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Last September Boff was invited to Rome for a discussion with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's watchdog Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Boff recalls the four-hour meeting as "cordial--Ratzinger mainly just sat and listened." The cordiality may have been influenced by the presence at the Vatican of two of Brazil's most influential Cardinals, Paulo Evaristo Arns, Archbishop of Sao Paulo, and Aloisio Lorscheider, Archbishop of Fortaleza, who accompanied Boff on his trip...
...city has waited long enough to act on the problem of police violations of the civil rights of Cantabrigians, especially those of Black youth. Councilor Saundra Graham's current proposal to install a law enforcement watchdog comes after nine months of discussion among residents, police officials and city authorities. Currently, it is the only firm proposal in a whirlwhind of rhetoric about police violations...
...ensure that their activities are in the country's interest. FlRA's regulations, however, drove many foreign businessmen away; in the past three years, U.S. investment in Canada declined by $3.7 billion. Mulroney plans to turn FIRA into more of an investment promoter than a nationalistic watchdog. Says Charles Doran, director of Johns Hopkins' Center of Canadian Studies: "The form will be there, but the teeth will be gone...
Last week, five days after his congregation issued a warning against liberation theology, the Vatican's top doctrinal watchdog, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, met with Boff to explore the priest's views. At the four-hour interrogation, attended in part by Cardinals Arns and Lorscheider, Boff presented a 50-page reply to the charges against him. By all accounts the meeting was most amiable, and Boff will return to Brazil this week. In Rome a high-level committee will mull over his responses. The likely outcome: a statement that will announce no disciplinary action against Boff, but will criticize...
Whether or not such a watchdog group materializes, the mere fact that men once locked up as subversives are meeting and planning again is symbolic of the new mood. Though rebuilding the old Solidarity as a spearhead of resistance is out of the question, its ideals are being put forward by those seeking government reforms. As Walesa said in a speech he prepared for, but did not deliver at, last week's anniversary, "We signed the social agreements believing in the good intentions of the other party. We were painfully disappointed . . . What about union pluralism? What about freedom...