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An Interfaith Giant from page A5

been deepened and strengthened."
Amen.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2009

The Great Beyond
Vigneron, who once led the local
Sacred Heart Seminary and later
was a Vatican administrator, will
be the 10th archbishop since
Pope Gregory XVI authorized the
Archdiocese of Detroit in 1833. By
all indicators, Vigneron, a former
altar boy, is bound to continue the
Church's strong ties with the estab-
lished Jewish community here. He
also will aim to further strengthen
bonds with the growing Muslim
community.
Michigan Jews and Catholics
differed sharply on last year's state
ballot proposal to expand embry-
onic stem cell research, but that
issue was never seen specifically as
a Jewish-Catholic battleground.
Looking ahead, I echo the
American Jewish Committee-Metro
Detroit chapter's call for Jews and
Catholics to sustain the dialogue
begun under the cardinal, who
made such interplay a priority.
Kari Alterman, the Bloomfield
Township-based AJC executive
director, should find plenty of sup-
port in her praise: "We respect and
appreciate the many contributions
that Cardinal Maida has made
to the community, especially the
impact he has made on interfaith
and race relations."
I'm sure the archbishop-desig-
nate will have an overflow agenda
the moment he moves up in the
archdiocese hierarchy. But it's
important that he seeks to bolster
Cardinal Maida's spiritual bridges,
which help connect the region.
I just hope the cardinal stays
involved in such bridge building.
He'd remain a moral force.
As Rabbi Syme put it, "When
Cardinal Maida speaks, you know
you are in the presence of someone
who is extraordinary in so many
ways."

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january 22 . 2009

Does the pope speak
for the U.S. Catholic
community?