Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gabinski. a Democratic alderman in Chicago: "Everywhere I go, I hear people talking about Carter being proabortion. Now I hear people saying they just can't believe the President said what he did." Invited to speak at a long-scheduled Polish American Congress dinner in Chicago last week. Bishop Alfred L. Abramowicz agonized over whether to attend because Jimmy Carter was the main guest. When he finally decided to go, he told the audience, "I find myself in a great dilemma tonight. My Catholic friends of Polish descent assembled here shout, 'Come sit and dine with...
...this page, but I really don't think it tells you much about how good they really are. Perhaps this will help, however: Herb Ellis, say Sandy's p.r. men, is known as "Mr. Night Time T.V." having worked with Steve Allen, Danny Kaye, Joey Bishop, and now Merv Griffen. Perhaps you would do better to switch on the tube first and check Herb out before you take the trip out to Beverly...
...Gaborone, where African leaders had gathered to help celebrate Botswana's tenth anniversary of independence. "Good news," declared Zambia's President Kaunda. Rhodesian Nationalist Joshua Nkomo, a leading candidate to head a post-Smith government in Rhodesia (see box page 41), was "delighted." Added one of his rivals, Bishop Abel Muzorewa: "That's great...
...plenty of contemporary resonances, of course. Does anyone still believe that the hippies and gurus and Woodstocks of the '60s were anything new or unusual? Consider the medieval Pied Piper from Bourges, who called himself Christ and gathered an ecstatic following that then presented itself to the Bishop of Le Puy, its members "stark naked, leaping and somersaulting." The response was summary: the leader was "killed on the spot...
Johnson is master of the arresting detail, the vivid personality sketch. In an evocative little essay on St. Ambrose, the Roman magistrate who became Bishop of Milan in 373, he pauses to note Augustine's surprise when he found that Ambrose could read silently to himself-a rare skill in the ancient world. Discussing the opening of the Council of Trent, the great 16th century Catholic assembly that began the Counter Reformation, he observes how Christoforo Madruzzo, the host bishop, opened the meeting with a 74-dish banquet and 100-year-old wine. After dinner, Madruzzo...