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...Andrei Gromyko were on missions to Bonn last week, and Vice President George Bush will arrive in the West German capital next week. In Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher set forth her position in the House of Commons; in Rome, the Pope outlined his in an address to the Vatican diplomatic corps. With pressure building on all sides, President Reagan defended his record on arms control at an impromptu press conference and held a publicized meeting the next day with his chief negotiators. "Arms control is the next big issue," said a senior White House aide...
...Paul II for the first time publicly cast doubt on his plans to travel to Poland in June. Praying to Our Lady of Czestochowa, Poland's most revered religious image, the Pope said, "To you I entrust if and how [the visit] will take place." The "if," said Vatican officials, reflected the Pope's concern that the recent developments might force him to cancel his visit...
...Cardinal, Bernardin was not awarded a red hat until four months after he succeeded the late John Patrick Cardinal Cody. The appointment firmly establishes Bernardin, at 54, as a leader of the U.S. hierarchy, which is becoming more outspoken on social, if not doctrinal, issues. To some Vatican observers, the Pope's honoring of Bernardin so soon after he was named head of the nation's largest archdiocese was also a sign that John Paul approved of the criticism of U.S. nuclear arms policy by a panel led by Bernardin; the panel's draft of a pastoral...
...college is not a bishop but a Jesuit priest: Theologian Henri de Lubac, 86, who was suspended from teaching under Pope Pius XII because of his then radical views on such subjects as other religions and atheism but who emerged as an influential force at the Second Vatican Council. Italian Jesuit Carlo Maria Martini, a brilliant Bible scholar named Archbishop of Milan in 1980, is now, at age 55,papabile, considered to be a candidate for Pope some...
...omissions from the Pope's list were equally interesting. As chief administrator of the Vatican City, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, 60, would have been an almost automatic choice. The Pope, however, is waiting for the results of a joint Vatican-Italian investigation of scandals involving the Institute for Religious Works (the Vatican bank), headed by the Chicago-born American. John Paul also passed over several leading U.S. archbishops. But with his urge to internationalize the college and his intention to keep the number of Cardinals eligible to vote for a Pope at 120, John Paul decided that several prospects must...