Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most Rev. James P. Shannon, 48, has a reputation for being a thinking man's bishop. A former president of the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, with a doctorate in history from Yale, Shannon marched at Selma and has been an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam war. Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis since his consecration in 1965, he has served as deputy head of communications for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops; he was the conference's press spokesman last fall when the U.S. bishops defended Pope Paul VI's encyclical...
...Santa Fe last week, where he is teaching literature at St. John's College on leave from his archdiocese, Shannon refused to confirm or deny the reports of his resignation but did explain his letter to the Pope. "A bishop is not just resolving these questions for himself," he said. "He is asked to give counsel to others. His burden of responsibility is greater than that of the individual Catholic." Shannon himself hopes to continue to teach at St. John's College through the summer. If and when the Pope accepts Shannon's resignation as Auxiliary Bishop...
...This is where you hear the apparition," the medium told the bishop outside his bedroom. "You hear it coming down the hall. It comes along, pffft, here...
...Siamese cat Winky apparently is also psychically sensitive. Whenever the apparition appears, says the bishop, Winky's fur stands...
...them with the primitivity of a comic book. Joe's heterosexual encounters are treated with suppressed smirks. During one love session he bounces up and down on a TV remote control, so that Schlesinger can represent his athletics with quick TV clicks of Al Jolson in blackface, a bishop preaching and a Stegosaurus lunging through a forest...