June 1988 Print

 

TWO AMERICANS AMONG 25 NAMED NEW CARDINALS BY POPE JOHN PAUL

By Sari Gilbert

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a move to emphasize the "universality" of the Roman Catholic Church and to strengthen it in areas like the Soviet Union and China, Pope John Paul II has appointed 25 new cardinals from 18 countries.

Two of the appointments also opened the way for significant changes at the top of the Vatican bureaucracy. On May 30 the Vatican announced that Archbishop Angelo Sodano, 60, an Italian, and Archbishop Edward Cassidy, 63, an Australian, will replace the newly appointed Cardinals Achille Silvestrini and Eduardo Martinez Somalo, who previously held the two top posts in the Council for Public Affairs, the equivalent of the Vatican's foreign ministry.

The surprise announcement of the new cardinal appointments, which came at the end of the pope's Sunday morning Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, awards cardinal's hats to two Americans, Archbishop James A. Hickey of Washington, D.C., and Archbishop Edmund C. Szoka of Detroit, bringing the number of U.S. cardinals to nine.

Two Americans were among the 25 named cardinals by Pope John Paul II on May 29. They are: James Aloysius Hickey (left) and Edmund Casimir Szoka. Hickey was born Oct. 11, 1920, in Midland, Mich. One time rector of the N. American College in Rome, he became Bishop of Cleveland in 1974 and Archbishop of Washington in 1980. His episcopal motto is: "To carry the truth in charity to all." Cardinal Szoka was born Sept. 14, 1927, in Grand Rapids, Mich. He became Archbishop of Detroit in 1981 and is chairman of Catholic Telecommunications Network of America. His episcopal motto is: "To live in faith."

The 25 most recent cardinals brings to 85—or more than half the total 161 in the college of cardinals—the number appointed by Pope John Paul II.

Another American who had been widely touted to become a cardinal, 52-year-old Archbishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, was not promoted at this time reportedly because of his young age. Passed over again was Archbishop Paul Marcinkus of Cicero, Ill., who is head of the Vatican Bank. Archbishop Marcinkus' chances to become a cardinal are believed to have been damaged, possibly permanently, by the 1982 scandal involving the Vatican Bank.

The new cardinals will be elevated on June 28 at a Vatican consistory, the fourth held by John Paul since his election in 1978. The appointments bring the college of cardinals to its largest size ever, although only 121 of the "princes of the Church" are under 80, the cutoff age for being eligible to vote in a papal conclave. One of the cardinals reportedly will turn 80 within a month, bringing the number of eligible voters to 120, the limit set on electors in 1975 by Pope Paul VI.

Along with the two Americans, the new cardinals include four Italians, two each from Brazil, India and Spain, and one from each of the following countries: Australia, Austria, Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, France, West Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Lithuania, Mauritius, Mozambique and Switzerland.

Among the new cardinals is Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, 82, the only non-bishop elevated.*

When he announced the appointments, the pope stressed that all the continents are represented and that this is a sign of the "universality" of the Church.

Vatican officials, however, emphasized as particularly significant the appointment of a cardinal in Lithuania, the most Catholic of the Soviet republics, and in Hong Kong, which in 1997 will come under the rule of China. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro said the choices were not "symbolic" but described them as "options for the future."

During the announcement the pope again said he would not reveal the name of the cardinal he named "in pectore," secretly or "in his heart," in 1979 but who is believed to be Lithuanian Julijonas Steponavicius. Thus, Vincentas Sladkevicius, the 67-year-old apostolic administrator of Kaisiadorys, became the first publicly-named cardinal in Lithuania and the second resident cardinal in the Soviet Union. In a 1983 consistory, John Paul elevated Julijans Vaivods of Latvia.

Appointed president of the Lithuanian Episcopal Conference in April, Monsignor Sladkevicius was prevented from performing his religious duties by the Soviets between 1963 and 1982. His appointment is thus seen as an affirmation by the pope of Catholicism in Lithuania, where more than half of the population of 3.5 million is believed to be Catholic. The primate of Hungary, Archbishop Laszlo Paskai, was also elevated to cardinal.

