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...largest archdiocese (2.4 million members), Bernardin is expected to be added to the ten American Cardinals when Pope John Paul II names new members of the Sacred College. Bernardin has been a close colleague of the Pope's since they served together from 1974 to 1978 on the Vatican's international council for the Synod of Bishops...
...name. Many of the bishops who participated in last week's debate freely admit that Vatican II was a turning point in their lives. Said St. Paul's Roach: "It was really the mind and spirit of the council that I have tried to assimilate and absorb...
...bishops argued that any good that could be gained from the fighting was outweighed by the destruction of human life and moral values. One high Vatican prelate believes that many American bishops, feeling they had spoken out too late on the war, "may be compensating now by taking a strong stand [on nuclear weapons]. The Viet Nam experience also influenced them to take a close look at American involvement in other areas...
...bishops' growing interest in political action was also increased by their involvement with the church in Latin America. There bishops, priests and nuns have embraced the social liberalism of Pope Paul and Vatican II, siding with the poor against the oligarchies. A tempering influence on Latin American clergy was Pope John Paul's admonition that they should not get directly involved in politics. But the general effect of the church's activism in Latin America was to encourage the U.S bishops not only to become more aggressive politically in the U.S., but to take strong policy stands...
...Vatican II, a coalition of U.S. and European bishops persuaded the council to accept, grudgingly, the idea of nuclear deterrence. The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, promulgated in 1965, declares: "Since the defensive strength of any nation is considered to be dependent upon its capacity for immediate retaliation, this accumulation of arms . . . serves, in a way heretofore unknown, as a deterrent to possible enemy attack. Many regard this as the most effective way by which peace of a sort can be maintained between nations at the present time...