Holy cow!
The Newman Center at the University of Minnesota is selling t-shirts with the emblem: "I'm young, I'm hip, and I'm Catholic." Proceeds will help pay for a group of students to attend the CTA National Conference in Detroit Nov. 14-16. They will participate with their liturgy and justice ministers, Jeri Cashman and Tom Conry, in presentations on how to prepare Sunday Masses which proclaim justice.

Religion and Ethics Newsweekly
That's the name of a new weekly news program that premiered Sept. 5 on public television. Grants of $5 million from the Lilly Endowment enable WNET, the public TV station in New York City, to produce the first season of 39 half-hour programs providing in-depth coverage of the top stories of the week relating to religion and ethics. Hosted by veteran former NBC-TV journalist Bob Abernethy. each show combines live and taped reports of breaking news with interviews and long-format features.

The Sept. 5 opening show featured an interview with Muslim-American leader W. D. Mohammed, and a report on portrayal of Catholic clergy on television, including a look at the controversy around ABC's new drama, "Nothing Sacred."

CTA priest gets warning
Fr. Frank Cordaro of Lacona, Iowa, a leader of CTA Iowa, was threatened with excommunication after he celebrated Eucharist with participants at the Lincoln, Neb., regional CTA conference in May. A letter from the chancellor of the Lincoln diocese of Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz said the priest would incur the penalty if he ever tried to perform any priestly functions in that diocese again.