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...broke from their church over its ordination of women and tolerance for remarriage after divorce. In 1980 the Vatican agreed to the dissidents' requests to join the Roman Catholic Church. Parishes for converts were established in Las Vegas, Columbia, S.C., and the Texas cities of Austin, Houston and San Antonio. The traditional Roman Catholic Mass was said at these churches during the original phase, but for the first time in the U.S., the Vatican waived the celibacy rule and to date 23 married ex-Episcopal priests have been ordained in the Catholic Church. And now, for this liturgical year...
...spine both north and south of Santiago. At its epicenter, near the village of Algarrobo, it officially measured more than 8 on the Richter scale; geologists compared it in magnitude with the disastrous 1960 Chile quake, which killed almost 6,000. In some places, including the port of San Antonio, three-quarters or more of the buildings were no longer habitable. In San Bernardo, five died when a church wall collapsed on a Roman Catholic $ congregation. Said Juan Andres Bravo, who had been helping serve Mass when the tremor struck: "It was a scene from Dante's Inferno. Horrible...
Union officials in San Antonio and elsewhere were delighted by the new court position, which should result in moderately increased overtime pay for some municipal workers. Gerald W. McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said the decision ends nine years of "second-class citizenship" for public employees. Backers of local autonomy were shocked. "The court sits as arbiter of power among levels and branches of government," complains Lawrence Velvel, former chief counsel of the State and Local Legal Center in Washington. "That's its role. When the majority throws up its hands because...
...replies Columbia University Law Professor Herbert Wechsler, one of the nation's foremost experts on federal-state relations. The San Antonio decision, he says, merely returns the high court to a position that it has held for 50 years. Wechsler argues that the 1976 decision was a "fluke" that the legal system is well rid of. "The Constitution gives Congress the power, without any qualifications, to regulate interstate commerce," the professor notes, "and this is interstate commerce" because the wages and hours of public employees, along with many other local government activities, affect the national economy...
...Burger Court has long been pushed and pulled by an unpredictable, shifting center. During his 14 years on the court, Blackmun, 76, has voted with the court's conservatives on many criminal-justice issues but frequently sided with the liberals on other questions. Some observers see the San Antonio reversal as the latest assertion of independence by a Justice once considered to be a solid member of the conservative bloc. Last week's majority was made up of Centrists Blackmun, John Paul Stevens and Byron White plus Liberals William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. "You can almost see them getting together...