Word: archbishop
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Nearly a decade has passed since South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu issued a strongly worded rebuke of Harvard's investments in South Africa before a packed audience in Memorial Church...
January 1986 South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu publicly endorses three pro-divestment candidates for the Board of Overseers...
...United for Life, is boycotting the current Dallas campaign, citing incidents including a case in which a Rescue member allegedly made a bomb threat to a Dallas clinic from a phone in New Jersey. "These are the tactics of the Mafia," says Price. Earlier this year, Twin Cities Catholic Archbishop John Roach urged militant antiabortion groups to avoid his area. "I do not find Operation Rescue to be a positive element in the pro-life movement," he said, "and I just wish they'd stay wherever they are." Operation Rescue ignored his plea. This week the group's challenge will...
...publicly acknowledged the enormity of the problem. Indeed, the bishops, who have long petitioned Rome for special disciplinary powers to deal with the crisis, are deeply aware of its dimensions. In June the hierarchy had to elect a new national secretary to replace New Mexico's Robert Sanchez, the Archbishop of Santa Fe, who resigned from the post and his see amid revelations that he had conducted affairs with three young women...
Among young American seminarians in Rome, a sense of siege has set in. "Our eroticized society degrades us, and somehow that eroticism invades our lives no matter how we fight it," says Enrique Lopez, 28, a New Mexico native who knew Archbishop Sanchez and who is training to be a diocesan priest. "If Sanchez had been embezzling money or something like that, it would have been a scandal. But because he was involved in a sex scandal, it touched his dignity. I don't think that's fair." Says Lopez's fellow seminarian John Riccardo, 28, of Detroit...