Word: archbishop
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Cradle Rebels Late last week a lawyer for the Baltimore archdiocese won approval for the release on reduced bail of Father Wenderoth and the two other defendants from Baltimore into the custody of their archbishop, Lawrence Cardinal Shehan ?an unusual gesture of support for the dissenters by the American church hierarchy. Meanwhile, in the ten-story glass-and-steel federal district court building in downtown Harrisburg, the grand jury continues to hear witnesses. Before the grand jurors are done, they may well hand up further indictments...
Under a reorganization brought about by Pope Paul, responsibility for the church's finances has been divided in three. Cardinal Vagnozzi, a onetime apostolic delegate in Washington, coordinates all investments and economic projects. Archbishop Giuseppe Caprio manages the administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See, which, among other things, oversees the Vatican's payroll and supervises an investment staff of 15 lay and clerical experts. Bishop Paul Marcinkus, who is from Cicero, Ill., directs the Institute for Religious Works, which provides a full range of hanking services...
...second among suggestions submitted by priests and deanery councils. The liberals did not deny the claim, but attributed Simonis' second-place rankings to liberal vote splitting rather than real support for Simonis. The diocesan chapter rated Simonis eighth, thus putting him off their list of nominations to Rome. Archbishop Angelo Felici, papal pro-nuncio to The Netherlands, charged that the chapter list was "manipulated...
...population-face problems that are far more contemporary but no less painful. During the early postwar years, the church lost some prestige when hierarchy and laity split over the issue of Communist influence in the labor unions. Now the problem is Australia's restrictions on non-European immigration. Archbishop James R. Knox recently spoke out publicly against a "white Australia policy," but other Australians tend to worry about "importing" racial tensions...
While Pope Paul VI journeyed through Asia to considerable welcome, Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury made a quieter, less congenial trip through the white towns and black "homelands" of the Republic of South Africa. After a 16-day, 3,000-mile journey in the apartheid state, the head of the Anglican Communion was scarcely optimistic. "It would be premature to say that I believe that wrong was going to prevail," said the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Michael Ramsey in Johannesburg last week. But he saw only two alternatives: "Either violent revolution or a real change in which...