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- Nov. 28, 1994: Resigning:Fr. Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Nov. 28, 1994 Star Trek
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 27
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- <p> RESIGNING. FATHER JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE, 41, President of Haiti;
- from the Catholic priesthood; in Port-au-Prince. A month after
- his triumphant return to his nation, Aristide is formally asking
- the Vatican for permission to leave the priesthood. No one expects
- it to be denied: angered by Aristide's fierce criticism of Haiti's
- Roman Catholic hierarchy, as well as by his embrace of revolutionary
- "liberation theology," with its intimations of violent class
- struggle, Rome had been pressing for Aristide's defrocking.
- It may in fact have been the price of the Vatican's acquiescence
- to Aristide's return. One source told Time that Aristide wept
- as he signed the letter requesting that he be "laicized."
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- </body>
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