Word: pilarczyk
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...offered no substantive response on women, only endorsing their "equal human dignity." Turning to a topic Weakland had not even mentioned, John Paul urged the bishops to oppose artificial birth control more actively and promote natural methods approved by the church. After the final speaker, Cincinnati's Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, discussed the growing shortage of priests and nuns, the Pope stressed that seminarians must be grounded in traditional teaching...
...subsequent press conference, Pilarczyk remarked that the Pope's words did not mean the bishops are "supposed to go home and raise general Cain." Rather, in his view, John Paul was simply telling them, "You guys have a tough job. Please hang in there." Most other bishops emphasized the friendly, nonconfrontational atmosphere at the San Fernando meeting. But in their comments they pointedly left for another day how they would apply the Pope's stern admonitions. As he completed his second tour of the U.S., there was speculation that John Paul, now 67, would never again attempt so strenuous...
Other voting reflected divisions among the bishops. In the second ballot for a new vice president, Law received 39% and Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, a May-style moderate, 34%. Milwaukee's liberal Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who has implied that there are similarities between the Pope's clampdown and inquisitions of the past, drew 26%. Pilarczyk eventually won. In elections of U.S. representatives to a Vatican synod next year, moderates and liberals joined forces to elect Weakland and again bypass...