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...Aviv with 360 aboard (saved by an alert El Al baggage inspector), and possibly the La Belle discotheque, also in West Berlin (destroyed on April 5, killing a U.S. Army sergeant and a Turkish woman and injuring 230). The prime suspects are two Syrian-trained Palestinian brothers, Achmed Nawaf Mansour Hazi and Nezar Nawaf Mansour Hindawi...
...Roach. "He doesn't content himself with platitudes; he acts, and we're obliged to respond." But many U.S. Catholics have less enthusiasm for response. "I don't think the church can go back. It amazes me that they think they can do this," says Agnes Mansour, the Michigan state social services director who chose to resign as a nun earlier this year because she refused to comply with a Vatican directive that she state her opposition to publicly funded abortion...
...Mansour's attitude is supported by the 2,000-member National Coalition of American Nuns, a radical group that is urging liberal nuns to consider severing their canonical ties with Rome. If some nuns do ignore the directives that are certain to follow the current scrutiny of religious orders, one Vatican official cautions that "there could be a real housecleaning." For many American nuns, however, this will not be an issue: the Chicago-based Institute on Religious Life, representing 25,000 traditionalist members of religious President Malone orders, has expressed "joy and gratitude" at the Pope's firm...
Abandoning her 30-year vocation, Mansour protested: "Neither I nor my superiors were ever given the opportunity to appropriately present our case. I do not feel that I should or could witness to an obedience which, for me, would be irrational and blind." Added Mansour's former superior, Sister Maureen Mulcrone: "All men are making decisions. All women are being decided upon." Saying that they were "deeply saddened" and "profoundly disturbed" by the Vatican's decision, national leaders of the Sisters of Mercy are considering some sort of appeal, although chances of success are slim...
Rome's ruling on the Mansour case might raise a question for the president of the U.S. hierarchy, Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis. In February he gave approval "at this time" for Sister Mary Madonna Ashton to become Minnesota's health commissioner...