Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Villa Cavalletti amid the vineyards of the Frascati region twelve miles outside Rome. The bucolic setting may have helped. In any event, the anticipated confrontations never occurred. Dezza, 80, won more esteem from the Jesuit leaders than had been expected. But his very strength as a master of the Vatican bureaucracy also meant, said one participant, that his "mindset was such that it would be useless to debate." The assembled priests quietly decided that he was unable to comprehend how Jesuits out in the provinces must work to deal with materialism or widespread poverty...
...commented on their political statements concerning El Salvador, the American bishops believe that he does not oppose their policies. Says Lucker: "Clearly he cannot be saying that we shouldn't be taking stands on moral issues that have political implications. Look at his own statements on Poland." A Vatican official describes the Pope's views on El Salvador to be threefold: to prevent bloodshed, encourage social reform and avoid the emergence of "another Cuba." Neither the bishops nor the Reagan Administration would disagree with those goals; the question is how to attain them...
...Pope moved through the crowds in the steaming tropical heat, there were also echoes of another painful concern that some Vatican insiders feared was becoming an overriding papal preoccupation: the crisis in his native Poland. When a group of Poles working in Nigeria caught his attention in the northern city of Kaduna, John Paul suddenly ordered his driver to stop and leaned over to kiss a homemade Polish flag offered by a young boy. While the crowd cheered, he made approving gestures toward a large banner containing the word SOLIDARITY...
...Solidarity labor movement, put more than 5,000 of its members and sympathizers in detention camps, clamped severe restrictions on personal liberty, and left at least ten dead and hundreds injured. The archbishops were well aware of that unrelieved bleakness. Indeed, they spent much of their week in the Vatican briefing the Polish-born Pontiff on the dim prospects for his homeland's future. As Glemp described it during an emotional sermon at Rome's Church of St. Stanislao: "Our fatherland ... is sick. Poles are overcome by anger. We are enraged one against the other." The church...
...Western labor leaders and Solidarity exiles that the banned union was "an authentic representative of the workers." He added that the full restoration of Solidarity's rights was "the only road out of this difficult situation." Despite the Pope's intense interest in the Polish question, Vatican sources say that he will leave the forging of church strategy in Glemp's hands...