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...elements in the confrontation were present last week in a tense meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington. The differences were embodied in a dispute that occupied much of the convocation: the ecclesiastical troubles of Seattle's Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen, 65, who earlier this year was stripped of some of his authority by Rome because of his tolerant outlook on homosexuality and other controversial subjects...
...Hunthausen case, a paradigm of such public controversy, erupted in September when the Archbishop revealed that Rome had quietly taken away his control over various aspects of doctrine and discipline and handed it to Seattle's newly named auxiliary bishop, Donald Wuerl, a loyal conservative. Hunthausen's revelation provoked public squabbling among the bishops and demands by liberals that the U.S. hierarchy fight back...
...bishops devoted nearly six hours of closed-door discussions to the affair. At the start, the Archbishop's colleagues gave him a long ovation -- but only three minutes on the floor to reply to Laghi's account. Hunthausen then handed out a lengthy statement, protesting that under the Vatican's secretive procedures he was never given the opportunity to answer any of the specific accusations and that some of the shortcomings had long since been remedied and other charges made against him were inaccurate...
...patient and untiring negotiating efforts of Terry Waite, the personal envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, also appear in a different light. Waite's activities were important, but not wholly in the way they appeared at the time. Since neither the U.S. nor Iran could let it be known that they were in contact, let alone that the U.S. was supplying Iran with arms, some cover for Jacobsen's release had to be found. Waite and his mission provided the necessary public appearance, and it is doubtful that anyone else could have done so, since Waite, as a nonpolitical...
...plebiscite on a new charter that would grant her a full six-year term in office. She announced that legislative elections would be held next May 11. At midweek government negotiators reopened talks with Communist rebels, an Aquino initiative that Enrile has sharply criticized. Only one day earlier, Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin of Manila had publicly endorsed Aquino's peace feelers. Said he: "Our faith will tell us to give peace a chance...