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APPOINTED. CHARLES CHAPUT, 52, as Archbishop of Denver. Chaput, a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi tribe, is U.S. Catholicism's first Native American archbishop...
LIMA, Peru: Peru's seven-week hostage crisis moved closer to resolution after a three-hour meeting between mediators and Tupac Amaru rebels to set the agenda for negotiations with government representatives. Emerging from the Japanese ambassador's residence early Thursday afternoon, Roman Catholic Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani said that "we are headed toward finding the light of a peaceful solution." Cipriani did not say whether a definite date for talks had been set, but noted that efforts to free the 72 remaining hostages had "advanced positively." President Alberto Fujimori had welcomed the meeting, saying that it "will help...
RECOVERING. DESMOND TUTU, 65, Nobel Peace Laureate, retired Archbishop and chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission; from surgery to remove most of a cancerous prostate gland. Tests indicated the cancer had not spread...
...down if they haven't accepted that there won't be any freeing of prisoners." Fujimori said other issues, including improved prison conditions for the jailed rebels and safe passage and possible pardons for the hostage-takers, could be raised. Red Cross representative Michel Minnig and Roman Catholic archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani visited the residence Wednesday, raising hopes that talks to free the 73 hostages might begin. Trouble is, the rebels insist that freeing the prisoners be a condition of any hostage release. In recent days, police have thrown trash and stones over the wall of the compound and made...
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...