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...final phase in the evolution of peace theology was the formation in 1980 of the Bernardin committee. Archbishop Roach skillfully chose the membership of the five-man committee to span the spectrum of the bishops' thinking on nuclear arms. The most liberal member of the committee is Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, 52, of Detroit, who heads Pax Christi, a movement with strong pacifist inclinations. A total of 57 bishops belong to the organization. Gumbleton's hawkish opposite on the committee is Bishop John O'Connor, 62, who runs the church's military ministry for Cardinal Cooke...
Beginning work in July 1981, the Bernardin committee held 14 hearings and heard from 36 witnesses, including Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and his predecessor, Harold Brown, SALT Negotiator Gerard Smith, as well as theologians, Bible scholars, physicians and peace protesters. Bernardin sent a copy of the first draft of the committee's report to the Pope, who is said to have approved...
...June, National Security Adviser Clark wrote fellow Catholics asking them to press the Administration views upon the bishops. The topic doubtless came up when Clark and President Reagan lunched with the Pope's top aide, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, in Hartford on Aug. 3. On Sept. 13, Weinberger sent Bernardin a carefully worded statement making the same points that Clark made later. In October, retired General Vernon Walters, a State Department troubleshooter, quietly visited Rome to brief Pope John Paul on the Administration's position on nuclear strategy, among other matters. The White House campaign changed the view...
Since his installation nearly three months ago, Archbishop Joseph Bernardin has barnstormed his new archdiocese, the largest in the nation. He has called on Polish parishioners in the blue-collar suburb of Cicero, conducted a prayer service in honor of the city's Hispanics, mingled with crowds at an ethnic-heritage Mass and family picnic in Grant Park and appeared in full ecclesiastical garb to bless Catholic charismatics. He has alternately pressed the flesh of the faithful and turned a sympathetic ear to complaints about parochial-school funds and church closings. However distressing the nuclear dilemma...
...Although Bernardin has conscientiously tried to avoid the inevitable comparisons with his unpopular predecessor, the late John Cardinal Cody, Chicago's Catholics seem to delight in the obvious differences. A balding man with blue eyes that beam benevolently through thick glasses, the new archbishop may seem to be an unlikely object for a personality cult, but he is a folk hero compared with Cody. As one woman who pushed forward to shake his hand during a recent visit to a parish on the predominantly black West Side explained, "That man can feel. There is a lot of healing that...