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...Free Walesa, or make it possible for him to speak as a free man." When Archbishop Jozef Glemp uttered those words from a balcony of the medieval monastery at Czestochowa last week, more than 350,000 worshipers burst into prolonged cheers and applause, many of them raising their hands in victory signs. The pilgrims had come from every corner of Poland to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the "Black Madonna," the Roman Catholic nation's holiest shrine. As the government prepared to clamp down this week on demonstrations to mark the second anniversary of the creation of the independent...
...week with a smile, a wave and a corny line: "I feel so welcome, I bought a one-way ticket." Welcome he was. The 2,374,000 member Archdiocese of Chicago celebrated as Joseph Louis Bernardin, 54, proceeded through the weeklong round of rites that marked his installation as archbishop. Already one of U.S. Roman Catholicism's handful of most important leaders, Bernardin (pronounced Burr-nuh-deen) is taking charge of the nation's largest archdiocese. In time he will be named a Cardinal, the first in the U.S. of Italian descent...
...domain is also one of the church's most demoralized. Long before the Second Vatican Council, the archdiocese led the nation in liturgical and pastoral innovations, social action and intellectual debate. But that spirit waned under the conservative leadership of John Cardinal Cody, who was archbishop from 1965 until his death last April. Cody was an old-style autocrat who alienated large groups of Catholics. He spent diocesan money, closed inner-city schools and reassigned priests with little or no consultation. In later years he became increasingly isolated from his clergymen, nuns and laity. His last months were darkened...
...sources have conceded in private that Solidarity, as an organization, may have to disappear in order for its ideas to live on. Still, in the absence of any formal opposition to the regime, the church has tried to press the authorities for some form of national dialogue. Last week Archbishop Jozef...
...Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's eleventh largest bank, and the apparent suicide in June of its president, Roberto Calvi, Italian authorities tried to serve notice on three of the top officials of the Vatican bank that they were under investigation for possible bank fraud. Among them was American-born Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, 60, the president of the bank, which is officially known as the Institute per le Opere di Religione (I.O.R.), or Institute for Religious Works. Earlier, the Vatican's top banker had served as both a papal bodyguard and aide to Pope Paul VI. The other two bank...