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...last year, Levada had earlier worked out a Solomonic solution that resulted in health benefits for gay partners. He has been criticized for his slow and secretive response to priest sexual-abuse scandals in San Francisco, where at least 68 lawsuits over alleged abuse are still pending. Father Patrick Brennan, vicar at the Archdiocese of Portland, admits that Levada "had his detractors" but praises his warmth and intelligence. "He's not an academic theologian," Brennan says. "He's a practical theologian...
...last year, Levada had earlier worked out a Solomonic solution that resulted in health benefits for gay partners. He has been criticized for his slow and secretive response to priest sexual-abuse scandals in San Francisco, where at least 68 lawsuits over alleged abuse are still pending. Father Patrick Brennan, vicar at the Archdiocese of Portland, admits that Levada "had his detractors" but praises his warmth and intelligence. "He's not an academic theologian," Brennan says. "He's a practical theologian." That practical streak may mean Pope Benedict XVI expects Levada, 68, to pay more attention to the administrative demands...
Ward is dropping its catalog because the book has lost an average of $50 million a year since 1980. By stopping publication and closing 1,270 catalog sales agencies, Brennan said, the company will be able to reduce its staff of 78,000 by 6% and concentrate its financial resources on a major revamping of its stores. FOOD A $2 Tummy Tempter...
...likely way that the virus can be passed from one person to another. Condom machines, once considered almost laughable among homosexuals, have been installed in the rest rooms of many gay bars and restaurants. "Straights learned about birth control, and gays have to learn about safe sex," says Jim Brennan, an AIDS social worker in Washington...
...Administration opponents, that kind of judicial restraint sounds like an attack on three decades of decisions expanding basic rights. Liberal Justice William Brennan was sufficiently troubled to make a rare off-the-bench speech on the subject. "We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th century Americans," Brennan unrepentantly told a Georgetown University audience three weeks ago. It is "little more than arrogance" to believe that anyone can "gauge accurately the intent of the framers." Last week Moderate Justice John Paul Stevens weighed in with remarks to a group of Chicago lawyers, attacking...