Word: archbishop
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DIED. JOSEPH CARDINAL BERNARDIN, 68, Roman Catholic archbishop of Chicago who played a major role in shaping American Catholicism since the 1960s; of cancer; in Chicago. Once touted as the man who might be the first American Pope, Bernardin was a skilled yet humble conciliator, steering a course between social progressivism and traditional church doctrine. After he learned in June 1995 that he had pancreatic cancer, he began ministering to others who were dying. "As a person of faith," he said, "I see death as a friend...
...town at the edge of the lake--no longer called Costermansville, but Bukavu--was anything but idyllic last week. And the bodies were piling up. The streets of the Zairean provincial capital were patrolled by Tutsi rebels. Bukavu's Catholic Archbishop was ambushed and murdered. And the town's "very fine airstrip" had become a fulcrum in an undeclared war between Rwanda and Zaire, a conflict that could precipitate the dismemberment of Zaire, a country the size of Western Europe. Caught in the cross fire were more than half a million Hutu refugees who have been huddling in squalid camps...
...Merwe's statements before Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission marked a turning point in the process of seeking redress for the brutality suffered by millions of South Africans during apartheid's kragdadigheid ("ironfistedness"). Set up by President Nelson Mandela last year, the commission has heard mainly from victims. But while many of their stories were moving, the inquiry was perceived as largely feckless, unable to tie the crimes to perpetrators, black or white, on either side of apartheid. Despite offers of amnesty, alleged culprits refused to confess because they were convinced they could get a better deal...
...Krulick makes a charge from which he is certainly safe: when he's not campaigning in order to make the point that democracy is alive and well, Krulick is dazzling youngsters at Walt Disney World's stage adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which he plays evil archbishop Claudo Frollo...
...Pope John Paul II called a "generous minister of God." The pontiff will send Cardinal Jozef Tomko, head of the Vatican's office for missions, to celebrate a memorial service--or a funeral, if the corpse is recovered. That will probably never happen. The killers almost surely threw the archbishop's body into the nearby Mubarazi River, the way they have disposed of countless other victims...