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Italian Communist leaders in the past have made obeisances toward the church, but never to the extent that Berlinguer has His extraordinary statement was prompted by Bishop Luigi Bettazzi of Ivrea. After last year's national elections, in which the Communists increased their hold over the large city governments as well as 2,778 towns and villages, Bettazzi wrote an open letter to the secretary-general asking whether local Communist governments could be counted on to guarantee full respect for religion...
Berlinguer's belated 4,300-word answer-addressed to "Mr. Bishop"-was yes The party boss quoted approvingly from Pope John null encyclical Pacem in Terris, which argued that "encounters and understandings between believers and those who do not believe can be occasions for discovering truth and rendering homage to it." Berlinguer, who attacked Moscow after the invasion of Czechoslovakia and has criticized the Soviet system for its lack of political liberties, also conceded that East Bloc governments "have fallen into discriminations" against Christian believers. Nonetheless, he added, "they are beginning to come out of this situation, even...
...species through natural selection suggested that human beings had evolved from some lower form of life. By implying that man was related to apes and monkeys, the great naturalist incurred the derision ?and wrath?of millions round the world. "Descended from apes!'' exclaimed the wife of the Bishop of Worcester when she heard the news in 1860. "Let us hope it is not true, but if it is, let us pray that it will not become generally known...
Delegates from the 410 O.C.A. parishes in the U.S., Canada and Mexico nominate a new Metropolitan. If no one candidate receives a two-thirds majority on the first ballot, a second vote is held to propose two contenders; the church's rune ruling bishops then choose one of them to be the primate. In 1965 a U.S.-born candidate got the most votes, but failed to gain the necessary two-thirds majority, and the predominantly elderly, Russian-born bishops turned instead to runner-up Ireney, a bishop in New England. In choosing a successor to Ireney, now 85 and ailing...
...Europeans, it was significant that the top vote getter was Aloisio Cardinal Lorscheider, 53, of Brazil, an energetic leader in preparation of Synod papers despite his undergoing open-heart surgery a year ago. Right behind him came Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Cincinnati, 49, outgoing president of the U.S. bishops. As in 1974, not one Italian bishop was elected to the three slots reserved for Europeans...