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True Jews. Leiber cited as evidence of Pius XII's wartime ministrations to Jews a society called The Good Works of St. Raphael, which supposedly aided thousands of Italian Jews to emigrate to Brazil before the Black Sabbath in October 1943, when the Gestapo entered the Roman ghetto. But Waagenaar quotes the wartime head of the society, Father Anton Weber, as explaining that his group "was concerned only with baptized Jews of non-Italian nationality, not with true Jews...
...where they will live during the vigil. The fasters will take nothing but water for an "indefinite period," hoping to inspire a "new stage of resistance" among Americans. The 14 included familiar peace-movement veterans (David Dellinger, former Benedictine Monk Paul Mayer), younger recruits in their early 20s, and Roman Catholic Priest Tom Lumpkin of Detroit. Lumpkin carried the blessings of Detroit's two auxiliary bishops, Thomas Gumbleton and Walter Schoenherr, who promised their "prayers in this just cause." >For three years Anglicans and Lutherans have been holding international talks to bring about a closer mutual relationship...
...French-speaking Jurassians*, who are mostly Roman Catholic, have long been embroiled in a battle for ethnic survival with the German-speaking Protestants who dominate Switzerland's richest, most populous canton. In recent years, demands for autonomy have revived and the Jurassians have formed aggressive organizations...
...year-old Dan Gable, who has won 265 of 267 matches in an eleven-year career, is an obvious gold-medal threat in the lightweight division; Wayne Wells, who finished fourth as a lightweight at Mexico, is now a welterweight and better. Among other U.S. hopes (in Greco-Roman as well as freestyle wrestling) is 444-lb. Chris Taylor, who very nearly gave up the sport after an incident that took place two years ago. "I pancaked this fellow, and I heard him screaming underneath me," he recalls. "I thought his back was broken. But it was his neck...
They may sound like excerpts from a Reformation tract, but in fact they are the views of Roman Catholic Theologian Hans Küng of Germany's Tübingen University. Küng has long been the Vatican's most persistent and radical antagonist within the church. Four years ago he was summoned to Rome for a scrutiny of his theology. (He declined, partly because Rome would not give him a prior list of its complaints...