The appointment of 63-year-old Archbishop John Baptist Wu Cheng-Chung of Hong Kong as cardinal is viewed as a move to strengthen the Catholic Church in what will be another Communist-dominated area. There has been no resident cardinal inside China since the Communists took over in 1949. China and the Vatican have not had official ties since 1957. And despite rumors that many Chinese Catholics remain loyal to the pope, a government-inspired breakaway patriotic church now claims three million members. According to the agreement between the United Kingdom and China, after 1997 the British colony will pass to Chinese sovereignty.

 

Updating African Hymnal: 'Must We Portray Jesus As White?'

By Ray Waddle

NASHVILLE — Following their American counterparts, United Methodists in Zimbabwe are poised to update their own hymnal. But don't look for them to plunge into debate over what to call God, as the Americans did.

Instead of pondering whether to call God something other than "father," the 100,000 Zimbabwean Methodists are more likely to question another church tradition—the portrayal of Jesus as white.

"We ask, 'Why is Jesus always portrayed as white in church literature? Is he just for whites — or for blacks too?'" Patrick Matsikenyiri, a church music professional from the southern African country, said in a recent interview here.

Mr. Matsikenyiri, one of 20 committee members who will soon revise the Zimbabwean Methodist hymnal, predicts the assignment will be a relatively placid affair.

"The language struggle you are in hasn't surfaced in our society," said Mr. Matsikenyiri, a composer and schoolmaster.

The newly adopted United Methodist Hymnal, approved overwhelmingly by delegates to the church's General Conference in St. Louis in early May, was forged after three years of vigorous debate over use of the term "father" as a reference to God in some hymns. Ultimately, much of the male imagery was dropped on grounds that it was sexist.

"We're concerned now with using words like 'chairperson,' but we don't have much controversy over calling God 'father,' said Mr. Matsikenyiri. "The reason is people haven't questioned the place of the father in the home. They continue to give reverence to the father in that context."

During his visit here, Mr. Matsikenyiri spent time visiting the United Methodist Publishing House, which produced the new United Methodist Hymnal, and consulting with the hymnal's editor, Carlton Young.

The Zimbabwe Methodists' current hymnal, produced in 1964, contains mostly American and European hymns. The new hymnal, to be published by the Zimbabwe Annual Methodist Conference, will boast a greater variety of indigenous African Christian songs, but the majority of hymns will remain Western.

 

CURRAN CHARGES CATHOLIC U. WITH RENEGING ON OFFER; REINSTATES SUIT

By William Bole

WASHINGTON — The Rev. Charles Curran has accused the Catholic University of America of reneging on an agreement to reinstate him as a professor of moral theology at the institution.

The noted theologian announced at a May 17 news conference here that he would reactivate a civil court suit against the church-run university.

"The Catholic University of America has unilaterally broken its contract with me by refusing to offer me a tenured position in my area of competence," said Father Curran, who was joined by his lawyers. "Its action is tantamount to dismissal and is a violation of the principles and procedures of academic freedom and tenure."

The dispute between Father Curran and church authorities appeared to be resolved in April when the university's 42-member board of trustees handed down a compromise decision.

Acting on an August 1986 disciplinary measure by the Vatican, the board removed his authorization to teach in the university's Vatican-licensed Department of Theology. At the same time, the board said in its April 12 statement that it would offer the priest "an alternative teaching assignment within an area of his professional competence."

Rome's Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had earlier declared Father Curran neither "suitable nor eligible" to teach as a Catholic theologian because of his dissent from church teachings on sexual ethics. It has been one of the most publicized cases of dissent within the Catholic Church.

At the news conference, Father Curran said the university did not hold true to its offer. He said university negotiators demanded that "I sign a statement saying that I would not teach Catholic theology at the Catholic University of America."

According to Father .Curran, the university also placed restrictions on who he could teach, saying no theology students would be able to take his classes.

Designated to spearhead the negotiations were Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernadin, who chairs the board; Archbishop James Hickey of Washington, the university's chancellor, and the Rev. William J. Byron, university president. The board has equal numbers of lay and clerical members.

The priest said he is willing to take the only position that the board offered him—in the Department of Sociology. He said he would have preferred to teach in the Department of Religion and Religious Education, which is separate from theology and where the faculty had unanimously invited him to join them.

