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Kent's advocacy of unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain has touched off a controversy among the nation's Catholics about the proper approach of the church to nuclear arms policy. Kent's main ecclesiastical opponent is Archbishop Bruno Heim, Pro-Nuncio (ambassador) of the Holy See to Britain, who is strongly opposed to unilateral disarmament. In an amazingly candid letter to several British Catholics, which quickly became public, Heim suggested that the monsignor might be either an "idiot" or a conscious agent of Soviet designs...
Kent's arguments have angered many conservative British Catholics, who have protested to Archbishop Heim. He responded with a May 4 letter that was soon leaked to the press. Writing on his own and not at the Vatican's instruction, Heim stated that he favors multilateral and verifiable disarmament, and regards unilateral disarmament proposals as "mistaken." He also quoted Pope John Paul's qualified acceptance of nuclear deterrence if nations worked for disarmament. "Unilateralists are carrying out a one-sided campaign," Heim wrote, "and it is clear which side it benefits most." He continued, "Whether those doing...
Appointed to the job last December, Mansour, 52, originally had the blessing of Detroit's Archbishop Edmund Szoka, even though her agency would administer $5.7 million a year for abortions. But Szoka insisted that the nun state her opposition to such outlays, since the church holds abortion to be an "unspeakable crime." Although personally against abortion, Mansour declined to do so because she thinks that in fairness, poor women should get aid if abortion is legal. In February, Szoka demanded that she resign; when Mansour and her order resisted, the archbishop took the issue of disobedience to Rome...
Rome's ruling on the Mansour case might raise a question for the president of the U.S. hierarchy, Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis. In February he gave approval "at this time" for Sister Mary Madonna Ashton to become Minnesota's health commissioner...
...most persistent conservative was Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans, a chaplain with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. As the antinuclear wave rolled on, Hannan lectured his fellow bishops: "I don't think you know what you're talking about at all, not having been in war. You're just inviting the enemy in if you withdraw those nuclear weapons we have...