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...MOST REV.) ARCHBISHOP LORD FISHER OF LAMBETH
Brazil's Roman Catholic hierarchy last year issued a broad appeal for re form, and in several states of Brazil, priests and bishops are actively engaged in trying to help workers secure better wages, education and housing. Last week Dom Helder Câmara, Auxiliary Archbishop of Rio, warned that de lays in undertaking reforms of Latin America's social and economic structure "can be catastrophic...
More than Sermons. Perhaps the most outspoken advocate of social change and reform among Latin American prelates is Raul Cardinal Silva Henriquez, 55, Archbishop of Santiago and primate of Chile. A square-jawed intellectual, Cardinal Silva Henriquez collects pottery and rare books, tries to discourage visitors from kneeling to kiss his ring. Soon after his elevation to Cardinal last year, he issued three pastoral letters calling for broad land reform, public housing and school construction programs...
...Heaven save us from a jamboree," cried the Most Rev. Donald Coggan, Archbishop of York. But he need not have feared; the Second Anglican Congress in Toronto opened last week with more than its share of bite and fight. Billed as a family gathering of the 18 autonomous churches that make up the Anglican Communion, the Toronto Congress amply demonstrated that the family today is one, big, and far from happy with its place in the world...
...loosely knit Anglican family is drawing closer together and beginning to see the need for more action in common. In his unity-centered keynote address, the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury and primate of the Communion, called for a new sharing of missionary responsibilities. "Let African and Asian missionaries come to England to help to convert the post-Christian heathenism in our country and to convert our English Church to a closer following of Christ," he said. The archbishop may get his wish some day. At a meeting of an advisory council of Anglican prelates, the churches worked...