Word: bishops
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...house was built in memory of Phillips Brooks, Class of 1855, who became a well-known Episcopal preacher in the Boston community and the bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Massachusetts...
Personally, I think the Pope is capable of admitting courageously, 'I can no longer carry out my task in an adequate way.' I believe the Pope would be capable of that if he had the impression that he was no longer able to lead the Church with authority." After Bishop Karl Lehmann of Mainz offered that opinion on German radio, a small earthquake of headlines went through Rome. GERMAN BISHOPS: THE POPE IS SICK, HE SHOULD RESIGN, declared one paper. WOJTILA STEP ASIDE, A STRONG POPE IS NEEDED, said another, using John Paul II's family name...
...last week's kerfuffle may have more personal roots. There is no love lost between John Paul and Bishop Lehmann, who heads the German Catholic Bishops Conference. The German church runs 250 abortion-counseling centers, and after five years of wrangling, its bishops bowed to pressure from the Pope last June and agreed to stop issuing certificates that permit women to terminate a pregnancy within the first 12 weeks. (Without the certificate, abortion is illegal.) Says historian and novelist Father Andrew Greeley: "Lehmann won't be made a cardinal as long as John Paul is Pope...