Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This story set the tone for Law's major theme of the evening being the Catholic Church's "new visibility," or activism, in assuring basic human rights and sustained peace for people in every region of the world--goals which were equally shared by Dorothy...
...poverty. There was, however, one regional pastoral letter which the Cardinal neglected to discuss. This one was circulated last year by the church's local hierarchy advising priests to urge their parishioners to lobby public officials to defeat a proposed law which, if passed, would grant gays and lesbians basic protections in employment and housing--rights already granted to many other groups...
...Cardinal. He was saying that the "new visibility" of the Church is symbolized by the extensive and unprecedented traveling of Pope John Paul II bringing his message to the people of the world. Law suggested that the Pope's recent trips to Haiti and the Philippines brought to light basic governmental human rights abuses which hastened the popular overthrow of repressive regimes. Whether or not this theory of cause and effect is valid, one thing remains certain. The Pope's visit to Boston in October 1979 had an initial reverse effect. While he was here and directly following his visit...
...into words and actions which have a negative impact on people, he has crossed a critical line. This is when he must be confronted and must be made to realize that each time the Catholic Church advocates the defeat of laws to insure an entire group of people their basic civil and human rights, great numbers of just and gentle lesbians and gays will internalize society's prejudices and will hate themselves a little bit more. Each time a priest speaks of the concept of natural law during Sunday mass, there will be another teenage suicide. Each time the Cardinal...
...years, displays a heightened visual awareness: it blends precise research into prison life, the gem market and rock climbing with outlandishly risky escapades, including a scene in which the hero circumvents a security system by mounting an elevator cable and skittering along a momentarily inactive high-tension wire. The basic elements are conventional: an ex-con who wants to go straight, a fallen woman redeemed by love, moral corruption that goes unnoticed by police, schemes and counterschemes for revenge, deluded invocations to chivalry and honor among thieves. The end game is enlivened by Freudian twists, but the greatest strengths...