Word: krol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Visiting Pennsylvania, President Reagan had a different reception. He toured the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa near Doylestown, where he gave a religious tapestry from Poland to the Pauline fathers who care for the Polish-American shrine. Crowds shouted, "Four more years! Four more years!" John Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia praised Reagan for supporting federal aid to religious schools. Reagan drew cheers by declaring, "Thank God for Pope John Paul II." The President said that he had sought the Pope's "advice and guidance on numerous occasions...
Philadelphia's influential Archbishop, John Cardinal Krol, 72, is liberal on disarmament and conservative on church discipline and doctrine. He suggested that the pastoral letter should more clearly acknowledge a nation's right to resist attack and tyranny from unjust aggressors by all means that are morally licit...
...group Other emerging leaders in the hierarchy include Archbishops James Mickey of Washington, 62; John May of St. Louis, 60; and Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, 55. All these men were advocates of a nuclear freeze even before the Bernardin committee issued the text of the pastoral letter. Krol, the leading figure among the older hierarchs, is staunchly in agreement...
...attack them as part of a strategy of deterrence." The bishops were applying the traditional teaching that it is as wrong to intend to commit an evil act as it is to commit it. In 1979, testifying on behalf of the hierarchy before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Cardinal Krol went further. He flatly ruled out use or "declared intent" to use nuclear weapons under any circumstances, presumably because masses of civilians would inevitably be involved...