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...Timorese Resistance, or CNRT, the umbrella group that campaigned for independence last year, are envious of the attention he receives. Others criticize his personalized, overly emotional approach to politics. "If people saw the way he handles meetings," says Jose Ramos-Horta, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize with Bishop Carlos Belo and represented the East Timorese cause overseas for 24 years. The more populist Gusmao has eclipsed their roles. "He screams and shouts and pounds his fist on the table--but then he smiles and jokes. He can do it because of his authority...
...known Bishop Spong for 20 years and worked in his diocese for the past several years. The faith of Jesus is alive and well here in the Diocese of Newark, as Bishop Spong has manifested more of the genuine faith of Jesus--notably Jesus' call for radical reformation and renewal--than most of his vituperative and platitudinous critics combined...
...Stuart Buck ever met Bishop Spong or heard him speak? (Op-Ed, March 6). He sounds as if he is rehashing a compendium of lies, rumors and poisonous innuendo circulated by a politically motivated faction of "Christians." If the purpose of the Noble lectures is to help students of Harvard discover Jesus, then the committee was quite right to invite Bishop Spong to speak...
...from the Crusades and the Inquisition to its attitude toward Christians of other denominations. Not that each of these sins and infractions will receive detailed treatment: "Given the number of sins committed in the course of 20 centuries, [reference to them] must necessarily be rather summary," explained Vatican official Bishop Piero Marini...
...fine to argue that Bishop Spong shouldn't give a lecture. It's even fine to simply take issue with Spong's opinions themselves. Just don't do one wearing the self-righteous mask of doing the other...