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anyone here who could even hold a candle to him," says Claire W. Lehmann '02, who lives in the Dudley Co-op with her boyfriend. "In that sense I'm certainly not sad that I'm not dating a Harvard student...
...Lehmann only spent a single semester in Thayer Hall last year before moving...
...Still, Lehmann has revealed a latent concern. Says Greeley: "The church has a real problem in that there is no provision in church legislation for a Pope who becomes incapable of acting as Pope." While the Vatican can operate with an incapacitated Pope, important decisions (the naming of bishops) and documents would have to wait until he was well enough to approve of them--or until a new Pope came around. A mentally compromised Pope kept alive artificially would present the church with a constitutional crisis. If a Pope can see that coming, says Greeley, he should choose...
...last week's kerfuffle may have more personal roots. There is no love lost between John Paul and Bishop Lehmann, who heads the German Catholic Bishops Conference. The German church runs 250 abortion-counseling centers, and after five years of wrangling, its bishops bowed to pressure from the Pope last June and agreed to stop issuing certificates that permit women to terminate a pregnancy within the first 12 weeks. (Without the certificate, abortion is illegal.) Says historian and novelist Father Andrew Greeley: "Lehmann won't be made a cardinal as long as John Paul is Pope...
After the loud Italian headlines, Lehmann insisted he had been misunderstood. "I didn't ask for the Pope's retirement," he said. He did reiterate, however, that John Paul was quite old and that it would be "opportune" for the church to have a strong Pope. But it seems unlikely that John Paul II will step down. Certainly not this year, which is important to him symbolically, with his planned pilgrimage to the Middle East...