Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...privacy. "The mailbox, however noxious its advertising contents often seem to judges as well as other people, is hardly the kind of enclave that requires constitutional defense to protect 'the privacies of life.' The short though regular journey from mailbox to trash can is an acceptable burden, at least so far as the Constitution is concerned. And the bells at the door and on the telephone, though their ring is a more imperious nuisance than the mailman's tidings," constitute merely "peripheral assaults...
Arrogant & Smug. The burden of Kavanaugh's polemic is that a church founded by Christ upon the primacy of God's love for man has degenerated into a sterile bureaucracy guided by abstract legalism. Echoing charges made by many other contemporary Catholic thinkers, Kavanaugh complains that his church's strictures against marriage for priests, birth control, and divorce have caused untold anguish and suffering to the faithful. Dominated by unBiblical superstition and decadent traditionalism in everything from its sermons to parochial schools, the church, in Kavanaugh's eyes, is pathetically outdated and corrupt...
...objections to celibacy - that it is contrary to human nature, that there is no Scriptural basis for it, that its observance has become almost impossible - and rejected them all. On the practical level, he answered, celibacy "gives to the priest the maximum efficiency." He described "the heavy and sweet burden" of chastity for priests as "the total and generous gift of themselves" to Christ. "Priestly celibacy," he declared, "has been guarded by the church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time...
...proposed rigorous new methods of choosing and training candidates for the cassock, including more psychological guidance. For the moment at least, the encyclical would still public argument within the church on the issue, but it was unlikely to change the feeling of clerics who regard celibacy as a burden that is heavy without being sweet. Within the past three years, no fewer than 4,000 priests have asked Rome to release them from their vows in order to marry. A poll conducted last year by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter indicated that 62% of U.S. priests favored a relaxation...
...deride American altruism as "unconscious imperialism," or worse, the U.S. had realized-even before combat in Europe ended on May 8, 1945-that as the world's wealthiest nation and the only major power that had endured the war unscathed, it would inevitably have to shoulder the burden of reconstruction. Until early 1947, Marshall had hoped that the Soviet Union would cooperate; he later offered aid to war-wracked Russia and Eastern Europe...