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...next Archbishop of Canterbury will be chosen by Prime Minister Harold Wilson. But last week the London betting firm of Ladbroke's decided to give everyone a piece of the action: it announced that it would book bets on the successor to the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, who will retire in November. Offering official, if not divine guidance for the plan, the Church Times provided Ladbroke's with some of the names and chances of the 13 likely candidates. Early favorite, the Most Rev. Donald Coggan, Archbishop of York, is now tied at 3 to 1 with Bishop...
...junta has run Brazil with efficiency and cold skill. It has imposed strict censorship on the press and the arts and has imprisoned and tortured priests and Catholic lay workers who have been organizing among the poor. With the notable exception of Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Archbishop Helder Pessoa Cámara of Recife and Olinda,* opponents of the regime have been cowed or brutalized into silence. The generals have relentlessly tracked down leftists. In late 1969 they killed Guerrilla Leader Carlos Marighella, the one man who had the personal magnetism to lead an underground movement. According to apologists...
Arthur Michael Ramsey, 69, surges majestically up the aisle of his own Canterbury Cathedral, a member of the congregation says, "you feel all the power and authority of Christendom." Last week Ramsey announced that, come his 70th birthday in November, he will step down as 100th Archbishop of Canterbury. A determined ecumenist, Ramsey became in 1966 the first Cantuar to officially meet a Pope in 600 years. In avuncular fashion, he even made the swinging scene, telling his fellow clergy to stop being scandalized by topless fashions. He himself shocked his brethren in the middle of an argument about church...
...Eminence the Archbishop of Budapest used in his prayers such beautiful expressions as, for instance: 'God bless our bayonets that they may pierce deeply into your enemies' bellies...
...entire Cabinet met and reviewed the situation, and Franco himself spent three hours with government officials at his palace in what spokesmen called "an informal exchange of views." Eight miles away, the 19-member executive committee of the Spanish bishops conferred with Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón, Archbishop of Madrid. Among the 19 was Añoveros, who seemed scarcely contrite about having provoked the crisis. He had arrived in the capital wearing a Basque beret...