Spectator's Journal/Vatican Paralysis

...Carter will be eligible for parole from his two "life sentences" in a few years...

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...If the affirmative means the hierarchy is going to pursue conciliar reforms with new and systematic vigor, progressives should be encouraged, conservatives tested in the virtue of obedience...

...Hoxha then nestled up to Mao, until Mao's heirs turned "reformist" in 1978, when he again wrote off huge debts to China...

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...The second conviction held up longer than the first...

...Meanwhile, progressives panicked...

...the Jesuit rector of Rome's Gregorian University simply called them "sad...

...The answer may have been given, albeit unwittingly, by Cardinal Willebrands, President of the Secretariat for the Promotion of Christian Unity, at the synod's second press conference...

...But last September it ran into Federal District Judge H. Lee Sarokin, who sits in Newark...

...As such they would have no more desired to turn back the clock than they would to join in what could only appear to them an unseemly outburst on the part of the Prefect...

...In particular, the Hawkins report turned up a woman whom police had known about but whom the prosecution had deemed too unreliable to put on the witness stand...

...Speculation mounted...

...The resistance to the fascists in World War II was a chaotic affair, and the only group with sufficient internal discipline to wage a consistent guerrilla war—the Communists—emerged in 1945, ready to seize power...

...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1986 35 into the Religious Freedom document the age-old Catholic claim to what he calls "a monopoly on truth...

...Even as they jostled for seats along with some 300 resident vaticanisti in the overcrowded press hall, Vatican watch-ers could have told by a glance at the participants that this was not a meeting called to abrogate anything...

...Another prosecution would cost Passaic County at least a half million dollars...

...That is a word that never enters our discussions...

...Hoxha turned a nation of 3 million, living in an area the size of Maryland, into the most isolated spot on earth, and one of the most sinister...

...What does it mean, return...

...Instead, we are proud to uphold the middle-American literary tradition that gave us Mark Twain, T.S...

...He urged that in the name of "justice and compassion" Carter and Artis not be retried...

...In 1955 the U.N...

...As the influential Belgian Cardinal Daneels pointed out on opening day, since the bishops had been invited to Rome to "celebrate, verify and promote the Second Vatican Council," it was hardly to be expected that they would want to delve into the kind of unpleasantness the catastrophic statistics indicated...

...the Dutch prelate replied,"Return...

...Each of the country's administrative districts has its own work camp...

...From earliest times a bishop was responsible only to the Pope and could count on presenting his problems and requests directly to the Vatican...

...Cardinal Law of Boston gave "witness to the blessings of the Council" just as "we bishops give to the Council our unanimous affirmation," and Yugoslavia's Cardinal Kouaric, calling 34 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1986 the 1962-1965 meetings "a good tree bearing good fruit," insisted that "in no way should the tempest that followed the Council be attributed to the Council...

...Plus an impressive pool of talented young writers...

...Using the blank check issued to federal judges by the U.S...

...Seventy percent of the population is Muslim, with an equal distribution of Catholic and Orthodox among the minority...

...Formally in-dependent in 1912, it was then literally sold by its inept ruler, King Zog, to the Italians for $20 million just before the last war...

...We stand apart from the reigning critical "establishments"—their jargon, their squabbles, and their pet causes...

...Inasmuch as the Albanian constitution forbids foreign loans, officials are proud to tell you that the country owes nothing to any-one...

...He asked Eldridge Hawkins, a black New Jersey Assemblyman and head of the judiciary committee, to investigate the matter...

...As for the tempest, statistics show it to have been sweeping...

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...Methodists would have to return to Anglicanism...

...All such religious sites are totally banned for Albanians...

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...After several months, the committee submitted a report concluding that Carter and Artis were in fact "at the scene of the crime," but that other people may have been involved in the shooting...

...But is it worth the effort...

...Unlike Tito, Hoxha remained loyal to Moscow until 1961, when Khrushchev denounced Stalin—Hoxha denounced Khrushchev in turn, and happily wrote off billions of rubles lent to Albanian industry...

...Under the conference system, his initiatives must be subjected to a majority vote of his fellow bishops...

...For better or for worse, the pivotal words are "one" and "true" Peter Hebblethwaite, a veteran journalist and onetime Jesuit, recalls how conservative bishops during the last sessions of Vatican II attempted to insert 4 monei,-iavinf, ia44cilotion.imodA404.0m CHRONICLES OF' CULTURE The genuinely American magazine ofarts, letters, and ideas...

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...Whether the disaster was due to what the Council texts said or to what their interpreters said they said continues to be debated...

...The woman mentioned in the Hawkins report claimed to have been in the second car...

...Priest-columnist Andrew Greeley warned the Vatican that "to turn the clock back by abrogating any of the reforms of Vatican II will only make a chaotic situation more chaotic...

