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...most notably, birth control. Since the Pope demanded that this problem be left for him alone to solve, On the Church in the Modern World does little more than reaffirm Catholicism's traditional opposition to contraception. Nonetheless, some progressives take heart from the facts that the text does assert that only parents have the right to decide how many children they shall have, and does not close the door to future change...
...this reflects the new understanding of the nature of the church that has emerged from Vatican II. Many council documents explicitly reject the notion that Catholicism is primarily a juridically organized and hierarchically governed institution; what they assert instead is that the church is above all the people of God, on a journey that will remain incomplete until the second coming of Christ. Says India's Archbishop Eugene D'Souza: "The church's whole approach to the world is one of sincere admiration, not of dominating it but of serving it, not of despising...
...Schlesinger relates it, Kennedy had grown "increasingly depressed by [Rusk's] reluctance to decide." In meeting after meeting, "Rusk would sit quietly by, with his Buddha-like face and half-smile, often leaving it to [McGeorge] Bundy or to the President himself to assert the diplomatic interest." By the autumn of 1963, Schlesinger declares, "the President had reluctantly made up his mind to allow Rusk to leave after the 1964 election and to seek a new Secretary of State...
Muscle for the Poor. One promising new remedy is to supplement legal-aid societies by setting up storefront "neighborhood law offices"-in effect, to send legal missionaries into low-income areas to educate the poor in how to assert their rights. In New Haven last year, for example, the Ford Foundation financed the prototype New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc. Traditionalists raised a cry of "socialized law," warning, in the words of one lawyer, that "you cheapen the legal profession by putting it in a storefront and soliciting business." The county bar association voted its disapproval. But the state...
...tense, her gestures mannerd. The well-born Irishwoman who left "God and country" for a tavern-keeper might have some residual hauteur, but she certainly wouldn't be cold. Only in her death scene at the end of the play does she loosen up, and become passionate enough to assert her role...