They were
the United Church of Canada,
Presbyterian Church in
Canada and Evangelical
Lutheran Church in Canada.
Five did not provide new
yearly figures and only two
the Mormons and the Cana-
dian Baptist Federation -- re-
ported increases.
The yearbook, an annual
publication prepared under
auspices of the National Coun-
cil of Churches, is published by
Abingdon Press in Nashville,
Tenn.
The bulk of the book is de.
voted to an alphabetical direc-
tory of U.S. and Canadian tell.
gious bodies. The listings
include a brief historical, doc-
trinal and structural descrip-
tion of each church, its head-
quarters, officers, main
organizations and, where ap-
plicable, main territorial divi-
sions such as dioceses, synods
or conferences.
may need to register are those
who: lived in the precinct at
least 30 days, changed an ad-
dress, have not voted in the
last four years, or who will be
18 on or before the Nov. 8 elec-
tion.
Registered voters who iden-
May 3, or send in an absentee
ballot, will be voting for the
party's candidates for the fall
general election. Up for
(re)election in Indiana are all
congressional representatives
and one senator, and from the
Indiana General Assembly, all
tify with a particular political representatives and half of the
party and go to the polls on "::' '°' : ....
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