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Last week Barcelona's aging (76) Archbishop Gregorio Modrego Casáus was doing his best to keep the lid on. Calling all publicity "harmful," he appealed to the press to forgo any further news or comment on the police attack; he also sent a bland message to his parish priests, to be read at Sunday Masses. Since the message virtually ignored the question of police brutality to clergymen, many priests added a few choice words of their own at the end. "One of our newspapers' slogans," snapped Father Narciso Saguer Vilar of San Ildefonso's Church...
...church crisis deepened, Spain's eager young priests could count on a valuable new ally: Monsignor Marcelo González Martín, 48, who was installed last week as coadjutor, chief troubleshooter and heir apparent of Barcelona's archbishop. Though Monsignor González is non-Catalán in a rabidly Catalán diocese, he very quickly won over his first congregation at Barcelona's Gothic Santa Eulalia Cathedral, shunning the tiresome platitudes that his audience was so accustomed to. "I promise you," Monsignor González said with feeling and warmth, "that...
...priests, that was a rocky challenge. They swarmed into Barcelona-many of them wearing zippered windbreakers over their cassocks and roaring in on motorcycles-to challenge the Archbishop on his home ground. To that extent, the clear, Catalán distortion of Joan Miró was more appropriate than Goya. But more than anything, the priests were reflecting the alienation that exists in Spain between age and ambition, between the liberal principles of the Vatican and the rigidity of the Spanish Catholic hierarchy, which automatically aligns itself with the state...
...Orleans, the Most Rev. John Patrick Cody brought along a well-founded reputation as a tough clerical administrator who likes to cut out deadwood. Last week Roman Catholic Cody lived up to his no-nonsense fame by firing one of the patron saints of Chicago-style liberalism: Auxiliary Archbishop Bernard J. Sheil, pastor of St. Andrew's parish and founder of the vast Catholic Youth Organization...
...Catholics freely credit Cody with a number of notable reforms: he has modernized the archdiocesan seminary, raised the salaries of lay teachers in parochial schools, let assistant pastors elect two representatives to Chicago's influential board of priest consultors (previously all members had been appointed by the archbishop). By the same token, Cody is something of an authoritarian; both his priests and his parishioners complain that his communications, far from being two-way, consist of his sending the word on down. Last month an ad hoc committee organized three meetings attended by 400 Chicago clerics, recommended that priests have...