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...same report, Archbishop Helder Câmara of Olinda and Recife in northeastern Brazil recounts the "barbarous assassination" of a 28-year-old priest. "What is particularly grave about this crime," he writes, "is the virtual certainty that it was part of a premeditated series." Last week the outspoken prelate visited Pope Paul in Rome to tell him personally about the "spiral of violence" in his country...
Marxist Priests. For months, Rome has heard similar reports. After surveying Brazil's 245 bishops, a special Vatican envoy found that only 15 firmly support the military regime, while 40 have joined Archbishop Câmara in publicly opposing the government; most of the other 190 lean toward the left. Some bishops are heeding the growing number of rebel priests who insist that Catholicism can transform society-and save its soul-only by embracing revolution, even a Marxist variety. "We expected revolutionary movement, but never anticipated that it would build up to such intensity at the very heart...
...intruding on borrowed time," said James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre. "To be a borrower, even of time, has its attendant risks to all." With that, the crusty, 83-year-old prelate announced last week that he was resigning as Archbishop of Los Angeles, a diocese he has governed for 22 years...
Mclntyre's successor is not likely to invite such confrontations. At 60, Archbishop Timothy J. Manning, appointed last year as coadjutor archbishop with right of succession, is a man curiously like Pope Paul himself, progressive in social matters, conservative in doctrine. A longtime auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles, and later bishop of Fresno, County Cork-born Manning will probably be quicker than his predecessor to put into use Vatican-approved reforms such as the new Mass. If he is not likely to look kindly on avant-garde experimentation or liberal views on doctrine, he will, unlike Mclntyre, almost certainly...
Honor Where Due. However, arguments for and against canonization cross religious lines. The Archbishop was taken to task by some of the Anglican clergy for interfering in Catholic affairs. Said the Dean of Prescot at Lancashire: "The recollection and commemoration of men and women who died for genuine religious convictions will hearten not only Catholics but many others." Oxford's A. L. Rowse, a leading Elizabethan scholar and a "nonsectarian rationalist." put forward historical arguments against canonization. "The fact is," he said, "that by its bull of 1570, the papacy declared war on Elizabeth I, not only by excommunicating...