...Shulman, particularly as I've never read his journal, but when I visited the country last fall Feliks Polonski is the pseudonym of a writer on Eastern Europe...

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...Each successive reversal bludgeons the public into believing that prosecutor and juries really have no power against the higher courts, and that the criminal defendant is playing the winning hand...

...For him, mistaken interpretations of those texts are to blame...

...Those few Western tourists—less than 3,000 a year—who are allowed in will be taken to padlocked mosques and, if they are fortunate, to the Byzantine church in Apollonia, a unique relic fast decaying for lack of proper attention...

...But on a visit to the country's largest textile factory, I noticed that all the equipment was from China, most of it dating from 1963...

...And I don't wish to be unkind to Mr...

...In the United States alone, tens of thousands of priests left the ministry and at least 60,000 nuns abandoned their convents...

...And it can mean a dramatic turn for the oppositemarginal group, the traditionalists...

...There had always been reports that a second, dark car had sped away from the scene behind Carter's white Dodge...

...In other words, the Establishment...

...He said that the Passaic County prosecutor's suggestion of possible racial motives in the killing had violated the defendants' constitutional rights...

...Only ten years after the Council, Mass attendance in Paris had dropped by 75 percent, enrollment in French seminaries by 86 percent, in Holland every seminary closed for lack of students...

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...Referring to the evidence in the case as "disputed," Sarokin said that in his judgment the case did not merit a conviction...

...His forty-year tyranny dragged Albania—scarcely kicking but certainly screaming—into a distorted version of the twentieth century from which it will take at least as long to recover...

...see to it...

...But Cardinal Ratzinger is clear: "Catholics have lost the conviction that there is one truth and that this truth is definable in a precise way...

...As you would expect, the prisons and forced labor camps work overtime...

...It was also predictable that as conference presidents they would avoid discussion of Ratzinger's denunciation of the episcopal conferences...

...Outside of the U.S...

...Except for a few elderly cardinals who had taken part in the Council, the great majority of those scheduled to speak were presidents of episcopal conferences...

...They saw the whole irreverent show about to close—the far-out liturgies, gay seminaries, guerrilla priests, feminist nuns...

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...Long after it was too late to conduct any searches, Passaic police realizedthat the street on which the patrolman first saw the cars speeding past, and the perpendicular street where Carter's Dodge was stopped a short while later, intersected at Eddie Rawls's house...

...Even traditionalists looked up...

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...Strategically positioned statues and busts of the moustached Georgian are to be found in every city and town, and in its suppression of individual freedom and excision of cultural diversity the country adheres to Stalinist principles of rule like no other...

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...But in 1967 religion was outlawed after "pressure from youth organizations...

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...Albanian history is the messiest of that profoundly troubled region, the Balkans...

...The Passaic County prosecutor's office has not said whether it will attempt a third trial if its appeals are denied...

...One after the other lauded the conciliar changes...

...It was only reasserted there and made known to the faithful...

...When a middle-aged journalist asked, "How does conciliar teaching differ from what we were taught in school—namely, that the Protestant denominations would have to return to Rome...

...It made it past the New Jersey Supreme Court on a 4-to-3 vote...

...No, I do not envision any return...

...The country has had an inter-nal history that freezes the marrow: As late as 1920 blood feuds accounted for one in every four adult male deaths...

...But no need to feel that once again the U.S...

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...the net result, however, was a process which both Pope Paul VI and Cardinal Ratzinger have described as "auto-destruction...

...The Holy Father would Mary Ball Martinez is a long-time observer of Vatican affairs...

...EUROPEAN DOCUMENT A BALKAN BASKET CASE by Feliks Polonski The only American citizen formally permitted to visit Albania is a Jack Shulman, who from New York apparently edits an admiring periodical called Albanian Report...

...Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, suspended a divinis for refusing to accept several Council documents, quipped, "The Cardinal says far harsher things than I ever said...

...Hoxha initially looked for good relations with Yugoslavia's Tito, but Tito's real interest in Albania was as a future seventh republic for Yugoslavia...

...Why have thousands of priests and nuns and millions of the laity walked away since Vatican II...

...And so the case of Hurricane Carter may soon be over...

...The Vatican, beginning with Cardinal Ratzinger, will have no choice but to call it schism...

...However estranged Albania remains from the Kremlin, it continues to venerate Joseph Stalin...

...Archbishop Lefebvre, now 80, in company with Archbishop Castro Mayer of Brazil, has indicated that, should the November meetings turn out to be a non-event, he intends to do what traditionalist Catholics have been urging him to do for ten years and that is to consecrate a bishop or bishops to succeed them both...

...Now, twenty years later, it could be asked how post-conciliar statistics might read had the attempt succeeded...