He said he is also willing, as university negotiators insisted, to have his title changed from professor of moral theology to that of "Christian social ethics," which is a discipline within theology.

But the priest said he cannot agree to stipulations against teaching theology or theological students. "I cannot sign a statement that says I cannot teach theology at Catholic University. That's who I am," he said.

"I have to conclude that the statement by the trustees at their April 12 meeting was cynical," Father Curran said. "I do not think they ever had the intention of truly offering me a position in my area of competence."

Anne Smith, a spokeswoman for the university, said there would be no immediate response to Father Curran's charges until officials had a chance to review his remarks.

Father Curran said he would go ahead with the court battle to win back his teaching post. The New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, handling the case pro bono, has filed a suit on the priest's behalf in District of Columbia Superior Court.

On April 5, Judge Bruce Beaudin rejected a motion by the university to dismiss the suit. He also accepted arguments by Father Curran's lawyers that the case should center on the termination of the priest's contract as a tenured professor. The case is scheduled to go to trial in September.

"I'm not doing this for what's in it for me," said Father Curran, who has described his case as a battle for academic freedom in the Catholic Church. He said he is seeking to have the civil courts "force Catholic University to live up to what it means to be an American institution of higher education."

Curran attorney Paul C. Saunders said the court is being asked to order the priest "reinstated in the Theology Department of Catholic University."

 

Detective resigns force; abortion arrests 'compromised' beliefs

By Darrell Turner

A 10-year veteran of the Jackson, Mississippi, police force has resigned after arresting three people during an anti-abortion demonstration, saying he "came to the realization that what is lawful is not necessarily good and righteous."

Joe Daniels, 31, was a detective in the police department's child protection division when he was called in to help arrest 64 of about 150 protesters who were charged with trespassing at the Mississippi Women's Medical Clinic May 14.

Mr. Daniels told Lisa Uzzle of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger that he arrested a woman and her husband who were protesting with a small child and also arrested a pregnant woman at the demonstration. He said that while he was taking them to the precinct, they told him he was allowing abortions to be committed because he had removed them from the protest.

According to Mr. Daniels, the demonstrators began praying for him out loud. The United Methodist layman said this led him to realize that he had compromised his Christian beliefs. After taking the three adults to his office and completing arrest procedures, he typed a letter of resignation. He discussed his plans with his wife, Annette, who supported his decision, and turned in his resignation to Police Chief L.C. Smith that afternoon.

"I argued with myself that I've always taken pleasure in arresting the bad guys," Mr. Daniels said. "I prided myself in my ability to bring the scales of justice to balance. But in this case, I have confused the good guys with the bad guys, and I have made a grievous error."

Mr. Daniels said the police chief accepted his resignation and told him that "as far as he was concerned, any person who allows religious convictions to override responsibility to enforcing the law had no business being a police officer."

The former police officer said he has no job plans but promised that his wife would be able to continue taking care of their two children at home.

"She will not work if I have to dig ditches," he said. "And I'll dig ditches to the glory of God."

 

CHICAGO ARCHDIOCESE TO TAKE OVER DIGNITY-SPONSORED MASSES

By Religious News Service

In a move that he predicted would draw criticism "by both the right and the left," Cardinal Joseph L. Bernadin announced that the Archdiocese of Chicago will assume sponsorship of Sunday evening Masses that have been conducted by Dignity, the Catholic organization that ministers to homosexuals.

He announced the decision in a statement read at the May 15 Mass at St. Sebastian's Roman Catholic Church and discussed it in person the following day at a meeting of the archdiocesan priest's senate.

The Masses were begun more than 17 years ago by the host parish, and the Chicago chapter of Dignity assumed official sponsorship in 1972. Cardinal Bernadin said the "turning point" came last August when Dignity, at its national convention in Miami, changed its orientation "to one of advocacy for a position at variance with the moral code with the church."

He was referring to a resolution that was adopted at the convention calling for an "openness to discussion on the morality of homosexual acts." The Catholic Church's position calls for compassion and ministry to persons of homosexual orientation but condemns homosexual acts as intrinsically evil.

Cardinal Bernadin told the priest's senate that some homosexuals would see his announcement "more as a political move on my part than anything else." But, he said, "for me it's a matter of integrity, personal integrity as well as institutional integrity."

