Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their pre-election pastoral letters, Archbishop Davis and two other Puerto Rican bishops had warned that voting for able Governor Muñoz was a sin, but did not attach ecclesiastical penalties. Two weeks ago, while all three bishops were absent from the island, Father Thomas Maisonet, pastor of San Juan Cathedral, took it on himself to attach a penalty: he warned that Catholics who disobeyed the pastoral letters must not only confess but must also promise, as a condition of absolution, not to support Muñoz' party in the future unless it changed its "anti-Catholic, antiChristian...
...bishops made a tactical error with their pastoral letters," commented one U.S. Roman Catholic theologian. "In this instance they misjudged their own influence and the temper of the people. Archbishop Davis' statement is a compromise that saves an awkward situation." In an obvious gesture of reconciliation, Governor Muñoz and 76 of his party leaders issued a statement assuring everyone that the party platform "does not embody . . . any concept whatsoever which is in contradiction with the Christian doctrine upon which the civilization of our people is based...
...Roman Catholic altar, knelt and murmured a brief prayer. He also knelt before the two other altars in the three-sect church: the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Orthodox. Flashbulbs popped and newsmen recorded the fact, for the prelate was none other than the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Church of England. Dr. Fisher was in the Holy Land on the first leg of a twelve-day Middle Eastern pilgrimage that will climax this week in Rome in a "Christian summit meeting" with Pope John XXIII, the first meeting since the 14th century...
...Greek Orthodox patriarchs, Coptic and Maronite prelates. Anglican bishops, a Lutheran provost, an Ethiopian abbot, Franciscan monks, a Moslem sheik. But even the tensions of Israeli-Arab politics could not disturb the Primate. Before a crowd of 1,000 people, Bethlehem's Mayor Ayoub Musallam called on the archbishop to look carefully at the "plight and situation of the Arab refugees, our brethren who are still living in tents, huts and caves." Expertly sidestepping Ayoub's entreaty, Dr. Fisher answered: "What can I say? The troubles here and around the world have my deepest sympathy, but I have...
Both churches and mosques were on the archbishop's itinerary. Guarded by two black-uniformed kawases (attendants) armed with scimitars, he toured Jerusalem's mosques, wearing large sheepskin overslippers. Then the Primate walked up the Via Dolorosa on the route where Christ had climbed to Calvary...