Word: shehan
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...Pope paid homage to both John and Paul in choosing his name, but he also made it clear that he would be neither John XXIV nor Paul VII. Said Baltimore's liberal Lawrence Cardinal Shehan: "Perhaps we can take it as a sign of his independence." "The name is of great importance," said José Miguez Bonino, a Protestant liberation theologian in Argentina and an honorary president of the World Council of Churches. "It shows that the new Pontiff is ready to continue with the program of reforms launched by the Vatican Council...
Lawrence Cardinal Shehan, 76, is a slight (5 ft. 5 in.), self-effacing prelate who as Archbishop of Baltimore has been a tenacious fighter for liberal causes. Named to the diocese in 1961, Shehan issued, a year later, a blunt pastoral letter demanding the end of racial discrimination in all phases of Catholic life. He lent personal weight to his words by joining Martin Luther King's 1963 march on Washington. When Pope Paul VI named him cardinal in 1965, Shehan viewed the honor as a papal endorsement of "racial justice." But he was not always so heartily endorsed...
Last week word came from Rome that Pope Paul VI had accepted the cardinal's resignation as archbishop, tendered last year when Shehan reached the recommended retirement age of 75. Baltimore's new archbishop will be Bishop William Borders, 60, of Orlando, Fla., a prelate known for his programs to help migrant workers and other poor. Shehan will remain a cardinal for the rest of his life...
Lawrence Cardinal Shehan of Baltimore, who presided at the aboriginal liturgy before a crowd of 20,000 in Melbourne's Myer Music Bowl, wore a long chasuble decorated with a woodblock print of an aboriginal tribal totem. Before the consecration of bread and wine, the cardinal prayed: "Father, you made the rivers that gave us water and fish. You made the mountains and the flat country. You made the kangaroos and goannas and birds for us. You send the sun to keep us warm, the rain to make the grass grow and to fill the waterholes." The congregation responded...
Cradle Rebels Late last week a lawyer for the Baltimore archdiocese won approval for the release on reduced bail of Father Wenderoth and the two other defendants from Baltimore into the custody of their archbishop, Lawrence Cardinal Shehan ?an unusual gesture of support for the dissenters by the American church hierarchy. Meanwhile, in the ten-story glass-and-steel federal district court building in downtown Harrisburg, the grand jury continues to hear witnesses. Before the grand jurors are done, they may well hand up further indictments...