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...Marxist-oriented Sandinistas has brought Obando new prominence--and, indeed, notoriety. In 1985 Pope John Paul II elevated him to the College of Cardinals. He has emerged, in the eyes of Nicaragua's rulers, as their toughest critic. Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, himself a suspended Catholic priest, recently charged that Obando is "the principal accomplice of aggression against our people...
...whose aim was to defend human rights. Marta Patricia Baltodano, a lawyer and longtime human rights activist who helped organize the commission, asserts that she learned of a Sandinista plan to discredit her by forcing an accuser to claim falsely that she had engaged in sexual relations with a priest. Baltodano fled to exile in Costa Rica last December. "We realized we were not going to be able to continue working," she says. "There was too much repression...
Genet was born illegitimate, reared in a state orphanage and sent at seven to foster parents on a farm in central France. He became an altar boy, and the priest thought he had "a religious nature," but his foster mother caught him stealing from her purse. "You little thief!" she cried. Genet took that as his creed: "I answered 'Yes' to every accusation made against me, no matter how unjust . . .Yes, I had to become whatever they said I was . . . I was a coward, thief, traitor, queer, whatever they...
...that each time the Catholic Church advocates the defeat of laws to insure an entire group of people their basic civil and human rights, great numbers of just and gentle lesbians and gays will internalize society's prejudices and will hate themselves a little bit more. Each time a priest speaks of the concept of natural law during Sunday mass, there will be another teenage suicide. Each time the Cardinal gives support to a discriminatory foster care policy, there will be scores of young people harassed and attacked by their classmates in the corridors of our schools. This is child...
...order, and they returned to Japan with American brothers to found their own monastic community in the 1930s. When Father Allen returned in 1975 after the order closed its Japanese branch, he realized the "great need for Chinese ministry in Boston." He then organized a mission with a Chinese priest, with the first Chinese service in 1981. He himself studied Cantonese when that priest left, and in six months, was able to say Mass...