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...Synod of Bishops is potentially among the most useful reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Every two or three years a select group of Roman Catholic bishops from around the world gathers to advise the Pope. But as the latest synod closed in Rome last week, Archbishop John May of St. Louis, president of the U.S. bishops' conference, cautioned that unless such meetings "produce something rather significant," Catholics will begin to question the "expenditure of people, time and effort...
...basis of age is an "austere thesis," but he takes to the intellectual battlements willingly. Thinking through the fundamental moral and practical problems of life is the unique concern of the Hastings Center, which he co-founded with Psychiatrist Willard Gaylin in 1969. Reared in a comfortable Roman Catholic family in Washington, Callahan earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard in 1965. By then he was a leader in the effort to liberalize Catholic thought as an editor of the Catholic weekly Commonweal. But about 1968 "I started fading from Catholicism," he says without elaboration. "I ceased being a believer...
White House spokesman Roman Popadiuk said oil imports from Iran last year were around $500 million, and had reached about $900 million by the end of July...
Still, a clamor is building for a negotiated cease-fire in Nicaragua. Bolstered by the peace prize, Arias renewed his calls last week for indirect talks between the Sandinistas and the contra leaders to be mediated by Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Primate. "There's a new mood in Central America now," Arias told TIME. "I hope President Ortega will revise his position and accept dialogue." Two other signatories to the peace plan, El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte and Honduras' President Jose Azcona Hoyo, echoed Arias' appeal...
...wanted"; "She mistreated everyone around her and finally was done in." A strange figure begins to emerge from the mists. From childhood on, Mowat observes, the coltish, willful Californian was beset with resentments toward the father who deserted his family when she was six. Spiritually restless, she converted to Roman Catholicism, then abandoned the faith. Her social relations were equally unstable. She was involved in many liaisons and underwent an abortion, but no man held her interest for long. Fossey's career was given the best possible start when Paleontologist Louis Leakey signed her on as his research assistant...