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...page draft, which was kept secret until after the presidential election so that it would not become a campaign issue, goes beyond simply noting the presence of the hungry at the feast of American affluence. The letter calls for an aggressive, Government-led attack on economic problems. Said Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, who chaired the committee that prepared the letter: "We want to appeal to the generosity, good will and concern of all U.S. citizens. Our point is: do not remain complacent at this point in history...
...with the U.S. church, the richest and fourth largest* national branch of Roman Catholicism. Many American Catholics resent what they see as the Vatican's continuing view of the U.S. as a mission church. Because of the Pope's Polish background, says Milwaukee's liberal Archbishop Rembert Weakland, he "probably doesn't quite understand the American approach to dialogue and pluralism...
Though most of the sanctuary congregations are Protestant, Milwaukee's Roman Catholic Archbishop Rembert Weakland last month opened archdiocesan property to the refugees and on Easter weekend personally baptized, in Spanish, two children of the seven Salvadorans. Says Weakland: "Sanctuary is not really a way of avoiding justice, but a holy respite so that true justice can eventually be done." But three other Catholic prelates, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago and Archbishops John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis and James Hickey of Washington, have criticized the movement, arguing that Catholics should aid refugees through legal means and lobby...
...follow leadership regardless of rank. Bernardin and Roach, despite their relative youth, probably have more influence among their fellow prelates these days than do the Cardinals as a group Other emerging leaders in the hierarchy include Archbishops James Mickey of Washington, 62; John May of St. Louis, 60; and Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, 55. All these men were advocates of a nuclear freeze even before the Bernardin committee issued the text of the pastoral letter. Krol, the leading figure among the older hierarchs, is staunchly in agreement...
...California night. As they arrived, the stars fussed with their see-through dresses, tie-dyes and black ties and then paraded up a red-carpeted walkway. The path did not lead, however, to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the 42nd annual Academy Award presentations. The setting instead was 9492 Rembert Lane and the occasion the "42nd Annual Mitchell Academy of Arts and Games" -actually the second annual gathering of a rump group of Hollywood headliners determined to mock the mockery of the Oscar presentations. TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton was there...