sentences:  New churches and parishes were being built throughout the city, while attendance in inner-city churches declined.As for his political views, Archbishop Hannan was known to be a staunch anti-Communist, and was one of the leaders of a moderate minority of bishops who opposed the May 3, 1983 pastoral letter of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops entitled , which came out strongly against the notion of deterrence and advocated a nuclear freeze with the Soviet Union.Hannan was archbishop when Pope John Paul II made his Apostolic Visit to New Orleans between September 11 and 13, 1987, the first ever papal visit to the city.