Word: archbishop
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...Paul Was a Rebel." Nor is Viet Nam the only issue that can bring churchly censure down on a priest. Last summer Archbishop Thomas Toolen of Mobile-Birmingham ordered the Edmundite Fathers to transfer Father Maurice Ouellet from a Negro parish in Selma because he had let his rectory serve as a headquarters for the Selma marchers. At the request of Albany's Bishop William Scully, the Franciscans ordered Father Bonaventure O'Brien of St. Bernardine of Siena College to curtail his civil rights work. And last week the Very Rev. Joseph T. Cahill, president of St. John...
...council documents explicitly reject the notion that Catholicism is primarily a juridically organized and hierarchically governed institution; what they assert instead is that the church is above all the people of God, on a journey that will remain incomplete until the second coming of Christ. Says India's Archbishop Eugene D'Souza: "The church's whole approach to the world is one of sincere admiration, not of dominating it but of serving it, not of despising it but of appreciating it, not of condemning it but of strengthening and saving it." Such a new attitude toward...
Hanky-panky in high places has lately been striking the Greek Orthodox Church with disturbing frequency. In 1962 the new Archbishop of Athens resigned shortly after his election to that primatial office upon being exposed as a homosexual; two years later, Bishop Philippos of Drama was dethroned for adultery with his housemaid. Now a much more widespread scandal has shocked Greece. This time the fuss is not about sex but that other great fascinator: money...
Fiscal inequality. The income of the Archbishop of Athens is estimated at $70,000 a year. Obviously, the bishop of an Aegean island with a few thousand fishermen and goatherds does not do nearly as well, and to make the fiscal inequality of it worse, the current law decrees that where a bishop is appointed, he stays until he dies...
...year, in early December, U.S. Catholics rose as a body in church to say: "I condemn indecent and immoral motion pictures," and promised not to patronize theaters that consistently showed such films-a pledge that zealous priests and bishops sometimes translated into open threats of boycott. In 1954, Archbishop (now Cardinal) Ritter of St. Louis ordered his Catholics to stay away from all future shows at theaters that exhibited the Legion-denounced The French Line, starring Jane Russell...