October 8, 1993
The Message -- for Catholics of Southwestern Indiana
11
Remember these faithful departed in your prayers
Elenora F. Birchler, 75, Sept. 4. Sept. 29. diana, Sept. 13.
St. Theresa, Evansville, Sept.
16.
Timothy Bohnert, St.
Joseph, Jasper, Sept. 22.
Thomas Cassady, 85, St.
Mary, Washington, Sept. 10.
Hermine Clark, 76, St.
Theresa, Evansville, Sept. 17.
Edward T. Davis, 71, St.
Theresa, Evansville, July 16.
Andrew Day, 80, St. Mary,
Washington, Sept. 6.
Alice Sue Eagan, 71, St.
Theresa, Evansville, Sept. 9.
Victor R. Exkstein, 80, St.
Joseph, Jasper, Sept. 4.
cJne C. Edmonds, 85, Old
aedral, Vincennes, Sept.
14.
PhD°r°thy Fischer, 70, St
1lip, Mount Vernon, Septl
John C .Gelding, .617e,
Christ the King, Evansvd '
Virginia Sue Gutgsell, 82,
St. Joseph, Jasper, Sept. 6.
Alfred L. Hartwiek, 59, St.
Peter, Celestine, Sept. 13.
Philip Michael Hurst, NB,
St. Ferdinand, Ferdinand,
Sept. 6.
Bronislaw Kijonka, 69, St.
Joseph, Evansville, Sept. 9.'
Emilia M. Marsh, 88, Old
Cathedral, Vincennes, Sept. 8.
Scott McCoy, 29, St.
Theresa, Evansville, Sept. 8.
Catherine H. Moore, 81,
Sacred Heart, Evansville, Sept.
10.
Agnes A. Reinders, 80,
Christ the King, Evansville,
Peggy Reis, 41, Sacred
Heart, Evansville, Sept. 30.
Otilla D. "Tillie" Roden-
berg, 84, St. Boniface, Evans-
ville, Sept. 15.
Lends Rudolph, 80, St.
Mary, Ireland, Sept. 18.
Doug Ruttinger, 27, St.
Theresa, Evansville, Sept. 12.
Verna L. Salmon, 84, St.
Mary, Shoals, Sept. 6.
Sylvester J. Schmitt, 78,
Holy Family, Jasper, Sept. 25.
Antoinette Marie
Schwinghamer, 38, St.
Joseph, Jasper, Sept. 16.
Sister Mary Shaughnessy,
93, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, In-
Genevieve Steffe, 80, St.
Joseph, Jasper, Sept. 5.
Leo J. Weaver, 91, Holy
Spirit, Evansville, Sept. 14.
Eleanor (Stemle)
Wechter, 86, St. Joseph,
Jasper, Sept. 20.
Albert Werno, 81, St. John,
Loogootee, Sept. 4.
Ray Wessel, 85, St. Ferdi-
nand, Ferdinand, Sept. 13.
Howard C. Wire, 80, St.
Theresa, Evansville, August
30.
These obituary notices were
submitted from parishes
throughout the diocese.
Court lets rulings stand on religion clubs, rescue injunction
By PATRICIA ZAPOR
Catholic News Service
court let stand a 9th U.S. Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals ruling
saying Washington's constitu-
tion may not preempt a 1990
Supreme Court ruling allowing
religion clubs equal access to
school facilities.
The case had been bouncing
among state and federal courts
since 1984, when students at
Lindbergh High School in Ren-
ton, Wash., asked for permis-
sion to have a religion club to
meet on campus as an officially
recognized and formally autho-
r.ized group.
A 1990 Supreme Court rul-
ing in a similar case from Ne-
braska said schools must allow
religion clubs on campus ac-
-cording to the same standards
applied to other student
.groups. But the Renton school
district argued that the Wash-
ington constitution set a
higher standard for separating
religious activities from public
schools and pushed for a ruling
giving the state the last word.
Last March, the 9th Circuit
ruled against the district, say-
ing the federal Equal Access
Act, as upheld in the 1990 Ne-
braska case, supersedes the
state constitution.