...Almost inevitably, poverty, illiteracy, premature death, and peasant ignorance bred like worms in a cadaver...

...What has come to be called "ecumenism" was already underway in 1922 with the Malines Conversations of Cardinal Mercier and Lord Halifax, and the last statement to be issued from the Vatican denouncing the blending of religions was the 1929 encyclical Mortalium Anima of Pope Pius XI: "The Church has always maintained that there is only one way in which unity can be achieved and that is by furthering a return to the one, true Church of Christ by those who have separated from it...

...Squashed between Yugoslavia and Greece, with only 40 miles of the Adriatic separating it from Italy, Albania has suffered centuries of humiliating invasion at the hands not only of those three, but also more distant Turkey and Germany...

...The question of episcopal conferences concerns ecclesiastical government...

...On the evidence, another conviction is not impossible...

...Conservative Catholics took heart...

...Ed-die Rawls owned a dark car...

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...Was the German cardinal speaking with his master's voice, as Time suggested...

...The at-tempt was unsuccessful...

...VATICAN PARALYSIS by Mary Ball Martinez Because Pope John Paul's announcement that he had convoked a special synod to evaluate the results of the Second Vatican Council gave no indication as to how he evaluated them, a spontaneous media buildup began early last year which eventually brought more than 300 correspondents to Rome in November...

...Nearly twenty years after the shooting in the Lafayette Grill, Rubin Carter may soon stand exonerated for the "crime he didn't commit...

...The inquiry would haveserved as well to arouse more than 600 half-dozing journalists who had come primed for a battle only to find "unanimous affirmation...

...Some radicals will probably conform, some will leave the Church...

...Rather I see us all going together along the same path toward the future" Like the conference idea, the Willebrands thesis did not spring from the Council sessions...

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...Catholic Eye predicted: "John Paul's reassertion of papal authority is going to turn the synod into a battle-field...

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...When Catholics were convinced they belonged to "the one" and "the true," they undertook the difficult disciplines of priestly celibacy, indissoluble marriage bonds, regular practices of Mass and sacraments, with little complaint...

...If the shadow of the strong critique hung over the synod, no participating cardinal, bishop, or priest admitted it...

...Traditionalists maintain that doctrinal error contained in certain Council documents brought on the tempest...

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...Like many of the anomalies credited to Vatican II, however, this structure was not conceived on the Council floor, but in the mind of Pope Pius XII a decade before the Council convened...

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...Calling them devoid of any theological basis, he insisted that the conferences deprive individual bishops of their proper personal authority...

...A grace of God and the most important event of the century," said Irish Cardinal O'Fiaich...

...I found precious little to admire...

...From the start the country was ruled as a virtual autocracy until the (totally unjust) peaceful death last April of Stalinist strongman Enver Hoxha...

...If indeed that essential conviction was lost during the years immediately following the Second Vatican Council, the matter would seem to have been worth looking into by such a comprehensive body of churchmen as met in Rome in November...

...They must be measured instead by how long they stand up in an appeals process that never, never ends...

...Adding zest to the buildup was a series of interviews and a book in which the Prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Ratzinger, offered devastating criticism of post-conciliar abuses, calling the present situation a "crisis...

...Since then priests and practitioners have been imprisoned and in some cases executed...

...Byrne did not pardon Carter...

...Supreme Court for overturning local jury verdicts—in blatant violation of the Seventh Amendment—Judge Sarokin ruled the second conviction "unconstitutional" and ordered Carter released from prison...

...is getting a raw deal—no Soviet visitors are allowed in either...

...A report published in 1984 by Amnesty AFGHANISTAN Since 1980 the Afghanistan Relief Committee has been sending medical aid, food, and support for schools to villagers inside Afghanistan...

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...Ratzinger does not go that far...

...ARC is the primary U.S...

...Given our current system, where a single federal judge, reading a trialrecord, can not only overturn the verdict of twelve jurors who actually see and hear the witnesses, but also nullify the reviewing powers of a state's entire judicial apparatus, convictions can no longer be measured in terms of finality—stare juris, as it was once called, long the pride of English law...

...For Catholics, the Council that changed the Church was a water-shed, and one's attitude toward its con-sequences marks a Catholic as traditionalist, conservative, progressive, or radical...

...Although no bishop had spoken up when the Ratzinger declarations were published, several leading theologians in England had pronounced them "negative and infantile...

...reported that 80,000 men, women, and children had served time in these camps since the end of the war, and 16,000 of them had died...

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...He left behind a country of no taxation, no private automobiles, no religious practice, no freedom of travel and self-expression, no inflation, and no acknowledged foreign debts...

...The prosecutors are appealing to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and whoever loses there will certainly appeal to the U.S...

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