Word: weakland
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...admitted to all nonordained ministries. That would include authorizing altar girls (common at Masses in the U.S., despite Vatican disapproval). The draft also urged a study of allowing women to become deacons. After some behind-the-scenes lobbying, the final version mentioned none of those points. Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, a U.S. spokesman on the issue, was reduced to expressing "happiness at the vagueness of the final statement," apparently suggesting that a more forthright document could have been worse. "The synod," he said, "was not ready to work out the differences between men and women, their specific tasks...
Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, after boldly describing the counterproductive dangers of an "authoritarian style," made a forthright appeal for women to become "equal partners" within the church. "There are no words to explain so much pain on the part of so many competent women today who feel they are second-class citizens in a church they love. That pain turns easily to anger," he warned, as many come to resent "male superiority and dominance...
...Pope offered no substantive response on women, only endorsing their "equal human dignity." Turning to a topic Weakland had not even mentioned, John Paul urged the bishops to oppose artificial birth control more actively and promote natural methods approved by the church. After the final speaker, Cincinnati's Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, discussed the growing shortage of priests and nuns, the Pope stressed that seminarians must be grounded in traditional teaching...
Other voting reflected divisions among the bishops. In the second ballot for a new vice president, Law received 39% and Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, a May-style moderate, 34%. Milwaukee's liberal Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who has implied that there are similarities between the Pope's clampdown and inquisitions of the past, drew 26%. Pilarczyk eventually won. In elections of U.S. representatives to a Vatican synod next year, moderates and liberals joined forces to elect Weakland and again bypass...
...Weakland is best known as the head of the committee that wrote a pastoral letter on moral failings in U.S. capitalism. The final draft of that long- pending document received sharp criticism from the conservative laity for placing too much dependence on Government remedies. But last week in Washington the draft won lopsided approval, indicating that the bishops' social activism will continue unabated, whatever the other tensions within the church...