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...Archbishop Luigi Poggi, a Vatican diplomat-at-large whose primary function is to maintain contact between the Holy See and the Polish government, returned to Rome following a week-long visit to Poland. While there, he had met with Jaruzelski and delivered a papal message urging an end to martial law. Poggi professed to see "some rays of hope" and even "the possibility of a reconciliation." Mediation with the Jaruzelski regime is being conducted not by the church directly but through a "social council" made up of Catholic laymen. Among them is a close friend of the Pope, Jerzy Turowicz...
...town. Valenzuela sneaked into the church by a back entrance to avoid a mob of well-wishers. Outside, many would-be guests were barred from the church by dozens of plainclothes policemen fearful that the crowd would charge the doors. The nuptials, presided over by two bishops and an archbishop, were broadcast nationally. Valenzuela, a cool customer on the mound, sweated the ceremony. After a Hawaiian honeymoon, the couple will spend the winter in Valenzuela's home town of Etchohuaquila, near where he plays off-season ball for his old club, the Mayos. As for Fernando's decision...
...meantime, the Pope sent a special envoy, Archbishop Luigi Poggi, to Poland to meet with the military government, which in turn was holding talks with a committee of leading Catholic laymen. Poggi delivered a letter from the Pope to Jaruzelski and had a long discussion with him. The Pope also received a personal report on the Polish situation from Polish Bishop Bronislaw Dabrowski, who had twice visited Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa in detention. What was most interesting about these diplomatic contacts between the Warsaw government and the Vatican was the implication that Poland's present rulers would welcome the support...
Activists are urging confrontation. The radical Evangelical magazine Sojourners calls for prayerful protests at all U.S. nuclear facilities. Seattle's Roman Catholic Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen suggests a tax boycott. In Amarillo, Texas, Bishop L.T. Matthiesen is asking employees to quit work at the nearby Pantex plant, which assembles nuclear bombs. Clergy in California and Connecticut have been prominent backers of legislative petitions endorsing a freeze of U.S. and Russian nuclear-weapon production. Says Pastor John Thursby of Lyme, Conn.: "God would not be pleased if we return his creation to him in ashes." Other local congregations are backing...
Christianity, of course, has not generally been pacifist, subscribing instead to St. Augustine's "just war" theory. That theory, argues San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop John Quinn, requires that a licit conflict must produce more good than evil and must protect large populations from indiscriminate injury. On those criteria, says Quinn, "it could never be morally justified to use strategic nuclear weapons...