Word: archbishop
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According to a letter written by Peter L. Malkin '55, one of HAA's ten official nominees, HAA wants to insure that "dissident" candidates, including South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, are not elected to the 30-member alumni governing board. Malkin said he wrote the letter in response to strong campaigning for five independently nominated pro-divestment candidates...
...Flying Nun was fantasy, but in Los Angeles the airborne Archbishop is for real. To enable Roman Catholic Archbishop Roger Mahony to get around his three-county, 8,700-sq.-mi. archdiocese, anonymous businessmen have given him a $400,000 jet-powered helicopter. Mahony is upgrading his pilot's license so he can fly it solo. Zinging along at 160 m.p.h., he can cut the travel time to the seminary at Camarillo to 15 minutes; by car it took up to 2 1/2 hours. Archdiocesan spokesmen insist the money has not been diverted from other purposes: the contributors are donating...
Among the U.S.'s 233 Catholic colleges, Curran's former employer is unique. The Catholic University was chartered in 1889 by the papacy, and its theology school grants Vatican-authorized degrees. While most U.S. Catholic universities are run by predominantly lay boards, the school's chancellor is the Archbishop of Washington, and 16 bishops, usually including all active U.S. Cardinals, sit on its 40-member board. Last year the board carried out a 1986 Vatican directive and barred Curran from teaching Catholic theology. Curran, 54, retained tenure but spurned compromise offers to teach nontheological subjects in other departments...
...Robert P. Wolff '54, director of Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid, on the nomination of South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu as a candidate for the Board of Overseers...
This year's nominees for five open seats on the 30-member governing body include Secretary of Labor Elizabeth H. Dole, former Democratic National Committee Chair Paul G. Kirk '60, actor John A. Lithgow '67 and Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu...