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...authorities, and toward the end of his life he became ever more despotic and rude - his irritability perhaps exacerbated by his contraction of the livestock disease brucellosis. The Catholic Church, however, has few doubts about the man. A movement within it wants the Pope to canonize him, and the Archbishop of Barcelona has called for him to be named patron saint of architecture. Many Catalans draw the line at sainthood, arguing that Gaudí's legacy of buildings is, as Daniel Giralt-Miracle puts it, "glory enough...
Lest anyone make the mistake of thinking that this behavior is merely a reflection of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ abrasive style, it might be well to recall that more than a decade ago, when a group of alumni managed to elect Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the Board of Overseers as part of a campaign to persuade Harvard to divest its South African holdings, the response of then-President Derek C. Bok was to change the rules for electing Overseers so that no one like Tutu would be elected in the future. Once Nelson Mandela was released...
Nine Harvard professors have sent a letter calling for the resignation of Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53, the Catholic archbishop of Boston who allowed priests accused of child molestation to continue working for the church...
...defiant doctors, saying that government policy cannot determine medical ethics that include "post-exposure prophylaxis for sexual assaults and mother-to-child HIV transmission." So too do many leading civic and religious figures. Opening a new HIV research unit at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto last month, Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, head of the Anglican Church in South Africa, called it "sinful and immoral" to deny drugs that could save the life of a child. Said Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, "We can't afford the luxury of academic debates about the causes of the disease. We are fiddling...
...Archbishop Williams and Bishops Jones and Nazir-Ali support female priests, but the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, has been lukewarm to cold on the issue, and this could affect his chances for the top job. On the other hand, it may not hurt that Chartres, a cerebral member of the Church of England's An-glo-Catholic wing, is highly regarded by Prince Charles, who likes his traditionalist approach and asked Chartres - not Carey - to confirm Prince William. Also with a friend in the top job, Charles might find it easier eventually to marry Camilla Parker Bowles. Divorced couples...