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...Generalissimo Francisco Franco was seeking to expel the Bishop of Bilbao, Antonio Añoveros Ataun, 64, for statements that sharply opposed government policy. Madrid even hinted that it might break the 1953 concordat that protects Catholicism's legal position as Spain's state religion. In response, churchmen warned that any official-presumably including Premier Carlos Arias Navarro and even the pious Caudillo himself-who moved against the bishop would be automatically excommunicated...
...letter from departing Texas Minister Barry Chase charged "monumental immorality in the highest echelons of this church." What both letters skirted was the increasingly insistent rumor in church circles that Garner Ted, married and the father of three, had been a covert philanderer for many years. After some top churchmen complained to Herbert Armstrong three years ago, Garner Ted acknowledged a transgression "against God, his church ... and the wife God gave me." Garner Ted was, however, eventually pronounced repentant. Then, seven months ago, Herbert declared him the anointed heir to the church's leadership...
...issue of Israel's survival and did not mention the Arab attack. Jews argue that the liaison between the council and the Palestine Liberation Organization -intended to preserve a broker role in the conflict-impedes peace by encouraging the extremists. Moreover, the council has a growing number of churchmen from the Third World who actually support the Palestinian guerrilla cause. "The council has committed itself to a national liberation ideology," complains Tanenbaum. "It would help if they would see that Israel is also an instance of liberation for a people...
Thus, like many laymen, a number of churchmen have reacted with prayer and indignation to Watergate (now an entry, along with words like Adiaphora and Suttee, in the new Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics). Yet moral outrage from the pulpit is not as widespread as it might be; Sam Ervin has quoted the Bible on the issue ("God is not mocked") more often and more effectively than many a preacher. Items...
...companies that do business in South Africa have been under an unrelenting hailstorm of criticism from civil rights groups, labor unions, churchmen and Congressmen. Some critics have pressed the companies to pull out of the apartheid state altogether; others insist that they should remain and improve the lot of their nonwhite workers. Apparently the clamor has penetrated some important board rooms. At least 18 blue-chip corporations have sharply raised wages, fringe benefits and educational opportunities for black South Africans. And they accomplished these improvements with surprisingly little flak from the nation's segregationist establishment...