Word: bishops
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Officially, Roth's crime was "willful disregard and violation" of the church's constitution in disobeying a command from his superior, Kenneth May, bishop for the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod. More broadly, however, the Roth case is part of an ongoing conflict in the Pittsburgh area over social-action protests by some two dozen Protestant clergy. Unemployment in the region stands at 9%, and in some pockets is almost double that. Roth and his colleagues in the radical Denominational Ministry Strategy repeatedly blamed local businessmen for the economic suffering in the mill towns. D.M.S. and its allies adopted such...
Responding to the complaints of parishioners, Bishop May investigated and commanded Roth last October to quit the congregation. Roth refused. May then got a court order directing the pastor to leave. On Nov. 13 the recalcitrant Roth was arrested and began a 112-day jail term. Released from jail, Roth returned last week to Trinity, which was padlocked by court order, and conducted a Communion service on the church lawn...
...through which Harvard tries to persuade ethically delinquent corporations to institute reform in South Africa, the University is guided primarily by the recommendations of the Sullivan Principles, developed by Black leader the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a director of General Motors, and the Tutu Principles, named for Black South African Bishop Desmond Tutu. Together, the Principles require the following...
...powerful force for change might recall the catalyzing effect of the academic and student community's opposition to the Vietnam war. And those who would blithely defer to the fade at government for leadership in the fight against apartheid may ask themselves why international figures like Nobel Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Rev. Jesse L., Jackson came to Harvard to condemn investment in South Africa. Dante wrote that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in a time of moral crisis. In South Africa, an already intolerable situation is getting worse, not better...
...There is no hope in this country until the government talks to the real leaders," Bishop Tutu told the cheering throng after Zindzi's reading. "You have just heard one of those leaders...