Word: bishop
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...makeup could hardly resist the challenge. "The Pope is coming to save the church. It's as simple as that," says a Mexican church analyst. Catholicism's future depends greatly on this region's believers, many of them "baptized but not yet sufficiently evangelized," as a bishop in Peru puts it. Religious education is often scant. Says a Vatican specialist, "In Latin America there are 42% of the world's Catholics but only 14% of the priests." Nearly half of those priests are missionaries from overseas. In the past few years, however, priest recruitment has risen...
...Construction stopped on the Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at the outset of World War II and was never resumed; church leaders thought it improper to spend money on bricks and mortar in the face of poverty and social crisis in nearby Harlem. But last week Bishop Paul Moore Jr., 59, announced a change of policy: building will start again in June. "Confrontation, picketing and burning down are not the order of the day," says Moore, who is. widely known as an activist priest. His "edifice complex," as churchmen dub it, will use a very special construction...
...could swear I heard the sound of snipping scissors as parishioners everywhere clipped your article regarding Bishop Topel to send to their bishops who are living in a "stately bishop's residence...
...appears to me that Bishop Topels "poverty binge" has taken him from depending on the people he serves, the "74,000 souls" in his diocese, to the U.S. Government. He returns his salary to the diocese, distributes the $25,000 from the sale of the bishop's home and the money he receives for the jeweled symbols of his office, but accepts his monthly Social Security check. That is very princely of you, Your Excellency...
DIED. Joseph Marie Trin Nhu Khue, 78, Viet Nam's only Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Hanoi; of a heart attack; in Hanoi, three days after his return from his visit to the Vatican for the last papal conclave. Named his nation's first bishop in 1950, Trin Nhu Khue elected to remain in his native Hanoi after North Viet Nam gained its independence in 1954. In favor of a modest rapprochement with the Communists but steadfast in his refusal to vote in their elections, he was imprisoned in 1959 for a year and barred thereafter from...