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ffimz&M^ ^mm^mm^^^m^^rm iftifn^^-^-^i^ + -*/ '--yi '^-'-•<t^ \ y-^i-A -*^>V*\ *> -„*< -s^^js^'f'-Siw^sffi^'S^tf* P^tners in ministry The diocese plans for pastoral leadership the 1990s with the Commitment to Ministry pro- cess and the hiring of a lay personnel director. Page 7. •$s$.fJ>Z'Z~- J?**4> J-* L - -V 4. K\ Whirlwind Week ., r \ ^Settioi;and^tepai school closings rfiade;fie^§jtoroughout thediiGe^tlstsf^eK^fh-both topfcs* proyoking -tresfc con- Vt&vezty mdrmtmmtlgageB. , <»* •**}« ^ Catholic Diocese of Rochester Education director resigns post By Teresa A. Parsons The director of the diocesan Division of Education, Sister Roberta Tierney, SSND, has announced she will resign in June. After more than 16 years serving as an dio- cesan educational ad- ministrator — the last 13 as education director — the 50-yeark)ld Rochester native will take a year's sabbatical, beginning June 30, 1989, be- fore returning to her roots in local parish min- istry. .Although Sister Tierney announced her res- ignation last week in the midst of a new wave of controversy over a proposed restructuring plan for the Catholic schools in the northeast qua- drant of Monroe County, she claims that her decision to resign opines after long considera- tion. i Four years ago, she said, counselors from the Connecticut province of her congregation, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, began question- ing her about future plans. Although Sister Tierney said the province gave her permission to begin a sabbatical last year and then to under- take a new ministry, she opted to delay her de- parture from the education division for a year: \I felt there were some projects we were still very much in the middle of,\ she explained, naming the Monroe County school-planning process and the development of certification standards for religious educators as two exam- ples. \This year, I felt that the tools for plan- • ning were in place, mat the research and back- ground had been done ... I don't feel that things will be abandoned.\ In addition to serving as administrative head- quarters for Catholic elementary and secondary schools throughout the 12-county diocese, the Division of Education, which Sister Tierney heads, encompasses the departments of reli- gious education, continuing education, youth ministry, communications and Christian family renewal. But the diocese had no divisional structure, when-the former principal of St. Philip Neri School succeeded Father Daniel Brent as dio- cesansuperintendant for schools in 1976. Nor were there any other women serving in the dio- cesan administration. At the time of her ap- 50 Cents Thursday. January 19, 1989 20 Pages Index Around the Diocese. Page 2 Calendar....: i Page 9 Classifieds Page 17 Columnists. „. Page 14-15 Editorial & Opinion Page 8 Entertainment Page K) ftatures Page8&20 In Depth Page 6-7 Local News i Page 3 Sports -v.. Page 12-13 W>rld& Nation Page 4-5 Youth Page 11 74470\73013' Visitors to the gallery were treated to a simulated Hindu wedding as part of the day's activities. The \bride Natasha Palit feeds \groom\ Prithvi Mrufhyunjaya some Indian wedding cake. Shashi Sharma (right) wraps volunteer Mabel Silver in a sari during \India Day: A Celebration of Indian Art and Culture\ Jan. 15, at the Memorial Art Gallery. , r Linda Dow Hayes -- Courier-Journal Sheena, Matthew and Veena Jayadeva adorn themselves with costumes and jewelry in preparation for their perfor- mance of an Indian dance. pointment, Sister Tierney was the only woman attending meetings of the state Catholic-school superintendants' association. *\\ She recalls her rapid advancement through diocesan school ranks as being unplanned. \I waMlways interested in education, in adminis- tration, and in working with people ... but it was not a planned progression of steps,\ she said. \I guess I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.'' A 1952 graduate of St. Michael's School in Rochester, she entered the School Sisters of No- tre Dame and earned a bachelor's degree in 1965 from Seton Hall University. After a brief stint as a teacher in Brooklyn, Sister Tierney re- turned to Rochester in 1962 to teach at St. Mar- garet Mary School in Irondequoit. Six' years later, she moved to St. Philip Neri as principal. After earning a master's degree in education from SUNY Buffalo, she was named diocesan assistant superintendant for curriculum in 1973, rising to deputy superintendant the following year. When former Bishop Joseph Hogan in 1978 reorganized the diocese into five divisions, he chose Sister Tierney, who was then school superintendant, to direct the education division, which at that time consisted only of Catholic-s- chool administration.and religious education. During her tenure as director, she helped to es- tablish the Office of Youth Ministry and th^&f- fice of Communications. She also worked to consolidate the diocese's various forms of edu- cational ministry, helping to bring about the 1979 transfer of the Department of Continuing Education from the Division of Personnel, and. helping to establish the diocesan Board of Edu- cation. Sister Tierney-credited 1 Bishops Hogan and Matthew Clark with the ease of her acceptance as an administrator. \I never felt that oecause I was a woman and not ordained I couldn't parti- cipate fully,\ she said. Sister tierney has presided over diocesan school administration during a tumultuous period of eroding enrollment, rising costs and school closings. She assumed the job in the wake of the demise of an inner-city network of schools and parishes, known'as the the Council of Inner City Parishes (CICP). Several years Continued on page 8 Anti-Semitic items sold by former Franciscan By Rob Cullivan ROCHESTER — \There is a Zionist cons- piracy to rule the world.\ \The Jews killed Christ and still work against his followers.\ \Jewish bankers have financed communist revolutions and are disproportionately rep- resented in leftist circles.\ Slogans of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party? Anti- Semitic rhetoric of another era? No, these are the assertions/6*f The Other Is- rael, a one-hour videotape riow on sale at the Franscican Friary's bookstore, 3376 Mt. Read Boulevard. The friary is^fun by Father Louis Vezelis, a former Franciscan who was expelled from the order in 1978. A vocal opponent of Vatican-II, he has frequently gained media at- tention for claiming the post-Vatican JJ Mass is illegitimate and that he is a Roman Catholic bishop. The tape, along with the bookstore's an- -Semitic literature, has now gained the atten- tion of local religious leaders, most notably the Rey. Kenneth Dean, pastor of First Baptist Church of Rochester. The Rev. Dean bought the tape and some an- ti-Semitic books at the bookstore, after learning of their availability two weeks ago. Since theii, he has met with a variety of local Christian and Jewish leaders, including Margery Numbere, diocesan director of ecumenical and interrefi- gious affairs, to discuss an appropriate re- sponse, j Nurnberg is also chairwoman of the Commis- sion for Christian-Jewish Relations, which is made of up local Christian churches and Jewi sh temples. She said the commission will meet Jan. 23 to discuss the literature. The Other Israel, narrated by the Rev.' Ted Pike, an independent Baptist minister from Oregon, combines traditional anti-Semitic ideas into a grand indictment of rabbinic Judaism as a whole, implicating rabbis in sex abuse and power-grabbing throughout Middle Eastern, Eastern European and*American history. The tape calls for a national movement to stem pro-Israeli sentiment in the U.S. political system, and implies that amid this movement, God will destroy the Jewish people in the process. The film cautions viewers not to assist God in destroying the Jews, implying mat violence — not anti-Semitism — is'the mistake that brought down the Nazis. The Rev. Dean said he had questioned a priest at the bookstore about The Other Israel and that the priest termed the film an \expose of Zionism.\ The minister thought otherwise. Continued on page 10
