Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine last week, four commandos and two Israeli soldiers were killed in firefights before the guerrillas were turned back. They had set out to capture Israeli hostages to be traded for prisoners in Israeli jails, including the Melchite Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem, Hilarion Capucci (TIME, Sept. 2), who is to be tried for smuggling arms into Israel for the guerrillas...
Demonstrations by Greek-Americans in the area became more organized and more virulent as the summer and the action on Cyprus progressed. They began even before the invasion with a July 15 picket line outside the Greek Consulate in Boston to protest the coup that overthrew Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios. At the most recent event, which took place at City Hall on August 13, a crowd of four thousand tore up a Turkish flag to protest the invasion and called for an end to U.S. military and economic aid to Turkey...
Five of the eleven are Roman Catholics. Among them are Dom Helder Comoro of Brazil (TIME, June 24), the activist, junta-baiting archbishop whose "cry is justice"; Jesuit Philosopher Bernard Lonergan of Canada, a "notoriously difficult thinker" whose work seeks to join theology and the social sciences; and Father Andrew Greeley, a Chicago sociologist whose insights have provided "a better understanding of today's religious crisis." Swiss-born Theologian Hans Küng of West Germany's Tübingen University was described as "devotedly Roman Catholic" although he has a deserved reputation as a radical...
...When fighting between Portuguese colonial troops and Mozambique liberation guerrillas was at its fiercest, Roman Catholic Archbishop Custodio Alvim Pereira of Lourenço Marques had little patience with some of the Catholic missionaries who denounced Portuguese atrocities. The denunciations were "Marxist propaganda," he thundered, adding that priests who indulged in such criticism were departing from their role as ministers of the Gospel. When a fellow prelate disagreed, Pereira had him hustled off to Portugal under military escort. Last week the archbishop found himself being hustled away. After a visit from a Vatican cardinal, Pereira abruptly resigned his Mozambique diocese...
...rationale for the Boer War against Britain and argued that "the same applies to the black people in their struggle today." The resolution has been condemned in the South African Parliament and by the Dutch Reformed churches, which do not belong to the council. But the new Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Rt. Rev. Bill B. Burnett, last week defended it. Said he: "It faces us with things as they...