Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Relief may be on the way: prompted by the Morgan case, the House of Representatives last week passed a bill to limit civil contempt-of-court sentences to twelve months. Based on the idea that a longer sentence turns coercion into punishment without due process, the bill now awaits action by the Senate...
...defy James Cardinal Hickey this week by inaugurating his own independent African- American Catholic Congregation. In Detroit, black resentment is aimed at Edmund Cardinal Szoka, who last week finally shut down 21 of the city's 114 parishes, mostly in black neighborhoods, with nine others soon to follow. The action came despite angry protests and eleventh-hour courtroom maneuvers by both black and white parishioners...
...Szoka has written movingly about the church's past failures in ministering to blacks. But the Cardinal felt compelled to take drastic action, in part because of Detroit's ruinous population decline. The city's churches, however, are also dying because they have failed to enlist any significant numbers of blacks when white ethnics began moving out of their neighborhoods. Says the Rev. Norman Thomas, a white priest who opposes the closings: "The church has not done an adequate job of being a church in the city, and that includes attracting blacks...
Still, pro-choice activists are lucky in many ways. They are working on the day's big issue, the one which is most likely to galvanize people to action...
...thousands of men and women arrived in Washington this spring to march for women's reproductive rights, it was obvious that this was an issue that people would rally around. And people were easily gathered to protest the Webster decision--it was a specific event that called for action...