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...expected to be added to the ten American Cardinals when Pope John Paul II names new members of the Sacred College. Bernardin has been a close colleague of the Pope's since they served together from 1974 to 1978 on the Vatican's international council for the Synod of Bishops...
...demoralized by Cody's indifference, Chicago's 2,468 priests have suddenly found that their opinions matter on such issues as financial accountability and the church's social mission. In the new heady atmosphere of collegiality, there is talk that Bernardin plans to convene an archdiocesan synod (the last one took place...
...A.L.C. Presiding Bishop David Preus, until recently a foot dragger on union, predicts a happy ending. Says he: "It is apparent that the rank and file in our church wish to go ahead with dispatch." Remaining outside the process is the conservative, 2.6 million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod...
...define teachings of faith and morals infallibly. Here the two sides could not reach unanimity. But once again the Anglicans were remarkably open to papal authority. The accord concedes that there are occasions when the primate may need to state the judgment of the church without consulting a synod involving other leaders. But to do so, says the report, he must first seek to "discover the mind of his fellow bishops and of the church as a whole," a requirement which is light-years away from Vatican I's emphasis on one-man rule. The report avoids the term...
...through appointments at five German universities and at 42 became deputy president of Regensburg. He is abstemious, hardworking, and as archbishop has earned a reputation for aloofness from his people but persuasiveness in his oratory. In 1980 the Pope assigned him to prepare the major reports for the International Synod of Bishops...