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Since the Second Vatican Council concluded in 1965, dissension has become widespread among Roman Catholics in the U.S. Time after time priests, sisters and lay members alike have publicly and sometimes defiantly questioned policies and dictums emanating from the Vatican. But since he became Pope, John Paul II has been unyielding in his determination to restore certainty in church teaching, and lately he has turned his attention toward America. Perhaps the greatest burden of this simmering dispute has fallen on the 253 active bishops in the U.S., who are caught between the will of their Pontiff | and the insistent expectations...
...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...
Waite's religious work has not been confined to the Anglican Church. Between 1972 and 1979 he served in Rome as an adviser to the Vatican on African missionary activities. He returned to London in 1980 to accept his current post with Runcie, thus becoming the first layman to be a personal aide to an Archbishop of Canterbury. While the job description called for someone who could handle mail and maintain links between the Archbishop and his 70 million-strong Anglican following around the world, Waite was not cut out for a desk job. The towering...
Whatever the appearances, one Vatican official insists, "the Holy See does not have a fixation on the United States." Indeed, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's Vatican doctrinal office, having dispensed with Curran, faces no other imminent decisions in the U.S., and two weeks ago turned toward Europe, issuing a formal rebuke of a theologian in the Netherlands, Edward Schillebeeckx. His offense: proposing that lay Catholics could celebrate Mass in unusual situations...