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Once again, Nehme Yafet Street in West Beirut was a battleground. Gunmen from rival Shi'ite Muslim and Druze militias crouched in doorways and fired bursts from automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades into the darkness. Four floors above the fierce firefight, Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was trapped with staff members of the Associated Press. A giant of a man, who stands 6 ft. 7 in. and weighs 258 lbs., the bearded Waite, 46, was in Beirut to seek the release of four of the American hostages held by Muslim extremists. As bullets chipped...
...church, he has said, for "its passionate coolness, its mixture of authority and freedom." The son of a policeman, he grew up in the northwestern English village of Styal. He took a degree at a church college and headed to Uganda in 1968 as an adviser to the local archbishop. He and his wife Frances, who have three daughters and a son, were once held at gunpoint during a mass expulsion of foreigners following Idi Amin Dada's takeover in 1971. After working in Rome as an adviser to the Vatican on African missionary activities, Waite accepted his present post...
...extraordinary two-week-long synod now meeting in Rome to review the work of Vatican II, collegiality was clearly on the minds of many of the 161 delegates. Indeed, one of the most radical proposals to emerge last week came from Archbishop Maxim Hermaniuk, spiritual leader of Ukrainian Rite Catholics in Canada. To carry out Vatican II's teaching on collegiality, declared Hermaniuk, there should be a permanent synod, sitting in Rome as an ongoing body, empowered to act "in the name of the entire college of bishops." This group, said Hermaniuk, would acquire "legislative power to decide with...
APPOINTED. STANISLAW DZIWISZ, 66, as Archbishop of Krakow, Poland; by Pope Benedict XVI; in Rome. Pope John Paul II's longtime personal secretary and confidant, Dziwisz will take over the job his former boss held before being elected to the papacy...
...Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI was known as the hard-line enforcer of church doctrine for John Paul II. But the man the new Pontiff has just named to fill his old job, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is harder to pin down. San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada is, for one thing, the first American ever to reach such an influential position in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. A native of Long Beach, Calif., who headed the diocese in Portland, Ore., before moving to San Francisco in 1995, he is known for his diplomatic skills, which...