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...instead, roughly a decade's worth of the author's columns for the Spectator, a British weekly magazine. Waugh does not admire most of his countrymen, including union leaders ("oafs") and contemporary youth ("a lost generation without even the resources to amuse themselves"). He also takes potshots at the Archbishop of Canterbury, Princess Anne and a long line of politicians. Readers in the U.S. may not always recognize the sources of Waugh's displeasure, but they are likely to find the invective amusing. The author even has it in for Santa Claus: "a filthy foreign importation." Britain may indeed...
...burgeoning resistance to Rome is best demonstrated in Seattle, where Catholic activists last week presented Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen and Auxiliary Bishop Donald Wuerl with petitions signed by more than 13,000 parishioners over the past month to "protest the injustice" of Vatican intervention in the archdiocese. Earlier this year, in a virtually unprecedented step that was long kept secret, John Paul stripped authority from Hunthausen on moral teachings, marriage annulments, sacraments and the training of priests, bestowing those responsibilities upon the conservative Wuerl. Among Hunthausen's supposed transgressions: allowing altar girls and permitting a cathedral Mass for gay Catholics...
...personally support the ordination of womeninto the priesthood," the Archbishop said lastnight. "But I don't think that by breaking therules, she [Bennett] will serve the purpose shehopes...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert A.K. Runcie, joined a week of 350th festivities with his appearance at the Freshman garden party held yesterday in Harvard Yard...
Mingling with Freshmen afterward, Runciemaintained the lighthearted approach he initiatedin his speech. "I thought the Archbishop wasreally funny," said Ana T. Miranda '90 of CanadayHall, "I wasn't expecting that. One of my friendstouched his hand and we asked him to put in a goodword for the Red Sox tonight...