Word: jose
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Although strong sentiments were expressed for the continued involvement of the church in political and social affairs, there was deep division over the direction that commitment should take, especially in Latin America. Bishop Jose Ivo Lorscheiter of Santa Maria, president of Brazil's hierarchy, insisted that the controversial liberation theology movement does not "push toward violence." Neither, he said, does it "assume or justify Marxist ideology" or "break with Catholic theological tradition." To him, the movement is "indispensable to the church's activity and to the social commitment of Christians, even if it carries with it risks." A contrary view...
...Jose Sanchez '79-'86, a Mexican American student from a Texas-Mexican border town, writing a novel is therapeutic. "My novel is a little laboratory for working on problems of mine," Sanchez says...
...search committee headed by Jose Gomez-Ibanex, professor of urban planning and public policy, was created this month to choose the scholar who will hold the post, Samuels said...
Well-wishers sent bouquets of roses, chrysanthemums and gladiolus garlanded with bright festive ribbons to the presidential residence. Relatives and close friends of Jose Napoleon Duarte and his family gathered in the private chapel in the Salvadoran President's home. There they took part in a Mass of thanksgiving for the safe return of Duarte's oldest daughter, Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35, who was released 44 days after antigovernment guerrillas kidnaped her and a friend, Ana Cecilia Villeda, 23. But the joy of the long- awaited homecoming was muted by signs that a total recovery from the kidnaping incident...
...effect, the nationwide so-called Sanctuary Movement will also be standing trial in Tucson. To date, the campaign has arranged for the housing of an estimated 3,000 Central American refugees in 270 congregations from San Jose to Boston. This activity has not only produced a tense and continuing church-state conflict, it has also disturbed some religious conservatives who accuse Sanctuary of exploiting the refugees for political motives...