Word: helder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prayer is that the new Pope identifies with the poor and oppressed of the world, so that future covers of TIME symbolizing the office will show a simple wooden cross-such as Bishop Dom Helder Câmara wears-indicating a papacy that enters into the suffering of others...
Most of the activists, however, would agree with Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife and long the lonely voice for social justice in Brazil. At his diocese's tricentennial last month he said church protest is not "born of leftist ideologies." Rather, the church has realized that "passive Christianity" aids oppression. Now, he stated, it is "the demand of God that we take firm and solid positions, without hatred but also without fear." As never before, the church in Latin America is being united by this commitment...
...week, the money saved could buy $2.5 billion worth of food for the needy each year. (By such fasting over the past year, U.S. Catholics had already saved enough money to buy a shipload of rice, which they sent to Bangladesh during the congress.) Brazil's activist Archbishop Helder Camara called the world's unequal distribution of wealth "the greatest scandal of the century." Bishop James Rausch, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, called on the U.S. to send food abroad now, to be followed by technical aid. Each person's right to eat, he said...
...Most Rev. Helder Câmara, LL.D., Archbishop of Recife, Brazil. Luis W. Alvarez, S.D. Always alert for innovative applications of nuclear physics, he used neutrinos from outer space to search for undiscovered tombs in the Egyptian pyramids...
...theme of the leader in history. The book contains 14 of the interviews Fallaci bagged between 1969 and 1974; on exhibit, in embarrassing nakedness, are the powerful from Henry Kissinger to Alexandros Panagoulis, a dialectical progression that includes Golda Meir and Yasir Arafat, Indira Gandhi and Ali Bhutto, Dom Helder Camera and Archbishop Makarios...