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...tradition. At the synod the president of the U.S. bishops, James W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, expects to defend the conferences and their pastoral and social involvement. Malone got a boost at last week's meeting of the American hierarchy in Washington, D.C., when Papal Pro-Nuncio Pio Laghi praised the U.S. bishops' conference and its pastoral letters on nuclear disarmament and economic morality for "offering the service of leadership on public issues." Malone said last week that he will also press in Rome for "new initiatives" on ecumenism...
Other possible Italian candidates include Silvano Piovanelli, 70, of Florence, and Pio Cardinal Laghi, 72, who heads the Congregation for Catholic Education. Both have conservative credentials. And then there is Giacomo Biffi, 66, the Archbishop of Bologna. Biffi, for whom John Paul reportedly has a soft spot, likes to bait Italy's liberal press with his diatribes against gays, feminists, AIDS victims, unwed mothers and pro-choice activists. He has led a campaign to abolish the music of Mozart and Schubert from the Mass, and he once likened ordaining women as priests to celebrating Communion with Coca- Cola. Says...
...science and medicine are achieving a greater capacity to safeguard health and life, the threats against life are becoming more insidious." The Pope has emphasized that he is the leader of all Catholics. "It is those who disagree with the church who are out of touch," said Pio Cardinal Laghi, the former papal pro-nuncio to the U.S. who , accompanied John Paul on this trip. "We cannot relativize what is absolute. Can we alter the gift God has given us? I think not. That is the message of Denver." Perhaps. But few observers believe the Pope's superstar charisma alone...
...might have touched on that in some of my discussions with ((CIA director William)) Casey," acknowledges Pio Cardinal Laghi, the former apostolic delegate to Washington. "Certainly Casey already knew about our positions about that...
...Maronite Christians. On several occasions, Casey used church channels to deal with the contras, though the Vatican itself took no official position on the war in Nicaragua. (Indeed, the Pope issued numerous appeals for peace in Central America and implicitly criticized the U.S. for prolonging the conflict.) Cardinal Laghi, who had served in Nicaragua in the early 1950s as secretary at the Apostolic Nunciature in Managua, played a key role by assuring contra leaders that the Administration delivered on its promises...