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...archdiocesan property to the refugees and on Easter weekend personally baptized, in Spanish, two children of the seven Salvadorans. Says Weakland: "Sanctuary is not really a way of avoiding justice, but a holy respite so that true justice can eventually be done." But three other Catholic prelates, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago and Archbishops John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis and James Hickey of Washington, have criticized the movement, arguing that Catholics should aid refugees through legal means and lobby to change laws. Roach, who is president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, feels that granting sanctuary...
...arms. The controversial 140-page document accommodates some criticisms from conservatives in the U.S. and Catholics abroad, but it remains a sweeping critique of U.S. nuclear-deterrence strategy at the very time when President Reagan is caught up in a tense international struggle over the issue. Moreover, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, chairman of the drafting committee, informed fellow bishops in a confidential memo two weeks ago that he discussed the contents with Pope John Paul II in February, implying general papal support, although John Paul has issued no detailed policy on nuclear arms...
...letter, which will go before the bishops for approval at a meeting May 2 and 3 in Chicago, was revised after a headline-making public discussion of the issues by the church leaders last November. The bishops later submitted hundreds of proposed changes, and Bernardin and Minnesota's Archbishop John Roach, president of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy, conferred in January with West European bishops and top Vatican officials...
...Bernardin is the only American among the 18 clerics who will be elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II at a special consistory on Feb. 2. Although the Archdiocese of Chicago is traditionally headed by a Cardinal, Bernardin was not awarded a red hat until four months after he succeeded the late John Patrick Cardinal Cody. The appointment firmly establishes Bernardin, at 54, as a leader of the U.S. hierarchy, which is becoming more outspoken on social, if not doctrinal, issues. To some Vatican observers, the Pope's honoring of Bernardin so soon after...
...weary Christians of Lebanon by giving them a Cardinal, Antoine Pierre Khoraiche, 75, Patriarch of the Maronite Rite. Thailand and the Ivory Coast got their first Cardinals, and Oceania was represented by New Zealand's Thomas Stafford Williams. If the Pope chose a progressive archbishop in Bernardin, he also picked a conservative: Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, 47, of Medellin, Colombia, is president of the bishops' conference in Latin America and an outspoken foe of priests who have become active in leftist politics...