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...committee advocates the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Cypriot soil and the reinstatement of Archbishop Makarios as president of Cyprus, Kafatos said...
UNTIL MONDAY, arguments that tyranny and repression by the military junta in Greece were matters for Greeks to resolve internally provided convenient, if feeble, justifications for continued American aid to Greece. But even these lame excuses were brutally destroyed this week when the popularly-elected Cypriot government of Archbishop Makarios was overthrown in a coup directed by the Athens dictatorship and executed by the 650 Greek officers who command the Cyprus National Guard...
Robert Sanchez, 40. The newly appointed Archbishop of Santa Fe, a native New Mexican who spent four years studying theology Rome's Gregorian University, vaulted to eminence from a parish priesthood in Albuquerque. Sanchez is a pleasantly informal clergyman who has already stirred up his predominantly Hispanic Roman Catholic archdiocese in New Mexico. He has requested that the churches in his domain contribute a Sunday's offering to Cesar Chavez's farm workers...
...century ago and has in recent decades become the pugnacious defender of orthodoxy. Matt admits that his paper is "roughhewn" and quips that intellectuals order it in a "plain brown envelope." In a series of articles criticizing reforms in the Archdiocese of Detroit, a Wanderer writer hit its progressive archbishop, John Cardinal Dearden, particularly hard, even suggested that he might be "a major heretic, one of the worst the Catholic Church has ever suffered from." Another piece compared today's liberal religion teachers to "chimpanzees," charging that they "cannot be relied on to respect any tradition, to understand...
...certain grace seems to touch the life of the diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Dom Helder Pessoa Cãmara. Better known to the world simply as "Dom Helder," Brazil's famed voice of the poor and preacher of nonviolent revolution is a persistent nettle in the breeches of his country's military regime. At least eight of Dom Helder's associates have been arrested and tortured. He has been castigated as a "Fidel Castro in cassock" and disdainfully dubbed "the Red bishop." Lately he has been so judiciously ignored by Brazil...