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...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...
Though he rejects all labels, Krol sees himself as a middleman, true to Vat ican Council II in restraining "people who are trying to run away with so-called renewal." The son of Polish immigrants in Cleveland, he was a food-store manager, first became interested in the priesthood when he was troubled by his inability to defend the church against the barbs of a Protestant friend. Krol has spent most of his career in canon law classrooms and chancery offices. In a rapid climb of the priestly pyramid, he was ordained at the age of 26, became auxiliary bishop...
...Krol's human relations commission is credited with notable progress on poverty and race relations. But the diocese has been unable to ordain a single black priest. A year ago, the local priests' council issued a 60-page booklet listing its past recommendations to the cardinal. He has followed some, but without making any direct response to the council. Many others he has ignored-including recommendations for such widely followed practices as a personnel board to give priests a say in parish placement and diocesan encouragement of parish advisory councils...
...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...