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...idea was a smash hit with the parishioners, many of whom consider themselves too old to take strong drink comfortably in a public place of young guzzlers. Widows-any South Florida parish embraces a preponderant number of widows-were particularly fond of the notion. Even the Archbishop of Miami, the Most Rev. Edward McCarthy, went along. "It seems to me," he wrote Reynolds, "you are pioneering in something that may prove very effective pastorally...
...speech at the Law School last night, Archbishop of Boston Bernard F. Law '53 reaffirmed the Church's role in American society in light of recent debate over the Church's alleged intrusion into American politics...
...first serious blows at the Red Brigades, which had terrorized Italy for a decade, was gunned down with his young wife as he drove along one of the city's main streets. The assassination angered even those who had grudgingly tolerated the Mafia. It outraged the outspoken Archbishop of Palermo, Salvatore Cardinal Pappalardo, who was known to have sympathized with the general's efforts to eradicate the Mafia. The churchman blamed the general's death on the government's failure to act. "While our city is racked, Rome is idle," said the primate at Dalla Chiesa...
...Archbishop go loo far? It is, of course, absurd to tell the church to stay out of politics, if politics is defined as that universe of activity in which people collectively decide what the public good is and how to pursue it. The church teaches moral principles and values, and these inevitably spill over into public affairs, sometimes into actual policy, like civil rights and nuclear arms. But political partisanship-choosing sides in elections, endorsing or vetoing candidates-is another matter altogether...
...liberals. His little witticism, however, points up an important fact: in the U.S. one can hardly speak seriously of the idea of established religion. In America it is the rules that are established; reformers, even insurrectionists, challenge no more than the bylaws. No one, not a President nor an Archbishop, is likely to change that. -By Charles Krauthammer