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...revealed two gaping craters where his buttocks should have been." Yet to this day, South African President Thabo Mbeki plays defense lawyer to Mugabe, declaring that "President Mugabe can assist us to confront the problems we have in South Africa." Meldrum quotes the lone voice of Desmond Tutu, former Archbishop of Cape Town, on the ominous consequences of Mbeki's attitude. "If we are seemingly indifferent to human-rights violations happening in a neighboring country, what is to stop us one day being indifferent to that in our own?" Where We Have Hope is not a political chronology...
...John Paul II's 31 new cardinals, the Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, is visiting the monastery for the first time this afternoon. "It's a great blessing," says Sister Antoinette excitedly. Otherwise, the day has proceeded calmly for the sisters. For many of them, breakfast was "bread with honey straight from the hive," reports Sister Veronica. And fish for lunch, plus plenty of fruit "and because we don't have meat, we just throw in peanuts for the protein." But no alcohol. As Sister Veronica puts it, "We have a regular life, marked by a moderate austerity...
...Vatican is a place where almost every fact has already logged weeks as rumor. But when Portland, Ore., Archbishop John Vlazny announced last week that he was taking his legally besieged archdiocese into Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("The pot of gold is pretty much empty," he contended), the Holy See was genuinely stunned. A senior Vatican official remained convinced Vlazny was bluffing until a wire-service story was read to him. Others confirm that two years ago, Bernard Cardinal Law was denied permission to do the same thing when he was Boston Archbishop. They suspect Vlazny asked no one's leave...
...court controlling church finances seems to raise church-state issues, the judge will strive to avoid disrupting the diocese's worship life. If schools or parishes are sold to meet creditors' demands, it will be by Vlazny's choice, not hers. Since bankruptcy is voluntary, many experts feel an archbishop entering it can hardly complain of government intrusion...
...gold is pretty much empty right now." ARCHBISHOP JOHN G. VLAZNY, after his Portland, Oregon, archdiocese became the first in the U.S. to file for bankruptcy as a result of sexual-abuse lawsuits against its priests. Claims have cost the archdiocese more than $53 million...