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...page booklet listing its past recommendations to the cardinal. He has followed some, but without making any direct response to the council. Many others he has ignored-including recommendations for such widely followed practices as a personnel board to give priests a say in parish placement and diocesan encouragement of parish advisory councils...
...liquid assets is simply plunked into savings and checking accounts-the "cigar box" approach. The rest consists of securities and commercial property worth almost $1 billion, which puts the church a notch above the Rockefeller Foundation. But this money is often badly invested. One bank trust officer scanned a diocesan portfolio and remarked, "If your grandmother were unusually timid, this is what she'd do with her money." Sometimes the yield does not even cover the cost of investment. Gollin thinks U.S. dioceses are "perhaps the least effectual investment institution in this country, if not in the world...
...with several key teachings and disciplines of their faith. Now there is additional proof. In a major survey of some 6,000 U.S. bishops, priests and former priests conducted by Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, 54% of the priests questioned want optional rather than compulsory celibacy for diocesan clergy. On another controversial issue, the study found that Pope Paul's condemnation of artificial birth control "does not command majority support" among the surveyed priests...
...appointment plunged the Vatican and the Dutch church into confrontation once again, just as it appeared that relations were beginning to simmer down after last year's clash over the celibacy issue. Rotterdam liberals were furious that Paul had bypassed three candidates sent to him by their diocesan chapter, the diocese's most important advisory council. By custom, a Dutch bishop is usually selected from such a council's nominees; if none is acceptable to Rome, the chapter is asked for another list. But the Vatican did not request...
Splitting the Vote. The issue grew more heated when the Vatican tried to claim that Paul's choice in fact represented the will of the Rotterdam majority. The diocesan chapter had drawn its nominations from various sources, including a poll of 80,000 Catholics. The poll, which reportedly mentioned no names, chose a moderate liberal profile for the next bishop. The Vatican contended, however, that Simonis ranked second among suggestions submitted by priests and deanery councils. The liberals did not deny the claim, but attributed Simonis' second-place rankings to liberal vote splitting rather than real support...