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...although he maintains it is not government policy. He says that freedom of religion "is an inalienable right of the individual," but, because of past tensions, he still supports the exclusion of Christians from Communist Party membership, which effectively prevents them from holding important government posts. What does the Vatican make of Castro's friendship campaign? "So far we have only words," says one official. "We want to see acts...
...Pope Pius XII extended the privilege to radio listeners, and later to TV audiences. Bishops around the world have long been permitted to impart the blessing to their local flocks on behalf of the Pope. Last week the Vatican announced that Catholics are now eligible to receive this indulgence from their bishop's blessing via radio or TV if they are unable to hear it in person...
...Moscow." In the face of Reagan and Co.'s anti-Soviet was drive they refuse to defend the social gains of October 1917 and equate U.S. imperialism with the Soviet workers state, spitting on the greatest victory of the international working class. The ISO supports Reagan and the Vatican's company union in Poland, Solidarnosc, whose counterrevolutionary attempt was thankfully spiked...
...Pope, gained in stature. He could be poised to become the leader of the conservative wing of the U.S. hierarchy. Prominent among the progressives was Godfried Cardinal Danneels, 52, of Belgium, a disciple of his predecessor Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens, one of the great liberals of the Second Vatican Council. John Paul's appointment of Danneels as the synod official assigned to summarize the discussions was one indication that the Pope is not quite so conservative as he is sometimes depicted. So was the Pope's bow toward ecumenism last week when he led worship with a group...
During the synod, one lay Catholic, a U.S. feminist who was wearing a priest's stole, attempted to celebrate a mock Mass on an altar in St. Peter's Basilica; two Vatican guards removed her. Bizarre though the incident was, it dramatized a growing issue in U.S. Catholicism: demands of women for fuller involvement in the church. The synod fathers did allow women, including Mother Teresa of Calcutta, to attend, but only as nonvoting "auditors." Bishop Malone sought to bring the women's message to his colleagues, but lack of interest among the majority of delegates from developing nations...