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...Vatican aide cited approvingly both the U.S. activities of the Berrigan brothers (provided they did not resort to violent methods) and the widespread campaign to improve living conditions for migrant workers. He also pointed to the dedication of Archbishop Helder Pessōa Cāmara of Recife to Brazil's poor, and the work of Peruvian Bishop Luis Barbarén, "the slum bishop," who devotes his time to the slum dwellers around Lima. One common denominator of such forthright action is a degree of risk, as Bishop Barbarén found out last week; Peruvian authorities arrested...
...Recife's spunky little (5 ft. 4 in., 120 Ibs.) Archbishop Helder. Pessõa Cámara, 57, the church fought back. Four months ago, Cãmara refused to officiate at a special Mass celebrating the second anniversary of the coup because local army headquarters had demanded that he submit his sermon to censorship. In July, Dom Helder led 16 Northeastern bishops in a statement criticizing the regime for "injustices committed against the workers, whether they concern questions of salaries, pressure against class organization, or the innumerable transgressions of labor laws...
...church in Brazil. Now, to be Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Pope Paul VI has picked a spunky little churchman who has never had a diocese or even a parish of his own. Overjoyed at being handed one of the toughest, most critical jobs in Catholicism is Helder Pessôa Câmara, 55, Auxiliary Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro since...
Died. Epitacio Pessôa, 76, onetime President of Brazil (1919-22), justice of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague (1924-30); in Rio de Janeiro...
...five in whom life still remained after the loyalists had stormed the trenches, two died in a hospital. President Epitacio Pessôa went to visit these two before they died. He praised them for their bravery, but lamented the fact that their cause had been unworthy of such sacrifice. Upon hearing this insult to his cause, one of the men, who had been wounded in the head by a bayonet, tore the bandages from his head and bled to death before he could be subdued...