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PAGE 11 — The Georgia Bulletin, April 20, 1989
Vatican Commission s Work In Seattle Finished
BY CINDY WOODEN
WASHINGTON (NC) -
.Archbishop Pio Laghi,
papal pronuncio to the
United States announced
April 11 that a Vatican
vcommission appointed to
assist Archbishop Ray
mond G. Hunthausen of
Seattle has completed its
^work and has had its man
date terminated.
The three-member corn-
emission was appointed by
the Vatican in January 1987
to “assess the situation” in
Seattle and resolve the con
troversy created after
Archbishop Hunthausen
was ordered to give final
decision-making authority
“'over several areas of arch
diocesan life to his auxili
ary bishop.
The commission mem
bers — Cardinals Joseph L.
Bernardin of Chicago and
John J. O’Connor of New
York and Archbishop John
R. Quinn of San Francisco
— recommended that
Archbishop Hunthausen’s
authority be restored, that
then-Auxiliary Bishop
Donald W. Wuerl be reas
signed and that a coadjutor
archbishop be appointed.
The commission was
asked to continue advising
Archbishop Hunthausen
and Coadjutor Archbishop
Thomas J. Murphy, who
was appointed in May 1987.
Bishop Wuerl was later
named head of the Diocese
of Pittsburgh.
The focus of work for the
Seattle archbishops and the
commission members was
concerns about the arch
diocese outlined in a 1985
letter from Cardinal Jo
seph Ratzinger, head of the
Vatican Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith.
Cardinal Ratzinger’s let
ter came two years after
the Vatican appointed Car
dinal James A. Hickey of
Washhington to conduct an
apostolic visitation of the
Seattle Archdiocese. The
Vatican concerns included
issues in the areas of litur
gy, education of seminar
ians, clergy formation, the
marriage tribunal, and
ministry to homosexuals.
Archbishop Laghi’s April
Pontiff "Deeply Saddened"
By Soccer Stadium Deaths
BY AGOSTINO BONO
• VATICAN CITY (NC) -
The British soccer stadium
tragedy in which more than
90 people were killed
' “deeply saddened” Pope
John Paul II, said a
message of condolence sent
in his name.
At least 94 people died
and more than 170 were in
jured at an overcrowded
• stadium in Sheffield,
England, April 15, after
several thousand fans
without tickets surged into
• the capacity crowd. In the
ensuing panic, people were
trampled and suffocated as
they were crushed against
“safety fences.
The game was called off
after several minutes of
play because of the
tragedy.
The message said the
pope was “deeply sadden
ed by the Sheffield stadium
tragedy, which has caused
such loss of life and
brought about suffering to
-the injured and to
numerous families whose
beloved set out for a day of
relaxation and pleasure.”
'It said the pope “prays for
the souls of the deceased
and invokes God’s comfort
and strength on the nation
"and on all who have been
affected personally.”
The telegram was sent in
the pope’s name by Car
dinal Agostino Casaroli,
papal secretary of state, to
Cardinal George Basil
Hume of Westminster,
England, president of the
Bishops’ Conference of
England and Wales.
The tragedy occurred at
the Football Association
Cup semifinal match be
tween Liverpool and Not
tingham Forest at Shef
field’s Illsborough Stadi
um. Although the 54,000
-seats were sold out for the
match, several thousand
fans without tickets showed
up in the hopes of getting in
at the last minute.
Sheffield police have
borne the brunt of the
blame for deciding to open
a gate to allow some 2,000
latecomers into the
stadium.
In Liverpool, 4,000 people
attended a special Mass for
the fans at the city’s
cathedral and another 4,000
attended a Mass outside
the building April 16.
Archbishop Derek
Worlock of Liverpool
celebrated the indoor
Mass, and Liverpool
goalkeeper Bruce Grob-
belaar was one of the
readers.
“At a time like this there
are no easy answers,”
Archbishop Worlock told
the congregation, “but
Liverpool is a place of
great faith, and against the
seemingly meaningless ca
tastrophe we shall need it
all.
“Tonight we come here
to pray, we come to mourn,
to offer sympathy and to
prepare ourselves as a city
to help and care for the
bereaved and injured; to
be, as it were, a civic fami
ly to those whose family
world has been broken by
this latest in Liverpool’s
long list of human
tragedies,” the archbishop
said.
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11 announcement, released
by the U.S. bishops’ Office
for Media Relations in
Washington, said the Seat
tle archbishops “will con
tinue to address the issues
which have been of concern
to the church in the Arch
diocese of Seattle by imple
menting the changes in
pastoral care of the arch
diocese which have already
been initiated.”
In a statement released
in Seattle, Archbishop
Hunthausen expressed
gratitude for Archbishop
Laghi’s announcement and
for the work of the commis
sion members.
“Both Archbishop Mur
phy and I acknowledge the
trial the church has faced
over the past several
years, yet we are also able
to view the whole experi
ence as a time of grace,”
Archbishop Hunthausen
said.
“With the Lord’s help,”
he said, the experience
“will enable us to offer our
leadership to the church in
western Washington in the
years ahead with renewed
dedication and commit
ment to the Gospel and the
universal church under our
Holy Father, Pope John
Paul II.”
Archbishop Hunthausen
told reporters April 12 that
he hoped the Vatican inves
tigation and oversight of
the archdiocese “would be
a learning experience for
the whole church. These
have been five-and-a-half
very interesting years.”
At the Seattle press con
ference, he said he was
“delighted” that the com
mission’s work had ended.
“We’re going to have a par
ty.”
He was asked if he felt
his ministry and the work
of the archdiocese had been
unfairly singled out for
Vatican action. “I’m not
able to say precisely why
we were singled out. That
we were is a fact,” he said.
Archbishop Hunthausen
was also asked about 1986
remarks from Archbishop
Laghi which said that “the
Holy See considered him
lacking the firmness neces
sary to govern the arch
diocese.”
“It’s who I am,” the
archbishop told reporters.
“It’s my response to my re
lationship with those under
my care. I don’t know how
to change my response, my
presence in the church.”
Addressing the Vatican
concerns mainly involved
restating Vatican and arch
diocesan rules and guide
lines, the archbishop said
in an interview with The
Progress, archdiocesan
newspaper.
As for his personal plans,
he said, “if God allows me
good health, I have no in
tention of resigning.” The
67-year-old archbishop was
hospitalized briefly in 1984
after suffering a mild heart
attack, and he underwent
cancer surgery in 1986.
“I’m happy that we have
reached this moment,” the
archbishop said. “I think it
is a tribute to all in the
archdiocese that we have
worked honestly and pray
erfully to understand what
the visit meant in our
lives.”
Archbishop Murphy, who
also was at the press con
ference, said that after al
most two years working
with Archbishop Hunthau
sen, “I have learned a style
of pastoral care, a real
sense of gracious ministry,
especially toward the
voiceless, the poor.”
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