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Conservative Quinn, who succeeds Cincinnati's moderate Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, is best known for administrative skill and intellect, both useful at a time of continuing conflict between the bishops and dissidents agitated about such things as Rome's positions on divorce and birth control. The U.S. bishops' rapport with the Vatican, says President Quinn, is "good, because it's not bad." The U.S. hierarchy has rejected challenges to such Vatican policies as clerical celibacy and an all-male priesthood issued by diocesan delegates at last year's "Call to Action" meeting. But decisions are still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishops' Bishop | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...church whose central government is still dominated by Europeans, it was significant that the top vote getter was Aloisio Cardinal Lorscheider, 53, of Brazil, an energetic leader in preparation of Synod papers despite his undergoing open-heart surgery a year ago. Right behind him came Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Cincinnati, 49, outgoing president of the U.S. bishops. As in 1974, not one Italian bishop was elected to the three slots reserved for Europeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Roman Holiday | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...Bernardin Gantin, 55, of Benin, pro-president of the Vatican's Justice and Peace Commission, who becomes one of nine African cardinals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Red Hat for the Right-Hand Man | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

Cincinnati's Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, president of the bishops' conference, acknowledges that the Detroit meeting "tended to increase polarization and factionalism" in some quarters. Nonetheless, last fall he named a task force of bishops to figure out what response should be made. The behind-the-scenes struggle centered on preparation of a statement giving the hierarchy's formal views on the issues. The statement of response went through seven drafts. One version, completed in March, had a "Neanderthal" view of the church, in the opinion of Bishop James Rausch of Phoenix, the former general secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Replying to A Call to Action | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...while the bishops resisted some of the most publicized Detroit proposals, they did promise to hold further consultations and, as Archbishop Bernardin put it, to "listen, learn, discern and make judgments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Replying to A Call to Action | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

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