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Increasing numbers of churchmen, from laymen to cardinals, have involved themselves in the numerous detainees groups, legal protection associations, and private appeals for mercy. Marcos's nebulous definition of subversion mixes activist priests and naive college students with communist guerillas and Muslim rebels. The government's war against Muslim secessionists in Mindinao has killed thousands of civilians, uprooting tens of thousands more. This has brought several of the country's most respected bishops into a running battle with the government over military abuses...
...most serious dampener on anti-government church action is the very fact that there is a sizeable pro-Marcos bloc, which forces the moderates to balance the two groups' demands in order to avoid polarization. Through generous dispensation of money, and granting of favors the government lobbies certain churchmen as if the were U.S. Congressmen. Imelda even has a Jesuit speechwriter...
This was the scene last week at the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the Christmas visit by four clergymen. The churchmen were French-born Léon-Etienne Cardinal Duval, Catholic Archbishop of Algiers, and three liberal American clerics: William Sloane Coffin Jr., senior minister of New York City's interdenominational Riverside Church; Thomas J. Gumbleton, Catholic auxiliary bishop of Detroit; and M. William Howard, president of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A...
...more than five hostages could meet with a clergyman at one time. After considerable argument, the clerics split up and conducted eleven separate services. Said Gumbleton: "We sang together, we prayed together and we shared the Eucharist together. I should also say that we wept together." Afterward, the churchmen tallied the number of hostages that each had seen and arrived at a total of 41 men and two women-seven short of the 50 hostages who the State Department insists were seized by the students...
Falwell's habit of mixing religion with American chauvinism and military policy does not sit well with many born-again churchmen. Jimmy Allen of the First Baptist Church of San Antonio, Texas, and past president of the Southern Baptist Convention warns that allegiance with political organizations is dangerous for the church. Says he: "Jesus cannot be captured by any political or economic point of view." Falwell dismisses such criticism quickly: "The issue is survival. America must be turned around." As to his bellicosity, he remarks: "Jesus was not a pacifist. He was not a sissy...