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...past 15 years; more than 500,000 of its inhabitants live and starve in slums on stilts called mucambos. Who speaks for Catholicism in Recife is vitally important to the church in Brazil. Now, to be Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Pope Paul VI has picked a spunky little churchman who has never had a diocese or even a parish of his own. Overjoyed at being handed one of the toughest, most critical jobs in Catholicism is Helder Pessôa Câmara, 55, Auxiliary Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro since...
...Lord ever calls me, I'm not going," pipes the twelve-year-old son of an Ohio minister. He hates being a preacher's son because the other kids poke fun at him. But the boy is Norman Vincent Peale, who grows up to become a churchman and bestselling author (The Power of Positive Thinking) so famous that he gets the honor of seeing his biography filmed during his lifetime...
When Dopfner speaks, others listen, and 2,800 people-including priests, foreign diplomats and non-Catholic clergy-gathered in Munich's Congress Hall to hear him. It turned out to be, said one excited Lutheran churchman after ward, "the first time anyone so high up in the Catholic hierarchy has made a speech quite so daring...
Nonetheless, tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Patriarch Athenagoras, a multilingual diplomat-priest, makes up in personal stature what he lacks in spiritual authority. "He is an outstanding churchman," says one Vatican official, "a modernizer in the same tradition as John XXIII...
...liturgy. On a visit to Georgia, Monsignor Fermoyle wins singlehanded a battle with small-town bigots after getting himself horsewhipped by the Klan. Years later, after he has reached his episcopacy, Fermoyle takes on Adolf Hitler: he returns to Vienna to talk sense to Cardinal Innitzer (the real-life churchman who welcomed Naziism to Austria prior to the Anschluss of 1938). The episode ends ludicrously: as Brownshirts riot around Innitzer's palace, Soprano Wilma Lipp and 200 members of the Wiener Jeunesse Choir huddle primly in the plaza, singing Mozart's Alleluia without skipping a half note. Will...