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The Miami Herald 2 Wednesday September 16 1987 4A Pope bishops will meet: Can he fully trust them? The Papal Uisit Today's Schedule Here is the schedule today All times are EDT: Noon: Pope prays holds private meeting with US bishops at Our Lady Queen of Angels Seminary in the northern San Fernando Galley 3 pm: Lunch with bishops 6 pm: Visits classroom at Immaculate Conception School joined by first lady Nancy Reagan 7 pm: Meets representatives of four non-Christian religions at Japanese Cultural Center 9 pm: Mass at Dodger Stadium Pranksters altered sign overlooking Los Angeles to read Erma Bombeck worshipers at stadium Mass JOHN PAUL Jewish leaders angered by the welcome for Waldheim In such cases argues Eugene Kennedy of Chicago's Loyola University the bishops have shown their ability to take charge of problems close to home without rebelling from Vatican teaching Must find a place At the same time the bishops have become a powerful voice in US politics Their 1983 pastoral letter on nuclear weapons landed Bernardin on the cover of Time magazine Last letter calling for reform of the US economy unnerved the White House What worries the Vatican is that the influence of the bishops especially as a group might interrupt the flow of doctrine from the pope through local bishops conference must sort out its place It can't try to assert itself between individual bishops and the pope" one Vatican insider said In his speech in San Antonio Sunday to Catholic higher education officials the pontiff alluded to this problem when he reminded his audience that the authority of each bishop derives from his authority in Rome message is likely to reassure the pope that he can trust his brother bishops in America The pope also will hear from: San Francisco's Quinn on the role of bishops in the study of moral theology Cincinnati's Daniel Pilarcyzk on the shortage of priests and nuns Milwaukee's Rembert Weak-land on the role of the laity He is likely to mention the thorny question of an equal role for women Not The choice of these four speakers is itself a sign of the independence They as Law and New are called "Rome has put in some people but not yet enough to put a slant on the American said Lars Rooth a Vatican priest "It is clear the bishops are very strong and All this forms the background for meeting the first face-to-face between the pope and all the bishops in eight years Hehir the bishops' conference staff leader believes that the pope will hear a promise of support from American church leaders: all of these guys are going to line up with the The pope for his part can use the support as he moves ahead with his campaign to bring his American flock back to church doctrine Said the pope during his flight Thursday to Miami: am convinced that I should do what is necessary" to correct deficiencies in US Catholicism with my brother By DAVE VON DREHLE Herald Stall Writer LOS ANGELES The most important session of Pope John Paul IPs US tour comes this morning when the Bishop of Rome meets with the bishops of America to measure the gap between the pope and his hierarchy Woven into the speeches of four leading bishops and the response of the pope should be an answer to one of the most pressing questions in the US church: Can the pope fully trust the men he calls his bishops?" The session will also be a confirmation of the dominant stature of Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin a quiet master of the art of compromise whose backstage diplomacy may have averted a crisis between the Vatican and the US Roman Catholic hierarchy A year ago James Malone departing president of the US bishops' conference warned of a rift between American church leaders and the Vatican Since then the bishops have taken a number of independent stands on high-profile issues The bishops persuaded the Vatican to back down from its disciplinary action against Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen They expressed veiled disappointment in the meeting with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim And they pointedly rejected one of the pope's favorite bishops Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston when he ran for and lost every office in the conference Yet for each sign of a rift there has also been a sign of the larger fabric holding the bishops in fealty to Rome As individuals and as a conference the bishops have consistently defended the doctrine of the church and the power to enforce that doctrine Friendlier mood So the mood may be friendlier than it might have been a year ago "I don't expect the meeting to be said the Rev Bryan Hehir a top staff member of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops notion that the bishops and the Vatican are on opposing tracks is just plain The 4 'i-hour meeting will include time for informal discussion It will be closed to the press Bernardin will address the most important issue: the relationship of US churches to the Vatican Bernardin has been at the heart of this changing relationship in recent years The two decades since Vatican II have seen a growing independence from Rome on the part of reporters: "In his homily in San Antonio on Sunday the Holy Father addressed the phenomenon of undocumented immigration on the moral not legal level While expressing