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...Vatican has been at great pains to deny that the Pope is out of touch, as indeed have many bishops. "John Paul knows America better than any Pope in history," insists one Vatican official. And Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, who is as close to the Pope as any U.S. prelate, insists that "it is wrong to say that the Pope considers the U.S. church worse off than the others. But he does see it as a very important link with the rest of the world. Whatever happens in the U.S., it's just a matter of time before...
...dominance of men. Sensitive to this problem, the American bishops voted unanimously at their annual meeting in Washington last week to publish a pastoral letter on women's problems in the church. This question "is one of the most serious facing the church today," declared Cardinal Bernardin. "We cannot responsibly ignore it or deal with it superficially...
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago, at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.: "I urge Notre Dame to be in the forefront of peacemaking studies. What better way would there be to take seriously Jesus' mandate: Blessed are the peacemakers! Addressing the contemporary questions of peace and war in a scholarly fashion and in the context of our Christian teaching and tradition would be a great service both to the Catholic community and the wider society. Another important agent in this task of shaping a community of conscience is you. I urge you to lend your...
...meaning of this moment is not about weapons systems, megatonnage or complicated treaties. [It] resides in the vivid awareness people have of the danger of our times and the public determination that governments be challenged to take decisive steps against the nuclear threat." So declared Joseph Cardinal Bernardin as 262 Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. last week met in Bernardin's Chicago to debate a 44,000-word pastoral letter on the morality of nuclear arms policy. After two days of discussion, the bishops endorsed by a large margin (238 to 9) a sweeping and, to critics...
...third draft of the pastoral letter, "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response," was written by a five-member committee headed by Bernardin. The first and second drafts had given grudging acceptance to the concept of nuclear deterrence, if the U.S. worked for mutual disarmament with the Soviets. In its most controversial passage, the second draft also called for a "halt" in the deployment and development of U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons; that stance was rejected by conservative bishops and criticized by the Administration because it amounted to an endorsement of a nuclear freeze that would...