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...This debate is about the end of the world and about how we may best delay it." So said Stuart Blanch, the Archbishop of York, last week as the Church of England became the latest denomination to struggle with the morality of nuclear deterrence. British clergy judged the General Synod's deliberations to be the church's most important debate on public policy since World War II. The meeting occurred in Church House, adjacent to Westminster Abbey, where Parliament met in 1941 after German bombers had damaged the House of Commons...
...most dramatic response to Baker was delivered by Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and spiritual leader of the world's 65 million Anglicans. Runcie, who won the Military Cross for valor as a lieutenant in a Scots Guards tank battalion during World War II, contended that unilateralism would "undermine" disarmament negotiations in Geneva and have a "traumatic effect" on NATO, which he credited with establishing "the peace and stability of Europe" since World...
Jean-Marie Lustiger, 56, who was appointed Archbishop of Paris by John Paul in 1981, is the first Jewish convert to join the College of Cardinals in modern times. The other French appointee to the college is not a bishop but a Jesuit priest: Theologian Henri de Lubac, 86, who was suspended from teaching under Pope Pius XII because of his then radical views on such subjects as other religions and atheism but who emerged as an influential force at the Second Vatican Council. Italian Jesuit Carlo Maria Martini, a brilliant Bible scholar named Archbishop of Milan...
...omissions from the Pope's list were equally interesting. As chief administrator of the Vatican City, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, 60, would have been an almost automatic choice. The Pope, however, is waiting for the results of a joint Vatican-Italian investigation of scandals involving the Institute for Religious Works (the Vatican bank), headed by the Chicago-born American. John Paul also passed over several leading U.S. archbishops. But with his urge to internationalize the college and his intention to keep the number of Cardinals eligible to vote for a Pope at 120, John Paul decided that several prospects must...
...seven-page document is officially the product of only the eight bishops on the commission, but it was approved by the hierarchy's four-member executive committee, and has been getting widespread back ing from other bishops, though Emmett Cardinal Carter, the Archbishop of Toronto, says it is "risky" for the church to get into specifics on economics...