Word: bishops
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...will make it "vastly more difficult to provide education service to some of America's neediest schoolchildren." Bennett's view echoed the lament of dissenting Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote in the New York case that "it borders on paranoia to perceive the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of Rome lurking behind programs that are just as vital to the nation's schoolchildren as textbooks...
Although the Patriotic Association of Chinese Catholics has usurped the allegiance of more than 3 million believers, a small underground church in China, holding clandestine services in private homes, has remained faithful to Rome. A hero of this remnant has been Gong Pinmei (Ignatius Kung), the bishop of Shanghai, who has been imprisoned for treason since 1955, steadfastly maintaining his loyalty to the Vatican. Xinhua, the official government news agency, last week reported that Gong, now nearly 84, had "repented" and had been paroled after agreeing to forswear any further contact with the Vatican. Gong, the news agency said...
Diplomats in Peking and observers in Rome pointed out that Gong had spurned earlier offers of release under similar conditions. Vatican officials suggested the Chinese government acted because it did not want the aging bishop to die in prison. The Vatican asked for Gong's freedom when Jaime Cardinal Sin of Manila visited Peking last year. At least twelve other Roman Catholic priests are believed to remain in Chinese prisons or labor camps...
...European arrivals of the past, Hispanic immigrants do not bring their own clergy with them. Only about 4% of the 57,000 Catholic priests in the U.S. and less than 2% of the 115,000 nuns are Hispanic. Until 1970 the church did not have one U.S.-born Hispanic bishop. (Today there are nine out of a total of 17 Hispanic bishops in the U.S.) The Catholics have also been slow to provide Spanish-language Masses and bilingual education...
...boys. The disorder does not appear to affect any particular occupational group and remains a rarity among priests. Reporter Editor Thomas Fox says that there is a heightened awareness of child abuse and "parents are more willing to go to court to pursue justice instead of asking the bishop to reassign the priest...