"If the (federal law) did not
preempt state law, then states
could freely opt out of its re-
quirements," the appealscourt
said. "Congress did not intend
to permit the states to thwart
its objectives by outlawing
speech based on its religious
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- By
refusing to hear two cases, the
Supreme Court let stand a rul-
ing saying religion clubs may
meet at Washington state pub-
lic schools and allowed a Con-
necticut case against Opera-
tion Rescue to continue.
In orders issued Oct. 4, the
first day of" the new term, the
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nate on that basis."
The Supreme Court did not
comment in refusing to hear
the school district's appeal Oct.
4.
In the Operation Rescue
case, the court let stand an
order from the 2nd U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals instructing a
Connecticut U.S. district court
to consider the possibility that
the anti-abortion group vio-
lated the 1871 Civil Rights Act.
In 1989 the district court
granted an injunction against
Operation Rescue under the
1871 law, which was created to
control activities of the Ku
Klux Klan that interfered with
interstate travel to exercise
civil rights.
After the Supreme Court
ruled this January in a case
from Virginia that the Klan
Act was not applicable to abor-
tion clinic blockades, the ap-
peals court sent the Connecti-
cut case back to the lower
court. The circuit court in-
structed the district court to
reconsider the injunction in
light of the Virginia ruling and
possibly find the application of
the Klan Act valid.
The 12 Operation Rescue
demonstrators included in the
injunction appealed, saying the
circuit court's order was an at-
tempt to evade the Supreme
Court's January ruling "by
leaving the door to the federal
courthouse wide open to con-
tinued litigation by opponents
of Operation Rescue sit-in
protests."
In rejecting the appeal by
Operation Rescue, the
Supreme Coart did not
comment.
Vocations
effort: A need
to be asked
Vocation Awareness Week is
schedueld Oct. 10 -- 16, wrote
Father David Fleck in a letter
to priests, pastoral life coordi-
nators, principals and DREs in
the Diocese of Ewnsville. Fa-
ther Fleck, pastor of St. Philip
Church, St. Philip, is Vocation
Team Leader for the diocese.
"We need to challenge gifted
individuals" to consider a voca-
tion to priesthood or religious
life, wrote Father Fleck. He
noted that some persons have
thought about the possibility of
a vocation, but were never in-
vited to consider it.
He also encouraged prayer
during the week and through-
out the year.
iIiIng i
: A Russi Catholic otrl I
lamented the failu of Rs I
ian to I
pret he bl0dy M€w i
battles between foilowers of
President Boris Yeltsin and I
i supporters of dissident legis,
!lators barricaded:in the
Russian parliament build'
ing: Mediati0n effos might
have had better success if
publicity, said Dominican
Father Alexander Khmelnit,
sky, director of the informa:
tion center of the apostolic
administration for European
Russia: : .....
Priest 'quiltv!
James A, Porter, a former!
Catholic priest, pleaded
! guilty Oct. 4 to molesting
= more than 30 children in the:
early 1960s in three differ':
ent Massachusetts parishes.
In Superior Court in New
Bedford, he pleaded guilty to
more than 40 counts of
sodomy, indecent "assault
and child molestation, He is
due to be sentenced Dec. 61
Porter's case has been called
the worst ever of pedophilia
by a member of the clergy in
the United States:
Priest sentenced
A German Catholic priest
-- whom the court did not
-'--has
r
Leaders unite
President A1 Gore !
joined :the leade of mior. !
Christian and: Jesh :orgai
nizations Oct, 4 as they|
launched the National Reli' !
gious Partnership for the l
Environment, Partners in
the new campaign are the
U.S. Catholic Conference,:
the National Council of
Churches, the :Consultation
on Environment Jewish
Life and the Evgeli Em
vironmental Netw 0rk.
Essays,sought
Catholic Relief Services,
the U.S. bishops' overseas
development and relie
agency, has launched ana
tional essay contest for hi.
school student& The winner
-- thcee students and their
sponsoring teachers will
travel next year to Gamhia
in West Africa to observe
CRS development program
in that count,
Students Sing informa-
ti0n or entry fos should
conct th
