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...Deal, advocated a minimum wage, unemployment compensation and old-age insurance. But on foreign policy, Catholic bishops formed ranks behind whatever Administration was in power. "Being an immigrant church, we wanted to show we were more American than anyone," explains Father Cuchulain Moriarty, who runs San Francisco's archdiocesan social justice commission...
These goings-on, or takings-off, stirred the wrath of an archdiocesan layman's group. In an irate open letter to Lord Mayor Erich Kiesl that drew banner headlines in Munich, the Catholic association declared: "The many nude people in the garden disturb and offend those decent citizens who want to use it for recreational purposes." Many citizens agreed. Asked Housewife Ingrid Steinberger: "Why should I be forced to look at naked behinds?" The letter also threatened vigilante action if the police refused to take steps. Equally outraged, though not notably logical, the forces of nudity argued back. Asked...
...Chicago, city and archdiocesan officials had a more earthly concern: whether the roof of an underground parking garage would collapse under the weight of viewers when an estimated 1.5 million people crowd Grant Park for the Pope's Mass. To show that the roof was safe, an engineering firm piled 430 tons of cinder blocks on it last week...
Benefit Concert for Boston Archdiocesan Choir School--Works of Vivaldi, Handel and BACS graduates; Boston Archdiocesan Choir, St. Paul Men's Schola, BACS Handbell Choir, Cambridge Festival Orchestra, John Dunn, organ; St. Paul Church, Bow and Arrow...
Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, archbishop of Boston, will leave for Rome today after concluding a tour through France, a spokesman for the archdiocesan chancellery said yesterday. There Medeiros will attend the Pope's funeral--which will take place Saturday--and then participate in the conclave of cardinals that will elect Paul's successor...