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DIED. FRANCOIS XAVIER NGUYEN VAN CARDINAL THUAN, 74, Vietnamese clergyman who spent his 13-year imprisonment under the communist regime emulating St. Paul by smuggling out messages to his followers and evangelizing his jailers; in Vatican City. Born into a prominent Catholic family?his uncle was former South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem?Thuan became Bishop of Nha Trang in 1967. Shortly after his appointment as Archbishop of Saigon in 1975 the city fell to the communists, who arrested Thuan as a subversive and imprisoned him without trial. He was expelled from Vietnam in 1991 and spent the rest...
...Goodwin was a victim of bad timing. The pledge, written by a socialist clergyman in 1892, has often served as a rallying cry in times of national crisis. During World War II, Congress officially recognized the pledge and changed its accompanying salute from an outstretched arm that resembled Hitler?s favored salute to the current right hand over the heart. In 1954, in the midst of the cold war against godless communism, President Eisenhower urged Congress to add the words under God to the oath to reaffirm "the transcendence of religious faith in America?s heritage and future." Now faced...
Bishop Wilton Gregory, 54, was elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops last November. The word Cardinal is all but stamped on his forehead. Though an early supporter of lay panels to address abuse cases, he is very much a conservative clergyman in the mold of Pope John Paul II, and this week he and his fellow bishops meet in Dallas to discuss how to handle the church's problems. He spoke last week with TIME Midwest bureau chief Marguerite Michaels...
...heavyweight Cardinals--conservative stalwarts like Germany's Joseph Ratzinger and savvy bureaucrats like Congregation of Bishops chief Giovanni Battista Re, who now have a chance to advance their own agendas without papal scrutiny. But many insiders say the real power behind the papal throne lies with a humble Polish clergyman they call Don Stanislaw...
...talib (student), because his religious studies were interrupted by the Soviet invasion in 1979. As a mujahed, he earned a reputation as a marksman, but the conflict cost him his right eye. After the Soviets pulled out and Afghanistan descended into civil war, he lived simply as a village clergyman until, he claims, he had a dream in which the Prophet Muhammad revealed that he, Omar, should lead the country out of lawlessness and immorality. He and a few dozen other clerics became the foundation of the Taliban. Despite its adherence to the strictest interpretations of Islamic doctrine, the movement...