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...with 263 million baptized Roman Catholics.* Catholicism was long content to buttress the governments and military and economic interests that were in power, hoping thereby to encourage social stability and to pre-serve church privileges. A new generation of church leaders, however, inspired by the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and Popes John XXIII and Paul VI, is more active in struggling against injustice and oppression. The new generation also has a compelling cause for its fast-developing political involvement: military takeovers in nation after nation have been almost invariably accompanied by severe political repression and torture...
...bishops of Colombia hold to a staunch conservative line. Bogota's Anibal Cardinal Munoz Duque accepted the title of army brigadier general and suspended 100 priests and nuns who backed striking bank workers. Colombian priests, however, are increasingly activist; 500 of them recently sent a petition to the Vatican charging that their bishops were "allied with the exploiter against the exploited." On the radical left, Father Saturnino Sepulveda, a leader of the Marxistoriented Priests for Latin America, declares: "I see Jesus Christ as the secretary general of the first ever Communist Party...
Died. Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, 84, former archbishop of Bologna, regarded by some Vatican watchers in 1963 as a possible successor to Pope John XXIII; in Bologna. As a parish priest in Genoa during World War II, Lercaro aided anti-Fascist partisans and refugees. As archbishop of Bologna (1952-68), he organized a group of young priests into the frati volanti (flying friars) to speak out at public rallies against the local Communist government. Lercaro also supported Vatican II reforms such as the vernacular Mass and argued that the church should end its "cultural colonialism" toward non-Europeans, especially in Africa...
...Vatican Declaration on Sexual Ethics, January...
Despite the Vatican's disapproval and finally its order last year to dissolve the seminary, Lefebvre continued to operate it. His defiance came to a head this past June when Lefebvre, once again disregarding Vatican orders, ordained 13 priests and 13 sub-deacons. In July the Vatican announced that he was suspended a divinis, a sanction that bars him from saying Mass, administering the sacraments and preaching. Disregarding the suspension, Lefebvre went ahead with the Lille Mass last week...