• Family Video Pick Is Yellow Submarine (99-227)
  October 1, 1999
  The 1-800-311-4CCC movie line reviews Double Jeopardy for the week of October 1-7. Also included on the toll-free line is a review of Yellow Submarine, this week's suggested home video for family viewing.
• USCC Applauds President's Announcement on Debt Relief for Poor Countries (99-228)
  October 4, 1999
  Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, Chairman of the International Policy Committee, United States Catholic Conference, applauded President Clinton's pledge to cancel all U.S.-held debts of the world's poorest countries if they use the savings to "finance basic human needs."
• Bishops' Spokesman Urges Support for Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Says Bishops Will Seek to Mobilize the Catholic Community in its Behalf
  (99-230)
  October 7, 1999
  Bishop John J. Glynn of the International Policy Committee of the Catholic Bishops' Conference, who is also Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, today urged the U.S. Senate to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). He said the Bishops are seeking to mobilize the Catholic community in support of the treaty.
• Random Hearts Strikes Out (99-231)
  October 8, 1999
  The 1-800-311-4CCC movie line reviews Random Hearts for the week of October 8-14. Also included on the toll-free line is a review of Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, this week's suggested home video for family viewing.
• Actors, Writer, Baseballer to be Guests on Personally Speaking, Catholic Communication Campaign's Weekly Talk Show (99-232)
  October 8, 1999
  Actors Edward Hermann and Elaine Stritch, writer Celia Straus and former baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn will be featured on Personally Speaking, the weekly talk show produced by the United States Catholic Conference's Catholic Communication Campaign in October.
• Rejection of Test Ban Treaty is Defeat for Arms Control, Blow to Moral Credibility of U.S., Says President of Catholic Bishops (99-233)
  October 14, 1999
  The President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops said Senate rejection of the nuclear test ban treaty is "a major defeat for arms control" and will also be "a blow to the moral credibility of the United States on this issue."
• It Came from Outer Space Is this Week's Family Video Pick (99-234)
  October 15, 1999
  The 1-800-311-4CCC movie line reviews Random Hearts for the week of October 15-21. Also included on the toll-free line is a review of It Came from Outer Space, this week's suggested home video for family viewing.
• Card. Keeler Urges House Support for Pain Relief Promotion Act (99-235)
  October 18, 1999
  Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore urged the full House of Representatives to support the Pain Relief Promotion Act and help ensure its enactment this year.
• Seminary Rector Named Bishop of Springfield as Bp. Ryan Resigns (99-236)
  October 18, 1999
  Pope John Paul II accepted the resignation of Bishop Daniel L. Ryan as Bishop of Springfield in Illinois and appointed Monsignor George Lucas, Rector of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, St. Louis, as his successor.
• Bishops to Catholics: Get Politically Involved in 2000 Election (99-229)
  October 19, 1999
  The U.S. bishops are pressing the nation's more than 60 million Catholics to get politically involved in the 2000 elections and have urged them to make moral principles and care for the weak their guide.
• Cardinal Urges Support for Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act; Senate Vote Expected this Week (99-237)
  October 19, 1999
  Cardinal William Keeler has urged Senate support for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. He said partial-birth abortion, wherein an infant is killed after being forcibly partially delivered outside his or her mother's body, is a procedure "more akin to infanticide than abortion."
• November Pitches (99-239)
  October 20, 1999
• Novemer Events (99-240)
  October 20, 1999
• Bishops' Head Asks Israeli Goverment Revise Policy on Mosque; Says Church in U.S. Stands in Solidarity with Church in Jerusalem (99-241)
  October 21, 1999
  In a strongly worded letter today to Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza, President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops/U.S. Catholic Conference (NCCB/USCC), urged that Israel revise its current policy permitting the building of a mosque on public land adjacent to the Basilica of the Annunication in Nazareth.
• NCCB Official Asks Investigation of Reports on Fetal Body Parts (99-242)
  October 21, 1999
  An official of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) today called on Congress to investigate reports that abortion clinics are committing infanticide and performing abortions in ways calculated to produce the maximum of fresh human body parts for sale.
• Conference Official Hails Passage of Partial-birth Abortion Ban (99-243)
  October 22, 1999
  Gail Quinn, Executive Director of the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a statement today on passage by the Senate of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. The Senate passed the abortion ban by a vote of 63-34, October 21.
• Abp. McCarrick Urges Payment of UN Arrears, Reinstatement of Mexico City Policy (99-244)
  October 22, 1999
  In a letter to a congressional committee, Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick expressed support for payment of UN arrears as well as for reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy, which prohibited U.S. funding of non-governmental organizations that violate the abortion laws of foreign countries.
• 1-800 Movie Line Reviews Bringing out the Dead (99-245)
  October 22, 1999
  The 1-800-311-4CCC movie line reviews Bringing out the Dead for the week of October 22-28. Also included on the toll-free line is a review of The Wizard of Oz, this week's suggested home video for family viewing.
• Bp. Barbarito Named to Ogdensburg; Bp.-Elect Kurtz to Knoxville (99-246)
  October 25, 1999
  Pope John Paul II appointed Auxiliary Bishop Gerald M. Barbarito of Brooklyn as Bishop of Ogdensburg, New York, and named Monsignor Joseph E. Kurtz, Director of Catholic Charities, Diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania, as Bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee.
• Cardinal Keeler Hails House Vote on Pain Relief Promotion Act (99-247)
  October 27, 1999
  Cardinal William H. Keeler said today's overwhelming vote by the House of Representatives to approve the Pain Relief Promotion Act (HR 2260) "should mark a turning point in our nation's efforts to promote the comfort and dignity of seriously ill patients."
• Statements on Charity, Elderly, Jubilee Year, Plan for Adult Faith Formation, Implementation Norms for Catholic Higher Education, Are on Agenda for the Bishops' Fall Meeting Here (99-255)
  October 28, 1999
  Approval of pastoral messages on Charity and on the Blessings of Age, a pastoral plan for adult faith formation, implementation of norms for Catholic higher education in the United States, and a message for the JubileeYear are among many agenda items at the fall general meeting of the nation's Catholic bishops.

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