compassion for undocumented aliens and admiration for those who seek to aid them he did not endorse any specific movement or group nor did he encourage violation of the civil laws" Oh those Southern California pranksters What will they think of next? Tuesday they used plastic sheets to alter the famous "HOLLYWOOD" sign to read An anonymous caller told United Press International that the hillside sign had been changed at about 1 am was for the pope's the caller said "We just decided that we had nothing better to do with our evening and that it would be time well spent to welcome the pope" A group of students was the last to change the sign altering it to read u'hen former White House aide Lt Col Oliver North was testifying during the Iran-contra hearings The sign visible from at least a mile of John parade route was restored by parks workers about 90 minutes before the motorcade It exactly my pontiff But it was close Humor columnist Erma Bombeck welcomed Pope John Paul II to a Mass outside Phoenix Monday night for more than 75000 at Sun Devils Stadium home of the Arizona State University football team The stadium she quipped is as Our Lady of Perpetual during the football season have been called upon to warm up 75000 people who if they were any warmer they would be in intensive she said But she apparently was overcome by excitement herself when she announced the arrival in the Popemobile "Ladies and gentlemen" she said John The confusion continues over the crowds the pope is drawing His Mass crowd in Phoenix on Monday was his first full house But in Los Angeles on Tuesday police went back and forth over estimates of how many lined the seven-mile parade route As the parade was about to begin at 1 pm EDT a police officer figured there were only 35000 along the route Police Cmdr William Booth the department's chief spokesman quickly revised that to 200000 basing his number on information from helicopter spotters By parade's end at 3 pm Booth changed the estimate to between 500000 and 700000 At 5 pm Booth announced a count of 300000 The figure was based on field officer reports he said He added that he explain the wide fluctuation in figures Regardless of the exact number the turnout disappointed some officials who had predicted a crowd of up to two million The Vatican is doing a little damage control on the remarks in San Antonio in which he praised those who offer sanctuary to aliens The statement upset US immigration officials who were concerned that the pontiff was encouraging churches to offer illegal help to border-crossers So Tuesday Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told local bishops and Americans have been on the leading edge of this change While no bishop openly disputes the own authority in the church many have bridled when papal authority is exercised by the Roman Curia the Vatican bureaucracy This underlying tension boiled over when in 1985 after a secretive investigation by the personal representative in America Pio Laghi Seattle's Hunthausen was stripped of most of his power with a lightning stroke Hunthausen was accused of being soft on divorce and homosexuality and of forgiving sins en masse Bishops laity angry Anger over the action was widespread among Catholic laity and bishops But it was Bernardin who found a way to resolve the Hunthausen affair He persuaded Pope John Paul to allow a panel of three US bishops himself liberal John Quinn of San Francisco and conservative John of New York to reinvestigate Hunthausen in the open In the end powers were restored but the Vatican was able to appoint a second-in-command for Seattle who will automatically take over when Hunthausen retires a day not far off was a master stroke" said the Rev Pablo Navarro secretary to Miami Archbishop Edward McCarthy "Everyone got what they It was not the first time the US bishops had prevailed on the pope Just this summer St Louis Archbishop John May president of the conference was instrumental in arranging a conciliatory meeting between the pope and LOANS PANES'? 1st 2nd MPhtJaiTf spontaneity charms teens in LA in Mir BHOKth ROBERT KURURD FREE INSPECTION MTG CO 9200 DADELAND BLVD 661-2507 Round The Clock sheer pantyhose- six superbly fitting styles 20 off Now through Sunday 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yon buy pairs of the same stIe Stylf Gnor'Mjr WfHjh Color I Pin 4 terrible experience for all of us" know at least the words like Holocaust Holocaust of the Jewish he said there were different kinds of persecution of other nations especially the nations like mv nation who confronted with the horror and opposed it "I should say that providence guided me during the war so could after the war continue During the war I had found my life and through this tragic experience of the world I found this way of my life" John Paul then went to a session with 1500 moguls of the movie television recording and news industries "You represent" he told that crowd of the most important American influences on the world today "Communication products can be works of great he said "On the other hand communications can appeal to and promote what is debased in people: dehumanized sex through pornography greed through materialism and consumerism or irresponsible individualism anger and vengefulness through 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