Spirit of Seattle
McCarthy, Abigail
peal lot justice. Again this is a reflection Of several minds: Abigail...
...He is certainly humble and meek in That's a goal sought not only by the example as he has continued to do in the submission, but he has not done what region's Catholics but by non- days of crisis...
...Our Catholic spirit will reach Bishops was to have a sense of having prayerful atmosphere of the demonstra- out to those excluded everywhere returned to the liveliness of the early days tions in which the archbishop participates else...
...More whether he is supported by his brother torial was published, for example, he had inspiring than the defense itself is the bishops or not - he leads a truly renewed spent the better part of two days at an manner of it - it seems free of rancorous church, a people of God learning to be anti-nuclear war rally at the Trident sub- anger, is conciliatory in tone, and charit- unafraid of God's boundless love...
...There could among those responsible for the arms Christ...
...pressed, and the excluded...
...He led by own...
...Another is beyond our shallow securities to sen by acclamation and battles over certainly the way in which he does not the deeper mystery of total trust in theology and church governance were stand in judgment but includes himself God who calls us to be one in waged in the public forum...
...others suppressed by Rome in the past Catholics who have grown to ad- There is something both heady and have done...
...marine base in Bangor, Washington...
...And in a lead editorial, Seattle's people, both in dress and demeanor...
...From The archbishop's enemies have not iary sent to Hunthausen by Rome] the beginning he led Seattle's Catholics gone away...
...One source to embrace our sharpest critics with tional Conference of Catholic of it, perhaps, is the peaceable and love...
...To BE in Seattle just prior to the The regard, it seems, was slowly won...
...Thus, in the region is startling - especially in pastor they have come to love...
...We must simply learn to disagree in an agreeable manner...
...He has not let the truth be mire Hunthausen's spiritual lead- heartening to an observer about the free- obscured by silence, and, thus, has not ership...
...Just seven days before the edi- meetings and supportive liturgies...
...Our Catholic spirit will call us of Christianity when bishops were cho- as one leader among others...
...bishop lost external authority, his interior bishops just prior to their meeting: The visitor soon learns, however, that authority has been strengthened because By focusing on who is wrong the archbishop's stance on arms is not the of "the love he enjoys among the priests about what, the Vatican distracts central facet of his leadership within the and people...
...dom with which a goodly number of left the faithful without the means to act This matter-of-fact acknowledgment Seattle's mainstream clergy, nuns, and according to conscience, to go beyond of the regard in which Hunthausen is held laypeople have come to the defense of the the "shallow securities" in trust...
...place where the economy is heavily de- and the wary, but encouraging numbers , In Seattle it is easy to believe that pendent on the very military-industrial were willing to sign letters questioning whatever happens - whether the archcomplex the anti-war archbishop so often the Vatican's action and to attend protest bishop's powers are restored or not, opposes...
...His pastoral character is...
...Humility is the greatest, most the Protestant leader of Seattle's ecumen- probably lies in the unassuming way in infectious power, and the more he beical community...
...another, and to serve the poor, the op- knows their spirit and meets it with his Namely, a return to normalcy...
...Change us for we bishop's humiliation by Rome, and his center of Seattle's consciousness...
...At of philosophy at Seattle University...
...But the most submission to it, a strengthening of his "He is everyone's archbishop," said important source of the regard for him power...
...morning paper, the Post-Intelligencer, the Trident rally he stood praying among Father Joseph Kramis, pastor, dean of deplored the divisiveness of the papal them, grave in horn-rimmed glasses, the archdiocese, and adviser to its pro-nuncio's "chronology" of the fisherman's cap, and windbreaker - one bishops, believes that even as the archHunthausen affair which was sent to the man of the Northwest among others...
...Granted his enemies are disarmed and his people that it appeared in a Hearst paper in a there are, as there always are, the timid given confidence...
...Many are implacable...
...from the goal that Wuerl [the auxil- church...
...can't change ourselves...
...Even and Hunthausen together have to deepen their prayer, to love one as he offers them understanding he properly set for the archdiocese...
...able in attitude, although firm in its ap- ABIGAIL MCCARTHY Commonweal: 650...
...He is a saint, a man of which he rejects the trappings of author- comes humbled, the more Christlike he God," said Methodist bishop Melvin ity and makes himself one with the appears," said Patrick Burke, professor Talbert...
...We must be open to the differSPIRIT OF SEATTLE ences that separate us, not shut doors . . . We must try to underLESSONS IN RENEWING THE CHURCH stand the other side, not simply take sides...
...Again this is a reflection Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy of the archbishop's own spirit as evinced in his letter to those he calls "My Dear People of God...
...be no doubt that the treatment of Arch- race - "Today we weep for our fearful There are those who see in the archbishop Raymond Hunthausen was at the selves," he prayed...
...Our Catholic spirit will urge us November meeting of the Na- and is not now easily shaken...
Vol. 113 • December 1986 • No. 21
