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...gether all summer sifting the pretrial claims of 116 plaintiffs. Early this month, the judges recommended a total settlement offer of $3,000,000. (An other $1,000,000 in medical expenses has already been paid by the church and the city.) Approving the formula, Chicago's new archbishop, John...
...proudly announced that the offer is "likely to be accepted," noted that "this is the first time an effort has been made to settle disaster claims en masse by reviewing the damages and having the defendant put up an amount to cover them." As for raising the money, Archbishop Cody says the archdiocese has "a moral obligation" to borrow from banks rather than solicit Chicago parishes...
...millions of Catholics, the very fact that Paul is Christ's Vicar on earth puts him beyond criticism. "The prince of teachers is an exalted person, kumo no ue?above the clouds," says one elderly Japanese Catholic lady, sweetly. Many priests and prelates share the enthusiastic view of Archbishop Dino Staffa, secretary of Rome's Congregation of Seminaries, who says that "we are only at the beginning of a pontificate that promises to be truly great." Others agree with Atlanta's Archbishop Paul Hallinan that the Pope's cautious approach to progress is precisely what is needed for the church...
...Thomas Becket. Hum bly born in London's Cheapside, Becket rose high in the world to become Chancellor of England under his fast friend and boon companion, King Henry II. Becket served his king by curbing the power of the lawless barons, and Henry then had him appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in order to curb the power of the clergy. Instead, Becket switched allegiance from King to God. His relevance for moderns is in his martyrdom and its unanswered questions: Where does a man's loyalty lie and, once pledged, does it require even the surrender of life...
...struggled with the problem of Becket. In Murder in the Cathedral, Eliot maintained that "Christian martyrdom is no accident" but an act prearranged either by God or the doomed man. France's Jean Anouilh built his play Becket more on the love-hate relationship of the king and archbishop, but also claimed that Becket was a Saxon rebel against England's Norman overlords. To Poet Christopher Fry, in Curtmantle, King Henry was the tragic hero and focus of the play; Becket vanishes from sight after his murder in the second...