Hal Wand, executive assistant at the Chicago chapter of Dignity, told RNS that members had expressed a variety of reactions to the cardinal's announcement. He said some were "grateful" that the archdiocese was continuing a ministry to homosexuals, while others were "concerned that Dignity is being left out of the picture."

Mr. Wand noted that the cardinal invited the clergy and laity who had been taking part in the Masses to continue to do so, but as individuals rather than Dignity members. He said the Chicago chapter, which has about 200 active members, will discuss the new arrangement at a May 29 meeting and come up with an official response at that time.

Sister Joy Clough, the archdiocese's press spokesperson, said the archdiocese "would hope that it would be seen as a Mass that welcomes people who feel estranged from their church because of bad experiences in the past."

 

EXCUSES, EXCUSES — ONE PASTOR STRIKES BACK, WITH A GIGGLE

By John Dunne

DUBLIN (RNS) — The Rev. Sudney Laing, rector of Tallaght, a large Dublin suburb, had heard all the time-worn excuses for why people don't attend church services.

With the switch of a word or two, he turned the excuses into a humorous piece of his Parish Paper under the heading, "Ten Reasons Why I Never Wash."

1)  I was made to wash as a child.

2)  People who wash are hypocrites... they reckon they are cleaner than other people.

3)  There are so many different kinds of soap, I could never decide which one was right.

4)  I used to wash, but it got boring so I stopped.

5)  I still wash on special occasions, like Christmas and Easter.

6)  None of my friends wash.

7)  I'm still young — when I'm older and have got a bit dirtier I might start washing.

8)  I really don't have time.

9)  The bathroom's never warm enough.

10)  People who make soap are only after your money.

 

THEOLOGIAN WARNS AGAINST VATICAN ATTEMPTS TO CONTROL DISSENT

By Willmar Thorkelson

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A woman theologian here warned that efforts by the Roman Catholic Church to control theological dissent could lead to a stagnation of leadership in the Vatican and schism among the laity.

"Continuing efforts in the Roman Catholic Church to apply prior censorship to theological debate by tighter controls over Catholic colleges and universities," said Dr. Monika Hellwig, could achieve the opposite of what is intended."

Dr, Hellwig, a professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., made the comments at a conference of presidents of U.S. Catholic colleges and universities. The gathering was held May 25 in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for Culture.

Speaking before the cardinal who heads the council and the priest who directs it, she said, "Exclusion of all contrary or critical positions may produce a central authority which does not grow or adapt and is therefore dead.

"It may be argued that a church in which the voice of dissent can be freely heard is much closer to the church of the Acts of the Apostles in which the newcomer, Paul, confronts the authority of Peter and prevails."

In her comments on colleges, Dr. Hellwig apparently was referring to a draft schema for a pontifical document that would tighten controls on theologians teaching in Catholic universities and colleges. The schema, which has been widely criticized by the Catholic academic community, will be discussed at an international meeting of Catholic educators in Rome next April.

"The awkward legal and constitutional situation of the Catholic universities and colleges in the United States," she said, "may prove to be a gift in disguise precisely because of these institutions. The principle of freedom of speech is guaranteed and academic freedom is insured by the secular charters and contracts which govern employment and activity of those institutions." The institutional church, she said, did not appreciate the theological reasons for religious freedom until the thinking of the Rev. John Courtney Murray, a theologian disciplined in the 1950s for his writings on church-state relations in the United States, finally prevailed during the Second Vatican Council. Father Murray, said Dr. Hellwig, "persevered against all official discouragement and reprimand and managed finally to bring the arguments in favor of religious liberty into the debates of the Second Vatican Council."

She said that American culture "will continue to challenge the institutional church's legal code and legal system as being somewhat less than truly human and therefore, certainly not a positive step towards the welcoming of the reign of God into the affairs of the human community."

On the other hand, she said the Catholic Church challenged American culture in such areas as "pervasive individualism, which tends to foster the assumption that any kind of competition for the resources of the world is justified and that the defense of private property, once accumulated, is a right that supercedes even the severest needs of others."

She said the church also could challenge the culture's "habit of evaluating people ... in terms of money" and its assumption that national sovereignty is justification for interference with other cultures.

