's narrow plurality seen as encouraging sign for church
BROWN
News Service
(CNS) -- Presi-
Yeltsin's narrow
ld plurality in the
election is ap-
'good news for the
400,000 Roman
Catholics are sup-
said Yakov
historian and
Catholic livifig
Yeltsin is prefer-
is more civi-
to the second
presidential elec-
; Political observers
Yeltsin is likely to
an alliance
red Gen. Alexander
) Came in third place
That alliance,
finisher
Yavlin-
give Yeltsin
)eat Communist
Zyuganov,
close second to the
Political analysts
Z.yuganov's cam-
which included
the oft-quoted remark that
"Jesus was the first Commu-
nist," one priest in the Volga
River city of Samara said his
parishioners were overwhelm-
ingly anti-Communist.
"Some people supported
Lebed and some people sup-
ported Yeltsin, but nobody
seemed to support Zyuganov,"
said Father Philip Andrews, an
Irishman who leads a congre-
gation of mostly ethnic Poles
and Germans.
Father Andrews noted that
even elderly parishioners who
belonged to the generation that
most strongly supported
Zyuganov in Russia appeared
to avoid the Communist candi-
date. "The older people tended
to go for Lebed," he said.
In the week prior to the elec-
tion, Archbishop Theodore E.
McCarrick of Newark, N.J., ar-
rived in Moscow with a group
of U.S. religious leaders to ob-
serve the campaign process and
meet the candidates and their
staffs. Most of the delegation,
underwritten by the ecumeni-
cal, U.S.-based Appeal of Con-
science Foundation, departed
before the election.
"We weren't here to do poll
e readers respond to
rn Up America program
HUGHES ica program.
writer
Silver read a re-
ge article about
the 85-
Theresa parish-
that she wanted
located in
collects donated
afghan squares,
and then
s of floods,
a d those who have
from fire. The
to the
Women's shelters
mothers.
article,
l explained the
Volunteered to
and cro-
Evansville area.
to deliver yarn, a
' InStructions and a
Yone who wanted
rae to the project.
needed to knit or
which are as-
by vohn-
Up Amer-
Creel said she was aston-
ished to receive replies from 28
Message readers. "A reader
called from Ann Arbor, Michi-
gan, and said her mother had
17 afghans ready which had
never been used. I told her to
go ahead and ship them to
Wausau."
Creel heard from knitters
and crocheters from all over
the Diocese of Evansville, in-
cluding from the towns of
Washington, Jasper, New Har-
mony and Newburgh.
When she heard from Mary
Silver, she immediately took
yarn over to the woman's
home. A week later Silver had
finished 49 squares, enough for
one complete afghan.
"I just really enjoy crochet-
ing," Silver said. "I live alone
and have the whole evening to
myself." - " -
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watching," said Archbishop Mc-
Carrick in a June 14 interview
in his hotel opposite the Krem-
lin. He added that one of the
group's purposes was to be a
"reminder that the world is
watching."
In meetings with Zyuganov
and staffers from the Lebed
and Yeltsin camps, Archbishop
McCarrick said he was encour-
aged to see that "they are all at
least paying lip sei'vice to the
idea of religious freedom. They
are now on record as saying
this. Can you hold them to
their record? You can't even do
that in the U.S."
The delegation, which in-
eluded Jewish, Armenian and
American Orthodox leaders,
also met Patriarch Alexei II,
the head of the Russian Ortho-
dox Church, whom Archbishop
McCarrick said was receptive
and cooperative.
Like top Catholic clerics in
Russia, Patriarch Alexei en-
dorsed none of the presidential
candidates. He did, however,
make several pre-election
statements urging Orthodox
voters not to support a return
to the past -- a thinly veiled
entreaty to not support the
Communists, who in their So-
viet form, oversaw the murder
of tens of thousands of priests
and the near annihilation of
the Russian church.
With Catholicism a distinct
religious minority in Russia,
Archbishop McCarrick and
other leaders said they were
concerned with proposed legis-
lation currently being consid-
ered by a committee of the Rus-
sian Duma (parliament) which
could curtail the activities of
so-called nontraditional reli-
gions, including Catholicism.
"The (Roman Catholic)
Church here, realizing its mi-
nority position, has to be very
prudent about what it says,"
said Archbishop McCarrick.
"This is not to say the Catholic
Church may not have to raise
its voice if something were to
threaten its right to exist or if
its moral teachings had to be
defended."
SCRIPTURE SEARCH
By Patricia Kasten
FROM HOUSETOPS
Gospel for Sunday, June 23, 1996
Matthew f 0:26.33
Following is a word search based on the Gospel
reading for the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
A Cycle, assurance of God's care. The word clues
are left to right in the order in which they appear
in the reading.
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THE LIGHT WHAT HEAR
PROCLAIM FROM HOUSETOPS
FEAR THOSE BODY RATHER
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