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Issue Date: September 5, 2003 PEOPLE Catherine Pepinster, 44, has been named editor of The Tablet, the independent English Roman Catholic weekly review founded in 1840. Pepinster, the first woman in the post, is to begin her duties at the start of the new year. Currently executive editor of Londons The Independent on Sunday, she succeeds John Wilkins, who became editor in 1982.
Frank J. Macchiarola, president of St. Francis College in Brooklyn, is the newly elected president of the board of directors of the National Pastoral Life Center in New York. He succeeds Msgr. Philip J. Murnion, cofounder and executive director of the center, who had been president of the board since the centers founding. Murnion died of cancer Aug. 19. A national search is being conducted for a new executive director to succeed Murnion.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor and California gubernatorial candidate, has donated $1,000 to help with the restoration and renovation of the Cathedral of Christ the King in Superior, Wis. Schwarzenegger, who is Catholic, earned a bachelor of arts degree through the University of Wisconsin-Superiors extended degree program in 1979, and made several visits to the campus to complete the degree requirements. A diocesan official said Schwarzenegger was among the potential major donors contacted about the cathedral project and that he generously responded. Fr. George Arthur, 35, wears a collar and a badge, celebrating Mass back home in Ghana for hundreds of police officers and their families and checking out crime scenes, making arrests and settling disputes when hes not in church. Arthur, who recently completed a yearlong clinical pastoral education program with the New Orleans police department, says what would seem to American sensibilities to be an unusual mixture of spiritual and civic responsibilities is an accepted way of life in Ghana.
Jesuit Fr. James Gill Jesuit Fr. James J. Gill, 78, a psychiatrist who established the Christian Institute for the Study of Human Sexuality and founded Human Development magazine, died of cancer July 29 in Scottsdale, Ariz., after a lengthy illness. Gill specialized in treating the emotional problems of men and women religious. He worked from 1969 to 1994 as a psychiatrist with Harvard University Health Services and was associated with the Institute of Living in Hartford, Conn. Dominican Fr. William Cenkner Dominican Fr. William Cenkner, 72, an expert in Eastern religions, pioneer in interreligious dialogue and former dean of the religious studies school of The Catholic University of America, died in Miami Aug. 8. Cenkner joined Catholic University in 1969 as an assistant professor in the department of religion and religious education. From 1999 until his retirement in August 2002, he held the universitys Katherine Drexel Chair of Religious Studies. National Catholic Reporter, September 5, 2003 |
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