Word: accepter
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...members who are like a board of trustees, and I'm the equivalent of the chairman. You raised the issue in the synod about whether politicians should be granted communion if they support policies counter to Church teachings. There are certain teachings that as Catholics we have to accept as part of Jesus' Gospel. When you see Catholic politicians who favor abortion rights ... you have to ask yourself how this person squares this with his personal faith. Catholic politicians need to take this seriously. Maybe they need to say I'm not able to practice my faith...
...their perusal, and endure plagues of rats, snakes, locusts, mosquitoes, bees and - as part of a mysterious campaign to force him out - the occasional dead animal dangling from a fruit tree in his garden. And that stuff was easy. The real problems involved jinns, the spirits that many Moroccans accept as hazards of daily life. Shah's new home - a sprawling, decrepit, Arabian Nights complex in Casablanca once owned by a real caliph - was crawling with them. His ever-expanding workforce was terrified by the spectral invaders, blaming them for every accident, including those dead animals. "They were a back...
...person with deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not suited for the priesthood." Another tricky topic: Should politicians be denied Communion if they espouse policies that contradict church teaching? Levada would like to see that debated more but says, "There are certain teachings that, as Catholics, we have to accept as part of Jesus' gospel," such as opposition to abortion. "Catholic politicians need to take this seriously," he says. "Maybe they need to say, 'I'm not able to practice my faith and be a public representative...
...accept the argument that the escalating sectarian violence in Iraq has nothing to do with 24 years of Sunni oppression of Shi'ites and Kurds under Saddam but is the result of the incompetent U.S. invasion. What about the passion to avenge atrocities committed by the former regime? The U.S. can't be blamed for that. Still, Iraqis are probably better off with a dictator, somebody to force them to get along. They thrive on dictatorships and blood feuds...
...editors: When I read your editorial about the Supreme Court decision upholding the Solomon Amendment requirement tying federal funding to military recruitment (“Not So Patriotic,” Mar. 13), I thought it must be an ironic humor piece. Poor Harvard must accept $400 million from the federal government, because it is in the best interest of medical and scientific research and of America as a whole. What a sacrifice! There are principles, but then there is money. Perhaps Harvard could salve its conscience by simply refusing the money that comes from the Defense Department. After...