Word: archbishop
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...Conference (CELAM III), security troops burst into a retreat center in El Salvador, killed Father Octavio Ortiz Luna and four youths, and arrested the rest. The military government of President General Carlos Humberto Romero said the church house was a guerrilla base. At a Requiem Mass last week, activist Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, no kin to the Salvadoran dictator and his most outspoken foe, denounced the government accusations as "lies...
...Moderates and conservatives predominate in the important delegations from Argentina, Venezuela, Peru and Mexico. The best-known liberation theologian, Peru's Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, will be on hand as adviser to Ecuador's "Red Bishop," Leonidas Proaño Villalba. But El Salvador's Archbishop Romero, a hero to the poor, was not elected by his conservative colleagues and will attend only as a member of a papal commission. The bishops of impoverished Guatemala appointed the head of the Helena Rubinstein branch as one of the non-episcopal delegates, which led Mexico's respected...
...through his foreign policy victories. At his Camp David summit, Carter appeared for a while to have achieved a miracle for the Middle East?a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. But at year's end the negotiations were frustratingly stalled. Poland's Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, the athletic, scholarly Archbishop of Cracow, became the first non-Italian Pope in 4% centuries; in tribute to his gentle predecessor, Albino Cardinal Luciani, who held the keys of St. Peter for little more than a month, he took the name John Paul II. In California a retired industrialist, Howard Jarvis, saw the state...
DIED. Josef Frings, 91, outspoken West German Roman Catholic Cardinal; of a heart attack; in Cologne. Named Archbishop of Cologne in 1942, Frings denounced the Nazi persecution of the Jews during World War II, and after the war condoned his destitute countrymen's scavenging for food and coal (such justifiable theft became affectionately known as "fringsen"). Appointed a Cardinal in 1946, he strove for a politically active church and during the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), successfully challenged the authority of the conservative Roman Curia. In 1969, nearly blind and in poor health, Frings retired from the archbishopric...
...best remembers the faith shown by a young American priest, whose check was accompanied by a note ordering "the renewal of my subscription for life and forever." Decades later this subscriber, Francis Cardinal Spellman, informed Larsen that his copy of TIME was still arriving regularly. Indeed, explained the Archbishop of New York, his perpetual subscription represented one-third of all his worldly possessions-the other two being his hat and ring...