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...northeast Washington neighborhood last week, residents protested a plan by Mother Teresa and the Roman Catholic archdiocese to open a hospice in the area for AIDS patients. In Chicago, a charter-bus driver ejected 35 healthy members and friends of an AIDS fund-raising group last week, merely because of their connection with AIDS patients. "Here in Chicago, AIDS is still seen as a gay issue," one group member said. "I see a lot of hysteria." In California, a group calling itself PANIC (Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee) has placed a proposition on the November ballot giving health officials...
...youthful gathering was convened by Comunione e Liberazione (Communion and Liberation), a feisty, some say combative, Roman Catholic student movement founded 31 years ago in Italy as a Christian response to the growing allure of Marxism and other atheistic philosophies. Rimini is the site of C.L.'s annual week-long festival, called simply the Meeting, and this year's theme, information, is announced in a typically offbeat title: "Drums, Bytes, Messages...
...America because of the priest's "repeated refusal to accept what the church teaches." The Vatican's long-expected crackdown on Curran made it clear that the Pope will not tolerate open dissent on the part of those who claim to be the church's teachers. But some Roman Catholics were alarmed by what they called "creeping infallibilism" in Ratzinger's letter to Curran -- that is, an attempt by Rome to place more and more of its official teachings beyond dispute...
...Nicaraguan contras as a government in exile, Jackson invited the Sandinista leader to dinner at his home in Chicago and some "backyard diplomacy" under a basketball hoop. Earlier, Jackson participated in drafting a statement that Ortega read to a PUSH meeting, pledging efforts to ease friction with both the Roman Catholic Church...
Michigan Republicans last week also selected a candidate for Governor: William Lucas, who is black, Roman Catholic and a former policeman and FBI agent. While still a Democrat, Lucas was elected sheriff and then, in 1982, executive of populous (2.2 million) Wayne County, which includes Detroit. He switched parties 15 months...