Word: bishops
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...letter from the priests," says Jim Post, president of Voice of the Faithful, a lay group formed in response to the crisis, which also called for Law to step down last week. "That's the constituency that is always the last to stay and stand with their bishop." Law read the signs. "In April he came [to Rome] not believing he had to go," says a senior Vatican official. "This time it was more like, 'I have to go. I am seeking your permission...
...seat, angry and frustrated parishioners, many of whom have been keeping their wallets shut, organized into groups that continue to demand a greater say in church affairs--demands that the Vatican will not hear gladly. Rome swiftly announced that Law's interim successor would be Boston's Auxiliary Bishop Richard G. Lennon, 55. A healer and reconciler, people call him--and he is also an expert on church law who will know how to handle the legal difficulties coming his way. He will need all his powers. --With reporting by Eric Francis/Boston, Jeff Israely/Rome and Marguerite Michaels/Chicago
...Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit headlined the event, called “U.S. Human Rights Policy, Iraq and Palestine/Israel.” He laid out a long list of religious and political objections...
...some observers, the rioting reflects growing public frustration and anger with the many problems plaguing East Timor and the government's seeming inability to tackle them. "The people took the opportunity to let everything out?all their rage over the lack of norms and regulations in their society," says Bishop Carlos Belo, one of East Timor's most respected leaders...
...RESIGNED. BISHOP CARLOS BELO, 54, outspoken East Timorese Bishop for the Vatican and spiritual leader of his country's largely Roman Catholic population; claiming ill-health and the need for "a long period of recuperation"; in Dili, East Timor. A staunch defender of human rights, Belo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta in 1996 for their efforts to bring peace to the region, is revered for standing up to the Indonesian military during its harsh rule of East Timor before the territory's in-dependence...