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Johnson's death seemed patently unjust to the rioters, and not unprecedented...
...increasingly un popular government has promised to hold free national elections in 1985, many Nicaraguans doubt that it will. Fiallos also said that the Sandinistas should lift their nine-month-old state of emergency, which allows press censorship and arbitrary detention, and that they should end the "illegal and unjust" confiscation of property. Fiallos strongly defended the politically moderate Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo, whom he described as "one of the bravest men in Nicaragua." The prelate has been highly critical of the Sandinistas, although he still defends the spirit of the 1979 revolution that overthrew former Dictator Anastasio Somoza...
...start of the debate, Cardinal Cooke, who is also military vicar to Catholics in the armed forces, called for stronger emphasis on the righteousness of "defense against unjust aggression," more realism about Communism and more reaction from bishops in other Western nations who are "anxious about their own defense." Another conservative, New Orleans Archbishop Philip Hannan, 69, argued that his colleagues should scrap the document entirely because it ignores the evils of Soviet Communism...
Philadelphia's influential Archbishop, John Cardinal Krol, 72, is liberal on disarmament and conservative on church discipline and doctrine. He suggested that the pastoral letter should more clearly acknowledge a nation's right to resist attack and tyranny from unjust aggressors by all means that are morally licit...
...that, until then, had been more characteristic of liberal Protestants. For Catholicism, the abortion decision was a bold attack on human life and dignity. The radical change produced reflection upon other "life" issues, especially the arms race. Says Bernardin: "If you take a strong stand against abortion as the unjust taking of human life, then you cannot remain indifferent to nuclear warfare...