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...director and new executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association, according to an Alumni Association committee member who asked not to be identified. Reardon was referring to the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) campaign for the Board of Overseers, whose slate of candidates this year includes South African Archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond M. Tutu...
...pastoral letter, issued Thursday by Archbishop Marcos McGrath and other bishops of the Roman Catholic Episcopal Conference of Panama, was read byCatholic clergy nation-wide and asked the DefenseForces not to use arms against "a defenselesspeople...
...letter, written by Stanford President Donald Kennedy '52, was the latest in a series of lobbying efforts on behalf of both the official University candidates and the alternative slate nominated by Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA), which this year includes South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu. HRAAA has elected three members to the Board in the past three years...
Meeting in Larnaca, Cyprus, last week, the primates who lead the 27 independent branches of world Anglicanism released a letter that the Pope had sent to Archbishop Runcie last Dec. 8. In it, John Paul responded to decisions at the 1988 Lambeth Conference, the once-a-decade meeting of the world's Anglican and Episcopal bishops. Basically, Lambeth had adopted a live-and-let- live approach to the question of women in the hierarchy. Seven of the ; Anglican branches allow women priests, and the diocese of Massachusetts last February toppled the final sex barrier by installing a woman, Barbara Harris...
...special report prepared for the Cyprus sessions noted such messy problems within Anglicanism as opponents' refusing to recognize either women priests or priests ordained by female bishops. As for the Pope's letter, Archbishop Runcie soothingly characterized it as "only a matter of straight speaking between friends that can help the dialogue go forward." In England, Margaret Orr Deas, of the Movement for the Ordination of Women, complained that "the Roman Catholics are not giving anything away" in the negotiations, and she expects no concessions because John Paul is "an unrelenting man and firmly entrenched in his views." The Pope...