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...touch up a controversial document. According to Peter Steinfels, executive editor of the liberal Catholic journal Commonweal, the document is "the most serious effort the church has ever made, here, abroad, or in the Vatican, to come to grips with nuclear war." The five bishops, led by Joseph L. Bernardin, the new Archbishop of Chicago, spent a year taking testimony from 34 specialists ranging from outraged peace protesters to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. They then sent a 66-page first draft of a nuclear policy statement to the nation's 376 bishops in mid-June, soliciting their comments...
NAMED. Joseph L. Bernardin, 54, Archbishop of Cincinnati and former president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, by Pope John Paul II to succeed the ate John P. Cardinal Cody as Archbishop of Chicago, the nation's largest archdiocese, with 2.5 million Roman Catholics. A liberal on social issues but a conservative on church doctrine, Bernardin was the subject of controversy last year when his name surfaced in the private journals of the Rev. Andrew Greeley, a writer and Cody critic. Greeley created a fictional scenario in which Bernardin succeeded the embattled Cody as part of a plot...
American bishops lobbied strenuously to keep their privilege in the new code. An American member of the canon law commission, Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati and his canon law adviser, Monsignor John A. Alesandro of Garden City, N.Y., say that the boom in U.S. annulments is the result of social factors. They cite the high number of divorces and the high number of mixed marriages in American society. U.S. annulments now will drag out somewhat, agrees Bernardin, but he says, "We feel this is something we can work with." To which Alesandro adds, "We're not handing...
Concern about age may dim entirely the already faint prospects of England's eloquently spiritual George Basil Hume, 55, although Hume's palpable star quality-his strong point-could prove more important than either age or health. Said the African Curialist, Bernardin Gantin, "All the Cardinals have seen and lived the charisma of John Paul. Those great crowds of people will be present at this conclave." Remarked a leading Italian Jesuit: "Better than a medical test, they should give each papabile [candidate] a TV test...
Other appealing candidates stand only the barest chance in the voting. One is Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, 56, a black priest from Benin (formerly Dahomey), who was consecrated bishop 21 years ago by Pius XII. A tall, gentle man, quick to smile, he is now prefect of the Commission on Justice and Peace. Another is Britain's George Basil Cardinal Hume, 55, a Benedictine monk who in 1976 was plucked from obscurity as Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey to become Archbishop of Westminster. Hume's relative youth and inexperience are likely to count negatively with the pragmatic Cardinals...