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...woman and blessed her. As he left she clutched a tablecloth and buried her face in it, sobbing. When he reached the church. John Paul removed the gold ring that Pope Paul VI had given him when he was named a Cardinal. Then he handed it to a local priest as a donation to the parish...
...coup in 1964, the hierarchy rendered public thanks to God for the soldiers who "delivered us from Communist danger." But for a decade and more. Brazil's bishops have been known for their willingness to stand up to the regime in the name of Christian justice. As one priest says, "The government calls a bishop a Communist, but when we see people being exploited, we have to say this is contrary to the Gospel." The toll has been high -since 1968, by church count, 122 bishops, priests and seminarians and 273 lay pastoral workers imprisoned or detained...
...civil war that has racked the country for nearly a year goes on. The violence has already claimed 3,000 lives since January-more than four times the number killed in all of 1979. No one is safe. Some victims have been dragged from hospital beds and executed. Catholic priests have been brutally murdered. In March, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass. Earlier this month Father Cosme Spezzotto, an Italian priest who had worked with the poor in El Salvador for 30 years, was also gunned down as he was saying Mass...
Kateri Tekakwitha is a good example. Her cult grew in upstate New York, where for 200 years after her death local Catholics prayed to her for intercession. But only in 1884 did an Albany priest propose her "cause" to the Vatican, with the hope of canonization. Decades passed in the gathering of evidence of Kateri's "fame of sanctity" and heroic virtues...
...must be cleared by the Council for Religious Affairs, a government agency that supervises all religious matters. Under these circumstances, contends Father Michael Meyerson-Aksyonov, a convert to Orthodoxy who tried unsuccessfully to enter a Soviet seminary and is an émigré now living in the U.S., "the priest is not the spiritual or moral leader of the community. He is a performer of rites and nothing more...