Word: bishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flowering jacarandas tower above its sparkling blue swimming pools. But for all its reputation as a garden hideaway for the international set, the flower that blooms most remarkably in Cuernavaca these days is a vigorous new variety of Roman Catholicism. Its most dedicated gardener is Cuernavaca's bishop, the Most Rev. Sergio Méndez Arceo...
When Don Sergio, 61, became bishop of Cuernavaca in 1952, he did not enter the job as an innovator. Then, shortly after his consecration, he spent some time at Father Grégoire Lemercier's fledgling Benedictine monastery in the Cuernavaca suburbs, where he was impressed with both the pastoral uses of the monks' experimental worship services and the strikingly different religious art that complemented them. The bishop asked the monastery's principal artist, Fray Gabriel Chávez de la Mora, to help him refurbish the city's 400-year-old cathedral. Gloomy Victorian clutter...
...borrowed from CIDOC-a "Pan-American" Mass, complete with traditional Latin American rhythms, bespangled mariachi, strumming guitars and wailing trumpets. The cathedral is packed every Sunday for the two "mariachi Masses," and many in the crowd are young men, an unusual sight in Latin American churches. After Mass, the bishop mingles with the crowd outside, chatting in one or another of five languages with foreign visitors, and pausing occasionally to give a parishioner a warm abrazo...
...bishop himself-usually an affable, conciliatory man who speaks kindly of his conservative peers-can also be outspoken. At Vatican II, he defended psychoanalysis, in obvious sympathy with Lemercier's monastery. Last May he journeyed to Rome to plead the case for CIDOC and former Monsignor Illich, who had resigned the active ministry after an inquisitorial Vatican proceeding (TIME, Feb. 14). The ban has since been modified, and priests and nuns may study at Illich's center as long as their superiors monitor their progress...
Married. The Most Rev. James P. Shannon, 48, recently resigned Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis; and Ruth Wilkinson, 50, a longtime friend and lifetime Protestant (see RELIGION...