Word: letters
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...their first pastoral letter, in 1984, the U.S.'s black Roman Catholic bishops politely but urgently expressed concern about the paucity of black leaders in the church. Last year a Washington conference of 1,250 black Catholics repeated the plea for more blacks who would actually run dioceses, as opposed to being auxiliaries under white bishops. During his pastoral visit to the U.S. in September, Pope John Paul II signaled that he was listening when he told a New Orleans gathering of black Catholics, "Know that the Pope stands united with the black community as it rises to embrace...
...choice of Marino seems almost foreordained. The new archbishop was one of the authors of the 1984 pastoral letter, an articulate participant in the Washington conference, and an organizer of the papal address to blacks. In his Washington speech last year, he reached back to his roots "as a young boy in Mississippi with the double -- I was going to say handicap, but I'll say blessing -- of being black and Catholic." His mother was from Biloxi, and his father, a baker, moved there from Puerto Rico. The young Marino grew up in a cultural and religious tradition derived from...
...March 8 article on Women's History Week, I was incorrectly quoted as saying that the History Department has made absolutely no commitment to bringing in a woman's historian. Professor Angeliki Laiou, chair of the History Department, was quite correct in pointing out, in her letter to The Crimson of March 11, that the History Department has indeed appointed Professor Olwen Hufton, a historian of European women. As Professor Laiou noted, I am certainly aware of the appointment, since Professor Hufton is also chair of the Committee of Degree's on Women's Studies, the program in which...
...draft of that agreement was accompanied by a cover letter, signed by the K-School's chief fundraiser, Bayley F. Mason '51, that said, at the time, Allison "approved" of the terms...
...minimal-metal bill got an unlikely endorsement recently as an "excellent legislative proposal" by none other than Attorney General Edwin Meese. In response, the International Association of Chiefs of Police and eleven allied groups have drafted a letter to Meese charging that his action was a "betrayal of law enforcement" to the "money and clout of the gun lobby...