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Hanky-panky in high places has lately been striking the Greek Orthodox Church with disturbing frequency. In 1962 the new Archbishop of Athens resigned shortly after his election to that primatial office upon being exposed as a homosexual; two years later, Bishop Philippos of Drama was dethroned for adultery with his housemaid. Now a much more widespread scandal has shocked Greece. This time the fuss is not about sex but that other great fascinator: money...
Fiscal inequality. The income of the Archbishop of Athens is estimated at $70,000 a year. Obviously, the bishop of an Aegean island with a few thousand fishermen and goatherds does not do nearly as well, and to make the fiscal inequality of it worse, the current law decrees that where a bishop is appointed, he stays until he dies...
...sizable majorities they approved, in principle, the 30,000 word schema on The Church in the Modern World, though there was some vociferous minority naysaying-notably from some conservatives who deplored the schema's encouragement of a "prudent" dialogue with atheists and from some Americans such as Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans, who took exception to the schema's stern condemnation of atomic weapons and its scant suggestion of their peacekeeping capabilities...
Hoyt, who was born in Clinton, Iowa, 43 years ago, has spent 16 years working on Catholic and secular papers. Bishop John Cody, who is now Chicago's Archbishop, hired Hoyt to edit the Kansas City-St. Joseph diocesan weekly in 1957, and running that paper (he still does) gave Hoyt the concept of the National Reporter...
Paul's Plan. Pope Paul, who had always sympathized with the idea, has now agreed to let the movement operate on a trial basis for three years under Paris' Archbishop Coadjutor Pierre Veuillot. To avoid the pitfalls of the past, the worker-priests will be carefully selected, then will undergo rigorous training in sociology and economics to enable them to answer the arguments of skillful Communist organizers. Worker-priests will live in religious communities, but will be permitted to join unions...