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...Anglican bishop who became a celebrated target of homosexual "outing" today was named Archbishop of York, the Church of England's second-highest post. The Right Rev. David Hope, the bishop of London, last month disclosed he had come under pressure from Outrage!, a group that encourages homosexuals to publicly declare their sexual orientation. He insisted he has lived a celibate life, as Christian teaching requires of the unmarried, and declined to label himself as either heterosexual or homosexual. Ironically,TIME religion writer Richard Ostlingreports, the promotion is no gay lib step, but a sop to traditionalists: Hope...
Other possible Italian candidates include Silvano Piovanelli, 70, of Florence, and Pio Cardinal Laghi, 72, who heads the Congregation for Catholic Education. Both have conservative credentials. And then there is Giacomo Biffi, 66, the Archbishop of Bologna. Biffi, for whom John Paul reportedly has a soft spot, likes to bait Italy's liberal press with his diatribes against gays, feminists, AIDS victims, unwed mothers and pro-choice activists. He has led a campaign to abolish the music of Mozart and Schubert from the Mass, and he once likened ordaining women as priests to celebrating Communion with Coca- Cola. Says...
Among the Italians, the best-known candidate is Carlo Maria Martini. As the Archbishop of Milan, Europe's largest archdiocese, Martini, 67, is promoted by moderate Catholics as the single most papabile prince of the Roman Catholic Church. Suave, brilliant, cosmopolitan, he hews closely to John Paul's dogma but is reputed to harbor less conservative inclinations. Some are convinced Martini could spur reform on issues such as celibacy and women priests. On contraception, he once said, "I believe the Church's teaching has not been expressed so well . . . I'm confident we will find some formula to state things...
Among the front-running Cardinals from this camp are the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Bernardin Gantin, 72, of the West African nation of Benin, and Lucas Moreira Neves, 69, a descendant of slaves and Archbishop of Salvador in Brazil. The name most frequently invoked, however, is that of Francis Cardinal Arinze, the charming and efficient Archbishop from Nigeria who heads the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue. A convert at the age of nine from the animist faith of the Igbo tribe, Arinze, now 62, enjoys robust health (he is an avid tennis player) and almost legendary status...
...Europeans have other papabili, among them Godfried Cardinal Danneels, 61, of Belgium. And then there is another prominent convert: Jean-Marie Lustiger, 68, the Archbishop of Paris. Lustiger was born a Jew, the son of Polish emigres to France (his mother would die in Auschwitz). Abandoning his original name, Aaron, he adopted Catholicism as a teenager, a move that hurt his parents terribly. Lustiger is a trusted confidant of John Paul's; when he first visited the Pope, John Paul's secretary, Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz, grabbed the Frenchman's arm and told him, "Remember, you are the fruit...