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...priest for four decades, Jadot, now 65, was born into a prominent Belgian family of engineers, but gave up certain secular success for a priestly vocation. As chief chaplain to Belgium's colonial forces in the Congo, a friend recalls, he learned to walk a tightrope, quietly encouraging Congolese independence while the army steadfastly opposed it. In 1968, Pope Paul made him a titular archbishop and tapped him to be a papal envoy, first to Thailand, then to several posts in West Africa...
...humanity and the world. Sin is anything that resists or undercuts this process, or any oppression of one person-or group-by another. Salvation lies in a commitment to love of neighbor and thus a willingness to fight oppression, with revolution if need be. Camilo Torres, the Colombian guerrilla priest who was shot down by government troops in 1966, is the folk hero of liberation theology...
...theologians developed their ideas while working among those poor. Their bitter analysis first caught wide public attention in a conference of Latin American bishops at Medellín, Colombia, in 1968 that denounced "institutionalized violence" in Latin American society. The principal architect of the unprecedented statement was a Peruvian priest named Gustavo Gutiérrez, an old friend of Camilo Torres and theological adviser at Medellín. He later wrote A Theology of Liberation (Orbis Books), the movement's most influential text...
...Jesuit Priest Donald Campion, editor in chief of America magazine, put the emphasis on the publicity involved: "If she did err it was in the area of taste, not morality." But many of those who support Mrs. Ford's views also backed her televised advocacy of them. AT LAST, A REAL FIRST LADY! exclaimed one telegram to the White House, where mail was running about evenly for and against Mrs. Ford's opinions. Added Washington Post Television Columnist Sander Vanocur: "Betty Ford should be banned from television. She is too honest. Mrs. Ford wears her defect like diamonds...
...Eucharist publicly for the first time.* But she still had no church assignment. Like her colleagues, she had previously been ordained as a deacon, the highest Episcopal Church office open to women. After the Philadelphia ordination, the vestry of a Syracuse parish offered her the position of associate priest. Schiess resigned her job as director of a senior citizens' center, but was then denied a license for the parish post by Bishop Ned Cole...