Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many American Jews were angered and alarmed by the spectacle of the Rev. Jesse Jackson embracing Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, and of the Rev. Joseph Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference joining Arafat in a chorus of We Shall Overcome. But to those who interpreted these odd scenes as a sign of black antiSemitism, a contradicting voice sounded last week. Said Vernon E. Jordan Jr., head of the National Urban League, in a widely publicized speech to a Catholic audience in Kansas City: "Black-Jewish relations should not be endangered by ill-considered flirtations with terrorist groups devoted...
...appears that in the Rev. Jerry Falwell we might have a potential "Christian Khomeini" on our hands. If Mr. Falwell's philosophy were to prevail, what would happen to teachers, preachers and politicians whose points of view differ from his? What would become of schools and textbooks not in harmony with his theology or political philosophy...
...majority of the clerics still favor nonviolence. How does the so-called Christian left, then, justify violent action? "Effective love of neighbor sometimes requires drastic measures," one of the movement's priests told TIME. "Our decision to go for armed struggle was forced upon us. It has become clear this is not a reformist government. It is a fascist government...
...controversy over specific ecclesiastical policies may overshadow the overarching theme of John Paul's pontificate thus far: the Christian belief in social justice, based on the absolute value of each human life, on which there is little dispute in the American church. Such a philosophy underlies not only the Pope's stance on abortion but his attack, often in the same speeches, on racial discrimination, economic disparities, war, terrorism and "national security" as an excuse for oppression. Though a supposed contradiction between the "liberal" and "conservative" aspects of John Paul perplexed some observers last week, there...
...American context, the fierce dispute over abortion now concerns whether traditional Jewish and Christian teaching should be incorporated into secular law. Catholics themselves are divided. Many Catholic Congressmen oppose abortion personally but want no constitutional amendment to control it. But for John Paul, activism is essential on human rights. "If a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb," he has said, "an indirect blow is struck also at the whole of the moral order." He urged the cheering crowd in Washington to "demand that...