Mahony Warns Soviets on Force in Lithuania
Archbishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeles warned the Soviet Union Thursday against using force against Lithuania’s fledgling independence movement.
In a letter to Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, Mahony wrote: “We are concerned by some of the actions of your government in recent days, and sincerely hope that they do not reflect a change in your expressed commitment to avoid the use of force in this difficult situation.”
Mahony is chairman of the bishops’ Committee on International Policy.
The letter was released along with a seven-page statement by the bishops’ 53-member administrative board.
Called “The New Moment in Eastern and Central Europe,” it credits European citizens’ “faithful witness to the Gospel” as a key element in the democracy movement that swept the through the region in 1989.
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