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Meeting in Collegeville, Minn., last June, the bishops of the U.S. discussed the status of the American church, in preparation for the synod, and last week their president, Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, sent the Vatican an official report, requested from all bishops' conferences, on behalf of the Americans. Malone, 65, attended Vatican II and is the U.S. hierarchy's delegate to the November meeting in Rome. His 14-page statement reflected not only Collegeville comments but proposals from two dozen Catholic scholars. The report, strongly endorsing the effects of Vatican II in the U.S., said that...
...report comes at a time of growing involvement by members of the American Catholic hierarchy in political and economic issues. Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, the president of the bishops' conference, has been a strong supporter of such activity; he worked hard but unsuccessfully in the late 1970s to keep open the Youngstown Sheet and Tube mills in his diocese. More recently, Archbishops Bernard Law of Boston and John O'Connor of New York stepped into this year's election campaign by indicating that Catholics should consider a candidate's views on abortion before voting...
Ferraro delivered a typical, spunky performance when she visited the down-and-out steel city of Youngstown, Ohio...
...rousing response from some 3,000 United Steelworkers at their annual convention in Cleveland. He accused Reagan of neglecting the steel industry's problems with a policy that amounts to "Let it rust." Added Mondale: "Four years ago, when he was running for President, Mr. Reagan went to Youngstown and said, 'I won't forget you.' Well, he didn't until just after the election. And he's forgotten you for four years. Now it's your turn to forget him on Nov. 6." At Texas Southern University in Houston, black students applauded...
...unacceptable" for a politician who opposes abortion personally to favor free choice as a matter of public policy. So wrote James W. Malone, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Youngstown, Ohio, and head of the U.S. Catholic Conference, the executive agency of the 285 American Catholic bishops, in a formal statement released last week after portions of it had started to leak. He mentioned no names, but the position he assailed happens to be the one taken by a number of prominent Catholic politicians, most notably Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee Geraldine Ferraro...