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...season for returning to business as usual. Sacred Heart School, normally filled to its 233-student capacity at this time, has been hit with a boycott by angry parents; enrollment is down 44%. Sacred Heart's troubles result from an extraordinary dispute between four local nuns and their diocesan bishop. The clash has important implications for nuns' rights elsewhere in the U.S., as well as for the tradition of U.S. churches' immunity from government review...
...parents formed Save Our Sisters (S.O.S.). The group drew 700 supporters, including more than 100 from across the country. "It isn't just a priests' church any more; it's also the people's church," says Lou Downey, mother of six Sacred Heart graduates. When Diocesan Bishop Odore Gendron refused all comment on the matter, 75 families pulled their children out of the school. The four sisters, taking a legal step that church historians say is exceedingly rare, filed a civil suit demanding their rights under the faculty contracts...
...nation in liturgical and pastoral innovations, social action and intellectual debate. But that spirit waned under the conservative leadership of John Cardinal Cody, who was archbishop from 1965 until his death last April. Cody was an old-style autocrat who alienated large groups of Catholics. He spent diocesan money, closed inner-city schools and reassigned priests with little or no consultation. In later years he became increasingly isolated from his clergymen, nuns and laity. His last months were darkened by accusations that he diverted up to $1 million in church moneys to aid his stepcousin, Helen Wilson. Cody denied...
...green behind the wheel of his 1981 Oldsmobile. Bernardin not only shunned the services of a chauffeur but also sold off the archbishop's mansion and moved into a three-room rectory apartment. He also wrote a regular column on church and social issues for the diocesan weekly, then published letters disputing his views. A highly skilled administrator, Bernardin established a pastoral council to furnish him with ideas and advice. He set up $1 million in two funds to keep inner-city schools running and this year started a program to aid the unemployed. His annual financial reports included...
...trouble with all this worldly success is that its recipient, Father Andrew M. (for Moran) Greeley, 54, is a Roman Catholic priest. It is not so much the money that disturbs his critics: diocesan priests do not take a vow of poverty. The sticking point is the novels themselves, in which Greeley seems bent upon airing the dirtier linen of the church he professes to love and serve. Not only do Greeley's Cardinals sin, but lower prelates, priests and parishioners are awash in anger and avarice, deceit and envy, pride and lust-especially lust. Greeley pleads that...