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...practicing Catholic of 66 years, I deplore the stance of most of the U.S. bishops on nuclear arms and El Salvador. I believe these are political questions best left to the President and Congress to resolve. As a taxpayer, I am also interested in the case of Archbishop Hunthausen, who is refusing to pay half his income taxes as an antinuclear protest. I am as strongly opposed to other things my Government is doing as the archbishop is to nuclear arms. Yet I will continue to pay all my taxes for the other wonderful benefits my country gives...
...Federal Building in Providence to protest U.S. policy on El Salvador. In conservative Amarillo, Texas, Bishop Leroy Matthiesen is urging workers to quit the Pantex nuclear-bomb plant, resulting in a United Way cutoff of a $61,000 annual grant to Catholic Family Services. In Seattle, Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen is risking prosecution by refusing, as an anti-nuclear protest, to pay half his income taxes. San Francisco Archbishop John Quinn is asking his hospitals to ignore a Defense Department plan to allocate beds because, he says, it "contributes to the illusion of a winnable nuclear...
...thinks they made a serious mistake in embracing one particular bill. There are disputes over the seemliness of clerical protest vigils and sit-ins. "Disgusting," says Attorney Ed ward Riordan, a parishioner in Worcester, Mass. "They will change no minds by picketing or being arrested." When Arch bishop Hunthausen termed Seattle's new nuclear-submarine base an "American Auschwitz," Navy Secretary John Lehman, moral" a to Catholic, "misuse sacred replied that it religious was office "im to promulgate extremist political views." And Lay Theologian Michael Novak argues that in an area as complex as nuclear negotiations, bishops should...
Activists are urging confrontation. The radical Evangelical magazine Sojourners calls for prayerful protests at all U.S. nuclear facilities. Seattle's Roman Catholic Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen suggests a tax boycott. In Amarillo, Texas, Bishop L.T. Matthiesen is asking employees to quit work at the nearby Pantex plant, which assembles nuclear bombs. Clergy in California and Connecticut have been prominent backers of legislative petitions endorsing a freeze of U.S. and Russian nuclear-weapon production. Says Pastor John Thursby of Lyme, Conn.: "God would not be pleased if we return his creation to him in ashes." Other local congregations are backing...