Word: bishops
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...apologize to the members of the South African Solidarity Committee who complained that we invited the wrong Committee members to the Bishop Tutu luncheon and that we had the Bishop "deliver the Harvard line on divestiture." We tried to invite some of those persons who, to our knowledge, care a great deal about the South African issue. We also tried to include some of the SASC members recommended to us. We did not discuss with the Bishop what he should say on divestiture...
...they could not have built even one runway on Grenada in less than three years." The reason we came out smelling like a rose is that we overthrew a different government than the one we had planned to. Instead of the moderately popular government headed by Cuban ally Maurice Bishop, we toppled the unpopular three-week-old regime of Hudson Austin...
...result, 71 of the 145 members of Roth's church petitioned the Lutheran regional synod to investigate their pastor's conduct. The parishioners accused him of devoting more attention to D.M.S. than to his flock's spiritual needs. In October the synod's executive board and Pittsburgh's Bishop Kenneth May, applying rarely used provisions of the Lutheran Church in America's national constitution, decided that Roth would have to give up his pulpit...
When Roth refused to comply and barricaded himself inside the Clairton church, Bishop May won a court order to oust him. Roth eventually surrendered, and on Nov. 13 was sentenced to 90 days in prison for contempt of court. A special Lutheran panel will soon consider whether Roth should be defrocked...
Meanwhile, the synod moved to take over the property of the deeply divided church. Roth's supporters occupied the building on Dec. 27, turned away the bishop's agents and produced the edgy standoff that ended last week. The group inside the church included Roth's wife Nadine...