Word: rembert
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...should be admitted to all nonordained ministries. That would include authorizing altar girls (common at Masses in the U.S., despite Vatican disapproval). The draft also urged a study of allowing women to become deacons. After some behind-the-scenes lobbying, the final version mentioned none of those points. Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, a U.S. spokesman on the issue, was reduced to expressing "happiness at the vagueness of the final statement," apparently suggesting that a more forthright document could have been worse. "The synod," he said, "was not ready to work out the differences between men and women, their specific...
Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, after boldly describing the counterproductive dangers of an "authoritarian style," made a forthright appeal for women to become "equal partners" within the church. "There are no words to explain so much pain on the part of so many competent women today who feel they are second-class citizens in a church they love. That pain turns easily to anger," he warned, as many come to resent "male superiority and dominance...
...Patriots produced a 10-10 halftime tie on Tony Franklin's 38-yd. field goal. The kick came after Elway was hit by Andre Tippett, and linebacker Johnny Rembert intercepted at the Denver 29. Elway was hurt on that play...
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...
Concerned about the rising passions, Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland, in a remarkable warning, wrote in the archdiocesan paper last month that the church must avoid the "fanaticism and small-mindedness" that through history have "led to much cruelty, suppression of theological creativity and lack of growth." On the right, a convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars last week demanded that the bishops take a harder line, declaring, "No institution is foolish enough to permit its reason for existence to be undermined from within...