The Message m for Catholics of Southwestern Indiana
Two represent liturgical region
Mary Ann Wittgen and Father William Deering, both of
Evansville, currently serve as members of the board of a na-
tional liturgical organization.
Wittgen has been active in diocesan liturgical planning for
many years. She is serving as treasurer of the Federation of
Liturgical Commissions.
Father Deering, diocesan director of worship, represents
Region Seven of the FDLC. That region includes Indiana and
Illinois.
The FDLC is a grassroots network of diocesan liturgists. It
provides diocesan liturgical planners with support in their ef-
forts toward the liturgical renewal begun by the second Vati-
can Council.
Father Deering said it is very unusual for the two repre-
sentatives from a region to be from the same diocese.
Writer and columnist headlines
Catechist Recognition Dinners
Tim Unsworth -- reporter, writer and "grand story teller"
-- will be the featured speaker at the 1994 Diocese of Evans-
ville Catechist Recognition Dinners May 23 and 24.
Unsworth is the editor of the popular newsletter, "U.S.
Parish." He has written several books and published articles
in the National Catholic Reporter, U.S. Catholic and other
Catholic publications. He is a three-time Catholic Press Asso-
ciation Award winner.
"Tim will bring back warm memories of our experience of
the Church, tell grand stories, and make us laugh," said
James Corr, diocesan director of religious education.
The recognition dinners, at $12 per person, will be held at
the Executive Inn, Vincennes, on Monday, May 23; and at
the Green Convention Center, Evansville, on Tuesday, May
24. Dinners start at 6:30 p.m. Reservations are required, by
May 13.
Organ, monstrance donated
A Hammond electronic organ has been donated for the
chapel at Villa Maria, the home for retired priests of the Dio-
cese of Evansville. The gift came from members of the Pro-
Cathedral of the Most Holy. Trinity, Carl and Harold Ulrich,
who operate Mid City Music, Inc., in Evansville.
The donated instrument is described as a Church]Home
organ, ideal for the small chapel at Villa Maria. It replaces
an older chord organ.
The brothers made the contribution with the encourage-
ment of their sister, Caro! Anslinger, who is the organist at
Holy Trinity. She said she noticed the need while attending a
Holy Hour at the chapel.
Msgr. Thomas Clarke, a resident of Villa Maria, said he
and fellow resident Msgr. Roman Vollmer and several lay
persons have begun a monthly holy hour at the chapel. They
are active in the Marian Movement of Priests, according to
Msgr. Clarke.
According to Msgr. Clarke, an anonymous donor con-
tributed money for the purchase of a new monstrance and
other items used for Benediction.
Caption corrected
A photo caption identifying a scout leader in the April 15
issue was incorrect. The photo showed Jim Schmitt at a na-
tional Catholic Scout conference in Albuquerque, N.M. The
Message regrets the error.
Photographer credited
Photographs were published Jan. 28 of Fred Ashby and
Gwendolyn Anne Wagner, winners of the Msgr. Herman
Mootz Award at St. John Church, Evansville. Credit for the
photographs was inadvertently omitted. The photographs
were taken by Karl A. Edwards, Karl's Studio, Boonville.
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Pope continues fight agat
draft population document
By CINDY WOODEN the world's heads of state, Pope family. Before such
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) --
Continuing to fight against a
draft document on interna-
tional population policies, Pope
John Paul II said he was not
trying to be alarmist but said
the document threatens
human dignity and morality.
Before reciting the "Regina
Coeli" prayer with pilgrims in
St. Peter's Square April 17, the
pope said he wanted to share
his "deeply felt concerns" about
the preparations for the U.N.-
sponsored International Con-
ference on Population and De-
velopment. The preparatory
committee for the conference
was discussing the draft docu-
ment at a meeting April 4-22
at the United Nations in New
York.
In a March meeting with the
secretary-general of the confer-
ence and in a later letter to all
John Paul criticized the confer-
ence's draft document for its
attitudes toward sexuality,
marriage, birth control and
abortion.
Pope John Paul said the
draft document focuses almost
exclusively on limiting the
number of births in the Third
World without paying enough
attention to economic develop-
ment, a better sharing of the
world's resources and the need
to protect the religious and
moral beliefs of families tar-
geted by the population-control
policies.
Pope John Paul told the pil-
grims at St. Peter's that no one
can ignore the importance of
the questions to be treated at
the September meeting in
Cairo, Egypt.
The meeting's subject matter
goes directly to how one under-
stands human life in "the deci-
sive areas of sexuality and the
argument, no one
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