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...Catholic schools do it? Mostly by practicing and preaching old- fashioned stuff: values, discipline, educational rigor and parental accountability, coupled with minimal bureaucracy. "Catholic schools have had to make a virtue out of necessity," explains Archbishop Francis Schulte of New Orleans. "These institutions have had to think and act creatively for decades to stretch small budgets...
...have come to symbolize the black-vs.-black violence that has been tearing the nation's townships apart. Fighting between supporters of the predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party and A.N.C. backers has claimed more than 200 lives just this month and at least 1,000 so far in 1991. Archbishop Desmond Tutu voices grief that a weekend body count of 15 dead has come to be considered hearteningly...
...Archbishop of Canterbury apparently has a tin ear for diplomatic language. The Rev. George Carey, who will be formally installed this Friday, told an interviewer, "The idea that only a male can represent Christ on the altar is a most serious heresy." The comment prompted protests from Anglican traditionalists, who vehemently oppose the ordination of women. Carey apologized, but the furor had barely subsided when he declared that his enthronement would feature a brief selection of songs accompanied by bass guitar, synthesizer and saxophone. The notion of the ancient ceremony being interrupted by 20th century sounds has scandalized the church...
...insulting, so retrograde that we can respond only by saying that women should, for the sake of their own humanity, leave that communion." Spong handpicked the panel, and offers no particular criticism of its assertions, though he says he might have employed milder language. Newark's Catholic Archbishop, Theodore McCarrick, has decried the "offensive attacks" on Catholicism...
...question of "last resort" focuses on alternatives to force, notably economic sanctions. The newly retired Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, hoped that economic sanctions would be tried for months more, even up to a year, before any resort to force. An even more difficult criterion to assess is "proportionality," the weighing of the good and evil results. The antiwar protest from leaders of the National Council of Churches included forecasts of hundreds of thousands of casualties and damage lasting "for generations to come...