Word: catholicism
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bob Dole's pile of potential vice presidents is growing, and the latest to be added is Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, a man who seems to fit the bill on just about all the dream qualifications: a young but experienced, conservative anti-abortion Catholic. At 47, Nickles has...
"If you're making $15,000 a year," Dole said at one stop during a four-state, three-day "education tour" through the Midwest, "your one hope and your one dream is that your children will have better opportunities because they will have a better education." But that won't...
DIED. LAWRENCE JENCO, 61, Catholic priest held hostage for nearly 19 months in the mid-1980s by Islamic radicals seeking to influence U.S. policy; of cancer; in Hillside, Illinois. The head of Catholic Relief Services in Beirut, he was abducted and brutally held with several other Americans.
By week's end, only one person, an Irish Catholic car-factory worker, had been killed. He had reportedly been hit accidentally by a troop carrier. But many people in the troubled land feared that they were about to see a return to the 1980s, when assassinations and bombings were...
The civic Cassandras are also off-base about the origins of America's social capital. Local barn raisings have never been strictly local. While many conservative thinkers have suggested that America's traditional associations sprang up like indigenous flowers from the soil of American goodness, the recent Oval Office handshakes...