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...most recent controversy came to a climax last week, when John Paul triumphed over strong local resistance and appointed Georg Eder, a conservative village priest, as Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria. It was the latest act in a long-running drama. Last month the Pope named an equally unpopular conservative as Archbishop of Cologne, West Germany, Europe's richest diocese. In January 1988 the Pontiff shocked the Irish clergy by picking a conservative metaphysician as Dublin's Archbishop. A few months before that, he had installed a longtime Vatican official as Primate of Brazil, where many bishops condone the leftist liberation...
...vexed, this time by the words of one of its favored churchmen. In a TV show on AIDS, the leading figure of the church in France, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, generally considered a pro-papal conservative, dutifully defended the church's moral tenets. But then Lustiger, who was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope John Paul II in 1981, added that those "who carry the virus and cannot live in chastity ((should)) use the proposed methods." That clearly meant condoms, though Lustiger did not utter the word. Last week in L'Express, he repeated his view. The Vatican made...
...Harris' opponents, including six bishops who head dioceses, are a small if troublesome faction. But elsewhere fully 20 of the 27 autonomous Anglican branches forbid women priests and will doubtless reject women bishops as well. The world leader of Anglicanism, Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, has been forced willy-nilly to join the rejectionists in his role as Primate of the Church of England. Runcie declared last month that unless church law changes, neither he nor any other English hierarch may recognize a woman bishop or the priests she ordains. Communion between the English and American churches survives, Runcie stated...
...prospects for peace inside and outside Israel falter, rumors fly in Christian neighborhoods about people seeking visas to move to North and South America. Since Christians are a minority, says the Greek Catholic patriarchal vicar in Jerusalem, Archbishop Loutfi Laham, they "need stabilization and peace in order to stay here." For the moment, at least, the fears of a disappearing flock appear exaggerated, judging by estimates from Israeli sources. They show that there are 103,000 Christians in Israel, including the Jerusalem area, compared with only 67,000 in 1967. During the same period, the total number of believers...
...ruling and Dignity's equally blunt response forced the hand of the U.S. hierarchy. Since then, 20 of the country's 187 dioceses have banished Dignity meetings from church premises. Among dioceses with large homosexual populations, the last holdout was San Francisco. But early in November that city's Archbishop, John Quinn, finally summoned the local Dignity leaders to a polite showdown. When they stood by their gay-is-good policy, he informed them that Dec. 18 will mark the last in a 15-year series of Sunday-night Dignity Masses in the city's Catholic churches. Last week Quinn...