Word: quarracino
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...Argentina, last week assailed "the treason of the United States" and the "hopeless hysteria of England," singling out President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as "mediocre" and "short of stature." On the Sunday just before Pope John Paul II was due to arrive in Argentina, Archbishop Antonio Quarracino of Avellaneda delivered a sermon that smacked of spiritual oneupmanship. "The Pope visited England as a duty ... He comes to us because of love...
...letter read from the pulpits of his diocese of Nueve de Julio, Bishop Antonio Quarracino stressed that there were no ties whatsoever between the church and the new regime. "The church," he said, "does not seek privileges or political tasks. It demands only liberty in exercising its mission." A few days later, Bishop Jerónimo Podesta, 46, leader of Buenos Aires' diocese of Avellaneda (pop. 1,200,000), went on record in the Buenos Aires magazine Primera Plana. "The church," he noted, "wants to serve the modern world, and this does not mean to serve such and such...
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