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In other areas of the state, liberal politicians fighting off hard challenges need student volunteers at the polls today. State rep. Barney Frank '61, who demonstrated his effective brand of nuts-and-bolts liberalism for more than a decade in the State House, is trying to succeed Robert Drinan, the...
Nothing underlined official concern at midweek more vividly than an extraordinary telecast of a recorded sermon by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. As head of Poland's Catholic hierarchy, a bastion of antiCommunism, the 79-year-old prelate had traditionally been denied access to the state broadcasting network.
The Pope's 9,000-mile pilgrimage within Brazil came at a time when relations between the Vatican and bishops of the largest Roman Catholic nation were badly strained. Many Brazilian bishops resent the Vatican's investigation of Leonardo Boff, Brazil's leading proponent of "liberation theology...
In the slums of Rio de Janeiro. John Paul saw squalor. He climbed up a dirt road past the wooden shacks where 20,000 squatters exist under constant threat of eviction, toward a tiny parish church that serves the favela of Vidigal. On the way, he suddenly turned aside into...
Brazilian Catholicism once lived all too cozily with dictators. After the military coup in 1964, the hierarchy rendered public thanks to God for the soldiers who "delivered us from Communist danger." But for a decade and more. Brazil's bishops have been known for their willingness to stand up...