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...shocks administered through electrodes attached to various parts of his body. Reports of torture in Brazil's military jails have circulated for a decade, but Morris is the first American newsman to experience it firsthand. His ordeal seemed related to a TIME story last June on Recife Archbishop Dom Helder Camara, a frequent critic of Brazil's military government. Morris was held on vague -and false-charges of "subversive activities" for the Central Intelligence Agency. Despite a formal, forceful protest from U.S. Ambassador John Crinimins, he was still in prison late last week. Halfway round the world...
...pastor of St. Paul's Church ministered to the needs of Catholic students at Harvard until 1966, when concerned alumni and Faculty members formed the Catholic Student Center to create an independent ministry to the University. Members of the Center selected a chaplain whose appointment was approved by the Archbishop...
...handful of priests expelled from the Roman Catholic Church in modern times for doctrinal error, none was more celebrated than Boston Jesuit Leonard Feeney. Technically, the Vatican excommunicated him in 1953 for refusing to meet with the Pope, but his beliefs caused his earlier 1949 suspension by Archbishop Richard Gushing. Feeney's undoing was his hard-line reading of the formula, first proposed by Church Fathers Origen and Cyprian in the 3rd century, that "outside the church there is no salvation...
...exempt from Barnes' curse on the powerful; everyone at the court, from the Queen's talking parrot on up, plays his or her part in the general corruption; from the torturer devoted to his craft to the amiable, worldly Archbishop; and back down to the scatalogical court washerwoman, who sniffs out royal secrets from the royal laundry--a sort of seventeenth century A. J. Weberman...
Demonstrations by Greek-Americans in the area became more organized and more virulent as the summer and the action on Cyprus progressed. They began even before the invasion with a July 15 picket line outside the Greek Consulate in Boston to protest the coup that overthrew Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios. At the most recent event, which took place at City Hall on August 13, a crowd of four thousand tore up a Turkish flag to protest the invasion and called for an end to U.S. military and economic aid to Turkey...