Word: archbishop
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Dozier is considered a liberal among the U.S. bishops, and his controversial innovation will surely rouse opposition in more conservative dioceses. He had received a guarded message from the Pope's Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., Archbishop Jean Jadot, who wished him well but offered neither approval nor condemnation, a possible signal that Rome was willing to let the idea be tested. Dozier's experiment was derived from the revised rules for the sacrament of Penance, which went into effect in the U.S. earlier this year...
...Lutheran, claims that he has ordered an end to political torture, but local police and military officials persist in the practice, as do right-wing vigilantes such as those who kidnaped Bishop Hypolito. After the murder of Father Burnier last month, a Mass was said by the Archbishop of Vitoria "in memory of all those persons who in our country and in all of Latin America suffer violence, torture and death solely because they demand respect for their rights and dignity...
Most of the activists, however, would agree with Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife and long the lonely voice for social justice in Brazil. At his diocese's tricentennial last month he said church protest is not "born of leftist ideologies." Rather, the church has realized that "passive Christianity" aids oppression. Now, he stated, it is "the demand of God that we take firm and solid positions, without hatred but also without fear." As never before, the church in Latin America is being united by this commitment...
...weeks protesting Jewish youths and rabbis have pressured the National Council of Churches to oust Archbishop Valerian Trifa, head of the Rumanian Orthodox Episcopate of America, from its governing board. The problem: Trifa, 62, stands accused of having incited mobs that murdered hundreds of Jews in Rumania...
...foundations of absolute power. Even the livestock that eventually overrun the palace cannot tell the real from the fictional. Observes one foreign diplomat: "The hens were pecking at the illusory wheat fields on the tapestries and a cow was pulling down the canvas with the portrait of an archbishop so she could...