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Perhaps the most widely revered political saint today is Brazil's Dom Helder Pessoa Càmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife (TIME, June 24, 1974) and partisan of the poor. No better testimony for Dom Helder exists than the witness of those who have suffered in his behalf. Former Methodist Missionary Fred Morris, who last year was tortured by Brazilian authorities at least partly because of his friendship with Dom Helder, puts it simply. "Being with him, watching him, listening to him, one is less and less aware of him and increasingly aware of the reality to which...
Wednesday morning I was hung up on the wall of the torture room by handcuffs, with my arms high over my head. More questions about Archbishop Câmara, TIME and Luis were accompanied by beatings on the back and kidneys. After about 15 minutes, I was taken down, turned around and hung up again, this time with my back to the wall, exposing my belly to their blows. Later, they turned me to the wall again, demanding to know the name of Luis' fiancee, so they could arrest her. I said I didn't know her, though...
...certain grace seems to touch the life of the diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Dom Helder Pessoa Cãmara. Better known to the world simply as "Dom Helder," Brazil's famed voice of the poor and preacher of nonviolent revolution is a persistent nettle in the breeches of his country's military regime. At least eight of Dom Helder's associates have been arrested and tortured. He has been castigated as a "Fidel Castro in cassock" and disdainfully dubbed "the Red bishop." Lately he has been so judiciously ignored by Brazil...
...Brazil with efficiency and cold skill. It has imposed strict censorship on the press and the arts and has imprisoned and tortured priests and Catholic lay workers who have been organizing among the poor. With the notable exception of Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Archbishop Helder Pessoa Cámara of Recife and Olinda,* opponents of the regime have been cowed or brutalized into silence. The generals have relentlessly tracked down leftists. In late 1969 they killed Guerrilla Leader Carlos Marighella, the one man who had the personal magnetism to lead an underground movement. According to apologists for the junta, torture...
...Reces, a Mara Brothers fiasco, Orson Wells 4, 7:30, 11:15. With Night at the Opera...