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...Archbishop freely admitted other points in Rome's indictment, including the charge that he allowed Dignity, a group of Catholic homosexuals, to celebrate Mass in his cathedral. But he pointed out that "many bishops" had permitted similar services. (Only three weeks ago, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in a tough statement, insisted bishops avoid recognition of Catholic groups that implicitly treat homosexuality as benign or oppose church teaching that homosexual behavior is sinful...
...Seattle and said its procedures properly protect both individual rights and the good of the church. Indeed, the bishops declared that they "affirm unreservedly their loyalty to and unity with the Holy Father." Hunthausen's allies managed one triumph: deletion of the assertion that Vatican treatment of the Archbishop of Seattle was "just and reasonable." The bishops also offered their future "assistance" to all parties...
Such a visitation to Rome presumably would be led by Malone's successor, Archbishop John L. May, 64, of St. Louis, who was elected to a three-year term as the bishops' president. May, the expected winner as outgoing vice president and part of the moderate-to-progressive group that has long led the bishops' conference, outpolled Bernard Cardinal Law. The Boston Cardinal had staked out a claim to conservative leadership by stating last month that John Paul would have been "irresponsible" if he had not clamped down on Hunthausen...
Other voting reflected divisions among the bishops. In the second ballot for a new vice president, Law received 39% and Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, a May-style moderate, 34%. Milwaukee's liberal Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who has implied that there are similarities between the Pope's clampdown and inquisitions of the past, drew 26%. Pilarczyk eventually won. In elections of U.S. representatives to a Vatican synod next year, moderates and liberals joined forces to elect Weakland and again bypass...
...Roman Catholic Church, which on the whole has reacted mildly to the growing clamor for more sex education, has been anything but docile about the clinics' birth-control services. Two weeks ago Archbishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeles issued a heated pastoral letter calling for "all those who value the family and have hope for the future of our children" to join him in vigorous protest against a proposal to establish three school-based clinics. In Boston, Bernard Cardinal Law denounced four proposed health clinics that would provide contraceptives in junior and senior high schools. In an 86-page attack...