Description: Bishop Bernard Law arrives at Logan Airport on first trip to Boston. Greeted by religious dignitaries, Raymond and Kathy Flynn, Michael Dukakis, William Bulger, Thomas McGee.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/27/1984
Description: Bernard Law's first press conference as Archbishop of Boston. Talks about role, ideology, impressions of Boston. Says women and men are equal but only men can be ordained (“paradox”). Bishop Thomas Daily.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/27/1984
Description: Rev. David Hollenbach comments on the American bishops' letter urging examination of the moral principles in the Persian Gulf potential war. Archbishop Roger Mahony.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/13/1990
Description: Cardinal Bernard Law in Cambridge after visit with Eugene Hasenfus in Nicaragua.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/24/1986
Description: Cardinal Bernard Law addresses Catholic anti-abortion advocates, encouraging their fight.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/24/1989
Description: Cardinal Bernard Law accedes to wishes of Salvadoran bishops in not endorsing boycott of Folgers coffee. Jesuits disagree and want no military aid to El Salvador. Neighbor to Neighbor ad.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/14/1990
Description: Cardinal Bernard Law opposes military aid to El Salvador but declined to tell Bush, even after Jesuit priests slain. Globe column implies bargain made for Bush's support of Church's stances on other issues.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/14/1989
Description: Cardinal Meideros Mass held the night of 5/13/1981 to pray for Pope John Paul II who had been shot (in Rome) earlier that day. Press conference follows.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/13/1981
Description: Funeral (requiem mass) of John Cardinal Wright at Holy Name Church in West Roxbury. John Henning interviews Father Frank MacFarlane. Humberto Cardinal Medeiros officiates. Former governor John Volpe and historian Annabel Melville give readings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/15/1979
Description: Interviews with three clergy members on the Persian Gulf war, covering a range of opinions. Rev. Peter Gomes of Harvard University, supports U.S. intervention in the Middle East. Father Jack Seery, a pacifist, completely opposed the war. Rabbi Emily Lipof, believes in peace, but does think that U.S. has done the right thing by stopping a madman in order to bring about peace.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1991