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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...
Concerned about the rising passions, Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland, in a remarkable warning, wrote in the archdiocesan paper last month that the church must avoid the "fanaticism and small-mindedness" that through history have "led to much cruelty, suppression of theological creativity and lack of growth." On the right, a convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars last week demanded that the bishops take a harder line, declaring, "No institution is foolish enough to permit its reason for existence to be undermined from within...
...warrant was ordered for the Democratic nominee for Illinois secretary of state, LaRouchite Janice Hart. Judge Morris Topol accused Hart of "thumbing her nose at the court" by failing to appear on a disorderly conduct charge brought last year, when she purportedly disrupted a lecture by Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland. To protest the cleric's alleged support of the International Monetary Fund, a perennial LaRouche target, Hart handed Weakland a piece of raw liver, calling it a pound of flesh. Hart's attorney said she was unable to appear in court last week because she was in West Germany "campaigning...
...Weakland and his colleagues did drop one of their most questionable recommendations: a call for reduction of the U.S. unemployment rate, which now stands at 7.1%, to the 3% to 4% range. Many economists argued that such a goal was unrealistic and that Government efforts to reach it would fan inflation. While the new draft deems the current jobless rate "morally unacceptable" and calls for expanded Government programs, including greater retraining efforts, the bishops no longer set an unemployment target...