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DIED. Terence Cardinal Cooke, 62, Archbishop of New York; of acute myelomonoblastic leukemia; in New York City. The genial, owlish New York native succeeded his mentor, the commanding Francis Cardinal Spellman, and quickly adopted a more conciliatory managerial style, in keeping with the decentralizing principles of Vatican II. An anti-Communist who served as military vicar to the U.S. armed services' 2 million Roman Catholics, the Cardinal last year abandoned his usual quiet role among fellow prelates to oppose the majority of American bishops in their call for nuclear disarmament. Cooke used the occasion of his approaching death...
Even amid last week's chaos, there were efforts to open a productive dialogue. Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila and an outspoken critic of Marcos, called for the formation of a National Reconciliation Council made up of representatives from the government, the church, the opposition and the private sector. He further sought free elections, a free press and release of political prisoners. Sin described his proposal as the last chance to avoid a "bloody revolution." Marcos dismissed the growing unrest as a transitory aberration, but he asked for a meeting with Sin to discuss the proposal...
...mourners had filed past his glass-covered coffin in suburban Manila. Countless tears had been shed; calls for insurrection had been voiced. Finally, there were only simple things left to say over the body of the murdered folk hero before it was laid to rest. Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila, knew that well as he stood in front of a quiet crowd of mourners in the Quezon City Church of Santo Domingo. The prelate gazed upon the remains of Philippine Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., and announced the theme of the funeral oration that would be carried across...
...Terence Cooke, 62, Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of New York; with acute myelomonoblastic leukemia; in New York City. Announcing the illness last week, a spokesman for the Cardinal said that he is not expected to live for more than a few months, but is not planning to resign or retire...
...before the vote, the Most Rev. Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury, convoked an extraordinary session of the synod of the Church of England to denounce "this barbaric punishment" that forces the state to "take the role of God." The six Catholic bishops of Northern Ireland expressed their opposition to the death penalty. In an act of blatant provocation on the morning of the vote, the I.R.A. staged its most devastating attack of the year in Northern Ireland. Four members of the Ulster Defense Regiment were killed by a land mine that destroyed their Land Rover...