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Died. Archbishop Coleman Francis Carroll of Miami, 72, powerful, hardline Roman Catholic traditionalist, civil rights warrior and champion of Florida's Cuban refugee community; of heart disease; in Miami Beach. As Florida's highest-ranking Catholic prelate, Carroll combined strong support for racial justice and the welfare of Cuban refugees with vociferous opposition to liberalization of the church. He lobbied vigorously against the repeal of the no-meat-on-Fridays rule and was in the forefront of the successful battle to defeat Dade County's gay rights ordinance in June...
Stormy clouds lowered over the hamlet of Ecône in French Switzerland last week as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre reached the point of no return in his "traditionalist" insurrection against the Pope of Rome. Some 4,000 Western European followers had flocked in by bus and train, along with 80 priests from round the world. As they sat on wooden benches and freshly mowed grass, the white-haired archbishop delivered a defiant, Luther-like sermon...
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...heir to their romantic lost cause. Although the Roman Catholic Carlists supported Franco during the Spanish Civil War, the generalissimo refused to recognize their dynastic claims and subsequently expelled Prince Xavier from the country. In recent years, a family feud between Xavier's sons-Leftist Prince Hugo and Traditionalist Prince Sixto-has divided the Carlist Party. Their father's death is expected to deepen this schism...
...play itself that shines, witty, exhilarating-Stoppard may be the most prolific writer of memorable epigrams in English since Pope. As for the questions he raises, there is something of the Dadaist in him-art for art's sake, and all-and something of an E.M. Forster English traditionalist. But revolutionary potentialities excite him, as they do most of the rest of us most of the time, and this keeps him from sliding into a morass of pity for poor Carr or bourgeois stupidity. Stoppard evidently created the play out of two lines in Richard Ellmann's biography of Joyce...