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...position, he says, is "unemployed parson" and thus he has more time for travel. So Lord Geoffrey Fisher, 76, retired Archbishop of Canterbury, flew into Sydney with his wife to visit their son. "We've come to Australia to see him and his wife before they've forgotten they're both English," he explained. As for the rest of his time since retiring, Lord Fisher has been doing what he likes-"going to schools and universities to give talks and be heckled...
When Pope Paul VI recently invited Orthodoxy to join with Rome in settling their doctrinal disputes, Archbishop Chrysostomos of Athens and All Greece denounced Roman Catholicism as "centralist and absolutist." When representatives of other Orthodox churches gathered in Rhodes to take up the question of sending observers to the council, the Greek prelates boycotted the meeting...
Last week the brand-new Czechoslovak government of Premier Josef Lenart announced that Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran and four other prelates would be released from confinement...
...tough opponent. Son of a schoolteacher, he served 15 years as a parish priest before becoming a teacher at Prague's Charles University in 1927. Beran was arrested by the Nazis in 1942, spent nearly three years at the notorious Dachau concentration camp. Pope Pius XII named him Archbishop of Prague...
...need for the church to accept simplicity and apostolic poverty. Recently, New York's Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen suggested that laymen and parish priests should, like monks or nuns, take vows of poverty. And in a letter to his "brothers in the episcopate," Rio's Auxiliary Archbishop Helder Pessoa Camara urged the fathers of the council to drop their titles of "excellency" and "eminence" and much of their ornate garb. Such ostentation, the archbishop warned, "separates us from the workers and the poor. Let us end once and for all the impression of a bishop-prince, residing...