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...did not hesitate to show their support for one of Brazil's Altar girls...
...Responses CANDAL, IT SEEMS, is in the eye of the beholder...
...First Communion before first confession...
...A demand for explanation issued by over a short: "Trust me...
...She came in to chants of woman, 1, Rigoberta Menchii (Schocken), Rigoberta Menchd "Cor-ee, Cor-ee...
...Casaldaliga was not merely Burn- S INCE I finished a Peace Corps tour in Nigeria nearly ier's assistant...
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...leaders have requested that the Vatican set forth plainly its specific complaints so Single copy, $1.50...
...Their screams had been heard outside the police station and reported to Burnier and Casaldaliga who were preparing catechumens for baptism...
...At the police station he niversary sounded like a way to check out old friends to saw Burnier suddenly slapped, then shot in the head...
...rate: U.S., $49...
...see who was grayer or fatter, who'd stayed married to whom, Brasil: Nunca Mais, a best-seller last year in Brazil, written and what we all had done...
...The first of four points in a petition circulating in Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, is published biweekly, except monthly Washington state underlines the petitioners' "solidarity with the universal church" Christmas-New Year's and July and August, by and "communion with Pope John Paul II...
...More recently, she said, her country had found Brazil, progress is deadly slow...
...Similarly, the distress goes far beyond those who identify themselves with the archbishop's Innocent Ecstasy: Ronald Modras 538 unqualified personal protest against nuclear weaponry...
...The archdiocese does not have its own seminary...
...Tovares was gunned down in a nearby town broke out...
...Its tribunal is probably better staffed than most...
...The bishops have education has not recently featured any controversial theolo- been preparing an economics pastoral that asks Catholic lay gians...
...That the Pastoral Commission for Land in Conceicao do Araguaia...
...Hunthausen says he has never seen...
...United States...
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...There was, for example, an almost painful attempt to exempt Bishop Wuerl personally from any responsibility for the imbroglio and to welcome his Commonweal, [ISSN 0010-3330] A Review of contribution to the archdiocese...
...Some have no doubt attempted a bit of bishop...
...In reality, not rhetoric, doesn't Rome prefer the tween the ribs...
...We want to deal with them in an open, collegial $28...
...520 Orchestrated crises: Abigail McCarthy 521 AN ARCHBISHOP No routine smugglers: Eric Jorstad 522 WRONGED The `infallible' temptation: Sebastian Moore 525 Catholics & Jews (coot...
...Thomas J. Reese, a Jesuit now carrying out a study of has been floated that the two bishops go to Rome for, in Bishop American archdioceses, reported in the September 20 issue of Wuerl's words, a "forthright discussion with the proper auAmerica that "no evidence has been presented to show that thorities...
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...We learned we could find our the title Torture in Brazil, analyzes the political imprisonment groups under balloons with the names of the ninety-two counof 7,367 Brazilians between 1964 and 1979...
...Beware the Curia bear- For the moment, things in Seattle are at an impasse...
...A report was sent to Rome which Archbishop bland leading the bland...
...Some years ago, dent Corazon Aquino praise the Peace Corps, and talk of Cardinal Ams told church leaders in Paraguay that, "The peace...
...There is no question that many other absolution before Christmas or Easter in parishes short on American bishops have expressed support to Archbishop priests...
...It ing to do with the, appointment of Wuerl and the transfer of matic changes of the powers...
...the bishop of the police...
...dollars by International Money Order or by is a major aspect of the scandal...
...Canada, $53...
...Was this heartfelt and honest word of reproach at the sight of a fellow the pastoral gesture that brought down the Vatican's ire...
...At both Assistant Editors: David Toolan, Karen Sue meetings, the bafflement and dismay over the Vatican action was virtually unanimSmith, Patrick Jordan ous...
...Casaldaliga was with Burnier at the police station...
...The bulk of local opinion is expressed in hundred Seattle Catholic leaders was aptly titled, "What Kind the petition mentioned above: "We want complete and final of a Church Are We Becoming...
...It is 'KUNCA MATS' only by concerted, effective action that torture can finally be Ten years ago October 12, Father Joao Bosco Burnier, a abolished...
...According to the Journal, 1 peace by standing face to face with troops and tanks...
...on May 10 for espousing land reform...
...when Ninoy was in a been touted by the newly returned democratic government in prison cell...
...The truth is that Hunthausen, agree or disagree with a him, has been exactly the kind of outstanding spiritual leader for whose benefit Cardinal Ratzinger wanted to downplay the role of national bishops' conferences...
...We do not have the details from hearsay, nor from reports assembled gradually like The Peace Corps ghosts from out of the deep forests...
...foreign, $59...
...Reese bishop badly used, a sign of assurance that the future of the notes that "immediately before the convention, [Archbishop Catholic church will not be charted behind closed doors...
...and her mother...
...Special two-year process," states the petition, "and with the assistance of Bishop Wuerl...
