Word: rome
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...church. Now, a year prior to the Pope's planned return visit to America, his campaign to bring the nation's bishops, priests and sisters into line has provoked a rising tide of dissent. Bishops are privately vexed, and priests are salting sermons with barbs directed at Rome; the board of one Milwaukee parish even recommended that members divert gifts from the annual collection for the Vatican...
...burgeoning resistance to Rome is best demonstrated in Seattle, where Catholic activists last week presented Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen and Auxiliary Bishop Donald Wuerl with petitions signed by more than 13,000 parishioners over the past month to "protest the injustice" of Vatican intervention in the archdiocese. Earlier this year, in a virtually unprecedented step that was long kept secret, John Paul stripped authority from Hunthausen on moral teachings, marriage annulments, sacraments and the training of priests, bestowing those responsibilities upon the conservative Wuerl. Among Hunthausen's supposed transgressions: allowing altar girls and permitting a cathedral Mass for gay Catholics...
...rift between conservatives and liberals. In one long-running dispute, two radical West Virginia sisters, Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey of the Notre Dame de Namur order, have refused to disavow a newspaper ad they signed in 1984 contending that there are various legitimate Catholic views on abortion. Rome hoped the ad signers would back down gracefully, but Ferraro and Hussey, and perhaps others, insist on a showdown that could end in Vatican-ordered expulsions...
...Sweeney has been forced to resign from the Jesuits because he insisted on issuing the results of a survey he had made of U.S. bishops (24% of respondents favored optional celibacy for priests, 28% approved of women deacons). During the past few years there have been rancorous disputes between Rome and America over textbooks used in parishes on doctrine and on sex and several private struggles over appointments of theology teachers...
...another exception, despite grumbling from conservative laity and bishops, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops hired Jesuit Michael Buckley as the executive director of its doctrine committee. In 1977 Buckley had signed a significant open letter to Rome complaining that the Vatican decree against women priests used "faulty" arguments and "could impose a grave injustice." However, the Vatican did not fight Buckley's appointment, reasoning that the letter did not exactly deny its teaching...