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...charismatic personality attracted millions of the faithful, and his words and actions rarely failed to bring political reactions. He roared "Silencio!" to unruly Sandinistas who disrupted a Mass he was celebrating in Nicaragua; he made a surprise visit to the grave of El Salvador's martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero; and he bluntly told the government of dirt-poor Haiti, "Something must change here." In Poland he met with General Wojciech Jaruzelski and called for the unshackling of Solidarity, the banned labor union. He also met privately with his native country's most celebrated nonperson, Nobel Peace Prizewinner Lech...
...York City's Fordham University last week, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, perhaps the most influential U.S. archbishop, defended the linking of opposition to both abortion and capital punishment by arguing that these "prolife" policies constitute a "seamless garment." Bernardin also spoke on a subject with which he has become closely identified: opposition to the nuclear arms race. Rejections of abortion and nuclear war, he declared, are "specific applications of this broader attitude" to life. He noted: "We have also opposed the death penalty because we do not think its use cultivates an attitude of respect for life...
Since the Most Rev. Raymond ("Dutch") Hunthausen became Archbishop of Seattle in 1975, his flock of 287,000 has become accustomed to such unusual rituals. The Vatican has been inundated with complaints from conservative parishioners, including one from the parents of the man whose coffin was decorated with balloons. Three weeks ago, Pope John Paul dispatched Archbishop James Hickey of Washington, D.C., on an extraordinary "apostolic visitation" to probe what Hunthausen has wrought...
...native of Montana, the energetic, soft-spoken Hunthausen, 62, is known as the "peace Archbishop." He preaches unilateral disarmament, refuses to pay half of his income tax as a protest against Pentagon spending, and has denounced the local nuclear submarine base as the "Auschwitz of Puget Sound." During his week-long visitation, Hickey said he was not concerned with political issues but only with hearing out priests, nuns and parishioners, and among the 60 Washingtonians he spoke to there was no shortage of praise for Hunthausen; 252 of the 280 priests in the archdiocese signed a petition of support...
Critics claim that Hunthausen's pastoral solicitude runs only in a leftward direction. One witness, Father Paul Auer, was forced into retirement at age 59 and has petitioned Rome for reinstatement. "The Archbishop said I was unfit to be a pastor in this post-Vatican II age," he told TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane. He said he was upset by "liberal theologians who come here with the idea of remaking the church, always in the spirit of Vatican II," and he railed against such practices as entertainment in church, which in his view turns the Mass into "just a meal...