Word: humberto
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Four hundred people attended the dinner in honor of Archbishop Humberto Medeiros, who was born in Portugal. The program said the Order was conferred because Medeiros "has attained unique distinction as a humanitarian, scholar, theologian and as a Christian soldier working in behalf of the faith of the land of his birth...
Four members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic community delivered a letter on May 19 to the office of Humberto Medeiros, Archbishop of Boston, requesting that Medeiros "make a contribution to the Berrigan Defense Fund" and publicly endorse Father Philip Berrigan...
...abortion have come from church spokesmen. After New York State passed one of the most liberalized abortion laws in the country last year, the Roman Catholic bishops of the state warned Catholics in the medical profession that participation in an abortion would earn them automatic excommunication. In Boston, Archbishop Humberto Medeiros caused an ecumenical fuss by calling abortion "the new barbarism." Yet the conservative Protestant journal Christianity Today went further, describing abortion-on-demand as "mass homicide." Such language, argues Lawyer John Noonan, an articulate foe of abortion (see box), obscures the issues. "Abortion is not murder; it is abortion...
Julio Carney Herrera, a wealthy lawyer with mildly left-wing views, was machine-gunned to death while driving home in broad daylight. The bodies of liberal Businessman Humberto González Juarez, a friend and a secretary were found beside a highway. Two young radio newscasters disappeared. So did Juan Luis Molina Loza, 27, a philosophy student and amateur actor who had played a convincing Che Guevara in a student carnival last year...
...Ransom. Less than two months ago, in a dramatic changing of the guard (TIME, Sept. 21), Cushing turned over his diocese to the Most Reverend Humberto S. Medeiros, an activist bishop who had previously headed the diocese of Brownsville, Texas. "The will to live will be gone," predicted an old friend. Said another: "He's not able to do anything else except be Archbishop of Boston...