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...bishop and Protestant activists of like mind strongly opposed Reagan Administration policy in El Salvador. The bishops demanded that the Administration cut off military aid to El Salvador, arguing that it only escalated the violence, much of which has been engendered by the Government. Two weeks ago Archbishop Roach called for an end to U.S. military involvement in Guatemala because of that nation's human rights atrocities. Nonetheless, the gap between the bishops and the White House on policy in Central America has narrowed slightly. The Administration has seemingly
...parents; against mercy killing, sleazy TV shows and the religious vacuum in public schools), the bishops have taken distinctly liberal stances on welfare, crime, prisons, housing, national health insurance, world food policy, South Africa and the Panama Canal treaty (the bishops were strongly influenced by calls of support from Archbishop Marcos McGrath of Panama City). The bishops have backed both Israel's right to exist and Palestinians' "right to a state...
Next year the bishops will take up a topic that is potentially as divisive as abortion or nuclear weaponry. A committee led by Milwaukee's Archbishop Weakland is conducting a thoroughgoing moral evaluation of capitalism. The bishops have already advocated the redistribution of economic wealth in the U.S., and have blamed Third World poverty on an exploitive U.S. economic policy and multinational corporations. Conservative critics find this an appallingly simplistic view of economic realities, amounting at best to a kind of global sentimentality and at worst to a repetition of left-wing propaganda platitudes. Last week, without specifically mentioning...
...final phase in the evolution of peace theology was the formation in 1980 of the Bernardin committee. Archbishop Roach skillfully chose the membership of the five-man committee to span the spectrum of the bishops' thinking on nuclear arms. The most liberal member of the committee is Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, 52, of Detroit, who heads Pax Christi, a movement with strong pacifist inclinations. A total of 57 bishops belong to the organization. Gumbleton's hawkish opposite on the committee is Bishop John O'Connor, 62, who runs the church's military ministry for Cardinal Cooke...
...their zealous support for measures that would overturn the Supreme Court's abortion ruling, violates the constitutional principle of church-state separation. Not only is there no clear legal bar against such efforts, but just about every U.S. denomination has entered politics at one time or another. Says Archbishop Roach: "We may never allow the separation of church and state to be used to separate the church from society." Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger disagrees with the bishops' view on deterrence, but says: "Some laymen would like the bishops to confine their discussion to kissing on the first...