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When Bernard Francis Law '53 dons the miter as Boston's new archbishop on March 23, he will inherit an archdiocese rich in ethnic diversity and burdened with pressing social problems...
Chief among the issues confronting the new archbishop will be the condition of Boston's thousands of Hispanics. Currently, many immigrant Hispanics rely on the church for such community services as shelters for the homeless, instruction in English, and church-funded soup kitchens...
...newly appointed archbishop of Boston said yesterday he never imagined he'd become the spiritual leader of the nation's third-largest Catholic community when he committed himself to a theological career as a Harvard undergraduate...
Pope John Paul II this week announced Law will succeed the late Cardinal Humberto Medeiros, who suffered heart failure last September. Law is the "first graduate of Harvard College that has become an archbishop," said Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals...
Ronald Reagan chose William Wilson, who has been the presidential representative to the Vatican since 1981. to serve as the new ambassador. Wilson, 69, is a California real estate developer and charter member of Reagan's kitchen cabinet of personal advisers. Archbishop Pio Laghi, 61, the apostolic delegate in Washington, will become Wilson's counterpart, the papal pronuncio. One of the Holy See's ablest diplomats, he previously served in Argentina, where he assisted the Vatican's mediation of the Beagle Channel dispute between Argentina and Chile...