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Concerned, the Vatican issued a highly unusual public explanation. In a document sent to U.S. bishops two weeks before the Washington meeting, papal Pro-Nuncio Pio Laghi detailed the matters on which Hunthausen lacked the "firmness necessary to govern the archdiocese." Besides homosexuality, the list included divorce, sterilization, sacramental rules and church employment of ex-priests. Laghi also charged that Hunthausen had agreed to cede the powers to Wuerl and then reneged on the deal...
Harry contends that the real motive for the lawsuit is a church effort to control his Santa Fe Communications. "The hierarchy of the Catholic Church wants to run any Catholic network," he says. Indeed, Erica has testified that in 1984, Vatican Ambassador to the U.S. Pio Laghi hinted that church recognition might be withdrawn from Santa Fe Communications "if we didn't do something right away" about Harry's antics. Erica also stated that shortly before the trial began, Mother Teresa expressed her support...
Ronald Reagan chose William Wilson, who has been the presidential representative to the Vatican since 1981. to serve as the new ambassador. Wilson, 69, is a California real estate developer and charter member of Reagan's kitchen cabinet of personal advisers. Archbishop Pio Laghi, 61, the apostolic delegate in Washington, will become Wilson's counterpart, the papal pronuncio. One of the Holy See's ablest diplomats, he previously served in Argentina, where he assisted the Vatican's mediation of the Beagle Channel dispute between Argentina and Chile...
Other members of the delegation to the White House were Marshall W. Nirenberg, professor of genetics and biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health; Victor F. Weisskopf, professor of physics at MIT; and the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Pio Laghi...