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Article: Focus of bishops on Hunthausen // Catholic leaders meeting in D.C.
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 10, 1986
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WASHINGTON Final approval of a controversial statement on the
nation's economy and the election of new leaders likely will be
overshadowed by "the Hunthausen affair" when U.S. Roman Catholic
bishops meet here this week.
For months the thrice-revised pastoral letter on the economy and
the selection of officers had seemed to dominate the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops' agenda.
That changed this fall when Seattle's Archbishop Raymond G.
Hunthausen was stripped by the Vatican of much of his authority
because of his assertedly unorthodox practices. Hunthausen's
situation is scheduled for action during a closed-door session, but
several bishops have been pushing the conference to ...