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...both had survived assassination attempts only six weeks apart in 1981, and both believed God had saved them for a special mission. "A close friend of Ronald Reagan's told me the President said, 'Look how the evil forces were put in our way and how Providence intervened,' " says Pio Cardinal Laghi, the former apostolic delegate to Washington. According to National Security Adviser Clark, the Pope and Reagan referred to the ) "miraculous" fact that they had survived. Clark said the men shared "a unity of spiritual view and a unity of vision on the Soviet empire: that right or correctness...
Higher authorities played a role in the Hawaii case. As early as 1985, Figueroa's mother informed the then Vatican pronuncio, Pio Laghi, of the allegations against Bishop Ferrario. Figueroa contends that Laghi sent an investigator, who did a cursory check while staying in the bishop's residence. Apparently on this basis, the U.S. hierarchy declared the 1989 accusations to "lack substance." Ferrario's spokesman said last week that the Vatican Congregation for Bishops had judged them to be "baseless...
...more than 92,000 during John Paul II's 12-year papacy. That is still far from adequate. Moreover, new recruits do not outnumber the priests who retire or die each year, but the net loss was down to 313 last year. "Overall the trend is positive," reported Archbishop Pio Laghi, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education...
Bishops around the world are called upon to write regulations tailoring the Pope's "general norms" to their own situations. According to Archbishop Pio Laghi, new head of the Vatican education office (and former Vatican pro- nuncio, or ambassador, to the U.S.), each nation's bishops will bear the responsibility of enforcing the regulations -- though perhaps by acting collectively, not as individuals...
...when the Administration, sensing that the closure of both offices might cause a serious rift in US relations with friendly Arab states, tried to make a deal with the pro-Israel lobbyists. Washington Jewish Week has reported that the State Department offered to push for the closing of the PIO in exchange for the lobby dropping its demand for the illegal closing of the UN mission. At first, the PLO was given 30 days to divest itself from the PIO, but was later given an extension to December 1. The Director of the PIO, Hassan Abdel-Rahman, and the ACLU...