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...pattern with two important appointments. As Archbishop of Philadelphia, he chose Anthony Bevilacqua, 65, who had handled the ouster of a pro-choice nun in 1983. The see of Pittsburgh went to Donald Wuerl, 48, who had earlier been assigned to keep watch over Seattle's liberal Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen. Resentment over the Hunthausen affair is one cause of mistrust and disagreement between the Vatican and the U.S. hierarchy. In the hope of improving relations, several dozen U.S. bishops will travel to Rome in March for a highly unusual face-to- face meeting with the Pontiff...
...overshadowed the stern admonitions that John Paul delivered on church teachings and discipline. Since then, the Pontiff and Vatican officials have taken a number of widely noted actions to apply those admonitions. Some of the most controversial: temporarily limiting the authority of Seattle's liberal Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen, firing the Rev. Charles Curran from his professorship of moral theology at the Catholic University of America, threatening nuns with expulsion for declaring that pro-choice opinions on abortion are legitimate, and directing bishops to cut church ties to gay Catholic groups...
Summing up, Hunthausen declared that the Rome-imposed arrangement with Wuerl seemed "unworkable" and pleaded with his colleagues to "address this issue with the Holy See." After considerable anguish, the bishops issued a document that endorsed Rome's right to intervene in Seattle and said its procedures properly protect both individual rights and the good of the church. Indeed, the bishops declared that they "affirm unreservedly their loyalty to and unity with the Holy Father." Hunthausen's allies managed one triumph: deletion of the assertion that Vatican treatment of the Archbishop of Seattle was "just and reasonable." The bishops also...
Despite the bishops' consensus, grumbling persisted. Bishop Michael Kenny of Juneau was disappointed that the statement did not confront the perception of "injustice" in the case. While conceding that "there really was little this group could do," Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, an ally of Hunthausen's in the antinuclear cause, noted that the long debate would surely send a warning to Rome through Laghi, who calmly observed the proceedings...
...president and part of the moderate-to-progressive group that has long led the bishops' conference, outpolled Bernard Cardinal Law. The Boston Cardinal had staked out a claim to conservative leadership by stating last month that John Paul would have been "irresponsible" if he had not clamped down on Hunthausen...