Word: bishop
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Other appealing candidates stand only the barest chance in the voting. One is Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, 56, a black priest from Benin (formerly Dahomey), who was consecrated bishop 21 years ago by Pius XII. A tall, gentle man, quick to smile, he is now prefect of the Commission on Justice and Peace. Another is Britain's George Basil Cardinal Hume, 55, a Benedictine monk who in 1976 was plucked from obscurity as Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey to become Archbishop of Westminster. Hume's relative youth and inexperience are likely to count negatively with the pragmatic Cardinals...
...Authentic Pastor. He is primarily Bishop of Rome. But as a universal pastor, he should be neither an administrator nor a general secretary, not a lawyer, diplomat or bureaucrat. He should be a pastor, a man in the service of men not institutions, a leader resolved not to rule but to serve...
...True Fellow Bishop. He should be confident enough of his own office to risk sharing his power with the other bishops, conducting himself not as a master over his servants but as a brother among his brethren...
...fundamental objections," and the Lambeth decision may help pro-women's ordination forces carry the day at the Church of England Synod this November. As for black African Anglicans, some associate women's equality with racial equality. Others, however, share the position taken by a Kenyan bishop: Women priests are fine for the West...
...parishioners. At the same time he uses his powers of flattery and persuasion to seduce most of the nearby females, including a local noblewoman, the chatelaine, and his 14-year-old cousin. When the Inquisition comes to town, he turns double agent, denouncing his fellow heretics to the investigating bishop...