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...restore a sense of doctrinal discipline; it removed renegade Swiss Theologian Hans Kung from his teaching post at the University of Tubingen in West Germany and silenced for a year Brazilian Franciscan Leonardo Boff, an advocate of Marxist-tinged liberation theology. Last week Rome moved against an American priest who has openly questioned the church's stance on sexual morality. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, revoked the license of the Rev. Charles Curran to teach theology at the Catholic University of America because of the priest's "repeated refusal...
...kindly priest's public account of his 19-month captivity at times very nearly obscured the fact that it had been a dreadful ordeal. From the day he was abducted by eight men as he went about his duties as director of Catholic Relief Services in Lebanon, he was kept in solitary confinement, blindfolded and chained by his ankle to a wall. After six months, he was put in a small room with Anderson, Jacobsen and Sutherland. Until his release last September, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary, was also with them. The only clothing the captives were given...
...rosary as well as a crucifix and did not interfere with the hostages' prayers. They never beat Jenco or attempted to brainwash him. Occasionally the hostages were even able to laugh with their captors. Once, when one of them asked, "Is there anything you would like, Father?" the priest replied, "A taxicab...
...condition and an eye infection caused by his blindfolds and presumably would not have wanted to be held responsible in the event of his death. William Casey, director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, visited Damascus recently, but it was unclear whether this had anything to do with the priest's release. Jenco himself also spoke of the "religious factor," meaning the efforts of Terry Waite and other churchmen on behalf of the hostages. The indefatigable Waite, tight-lipped as always, said only that it was "not a coincidence" that he was in the Middle East at the time Jenco...
Back in London, describing his feelings, Jenco had recalled taking his nieces and nephews three years ago to see the movie E.T., in which the title character keeps saying, "Home, home." Said the priest gently: "That's what I want to do--I want to go home." What he will do after that is anyone's guess. His Servite Order announced last week that he has actually been offered his old job as Catholic Relief Services director in Lebanon. "I would sort of doubt that Father Jenco will want to go back to Beirut," an official of the order told...