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Advent Page 22 Catholic Archdiocese of Miami Vol. XXX No. 40 November 26, 1982 Price 25C 'This is not an instrument of division but Of peace.9 —Bp. Kenneth Untener US. Bishops to air nukes again Will make revisions in Chicago in May f • Abp. McCarthy on nukes P10 • More on Bishop meet P10-11 WASHINGTON (NC) — The U.S. bishops voted almost unanimously to hold a special meeting in Chicago next May 2-3 to debate and further refine their planned pastoral letter on nuclear weapons. In more than two hours of discus- sion about the letter on the last day of their Nov. 15-18 annual meeting a large majority of the 31 bishops who addressed the issue supported the basic thrust of the pastoral, couching their criticisms of specific points in terms of a desire to strengthen the total document and give it greater im- pact and credibility. Among major points they made about the 110-page second draft, which is their current working docu- ment, were the following: • The document's controversial section on the morality of nuclear deterrence needs to be developed. It 'That's it, higher, a little higher. .' continued to be a major source of Sister Rose Marie Brick teaches a deaf person to speak, not with sign language but with voice and inflection, at the Oral disagreement among the bishops, as School for the Deaf in Fort Lauderdale where she also teaches those without hearing to play musical instruments. See some stood up to call for a more Story and pictures On pages 12-13. (Voice photo by Prentice Browning) positive view of the value and accep- . tability of deterrence while others -rged the drafting committee to move always go beyond the limits of a just A hand vote on whether to hold a Bishops, said he interpreted the over- .ther in the direction of condemn- war. special national meeting in May to whelming vote to meet in May as "a ing even the possession of nuclear • A number of bishops wanted the debate a revised draft of the pastoral general endorsement of the direction weapons. document to state more clearly the passed almost unanimously, with on- that the pastoral is taking" and a • The scriptural and theological degree to which various moral judg- ly four hands visible in opposition. "vote of hope for final passage" of basis of the document should be ments made in the pastoral are moral- The two-day meeting will be held in the document. made more precise and refined. ly binding on Catholics. Chicago, See city of Archbishop • Several bishops wanted clearer Joseph L. Bernardin, chairman of the He said that in addition the com- distinctions between Christian • Several bishops called for greater five-bishop committee responsible for mittee plans to meet with represen- pacifism and the just war position. emphasis on pastoral follow-up and drafting the letter. tatives of other bishops' conferences Some bishops placed greater em- education for peace. Two called for At a press conference after the in Europe early in 1983 and to meet phasis on the right to self-defense establishment of an international meeting Archbishop John R. Roach further with Reagan administration while others stressed the question of peace academy under Catholic of St. Paul-Minneapolis, president of officials in the process of revising the whether nuclear weapons do not auspices. the National Conference of Catholic current draft of the pastoral. VATICAN finances reviewed by cardinals; U.S. cardinal says Pope may allow public audit. Page 3 . J Churchman attacks S. Africa policy NEW YORK (NC) President but leave blacks, 80 percent of t! Reagan's policy of "constructive population, with status only in ti.. engagement" toward South Africa "homelands" set aside for them by looks to blacks like support for the the government. white-minority South African Dr. Boesak said the government government, said the Rev. Allan would not be able to get colored Boesak, moderator of the "colored" participation in its plan and added (mixed race) branch of South Africa's that his church, which includes two- dominant white Dutch Reformed thirds of the colored population, had Church. rejected it. In August Dr. Boesak was elected president of the World Alliance of "WE WOULD be junior partners Reformed Churches, which includes in a white set-up," he said. "We as 149 churches in the Reformed, so-called coloreds can't take the pro- -•::* Presbyterian and Congregational posals seriously. It is not possible to TRIDENT DAMAGED — Three of the seven peace activists who broke into traditions. think of reforms when 80 percent of Electric Boat Co. in Groton, Conn, and damaged a Trident submarine, from left, the population is excluded." Marcia Timmel, 30, Jean Holladay, 53, and Ellen Grady, 20, are led to a van for transportation to the Niantic Correctional Center after arraignment in New DR. BOESAK spoke at a meeting Dr. Boesak said that the proposals London, Conn. <NC photo from UPI) of the National Council of Churches