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...often these past few years, the voices have not been heard from the middle-of-the-road majority of the hierarchy, either in the U.S. or abroad. They have come from loyal independents like Brazil's Dom Helder Câmara, battling for his nation's poor, or Belgium's Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, pleading for a greater role in the church for bishops, priests and laymen as well. Often they have come from outside the hierarchy altogether: from Daniel and Philip Berrigan, languishing in jail for the cause of peace; from the irrepressible Hans...
...Vatican aide cited approvingly both the U.S. activities of the Berrigan brothers (provided they did not resort to violent methods) and the widespread campaign to improve living conditions for migrant workers. He also pointed to the dedication of Archbishop Helder Pessōa Cāmara of Recife to Brazil's poor, and the work of Peruvian Bishop Luis Barbarén, "the slum bishop," who devotes his time to the slum dwellers around Lima. One common denominator of such forthright action is a degree of risk, as Bishop Barbarén found out last week; Peruvian authorities arrested...
...torture have evoked many protests abroad. Early this year the Vatican declared: "We must deplore those cases of police torture of which there has been so much talk." Most of Brazil's 245 bishops recently signed a petition demanding that the government "investigate the problem in depth." Archbishop Helder Cāmara of Recife and Olinda has been particularly outspoken. "In all conscience, I shall talk openly about torture in Brazil," he told French audiences last May. "I would be a criminal...
...same report, Archbishop Helder Câmara of Olinda and Recife in northeastern Brazil recounts the "barbarous assassination" of a 28-year-old priest. "What is particularly grave about this crime," he writes, "is the virtual certainty that it was part of a premeditated series." Last week the outspoken prelate visited Pope Paul in Rome to tell him personally about the "spiral of violence" in his country...
...much for Fourth Army Commander General Damasceno Portugal, the top officer in the Northeast. Portugal promptly prohibited Recife newspapers from publishing the statement, ordered up an editorial attack on Cámara. Meantime, one of his trusted local commanders sent out secret circulars to Northeast churchmen branding Dom Helder an "agitator of men and ideas" and a "leftist"-and even accusing him of promoting the development of the rival Anglican Church. Cámara's response was to demand television time so that he and his bishops could prove they were not Communists. Snapped Bishop Antonio Fragoso of Crateus...