...vital' ay by the Modernist controversies at the What probably most marked Hunthausen's archdiocesan tes were closed, leadership was an emphasis on consultative and participatory network of " structures...
...Both Hickey and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio Pio Laghi 10 October 1986: 515 eventually concluded this investigation with what appeared to might vitiate the forthright presentation of Gospel truths by be effusive praise of Hunthausen personally and of his spiritual forceful individuals in the hierarchy...
...The ap- forward" and make a "fresh start," skirting the question of pointment of Bishop Wuerl was likewise surrounded by the justice of what has been done and leaving, of course, the closed-door negotiations and secret (though apparently vague) special and final decision-making powers in his own hands...
...These are letters, it should be noted, to a Books conservative Catholic paper, suggesting that the distress experienced over the treatment of Archbishop Hunthausen goes far beyond the boundaries even of those The Politics of Heresy: T. Howland Sanks 536 who might naturally concern themselves with the rights of "dissent...
...Aware of the tensions and conflicts, amago and when Hunthausen was bishop of Helena, Montana...
...biguities and sacrifices inherent in any struggle for justice, the Hunthausen and officials in Helena totally deny the story...
...In the last year, Father Friday morning, with RPCVs from the Philippines massed Resende reports, forty-seven people advocating such reform squarely in front, over 4,000 former volunteers heard Presihave been murdered in his diocese alone...
...The two had gone to protest the torture of two women abducted that day MAGIC FROM BELOW by the police because of the women's association with land ANNIVERSARY FOR AN IDEAL reform...
...conservative Production Editor: Anne Robertson priests joined liberals and moderates in protesting what appeared to be Rome's Poetry: Rosemary Deen Movies: Tom O'Brien stunning disregard for tile traditional role of a bishop...
...bank...
...Now, as percent of the population in Brazil still owns 41 percent of the president, she is "striving to promote peace in the cities and land, while an estimated ten million peasants are landless...
...Yet a Screen: Tom O'Brien 534 "prophetic, dedicated, and spiritual leader" like Hunthausen, the writer continues, Verse: Marilyn P. Donnelly 535 is "treated as a mere lackey, to the scandal of Catholics and non-Catholics alike...
...But his witness must not only be remembered and honored...
...dians and small homesteaders in Mato Grosso, Brazil, was shot to death by military police...
...On August 28 of this year, parties at "our" embassies (unless we had served in Iran), Roger Cohen of the Wall Street Journal reported on the work although we had to know the new names of countries: Sri of Ricardo Resende, a thirty-four-year-old priest who heads Lanka, not Ceylon...
...evaluate criticisms made of Archbishop Hunthausen's policies and to "support the archbishop in his ministry...
...Well, the Hunthausen leadership...
...May we one day be able finally to say fifty-nine-year-old Jesuit priest working with the forest In- it: "Never again...
...General prominent theologians...
...Until the Vatican begins to respect the dignity of loyal bishops, its call for human rights in the world will fall on deaf ears...
...countryside," between economic and political groups, and In the remarkable first-person story of a Guatemalan Indian within the international community...
...Leading figures in the Brazilian hierarchy, after all, and if they have, any merit, they talk to the priest involved...
...Although land reform has found "in a climate of persecution...
...pastors reported the confusion and pain felt by their parishioners...
...aside the day to remember Father Burnier...
...At this remove, those phrases look like a local case indicates how seriously one can take Cardinal Ratzinger's anesthestic administered while the stiletto was slipped be- solicitude...
...Undoub- first decade of the tedly, this made him a lightning rod for conservative com- ulted in a total lack of plaints, but the Vatican insists that the arms protest had noth- or half a century...
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...He was, in fact, his bishop...
...Bishop ing gifts" might become a motto other bishops take to heart: Wuerl simply urges everyone to look "to the future" and "go when you hear praise, check your pension rights...
...It have a Mass in the cathedral when this organization of Catholic is not rancor or theatrical defiance that is wanted, but a homosexuals held a national convention in Seattle...
...vosrI .srEtt: Send address Hickey of Washington, D.C., made an "apostolic visitation" to Seattle in 1983 to changes to Commonweal, 15 Dutch St., New York, N.Y...
...It is the sort of book that might shake even Everyday there were "country updates" and discussions those in air-conditioned offices and homes...
...What most marked the archbishop's personal lead- Were appo ership, of course, was his moral protest, to the point of refusing to pay a portion of his taxes, against nuclear arms...
...18 in the Cook Islands), and go to Solzhenitsyn's second Gulag...
...Yearly subscriptions, U.S., that they can be addressed...
...The proposal ble...
...To elevate the role of upon the Hunthausen case, injected some hope into a void...
...decision-making authority within this archdiocese to be vested If Catholics in Seattle and nationwide are wondering what, in one local ordinary and therefore to be restored to Archspecifically, could have been so serious as to trigger Rome's bishop Raymond Hunthausen who was appointed to this unprecedented intervention, their puzzlement is understanda- archdiocese by the Holy See in February, 1975...
...quiet diplomacy...
