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...when Italy's feuding parliamentary factions seemed hopelessly deadlocked. The collapse of the Spadolini government, which had a prime minister from the tiny Republican Party and was the first postwar administration not to be headed by a Christian Democrat, began while Spadolini was in the U.S. Back in Rome, two contentious Cabinet members began trading public insults, and with that, the Prime Minister's authority dissolved. Spadolini called for the resignation of the battling ministers. They balked; in the tradition of Italian coalition politics, Cabinet members serve as representatives of parties, not at the pleasure of the Prime...
Moreover, the antinuclear crusade is a watershed for U.S. Catholicism. As a group, American bishops were almost jingoistic in their endorsements of U.S. foreign policy. Today dozens of the prelates are avowed pacifists. On nuclear morality and other social issues, says the Rev. Michael Campbell Johnson, Rome-based head of the Jesuits' Commission for Justice and Peace, the American bishops "may at last be slightly out in front of the [world] church as a whole." Some feel they may be too far out in front. New York's Terence Cardinal Cooke, 61, warned his colleagues last week that...
American Catholicism has also undergone some profound internal changes. In the age of immigration, Catholics essentially were strangers in a predominantly Protestant land. Reacting to nativist charges that their spiritual loyalty to Rome was somehow more important than political loyalty to their new homeland, Catholic immigrants and their children sometimes attempted to be superpatriots...
...contend that this stance is consistent with the tradition of church teaching on war. Until the Bomb, Christianity's approach to war had remained fundamentally unchanged for centuries. The earliest Christians refused all military service because they thought Jesus' love-thy-neighbor teachings mandated pacifism, and because Rome required idolatrous vows. Christianity became an established religion in the 4th century and soon embraced St. Augustine's "just war" theory, expanded in later centuries by Thomas Aquinas and other theologians...
...President Reagan lunched with the Pope's top aide, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, in Hartford on Aug. 3. On Sept. 13, Weinberger sent Bernardin a carefully worded statement making the same points that Clark made later. In October, retired General Vernon Walters, a State Department troubleshooter, quietly visited Rome to brief Pope John Paul on the Administration's position on nuclear strategy, among other matters. The White House campaign changed the view of neither the bishops nor the Pope...