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...case of the pregnant 9-year-old was shocking enough. But it was the response of the Catholic Church that infuriated many Brazilians. Archibishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of the coastal city of Recife announced that the Vatican was excommunicating the family of a local girl who had been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather, because they had chosen to have the girl undergo an abortion. The Church excommunicated the doctors who performed the procedure as well. "God's laws," said the archbishop, dictate that abortion is a sin and that transgressors are no longer welcome in the Roman...
...outreaches of charity and compassion. Mr. Gooen should visit the number of pro-life clinics here in the Boston area, such as Daybreak, or at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, to see the compassion that is offered to women undergoing the pain of an unwanted pregnancy. His insulting reference to Archibishop O'Connor of New York as "arrogant" is completely uncalled for. I would only hope that this nation could be as "arrogant" in the defense of innocent life as the Archbishop...
...politicians (besides the Communists, who have little apparent power or desire to exert any radical influenced, have suffered suppression, and are newly haunted by the specter of Chile), he is least acceptable to the army and the Americans, who are still feared as potentially troublesome. As Kissinger told Greek Archibishop Iakovos, with blithe overgeneralization, "We do not wish at all to see Papandreou governing Greece because this would mean subjecting Greece to Communist power...
...prisons and a brief period under house arrest, he lived for 15 years in the U.S. legation in Budapest, where he had taken refuge during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. During all that time and while he was exiled in Vienna after 1971 Mindszenty clung prodly to his titles of Archibishop of Esztergom, an ancient see that includes Budapest, and Primate (first bishop) of the Hungarian hierarchy. Last week Pope Paul did what the Communists could not and removed the stubborn, 81 -year-old hero from office...
...Most Reverend Richard J. Cushing, Archibishop of Boston, told a presidential commission studying immigration problems in 1952, that: "The...discrimination and undemocratic features of the McCarran-Walter law, are to my mind a grave potential threat to our domestic development and our international leadership...