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...other country so embodies the suffering of Central America as El Salvador, whose very name in Spanish invokes the Saviour. Three years of civil war have fragmented the church there into three camps. Some priests support the U.S.-backed regime, others back the leftist insurgents, while the majority are caught somewhere in between. Hoping to bring unity into the Salvadoran church hierarchy, John Paul announced on the eve of his trip that he had appointed acting Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, 59, as the successor to the martyred Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who had been ruthlessly shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: To Share the Pain | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

Unforgettably, the Pope declared that he and Archbishop Runcie were pledged to the task of "praying and working for reconciliation and ecclesial unity according to the mind and heart of our Saviour Jesus Christ." In the cloisters after the joint service the two men sealed their pledge by grasping each other's shoulders in a bear hug-all this from a Pope who said he had never met an Anglican in his life until he and Runcie crossed paths during their tours of Africa in 1980. A top aide to Cardinal Hume, Monsignor George Leonard, later told TIME that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Pope's Triumph in Britain | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...notable Christologist, Schillebeeckx is a leader in the doctrinal reinterpretation of Christ, in part because he wants to make the Saviour more accessible to modern man. But in doing so, he avoids the words of the Nicene Creed about Jesus being "eternally begotten of the Father . . . true God from true God . . . one in Being with the Father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Not Heresy | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...does feel that the electoral situation this year is especially suited to a third-part effort. A delegate from Pennsylvania observed that "the scandalous no-choice between Carter and Reagan" cries out for an alternative. And Commoner is "the first American of stature to advance himself not as a saviour like Anderson but as the candidate of a party that will last regardless of the election outcome...

Author: By Douglas L. Tweedale, | Title: Born-Again Populism | 5/2/1980 | See Source »

...book took its title from the last train stop before Lucania, and the last outpost of the civilization that had nurtured Levi. The implication of the title is that despite the primitive religiosity of the culture that lay beyond Eboli, even the Saviour would have stopped before entering a realm "hedged in by custom and sorrow . . . without comfort or solace." What Levi -played with patient sympathy and intelligence by Gian Maria Volonte - finds in Lucania is a drunken priest who is sometimes stoned by the village children, a bombastic mayor with the habit of summoning everyone to the town square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Way Station | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

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