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...week in a tense meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington. The differences were embodied in a dispute that occupied much of the convocation: the ecclesiastical troubles of Seattle's Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen, 65, who earlier this year was stripped of some of his authority by Rome because of his tolerant outlook on homosexuality and other controversial subjects...
From the Vatican viewpoint, John Paul's program for the church was at stake. Noting the ways in which Hunthausen had strayed from papal policy, a Vatican official last week explained Rome's stand. "No business would stand for a daughter concern that so openly drifted from company policy," he said. "The Pope doesn't like being nasty . . . but he feels that ambiguity is slowly nibbling away at people's perception of the church and that the time has come...
...cultural gulf between Rome and the U.S. exacerbates the conflict. While the American bishops' starting point tends to be democracy within the church, Rome is concerned first and foremost with religious dogma. According to one Vatican official, U.S. Catholics are heavily influenced by their culture and media, which, to the Pope, create a "society of immediate gratification," the exact opposite of John Paul's ethic of "service and commitment." A final irritant is American Catholics' penchant for airing disputes in public...
...Everyone says how great the Roman Empire is, how the people of Rome loved it because they provided aqueducts so they could be clean and not have head lice anymore," Sandburg laughs. "But I wondered what the response would have been in the outlying areas, when the Roman Empire moved in and imposed itself on little tribes...
...mercurial Libyan also called on Irish youth to "fight to liberate" Northern Ireland. Infuriated, the Dublin government instructed its diplomats to protest Gaddafi's statement to the Libyan People's Bureau in Rome. Meanwhile, in farflung Chicago, four members of a street gang that espouses a bizarre brand of Islam were indicted on charges of conspiring with Libyan officials to launch terrorist attacks inside...