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Avoiding the Sword. The Rumanian state has exacted a price for every measure of religious freedom it provides. The highest-ranking clergyman to the lowliest parish priest must all satisfy the authorities in order to remain in place. This means that prelates are frequently required to promote policies considered to be in the Rumanian national interest. In grimmer days, pulpits were often used as platforms for political exhortation. Patriarch Justinian dutifully denounced the 1956 Hungarian revolt, and Chief Rabbi Rosen likewise excoriated NATO for arming West Germany. Nowadays, the clergy tends to have more innocuous, often worthy, obligations, such...
...Cuernavaca, particularly as personified in Ivan Illich, the impresario of the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC). A dispossessed Dalmatian nobleman with a brilliant and unlikely career in the arch diocese of New York behind him, Illich set up the school to "de-Yankee" the building-fund-oriented American priests who were unprepared to serve in trackless poverty zones of Latin America. His radical ideas, particularly about education, alarmed the Vatican enough to cut off the flow of priest-students; finally, after a farcical latter-day inquisition, Illich felt forced to turn in his monsignor's biretta...
...graying, former college basketball star, the Rev. Louis Gigante is no stranger to conflict. The Roman Catholic priest once broke up a city council meeting to protest official indifference toward his impoverished, crime-ridden parish in the South Bronx. He has picketed FBI offices to object to, among other things, identification of his brother Vincent as a Mafia soldier. Now Gigante is engaged in another battle. With the grudging acquiescence of his archbishop, New York's "fighting priest" is running for Congress. "People tell you all the time that a priest should not be a candidate, and they...
...will be satisfied if their candidacies force some political conversions. One clergyman has already succeeded in doing just that. Congressman Thaddeus Dulski. a six-term Buffalo, N.Y.. Democrat, used to take a hard line on the Viet Nam War. But after the Rev. Hugh Carmichael, an antiwar Episcopal priest, entered the race, Dulski changed his position; he now advocates withdrawal of all U.S. troops by a specific deadline...
...sweeping references to the guilt of all Jews were deleted. Others were toned down, but almost imperceptibly: the crucifixion is demanded by "the whole of Jerusalem" instead of "the whole nation." God condemns "these sinners" rather than "this folk." In a new foreword to the text, a local priest argues that the Jews of Jerusalem represent not the "Jewish people" but "all mankind, who by their sins brought about the Lord's death...