 

N. CAROLINA CHILD SUSPENDED FOR PREACHING IN SCHOOLYARD

A 10-year-old boy whose father was arrested several times for street preaching in Chambersburg, Pa., has been suspended from school in Marion, N.C., for preaching in the school yard instead of attending classes.

"I'd rather get gold and silver up in heaven than an education down here," said Duffey Strode after he was suspended for the fourth time for his preaching on school grounds.

The boy spent 20 minutes on the grounds of Eastfield Elementary School in Marion calling faculty members "fornicators" and "adulterers" and hurling other biblical epithets in the rain before Assistant Principal Shirley Ramsey suspended him May 13.

Duffey's 5-year-old brother, Matthew, and his 6-year-old sister, Pepper, have also been suspended for the same offense. Their mother, Robin Strode, predicted that the dispute will probably end up in court.

Mrs. Strode said the family moved to North Carolina in January 1987 after her husband, David, won a lawsuit against city officials in Chambersburg, Pa. The suit was filed after Mr. Strode and Timothy J. Schuler of Hollsopple, Pa., were arrested several times and charged with disorderly conduct for street preaching.

In November, 1986, Franklin County Judge John W. Keller ruled that the two men had First Amendment rights that outweighed the disorderly conduct charges. Prosecutors said the charges were brought against the street preachers because of the volume of their preaching, not the content of their messages.

 

Detective Sees Link Between Crime, Satanism

CHICAGO — Teen-age crime growing out of devil worship is on the upswing nationwide, claims a police expert on Satanism here.

The crimes, says Chicago Detective Robert Simandl, include thefts of chalices from churches, grave robbing and animal mutilation—all carried out to obtain elements needed for devil worship.

And too often, he said in an interview, teenagers intent on pleasing the devil move on to ritual suicide or even murder.

Simandl, a 21-year Chicago police veteran, said that he, like many law officers today, was largely ignorant of satanic crime until he attended a conference on the subject in California six years ago. "I thought, 'We don't have any of that stuff in Chicago.' But I found out later we do."

He has studied Satanism ever since and is frequently asked to lecture to other police offers, educators and mental health workers.

Simandl says most teenagers who get involved in Satanism are "dabblers," usually bright under-achievers from middle-class and upper-middle-class homes. They're usually introduced to it by other teenagers who use easily obtained material from occult book shops.

More serious, he said, is the plight of those teenagers recruited by devil-worshiping adults who lure them with offers of free sex or free drugs.

"Then they're filmed in compromising sexual situations," he said, "and now that they've got the kids hooked, they're told to sell narcotics.

"One kid had to go through an initiation in which he was forced to bring in and kill his family's cat," he said. When it gets to animal mutilation, "many kids will start putting the brakes on, afraid they're getting in too deep. But some will start looking at the possibility of killing others or themselves."

Simandl urges parents not to be shy about searching their teenagers bedrooms. "Some parents believe their child's room should be sacred and don't wake up to what's going on until it's too late," he warned.

Recently, he said, a 14-year-old Chicago girl was brought to a psychiatric hospital after she tried to commit suicide. The parents showed the hospital staff devil-worship material they had found, Simandl said, "but they (the hospital workers) wrote it off and sent her home."

"We sat down with the parents and took it seriously. We went in and found a diary (known as a "Book of Shadows") written in the runic alphabet. When we translated it, we found she had promised the devil to kill herself by the next full moon."

A school principal, he said, searched a student's locker and found 100 pages of notes in which the student had promised to "sacrifice a female" by a certain date.

The principal also found a calendar with the rest of the pages ripped out because, the student said, "he wouldn't be needing it any more."

Both students, Simandl said, got psychiatric and anti-drug help.

Simandl said there's growing evidence of more serious forms of devil worship in the United States. He doesn't believe it's spreading as rapidly as teen-age Satanism, but that we are just now gaining new knowledge of it.

Some of the more serious practitioners he describes as self-styled Satanists who may have scanty knowledge of Satanism but who use it to justify their own bizarre crimes.

In this category he puts convicted Illinois murderer Robin Gecht, who mutilated prostitutes, killed them and afterward ritually ate parts of their bodies.

Psychiatrists, he said, are also beginning to take more seriously mental patients who tell of being kidnapped as children and forced into pornography or prostitution amid trappings of devil worship.

