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...draft, which was kept secret until after the presidential election so that it would not become a campaign issue, goes beyond simply noting the presence of the hungry at the feast of American affluence. The letter calls for an aggressive, Government-led attack on economic problems. Said Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, who chaired the committee that prepared the letter: "We want to appeal to the generosity, good will and concern of all U.S. citizens. Our point is: do not remain complacent at this point in history...
Rembert George Weakland, 57, chairman of the bishops' committee on the U.S. economy, had an early personal experience with poverty. His father, a hotelkeeper in Patton, Pa., died in 1932, when Weakland was five. His mother, who had five other children, scratched by on welfare for years un til she was able to go back to work as a schoolteacher. "To this day," Weakland says, "I can't look at brown corduroy knickers without getting sick, because if you wore those WPA clothes everybody knew you were on welfare...
...teenager, Weakland was torn between two vocations. After making a creditable soloist's debut, performing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 with a local orchestra, he considered a musical career. Instead, he became a Benedictine monk at St. Vincent's Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa., in 1945. Nonetheless, he kept up his music, earning a master's degree in piano at New York City's Juilliard School and doing doctoral-level work in musicology at Columbia University. He also transcribed medieval works into modern notation for the Play of Daniel, a heralded music-drama introduced...
...Weakland was elected arch-abbot of St. Vincent's at a youngish 36. Four years later he was chosen abbot primate of the Benedictine Federation, the Rome-based international coordinator for 220 monasteries with 10,000 priests and brothers...
...church, the richest and fourth largest* national branch of Roman Catholicism. Many American Catholics resent what they see as the Vatican's continuing view of the U.S. as a mission church. Because of the Pope's Polish background, says Milwaukee's liberal Archbishop Rembert Weakland, he "probably doesn't quite understand the American approach to dialogue and pluralism...