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Finally, the real reason for their interest in me emerged: my inquisitors began asking endless questions about Roman Catholic Archbishop Helder Camara, a vocal critic of the regime and a friend of mine. They were furious about stories that I had filed to TIME and the Associated Press that they considered favorable to the Recife archbishop and unflattering to the dictatorship. They cursed Dom Helder, claiming that he was a liar when he accused the government of condoning torture. Their tirade was accompanied by more shocks and my screams. Twice during the afternoon they tortured me in front of Luis...
Wednesday morning I was hung up on the wall of the torture room by handcuffs, with my arms high over my head. More questions about Archbishop Câmara, TIME and Luis were accompanied by beatings on the back and kidneys. After about 15 minutes, I was taken down, turned around and hung up again, this time with my back to the wall, exposing my belly to their blows. Later, they turned me to the wall again, demanding to know the name of Luis' fiancee, so they could arrest her. I said I didn't know her, though...
Died. Leo C. Byrne, 66, Coadjutor Archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis and vice president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops; of heart failure; in St. Paul. Theologically conservative, Byrne was a social activist who supported Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers' grape and lettuce boycotts. At the 1971 World Synod of Bishops in Rome, Byrne urged that "no argument should be used to exclude women from any service to the church if it stems from male prejudice or blind adherence to merely human tradition...
Inevitably, the bishops had to face the problem of religion's appeal to the young. The church itself, several prelates conceded, turned off many youths. "The young person is looking for a model of Christ and the Gospel in the ministers," said Archbishop John Quinn of Oklahoma City. "In the eyes of the young those qualities [of Jesus] that are most important-joy, love and kindness, patience and tolerance, an open mind and a willingness to listen, a spirit of compassion and concern, simplicity and directness -are often missing in the ministers...
...Rites. So far as other Christian churches were concerned, some bishops seemed more anxious for closer cooperation than for recruits. Archbishop Samuel Carter of Kingston, Jamaica, even called for "corporate reunion" between some Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic Church on a regional basis. "Full agreement in doctrine is not needed before some measure of intercommunion is allowed," noted Carter, who urged greater development of joint Protestant-Catholic services. Regional union, he suggested, would eventually mean the incorporation of "new and distinct rites with disciplines different from the Latin Church. This would involve married clergy of new Western rites coexisting...