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...fact-finding tour which was sponsored by the Partido Liberal Independiente--a Nicaraguan party opposed to the Sandinsta regime--met with the ministers of housing. Health, Education, and Labor as well as the leaders of various opposition parties, civil activists, and the archbishop of Nicuragua. The delegation was given permission to travel freely in all parts of the country, Spalter said...
Pastoral letters are intended to advise Roman Catholics on moral courses of action, but are not binding rules. The bishops began working on the nuclear weapons letter in July 1981, at the request of Minnesota Archbishop John Roach, president of the N.C.C.B. "We see this as the major moral imperative of our time," Roach said last week...
...distributed at a press conference last week in advance of the annual meeting of the N.C.C.B. "I for one never even thought of the possible impact on the elections," says Bishop John O'Connor, auxiliary military vicar and one of the document's coauthors. Says Chicago Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, who chaired the five-bishop panel: "I am sure no one really believes that we made public our draft to influence the elections...
...Archbishop John Quinn has taken a courageous step in allowing a painful but crucial dialogue to develop between the lesbian and gay communities and the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Homosexuality and Social Justice is a historic document that we hope will lead to further reconciliation between a richly spiritual people and the Catholic Church we love...
Milingo's critics accuse him, in effect, of being a kind of Catholic witch doctor who is reinforcing faith in tribal magic when he should be promoting modern medicine. The archbishop's opponents have also charged him with neglect of his administrative duties. A group of African bishops in 1978 ordered a halt to Milingo's healings. When he persisted, the Vatican finally summoned him to Rome...