...An eighty-year-old priest from Seattle writes to a Davis, Jane Redmont, Judith Banki, Catholic paper and asks prayers for all "who had a hand in assassinating the Kenneth W. Thompson 528 character of our saintly archbishop...
...While we have the strength, his witness must be followed in our own way...
...But if Archbishop Hunthausen goes to Rome, he should not The Seattle liturgy office says that it checks on any complaints, go alone...
...What else explains the to `The Vatican, Israel, & holy Zion': Vatican's failure to recognize its treatment of Archbishop Raymond G. Andrew Baker, Robert Gorham Hunthausen as scandalous...
...Surely these are not reasons for demoting an arch- Hunthausen privately...
...It is those who intervene to save others, American Christians for perhaps too easy to demand that religious leaders have the the Abolition of Torture (6117 Germantown Avenue, insight and forthrightness of prophets, but no one will go out Philadelphia, Pa., 19144) and Amnesty International have set into the desert to see reeds shaken by the wind...
...Recall that last year G. Weakland, 0. S. B, Ratzinger warned that national conferences, in striving for ukee), September 8, I l common-denominator positions acceptable to all the bishops, Commonweal: 516 the two recent common-sensical newspaper columns by Arch- On October 12, it will be ten years since Joao Bosco Burnier bishop Rembert G. Weakland have, without touching at all gave both his strength and his blood...
...Burkina Fasso, not Upper Volta...
...the bishop of the twenty years ago, the Peace Corps' Twenty-fifth Antwo women...
...All Indeed, the calculated obscurity with which the Vatican has conducted this matter Canadian and foreign subscriptions must be paid in U.S...
...laity are apt to look skeptically on the words of leaders who Which leaves the fact that the archbishop allowed Dignity to appear so reticent and cautious in their own collegial affairs...
...night at National Airport, where half of every plane-load Resende is a marked man, as was his friend, Father Josimo seemed to be returned volunteers (RPCVs), mass hugging Moraes Tovares...
...Another letter from another priest in the same Media: Karen Sue Smith 532 paper notes the Vatican's frequent warnings against scandalizing the faithful...
...Given Rome's record in this matter, the proposal Seattle is substantially different from other dioceses in the does not seem overly promising...
...At the request of the Vatican, Archbishop James A. check on a U.S...
...Serembam (Malaysia) to Chikal (Niger) to Asuncion 10 October 1986: 517...
...Still, the lack of visible solidarity has left according to Reese, the annual institute for continuing clergy a lot of concerned Catholics wondering...
...No Catholic hospital in the archdiocese provides sterili- people to put justice first in pursuing their careers and to put zations...
...Since 1979, yet tries where 120,000 Peace Corps volunteers have served (e.g., another volume could be published, as massive and detailed as 6,810 in the Philippines...
...Again and again, Seattle Catholic Commonweal Foundation, 15 Dutch St., New York, N.Y...
...So while we can, we must give our strength...
...She spoke of the personal peace and quiet she lost when political prisoners are not the problem...
...was affected sinful, homosexual acts are not permitted...
...And Thursday, September 18, in a under the sponsorship of Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao big tent on the Mall just below the nation's Capitol, that's Paulo and soon to be available in English from Vintage under pretty much how it seemed...
...In understandings...
...she left to the sound of thunderous recounts the 1979 torture and death of her brother, her father, applause...
...Nunca Mais...
...Staff: Karen F. Silva, Harriette Balsky, What was also noteworthy about those Seattle meetings and other local responses Janice Gates was the eagerness of the archbishop's supporters to go an extra mile - in keeping Advertising Manager Ruth E. Taylor with the tone of accommodation and reconciliation that Archbishop Hunthausen Publisher: Edward S. Skillin himself has set...
...For the RPCVs, that was just the beginning...
...Best of all, against our people...
...A priest who was secretly married claims that Hunt- themselves on the line in order to build a community based on hausen knew of and tolerated this situation - over a decade human dignity...
...Some give their blood and some give everyone present was on first-name terms with people from their strength...
...There have been two meetings of Seattle's priests since it was publicly acknowledged that Rome had ordered Staff Hunthausen's powers in areas like liturgy, moral teaching on sex-related issues, priestly formation and discipline, and operation of the archdiocesan tribunal to be Editor: Peter Steinfels turned over to the recently appointed auxiliary bishop, Donald Wuerl...
...The problem is the her husband entered politics, of the inner, religious peace she iniquitous distribution of wealth...
...Canada, $30...
...Even Hunthausen] restated in the archdiocesan newspaper the church's teaching that while a homosexual orientation is not Xaf the charc i the UUS.A...
...The story was told by an eyewitness, Dom Pedro Casaldaliga...
...After her brother's (formal and informal) of foreign affairs, international food, death, Menchif s father told her: "I am a Christian, and the drink, music and dance, plans for a Peace Corps Foundation, duty of a Christian is to fight all the injustices committed and ways for former volunteers to stay involved...
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