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DIED. John Patrick Cardinal Cody, 74, Archbishop of Chicago; apparently of a heart attack; in Chicago. The son of an immigrant St. Louis fireman, Cody spent eleven years in Rome, where he earned three doctorates. He returned to serve the church in St. Louis and Kansas City. As Archbishop of New Orleans he led black children into Catholic schools as pickets protested integration. In his 17 years in Chicago, he ruled rigidly and created controversy. A federal grand jury was investigating charges that he had diverted $1 million in church funds to enrich a longtime friend, Helen Dolan Wilson. Said...
...issues, most notably the nuclear-arms buildup. Though the hierarchy is not pacifist, it declared in 1976 that the use of nuclear weapons under any circumstances is evil, and that a deterrent strategy that even threatens to use them is also evil. Led by their activist president, Minnesota Archbishop John Roach, the bishops will meet in November to issue a new declaration that could endorse a bilateral freeze, unless moderates like Terence Cardinal Cooke prevail...
...foreign affairs, they did not hesitate when controversy arose about Central America, with its close missionary ties to the U.S. church. In El Salvador, says Editor Thomas Fox of the National Catholic Reporter, "Catholics know what's going on better than anybody else." The 1980 murders of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and four U.S. missionaries stirred wide revulsion in church ranks. Though their brother bishops in El Salvador take a different view, the U.S. prelates decided to oppose U.S. military aid, in part because of information about right-wing atrocities from American missionaries...
Bishops respond to such charges by saying that they have no choice. Vatican II's documents, says Archbishop Roach, "require that the church not only teach the moral truths about the person. It must also join the public debate where policies are shaped, programs developed and decisions taken which directly touch the rights of the person." Monsignor George Higgins, a veteran social-action specialist, contends that speaking against the Bomb in particular is simply "what the Pope wants them...
...such activism indeed desired by the Pope? One clue may be in the fact that after conferring with Archbishop Roach, Pope John Paul protested outside military intervention in El Salvador. But John Paul pointedly castigated terrorism by both the right and the left. (The U.S. bishops have not emphasized their criticisms of the left.) One Vatican prelate contends that the Pope is mildly irritated with the U.S. bishops' stance on Central America but not enough to do anything about it. On the questions of nuclear arms, human rights, abortion and poverty, the Pope's stated positions and personal...