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The statement released last week, at the climax of the 1982 election campaign, is not the work of activists campaigning for the nuclear freeze resolutions that are on the ballot in nine states, nor of Democrats who have been trying to make the Reagan Administration's arms control policies...
Pastoral letters are intended to advise Roman Catholics on moral courses of action, but are not binding rules. The bishops began working on the nuclear weapons letter in July 1981, at the request of Minnesota Archbishop John Roach, president of the N.C.C.B. "We see this as the major moral imperative...
From the epistles of St. Paul to the Chicago policy address of Pope John Paul II in 1979, the Roman Catholic tradition has never swerved from condemnation of homosexual behavior. But this teaching has laid the church open to charges that its attitude is out of step with the times...
Bernardin's new domain is also one of the church's most demoralized. Long before the Second Vatican Council, the archdiocese led the nation in liturgical and pastoral innovations, social action and intellectual debate. But that spirit waned under the conservative leadership of John Cardinal Cody, who was...
Bernardin displayed an exactly opposite personal style during his decade as Archbishop of Cincinnati. He took daily walks downtown and often chatted with people around Fountain Square. Motorists waiting at red lights were were often often surprised to see the cleric also waiting patiently for the green behind the wheel...