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Britain's papal nuncio says a peace priest may be a Soviet dupe...
Kent's advocacy of unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain has touched off a controversy among the nation's Catholics about the proper approach of the church to nuclear arms policy. Kent's main ecclesiastical opponent is Archbishop Bruno Heim, Pro-Nuncio (ambassador) of the Holy See to Britain, who is strongly opposed to unilateral disarmament. In an amazingly candid letter to several British Catholics, which quickly became public, Heim suggested that the monsignor might be either an "idiot" or a conscious agent of Soviet designs...
...with the monsignor and expressed his personal regard for the priest's integrity. The Cardinal's office also declared, "We are reaffirming the church's permission to allow Monsignor Kent to continue his work with C.N.D." At week's end it appeared that the Pro-Nuncio's attack had succeeded not so much in clarifying church teaching as in provoking Hume to back the monsignor's antinuclear ministry, at least until the elections are over. - By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Arthur White/London
...honesty to the country's government, his brutal crackdown on insurgents has drawn deserved fire from the Catholic hierarchy. Some Catholic leaders saw his decision to proceed with the six executions on the eve of the papal visit as a deliberate affront to the Vatican. Warned the apostolic nuncio to Guatemala City: "The deplorable incident which took place so near to the projected visit of Pope John Paul II is considered by the Holy See as incredible for its possible grave repercussions at the world and national levels...
...dramatic Mass for peace at the Vatican the weekend before last, with both British and Argentine Cardinals concelebrating, the lines were well formed. Arrayed in favor from the start were the British bishops. Opposed were key members of the Curia-and, most notably, Archbishop Ubaldo Calabresi, the papal nuncio in Argentina. Backing Calabresi were the Pope's top aide, Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli; Archbishop Achille Silvestrini, his "foreign minister," who had once favored the trip but turned against the idea when the battles began; and Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, prefect of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America...