Word: krol
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Brass-Band Welcome. Shortly afterward came a memorial Roman Catholic Mass. The principal celebrant, a graying, robust man whose lean, lined face seemed at home in the crowd of Polish worshipers, was John Cardinal Krol, Archbishop of Philadelphia. Krol's father had come from Poland, and the cardinal won the crowd immediately by addressing them in fluent, if accented Polish. "I was never a prisoner in a concentration camp," he said. "I was never captured or exiled. I never suffered [your] scourges. I bow my head...
...termed the good-conscience practice "a scandal" and questioned how any divorced Catholic who attempted remarriage could be considered to be in good conscience. Lyons' view is known to be shared privately by many U.S. prelates, including the president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, John Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia. In August, Cardinal Krol consigned the good-conscience cause to limbo. Citing a Vatican directive, the cardinal forbade all practices "contrary to current discipline," pending the results of a study on the problems of remarried Catholics that is currently under way in Rome. Most of the dioceses known...
...financial reporting of each U.S. diocese on a scale from A to F. Only two of the nation's eight largest -Chicago and Detroit-got as much as a D. New York and Los Angeles rated F for being "misleading." Brooklyn, Newark and Philadelphia (home of John Cardinal Krol, president of the U.S. bishops' conference) have never even issued a financial statement. Boston was not graded because it will soon issue a report. The N.A.L. analysis argued that with diocesan books so incompletely documented, it was highly inappropriate for U.S. bishops to spend an alleged...
...last week's meeting of U.S. bishops, Krol is believed to have opposed the bishops' historic decision to open the sessions to the press and a limited number of Catholic observers (the ballots were secret). Though he favors a degree of ecumenical interchange, he most likely joined the majority of bishops in rejecting the idea of wider pulpit exchanges with Protestants...
...press conference after his election, Krol cited unity as a prime need of the U.S. Catholic church. But to the church's left-of-center elements, including many staffers at the bishops' headquarters in Washington, D.C., the question is whether a man of Krol's views can be a unifier. Already black Catholic activists are barely concealing their hostility toward him. Nevertheless, says Frank Bonnike, president of the National Federation of Priests' Councils: "The bishop-priest problem is so great in the church today that the need for solutions will override...