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...Captain Stefi Baum and Ann Velie put in outstanding defensive performances. Velie had seven ground-ball possessions to keep up her seven-per-game average while Baum pulled off a show-stealing seven interceptions...
...American in the Vatican is a shy, Missouri-bred Cardinal with a Jewish name, who has risen fast in the church partly because he is an expert on Protestantism. Four years ago, William Wakefield Baum, now 53, became the second youngest Cardinal in U.S. history. When he took over his new job as Prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education last month, he became the third American ever to join the exclusive group of men who head major Vatican agencies. He also found himself in the middle of Pope John Paul II's controversial campaign...
...education congregation (a Vatican department, not a gathering of worshipers) controls all parochial schools and some 200 seminaries and religion faculties around the world. Baum's congregation is empowered to decide on the orthodoxy of any tenured teachers appointed to those faculties. In addition, if the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith decides a professor is not orthodox, Baum will handle official discipline. He concurred in the recent decision to investigate Belgian Theologian Edward Schillebeeckx and to banish West Germany's Hans Küng from a Roman Catholic faculty. The church, Baum insisted to TIME...
...Baum is softspoken, polite, bookish, a man who tries to avoid open confrontation. He has a fondness for fine food, art and opera. His taste: Mozart always, Verdi and Wagner occasionally. "There are days when you just can't listen to Wagner," he says. As Archbishop of Washington, B.C., for nearly seven years, he succeeded cut-and-slash Conservative Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle. Baum calmed tempers and tried to strike a balance between outraged church loyalists and Catholic University of America professors who regularly question papal pronouncements...
...comes by his interest in other religions naturally. After his Presbyterian father died, Baum's Catholic mother married a Jewish businessman in Kansas City, Mo., whose surname the prelate took. He is close to many Protestant and Jewish relatives. During 15 years as a Missouri pastor, theology professor and administrator, the Cardinal-to-be left nothing but friends behind. Monsignor Thomas O'Brien, a fellow executive in the Kansas City diocese, speaks for many: "He always has a calming influence. He never gets angry or upset...