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...arrest on charges of drunk driving would be embarrassing for any solid citizen, but for Roman Catholic Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, the experience was downright sobering. The churchman was picked up in February when his Chevrolet brushed against the side of a store. After a blood-alcohol test administered by police showed a reading of .19%, nearly double the .10% level that Minnesota law defines as intoxication, the archbishop was invited to spend the night in the county jail. Recalled Sheriff Dave Ninnemann: "He was a model prisoner...
...those days suspended, and ten hours credited for the night he spent in the Chicago jail, the cleric will be obliged to serve 38 more hours. In addition, the judge ordered Roach to enter an outpatient program for alcohol abuse. "I thank God that no one was hurt," the archbishop said after his sentencing last week. He called upon his | congregation to beware of the dangers of drinking and driving. Said he: "I take my role as a teacher very seriously...
...reiterated an offer of "coadministration" under which seven labor leaders would have been taken into his 16-member Cabinet, but was turned down. At week's end the strike was still on, but both sides had agreed to let the dispute be mediated by a third party, La Paz Archbishop Jorge Manrique Hurtado...
Father James Parker, one of the traditionalist converts, administers the ; program for ex-Episcopalians under the supervision of Boston Archbishop Bernard Law. Parker explains that the new Mass does not significantly alter the Prayer Book: "The changes are minor and few and have been done to reflect current Catholic liturgical scholarship." Among them: the addition of prayers for the Pope and to the Virgin Mary. Perhaps the most important alteration is the omission of the Prayer Book's proclamation of collective absolution of sins. Rome insists that confession be made individually, and a few strategic word changes make it clear...
Church officials insist that the matter of ordination has nothing to do with discrimination. Says Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications in Rome: "The ordination of women (is) not a concept emerging from sociological considerations. Jesus clearly did not ordain women to the priesthood, nor did he authorize the church to do so." As for further discussion, another Vatican official says categorically, "The verdict is in. It is simply not worth discussing for the duration of this pontificate...