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...clearly understood by the laity. Says a person who often chats informally with John Paul: "The Pope believes that the youth of today demand a crystal-clear presentation of the Christian message and resent it when their bishops try to accommodate them by watering down that message." New York Archbishop John O'Connor says that in appointing bishops, John Paul looks first and foremost for "a very clear articulation of church teaching...
...influence of liberation theology is strongest in Brazil, the world's largest and most populous (131 million) Roman Catholic country. Nonetheless, the debate over the propriety of that support continues to rage within the Brazilian hierarchy. Eugenio Cardinal de Araujo Sales, the conservative Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, charges that liberation theology "constitutes one of the gravest risks to the unity of the pastors and the faithful...
...Vatican's watchdog Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Boff recalls the four-hour meeting as "cordial--Ratzinger mainly just sat and listened." The cordiality may have been influenced by the presence at the Vatican of two of Brazil's most influential Cardinals, Paulo Evaristo Arns, Archbishop of Sao Paulo, and Aloisio Lorscheider, Archbishop of Fortaleza, who accompanied Boff on his trip...
...poverty, chastity and obedience. They are among the 24 sisters who signed a statement that ran as a full-page ad in the New York Times last October, in the midst of the election-campaign dispute over abortion between Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Geraldine Ferraro and New York's Archbishop John O'Connor. Declared the ad: "A diversity of opinions regarding abortion exists among committed Catholics...
...which the Second Vatican Council branded an "unspeakable crime," is "not a debatable view or opinion," according to a pastoral letter by Philadelphia's John Cardinal Krol. "When it comes to speaking about the doctrine of the church, we are not free to make up our own minds," says Archbishop John May of St. Louis. "For a sister or priest to deny the teaching of the church is a scandal . . . a flagrant, flashy and deliberate affront...