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...Cassidy, who has indicated her desire to become a nun and had been sympathetic to Chile's Liberal clerics, got involved in the developing church-state conflict almost by accident. Two priests - one an American-born Chilean, Father Gerald Wheelan, 48, and the other a native Chilean, Monsignor Rafael Maroto - had given sanctuary to Martin Hernandez and Nelson Gutierez, members of a small remnant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). Gutierez, wounded in a Shootout with the secret police, was brought to a convent in Santiago. Monsignor Maroto summoned Dr. Cassidy, who drained abscessed bullet wounds...
...attempts by the draft board in Oyster Bay, N.Y., the town where he grew up, to induct him during World War II; Loeb finally won his battle when he found a sympathetic Vermont doctor who helped him win a 4-F classification for ulcers. "Loeb is a bully," says Monsignor Philip Kenney, vicar of community affairs for the ManChester diocese. "A lot of people who have been duped by him should read this book." Adds former New Hampshire Governor Walter Peterson, whose teenage daughter suffered an emotional breakdown after Loeb vilified her for an innocent remark about marijuana use: "Kevin...
Thus when Alfrink approached the retirement age of 75, Pope Paul faced a delicate decision. One solution would have been to ask Alfrink to stay on and delay the appointment, perhaps so that Monsignor Karen Kastell, a Dutch moderate in the Vatican evangelism office, could be made a bishop and groomed for Alfrink's job. The favored candidate of the Dutch hierarchy was Alfrink's top assistant in Utrecht, Anton Vermeulen. But the Curia found Vermeulen too independent-minded, and Paul may also have been reluctant to appear to recognize any right of the Dutch bishops to pick...
...must a contemporary saint be an activist? The Rev. George Webber, president of Manhattan's New York Theological Seminary, says yes: "When I think of a saint today, I think of a person who is willing to spend his whole life in a struggle for justice." Yet Monsignor Francis Lally, a member of the U.S. bishops conference staff, offers a gentle demurrer. "A saint is a person who puts himself in the service of others for spiritual reasons," he says. Just how one accomplishes that, adds Lally, may vary from age to age. "The activist has taken over...
...Died. Monsignor Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, 73, founder and president general of Opus Dei, the spiritually elitist Catholic lay organization that has 60,000 members in 73 countries; of a heart attack; in Rome. Founded in 1928, Opus Dei eventually became so influential in Spain that some critics accused it of wielding inordinate political and economic power...