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...choice of Bernardin to chair the nuclear panel was made in 1980 by Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul and Minneapolis, 61, president of the U.S. bishops' conference since 1980. Says Bernardin of his delicate assignment: "We don't expect everyone to accept our conclusions, but we believe we must think this thing through...
Pastoral letters are intended to advise Roman Catholics on moral courses of action, but are not binding rules. The bishops began working on the nuclear weapons letter in July 1981, at the request of Minnesota Archbishop John Roach, president of the N.C.C.B. "We see this as the major moral imperative of our time," Roach said last week...
Catholic Archbishop John R. Roach of Minnesota at the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul: "It is essential that we initiate an explicit, public, systematic dialogue about the relationship of religious communities and the political process in the U.S. Whether we like it or not, a whole range of public policy issues are permeated at their very heart and core by moral or religious themes. From the debate on abortion to decisions about nuclear armaments, from care of the terminally ill to the fairness of budget cuts, the direction our society takes must include an assessment of how moral...
Bishops respond to such charges by saying that they have no choice. Vatican II's documents, says Archbishop Roach, "require that the church not only teach the moral truths about the person. It must also join the public debate where policies are shaped, programs developed and decisions taken which directly touch the rights of the person." Monsignor George Higgins, a veteran social-action specialist, contends that speaking against the Bomb in particular is simply "what the Pope wants them...
...such activism indeed desired by the Pope? One clue may be in the fact that after conferring with Archbishop Roach, Pope John Paul protested outside military intervention in El Salvador. But John Paul pointedly castigated terrorism by both the right and the left. (The U.S. bishops have not emphasized their criticisms of the left.) One Vatican prelate contends that the Pope is mildly irritated with the U.S. bishops' stance on Central America but not enough to do anything about it. On the questions of nuclear arms, human rights, abortion and poverty, the Pope's stated positions and personal...