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...Most Rev. James Conleth Ryan, 48, a balding, six-foot-two, ebullient, Chicago-born Franciscan, the fishermen of Santarém are the elite among the 150,000 people in his France-sized diocese. "This is one of the most backward areas in the world," says "River Bishop" Ryan. "I am trying to show the Amazon peoples that God, at least, has not forgotten them." In the process, Dom Tiago, as most of his flock calls him, has contracted malaria six times and learned to relish monkey meat: "It tastes like chicken, if you shut your eyes...
James Ryan was ordained in the Franciscan Order at Teutopolis, Ill., in 1938, and in 1943 answered a Franciscan call for volunteers to go to Brazil. He spent his first nine Brazilian years ministering to the rubber tappers at Fordlândia, the vast plantation founded by the Ford Motor Co. and taken over in 1945 by the Brazilian government. He mediated between the workers and the plantation management, shared his medical supplies with the hospital and his canned beans with the hungry. He was then instructed to establish a new parish, centered on Santarém, which with...
...years, and 210,000 square miles takes a lot of traveling, mostly by outboard motor and usually alone. On these trips he catches his own fish and can even make a fire by rubbing two sticks together, "provided that one of the sticks is a match." Under him, 25 Franciscan priests, all Americans, and seven lay brothers administer churches in ten principal centers, plus 130 chapels, and 250 small settlements where the Christian community is served by a local girl, who says her rosary aloud in place of Mass...
Curtiz was also briefly hampered by a gentle jurisdictional dispute between the two Franciscan orders in Assisi-the brown-cloaked Friars Minor and the black-clothed Conventuals-over the color of the saint's robe. But Skouras' Vatican-connected authority happily ruled that Bradford (A Certain Smile) Dillman, as Francis, should wear grey...
...whirlwind, two-day tour of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Dr. Fisher was honored by Armenian Orthodox and Greek Orthodox patriarchs, Coptic and Maronite prelates. Anglican bishops, a Lutheran provost, an Ethiopian abbot, Franciscan monks, a Moslem sheik. But even the tensions of Israeli-Arab politics could not disturb the Primate. Before a crowd of 1,000 people, Bethlehem's Mayor Ayoub Musallam called on the archbishop to look carefully at the "plight and situation of the Arab refugees, our brethren who are still living in tents, huts and caves." Expertly sidestepping Ayoub's entreaty, Dr. Fisher answered: "What...