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Chicago cardinal defends lay-led sex abuse panel 
TRAD. x NAT: si discute .. vedi sotto..
On the debate about denying communion to pro-choice politicians, he
said, there is difference between moral teaching and political
strategies 
By John L. Allen Jr.
ROME 
Another American cardinal has defended the lay-led body created by the
U.S. bishops to monitor their response to the sexual abuse crisis,
saying that the "vast majority" of bishops are grateful for its work. 
Cardinal Francis George of Chicago also told NCR May 25 in Rome that
there will be opposition at the bishops' June meeting to a second
round of sex abuse audits, but vowed that the majority of the
conference will vote to move ahead. 
TRAD. ci sono resistenze alluso della maniera forte.. ma nella
prossima conferenza di Giugno si dovrebbe decidere di continuare con
la maniera 'dura' contro i 'sex abuse'...
"We promised to do it, and we'll do it," George said. 
George's endorsement of the National Review Board echoed similarly
positive comments made by Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles to NCR
on May 13. 
As NCR reported May 11, the interim chair of the National Review
Board, Illinois Justice Anne Burke, has charged that the board was
"manipulated" because it had not been informed that some bishops want
to delay a second round of audits to monitor compliance with the
bishops' sex abuse policy. 
In turn, some bishops complained about the tone of Burke's criticism.
A few have suggested they're not sure the board is still needed. 
George was in Rome for his every-five-year ad limina visit to the
Vatican. The full text of the interview can be found here: George
Interview. 
The Chicago cardinal said he continues to favor the "zero-tolerance"
policy in the American sex abuse norms, according to which priests are
to be permanently removed from ministry for even one act of abuse, but
sees room for "latitude" on what to do with those priests. Some, he
said, might be able to serve as priests in clerical or administrative
roles with no risk of contact with children. 
On the debate over whether pro-choice Catholic politicians should be
denied Communion, George refused to say whether he would administer
Communion to Democratic candidate John Kerry. He said he is waiting
for a report from a commission headed by Washington's Cardinal
Theodore McCarrick. 
TRAD. si discute se, come S.Ambrogio, rifiutare la comunione al
Kerry..
George said, however, that there is a difference between moral
teaching and political strategies, and that the church should not take
positions on the latter. He also said he has not given his clergy any
instructions on how to respond if a pro-choice candidate presents
himself for Communion. 
TRADS. gli insegnamenti morali sono cosa diversa dalle strategie
politiche, sulle quali NON si deve prendere posizione!
George stressed that he believes the bishops should act in a unified
fashion on the Communion question. 
"The big complaint about the bishops around the sexual abuse scandal
was, 'You guys don't have your act together. Act as one,' " he said.
"This is something where we should try to act as one." 
Responding to criticism from some of his brother bishops of the
National Review Board, George praised the lay body. 
"I'm not speaking for all bishops, but I think the vast majority are
grateful," he said. "The report they did is very helpful, not that I
would have to agree with every sentence in it. We owe a debt of
gratitude to them." 
"I think they comported themselves extremely well," he said. 
NCR reporting has revealed that a group of more than a dozen
Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania bishops wrote to Bishop
Wilton Gregory, president of the U.S. bishops' conference, to warn
against the autonomy with which the National Review Board is
operating. 
George said he is not concerned. 
"The bishops have a responsibility to act, the board has an obligation
to oversee, and at the bishops' own request, to examine them on what
they're doing," he said. "I don't think the existence of the board
takes away our responsibilities. It reminds us that we have a
responsibility to Christ and to his people, and that's healthy." 
George said that the future institutional role and profile of the
board is something that will evolve, and this should be worked out by
the bishops in consultation with the members of the board. 
George was firm that a second round of audits will go forward. 
"Opposition by a group doesn't mean that the whole group won't keep
its promise," he said. "We have kept the promise of Dallas. We will
continue with the second audit, we all know that." 
As for the zero-tolerance standard, George said he's still for it. 
"With a recidivism rate of 15 to 20 percent, you can't chance it," he
said. 
On the Communion issue, George said there is room for Catholic
politicians in good faith to differ on whether to pursue judicial,
legislative or cultural strategies to limit abortion. 
"Those are questions of prudential judgment around which there can be
many discussions," George said. "The church has not taken a position
on which of those strategies is to be preferred, and I don't think we
should." 
George said Vatican officials are not pushing the American bishops on
the Communion issue one way or the other. 
"They're not going to come in and define pastoral practice in any
country of the world," he said. "They shouldn't do that. It's not
their competence." 
Finally, George said it is striking that to date this seems an
exclusively American discussion, despite the fact that other countries
have Catholic politicians who differ with the church. Some of that, he
said, may reflect the combative nature of American political life. 
TRAD. qs. storia della Comunione e' tipicamente Americana..
"We change culture and laws by crusades," he said. "You have
ideological movements that are much more single-minded than perhaps in
other countries." 
TRAD: faccio appello che integri la mia povera conoscenza
dell'inglese..^_^
John L. Allen Jr. is NCR Rome correspondent. His e-mail address is
jal...@natcath.org
 
http://nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/bn052604.htm
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 ha scritto:
Traduzione, please, come da manifesto
^__^
Paolo

dall'ultimo numero di Jesus :
tutto e' nato da una lettera pastorale del Vescovo di Colorado
Springs che invitava a non dare la comunione ai cittadini che
alle prossime elezioni avrebbero votato  x politici favorevoli
all'aborto.
reazioni negative da parte dei Cardd. Mahony e McCarrick
che ha dichiarato:
<< non si puo' utilizzare l'Eucarestia come una sanzione >>
pb
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