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Moments later, a beaming Trin, the first Vietnamese prince of the church, was greeted by an enthusiastic round of applause. His appearance had lifted the anonymity from one of two men elevated to cardinal's rank in pectore (in the breast, meaning secretly) when the other 19 nominations were announced (TIME...
...Archbishop Agostino Casaroli, and Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, one of his closest advisers and the Deputy Secretary of State. However, promotions would have removed them from their present posts, which cardinals do not fill, and Paul may consider them indispensable. Two of the new cardinals were in pectore (in the breast), meaning that their names will be kept secret unless the Pope discloses them; these secret cardinals might be his two aides. Recent appointments in pectore have been from Eastern Europe, but Paul last week publicly named Archbishop Laszlo Lekai of Hungary, successor to the late Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty...
...film's chief complaint is that the male-dominated medical profession has always treated female patients like children or half-wits--diagnosing them summarily, making critical decisions without consulting them, and refusing to explain the risks and medical alternatives to such radical surgery as breast removal and hysterectomy. The women who made the film offer the solution of enlightenment; they clearly believe--and many of the women interviewed say this too--that when women are educated about their bodies, their physicians, and what they have a right to demand for their own medical safety, they can effectively challenge their doctors...
...should know that they can give birth at home, assisted by a trained midwife. They should know that sometimes doctors order hysterectomies for convenience and that if a patient insists on it, sometimes her uterus can be saved. They should think twice before signing a blanket consent form before breast surgery...
More than 50 per cent of the new edition is new, either in one of several additional chapters or included in one of the old ones. A major share of the additional material is taken up by an expanded section on checking for breast cancer and other material whose exclusion left an obvious gap in the first edition. Other additions are made in response to letters the Boston Women's Health Collective received after their first edition was published, so that the new version speaks directly to more specific medical needs than did the original...