also were opposed by the South governing board in New York. The African Council of Churches, headed Reagan administration has said that by a black church leader, Anglican its policy of friendly encouragement Bishop Desmond Tutu, and that the Pope meets Chancellor Kohl will accomplish more than hostile at- government is trying to "undermine its moral authority." VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope After the papal audience Kohl said, tacks in getting racial reform in South John Paul II met in private audience "It was a fine talk. I am very impress- Africa which has a strict segregation system called apartheid. In addition to electing Dr. Boesak Nov. 18 with the new West German ed." as president, the World Alliance of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, a Christian Reformed Churches declared apar- Democrat. Kohl, the first Catholic West Ger- In his speech and at a press con- theid a heresy and suspended the The two men discussed Poland, man chancellor to meet with a pope ference, Dr. Boesak condemned pro- membership of South Africa's Dutch human rights and U.S.-Soviet arms • since May 1967, said he had en- posals of the ruling Nationalist Party Reformed Church, which then reaf- limitation talks, said a spokesman for couraged Pope John Paul to make a to give colored and Indian sectors of firmed its support of apartheid at its Kohl. planned trip to Poland next summer. the population a constitutional role synod in October. Cheyenne bishop calls MX missile Catholics and Anglicans plan second "morally indefensible" phase of dialogue VATICAN CITY (NC) — Catholic and Anglican officials held a preliminary CHEYENNE, Wyo. (NC) — Bishop Joseph Hart of Cheyenne issued a meeting at the Vatican Nov. 9-10 to plan a second phase of the ecumenical ac- pastoral letter calling the MX missile system "morally indefensible." The letter, tivities which began in 1970 with the formation of the Anglican-Roman Catholic released Nov. 9, said Wyoming's people must "say 'no' to this system" and call International Commission. The Vatican reported the meeting Nov. 16. A new for a "halt to arms escalation now." Bishop Hart released his pastoral because of commission is to begin the second phase of dialogue between the churches in the the "distinct possibility that a decision may soon be made to station the MX in second half of 1983. Wyoming." In the letter the bishop described nuclear arms escalation as a threat "unlike any we have ever known," a threat "that could obliterate life." Angolan guerrillas release archbishop GENEVA, Switzerland (NC) — Angolan guerrillas have released Archbishop Alexandre do Nascimiento of Lubango, Angola, the International Red Cross said Nov. 17. UNITA, a guerrilla group opposed to Angola's Marxist government, Spanish trip honored apostolic traditions, had captured the archbishop Oct. 15, and both Pope John Paul II and the Angolan Bishops' Conference had called for his release. Freed Nov. 16 "some- pope says where in Angola," Archbishop do Nascimento spent the night in Pretoria, South VATICAN CITY (NC) — During his first general audience since returning Africa, in care of a Red Cross delegation, said Nicholas Sommer, a Red Cross from Spain Nov. 9, Pope John Paul II said that his trip honored Spanish spokesman at the organization's Geneva headquarters. apostolic traditions and "entered into the context of the contemporary reality of the church." The pope told the 6,000 people attending the audience that "the Argentine bishops offer to mediate church in Spain fulfills its mission by introducing into life, the doctrine of the Sec- ond Vatican Council." The pope also addressed a prayer for youths in his home- reconcilation land to Our Lady of Czestochowa, Poland's patroness: "Help today each of my BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (NC) — The Argentine bishops have offered their young fellow citizens amidst all the trials which make up their lives." Groups "loyal and impartial cooperation" in mediating a reconciliation between the from San Diego, Indianapolis, Charleston, W. Va., and the Rome program of country's military rulers and political parties. The Argentine Bishops' Con- Loyola University of Chicago attended the audience. ference issued a statement Nov. 15 saying they were willing to mediate as a step toward national unity. The offer came a week after the ruling military junta had said it wished to negotiate an agreement with political parties as a prelude to the Franciscan named return to civilian rule planned for 1984. Italian archbishop , (USPS 622-620) Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy (C VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope P°J Archdiocese of Miami President, The Voice Publishing Co., Inc. Weekly Publication John Paul II on Nov. 17 named ^ Voice Average weekly paid circulation 6201 Biscayne Blvd., Miam Father Antonio Vitale Bommarco, 51,000 POSTMASTER: superior general of the Conventual Robert L.