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...present truce between the black revolutionary movement and the black middle class is not without precedent. The founders of the now outlawed African National Congress were professionals, teachers and churchmen who lobbied for civil rights in white-ruled South Africa 75 years ago. Later A.N.C. leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu were members of a black middle-class community that challenged the apartheid government after...
...leader of the conservative, Rome-oriented wing of U.S. Catholicism and the only clergyman on President Reagan's AIDS commission, complained that it had caused "serious confusion" among Catholics and in the press. Conservative Cardinals John Krol of Philadelphia and Bernard Law of Boston were among the prominent churchmen registering protests...
...tragedy and accompanying speculation obscured much of the reason the essay had hit such a raw nerve. Traditionalists now constitute a surly minority among England's ranking churchmen, and their complaints are echoed by many within the dwindling ranks of Anglican churchgoers. The Church of England, as the Times observed in a lead editorial, is a "declining institution" that has become "uncertain about its public purpose and divided over its internal beliefs...
...government or by the radicals within his own church? Who is threatened most by his unbending faith? What is the price of compromise? And who is using whom, and why? The confusion is only deepened as Bem meets government officials who are as kind as clergymen, and churchmen as murderous as politicians...
...held hostage by Muslim terrorists for 16 months until his release last September. To him, both Jews and Palestinians have the right to a homeland. Weir is completing a year as the church's Moderator (titular head). Besides amending the section on Israel, Weir's allies, primarily churchmen who have worked in the Middle East, got the document downgraded from a church-policy statement to a study paper, pending further discussions...