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...take some comfort in the knowledge that Poles themselves are keeping the faith, even in the face of death. As Archbishop Jozef Glemp said Sunday in response to the banning. "We know that what is just, what is an ideal, cannot fall. Structures can be abolished, but no idea can disappear...
...behavior. But this teaching has laid the church open to charges that its attitude is out of step with the times. Nowhere in the U.S. has its stance caused more problems than in San Francisco, where the homosexual population is estimated at 20%. In 1980 John R. Quinn, the Archbishop of San Francisco, issued a pastoral letter to the archdiocese saying that the church, while showing compassion, must oppose homosexual or any other sexual activity outside of marriage...
...Though Archbishop Quinn remained silent, the first reaction from the archdiocese emphasized the task force's good intentions rather than accusing it of doctrinal errors or sins of naiveté. Said an editorial in the archdiocesan newspaper The Monitor: "We do not agree with many of the report's findings and recommendations. On the other hand, we respect the report for what it is-a working document, voicing the real feelings of real people who have had the courage to speak out." Last week the archdiocese's senate of priests resolved to seek a plan for ministering...
...harshest indictment yet of the Rome government's inability to halt the epidemic of brutal criminal violence that has gripped Italy in recent years. The Archbishop of Palermo was presiding over a highly emotional memorial service for Carabinieri General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the appointed prefect of Palermo, who had arrived in May to spearhead the government's efforts to clean up the Sicilian Mafia. The day before, Dalla Chiesa, 62, and his bride of less than two months, Emanuela Setti Carraro, 32, were slain in downtown Palermo during an ambush by presumed Mafia hitmen...
Says Sindona: "Our goal was to buy control in Banco Ambrosiano." Sindona says that he first introduced Calvi to Archbishop Paul Marcinkus in 1971, the year the priest became president of the Vatican bank. Sindona strongly denies that he paid Calvi and Marcinkus a $6.5 million commission as part of a business deal in the early 1970s, as has been widely reported. Says Sindona: "I did give $6.5 million to Calvi, much more than that, but that was to buy shares of Ambrosiano and other stocks. None went to Marcinkus unless Calvi gave it to him." Sindona insists that Marcinkus...