Word: archbishop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leftist guerrilla group took credit for the embassy strike. "Operation Oscar Arnulfo Romero," it announced, had been mounted to honor the memory of the Archbishop of San Salvador who was assassinated a year ago by a presumed right-wing terrorist. The embassy assault followed a 24-hour truce, also called by the guerrillas to commemorate the prelate's death. The cease-fire was generally observed by government forces, but not by El Salvador's right-wing death squads. The morning after the truce, the bodies of 38 victims were found in and around the capital...
Each day brings a fresh batch of horror stories about the death squads. El Salvador's Human Rights Commission, a private organization, estimates that two-thirds of the killings were done by the right, though Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, a government critic, contends that slayings by the guerrillas are on the rise. One night last week, there was a knock at the door of a small house in the city of Santa Ana. Alida Fidelina Miranda de Escobar, 35, a kindergarten teacher, answered the door and was confronted by five masked gunmen. As her three young girls begged...
Their appeal echoed earlier calls from all over the world. A storm of protest had followed the 1979 murder of Archbishop Monseigneur Romero. Romero was the Archbishop of San Salvador who demanded that the United States halt military support to the junta, and was rewarded for his efforts by being assassinated in church while he was delivering mass...
Still, consistent teleological revelations run throughout the narrative. There is no disjunction in the character of a man who is woken up by his catamite to have an audience with an archbishop. The search for a God who can explain homosexuality while maintaining the propriety accorded to ordinary Christian virtues is carried on all around Toomey. Although he values his sexual freedom and grudgingly places some weight on the Catholic theology he grew up with, Toomey never allows himself to be as obsessed with the reconciliation of faith and fellatio that hounds his homosexual friends and lovers. He recognizes that...
...have always considered myself a Jew. I was born Jewish and will remain so even if that is unacceptable to some." Strange words, coming from the man who is now one of the highest-ranking officials of the Catholic Church in France. Indeed, the Pope's choice for Archbishop of Paris, Jean-Marie Lustiger, 54, French-born son of Polish-Jewish Holocaust victims (his mother died at Auschwitz), created quite a stir when announced last week. Lustiger's credentials are, however, impeccably orthodox. Though he wore a Star of David throughout the Nazi occupation of France, Lustiger turned...