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...Catholics, "Know that the Pope stands united with the black community as it rises to embrace its full dignity and lofty destiny." The words were welcome enough, but last week came a more welcome result: to head the archdiocese of Atlanta, the Pope named the Most Rev. Eugene A. Marino, 53, making him the first black American ever to become an archbishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A First for Black Catholics | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A First for Black Catholics | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...segregated society, including his parochial school. Marino's vocation was firmly established by high school, and despite the rarity of his choice, he persevered. "Diocesan seminaries -- all seminaries -- were difficult for blacks," he says with no apparent bitterness. In 1962 he was ordained in the Josephite order of priests, which was founded in the 19th century to serve blacks. Its leadership had always been white, but nine years later he became their vicar-general, or second-in-command, the first black to hold such an office in any religious order. Rome was noticing him. Marino was consecrated as a bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A First for Black Catholics | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...people in my section moaned, "That's bad luck," I'd bring up Dan Marino and Davey Concepcion. I never witnessed a Harvard loss while wearing number...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Me and Lucky Number Seven | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

...said Marino, the Miami Dolphins' quarterback, told the players about bargaining sessions he attended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Patriot Players Meet With NFL Reps As Strike Enters Second Week Today | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

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