Word: accepting
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Thank you for your article on the American Catholic Church [May 24]. It is nice to know that I am not alone in my spiritual dilemma. I am unable to accept a church that has become so concerned about questions of language and the direction the priest should face that it cannot rationally address itself to such problems as birth control and abortion...
...been Secretary of the P.C.I, since 1972. He has created a new image for the West's biggest Communist Party-that of hardworking, button-down Communists who in no way represent a revolutionary threat to bourgeois voters. The basic election issue is whether the voters will accept this new respectable image. Ironically, the once ideologically passionate Communists are campaigning in the name of efficiency and good government, while the Christian Democrats (at least to some extent the party of the efficient capitalists) are campaigning on ideology and faith...
What Carter fears is that his rivals and party leaders-many of whom still are suspicious of him as an outsider -will try to give the nomination to someone else. Lately there has been renewed speculation among Democrats that Ted Kennedy, despite his denials, would accept a draft by the convention. TIME learned that the story started with supporters of Hubert Humphrey in an attempt to keep the anybody-but-Carter movement alive for the Minnesotan's benefit...
...every atom in the world and every atom is part of you." We are all gods who create our own worlds. The central est message appears around 6 p.m. on the last day: What you do has no effect on anything else. You are a machine, and if you accept that fact you will have a rich life, because you will know that it doesn't matter. Choose to let the world be and it won't bother you any more...
...Episcopal priest, believes that St. Paul's condemnation of "dishonorable passions," referred to homosexual acts rather than to a whole way of life. She says, "Paul wouldn't understand that a person could grow up gay." Neither, it seems, can most U.S. Protestants, who seem unlikely to accept homosexual leadership in their churches soon...