Word: archbishop
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...prospects for peace inside and outside Israel falter, rumors fly in Christian neighborhoods about people seeking visas to move to North and South America. Since Christians are a minority, says the Greek Catholic patriarchal vicar in Jerusalem, Archbishop Loutfi Laham, they "need stabilization and peace in order to stay here." For the moment, at least, the fears of a disappearing flock appear exaggerated, judging by estimates from Israeli sources. They show that there are 103,000 Christians in Israel, including the Jerusalem area, compared with only 67,000 in 1967. During the same period, the total number of believers...
...ruling and Dignity's equally blunt response forced the hand of the U.S. hierarchy. Since then, 20 of the country's 187 dioceses have banished Dignity meetings from church premises. Among dioceses with large homosexual populations, the last holdout was San Francisco. But early in November that city's Archbishop, John Quinn, finally summoned the local Dignity leaders to a polite showdown. When they stood by their gay-is-good policy, he informed them that Dec. 18 will mark the last in a 15-year series of Sunday-night Dignity Masses in the city's Catholic churches. Last week Quinn...
...highly-touted recruit coming out of Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, N.Y., James lived up to his billing in his freshman year, starting all 26 games. He led the Crimson in scoring and rebounding, averaging 14.5 points and 5.7 rebounds each game...
Flote vies with the penitents for the benediction of the Church, personified by the Archbishop Monselet (Panayotis Agapitos), who ultimately favors Flote to spite his grave assistant, Father Toulon (Stefan Howells). Monselet is a purple-clad fop whose sole concern is for his own safety, and Agapitos' performance is as biting as it is hysterical...
During the school desegregation controversy, Boston Archbishop John Cardinal Cushing prevailed to pressure from pro-busing advocates, and tried to appeal to Hicks, a devout Catholic, to cease her crusade. Cushing told Hicks he had been asked to to march in protest with a group of Blacks in front of the Boston School Committee headquarters. According to Hicks, she said to the Cardinal, "Why don't you do that, Your Eminence, then come upstairs and receive my resignation...