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...experience with the Church, I have found many role models for my moral and political convictions. I admire people like Archbishop Romero of El Salvador, the four American Maryknoll missionaries and six Jesuit priests who were martyred by rightwing terrorists because they dared to speak out for the poor. I look to people like the Epiphany Plowshares, a group of laypersons and clergy who were imprisoned for breaking into a missile assembly plant in Pennsylvania during an anti-war protest. Or a person like Mother Theresa of Calcutta, who devoted her life to helping the poorest of the poor...
Politically, the Catholic Church is truly catholic. The existence of Catholics like Archbishop Bernard Law does not make me a conservative any more than the existence of Catholic "liberation theology" makes me a revolutionary. One can be a Catholic and remain a free thinker...
...improve the quality of priests by selecting them more carefully, training them better in church doctrine and encouraging a clearer commitment to celibacy as a sign of their "countercultural" calling. "This is precisely why we need a celibate clergy, to make people ask what we are doing," said Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk. "If the church is singing the same tune as everyone else, then who needs the church...
...more than 92,000 during John Paul II's 12-year papacy. That is still far from adequate. Moreover, new recruits do not outnumber the priests who retire or die each year, but the net loss was down to 313 last year. "Overall the trend is positive," reported Archbishop Pio Laghi, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education...
Bishops around the world are called upon to write regulations tailoring the Pope's "general norms" to their own situations. According to Archbishop Pio Laghi, new head of the Vatican education office (and former Vatican pro- nuncio, or ambassador, to the U.S.), each nation's bishops will bear the responsibility of enforcing the regulations -- though perhaps by acting collectively, not as individuals...