Equally chilling, he said, are increasing instances of satanic abuse of children in day-care centers. In one case, he said, a 4-year-old girl was sexually abused, then told to draw a picture of a bunny rabbit. After she did, he said, a real rabbit was brought into the room and killed before her eyes. This will happen to you, she was told, if you tell your parents.

To add to the psychological terror, Simandl said, her drawing of a rabbit was sent home to her parents with a note of praise. The unknowing parents posted the drawing on the refrigerator, where it would be a daily reminder to their child not to talk.

Simandl studiously avoids discussing the moral dimensions of devil worship because, he said, its practice is constitutionally protected as freedom of religion, as long as it doesn't involve breaking the law.

 

CATHOLICS PROTEST RENOVATIONS TO CATHEDRAL ALTAR

CORPUS CHRISTI — About 40 Catholics, some wearing black arm bands and carrying signs reading "Preserve Our Sanctuary," prayed outside the Corpus Christi Cathedral yesterday to protest renovations to the church's cherished altar.

The altar, which has a marble backdrop and an elaborate gold crucifix, has been a beloved fixture of the church since the cathedral opened in 1940. The altar has been unchanged for more than 20 years.

"I made my first communion before the altar when I was seven," said organizer Bette Hoelscher, a member of the church for 40 years.

"I was married there in 1960. All of my five children were baptized there. My daughter, Peggy, was married there and my father's funeral was performed in front of the altar."

Bishop Rene Gracida recently decided to renovate it to conform to a church law which calls for the Blessed Sacrament to be separate from the altar, said the cathedral's pastor, Monsignor Hugh Clarke.

The Blessed Sacrament is the church's holy vessel which contains the Holy Eucharist, or "body of Christ." When work at the church is completed in December, it will be moved to a separate room next to the altar, he said.

The group of disappointed parishioners outside the church recited the Rosary while carrying signs that read. "Preserve Our Sanctuary," "Our Love of God is Reflected in our Church," and "We Mourn for the Loss of Our Sanctuary."

Before the outdoor demonstration, Hoelscher led a group of about 100 parishioners in a special prayer service following the noon Mass.

"We have come together today to share our sorrow and even our anger over what is happening in our beloved cathedral," she said.

"As a community, we feel the need to be together to share our grief. This is an emotional response to a real trauma in our lives."

Hoelscher said she is not alone in her memories of important life events performed at the alter. Other parishioners remember baptisms, first communions, weddings, confirmations, ordinations of priests, and funerals at the old altar.

"The entire sprectrum of our faith, like a living icon, has been framed by this sanctuary," she said. "Now the sanctuary as we know it will be no more. Perhaps some of the changes were necessary, but such a radical departure from the familiar is hard to bear."

Hoelscher said that Gracida's decision showed the "dictatorial behavior" sometimes displayed by church hierarchy.

"We are deeply hurt," she said. "We are angry. We are confused. We need to express these feelings to our bishop, and then we need to find a way to heal, to forgive, and to go on."

"The people grew up there, and they love the cathedral as it is," the monsignor said. "This today was a protest not of anger, but of love."

The bishop is also following what has been done in the downtown cathedral in Miami and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, where the Blessed Sacrament was moved to a different room, Clarke said.

Work on the altar began in April and is expected to be finished in December. A wooden partition has been placed over the part of the altar being repaired so that regular services can take place, Clarke said.

The last change in the church's altar came in the 1960s, when Catholic church law mandated that a more modern altar had to be built so priests could face their congregation during their services, Clarke said.

Hoelscher said the bishop is twisting church law his own way. "The hierarchy is always quoting canon law to prove their point—but it is like the Bible—anyone can use it in their own defense." Hoelscher said.

The group does not plan to continue protesting the bishop's decision, she added.

"I would hope he would just stop and think and ask people what it is they really want, since we're the church," said Marilyn Fields, a 17-year member of the church who was at the demonstration.

"I don't think he (the bishop) made a bad decision," Fields said. "I just disagree with him removing the focal point of the cathedral."

Bill Hoelscher holds placard at protest over modernization of altar.

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*. See page 17 for an article written by this new cardinal about the Ecône Seminary.