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Export Trade. Most Danes seemingly agree-and accepted his legal proposal to abolish all restrictions. Now pornography is no longer an issue in Denmark: leaders of the Danish Lutheran Church have not bothered to take a stand on the Thestrup bill, newspapers do not dwell on it in detail, and a majority of parliamentary parties have given it their backing. Newsstands in tourist areas are still festooned with pictures of every pose imaginable. But this export market does not impress Denmark's most active pornographer, Leo Madsen, who publishes the mass-circulation Weekend Sex magazine. Says he ruefully: "Business...
...recent years or have been superseded by new laws. Among them is one that ordered the removal of all weirs (dams) from the Thames and other rivers, and a second that restricts the King's right to seize the lands of debtors. The provision assuring that "the Church of England shall be free" will be eliminated because that institution, which was then responsible to Rome, long ago became a state, or "established" church...
Shannon has been the favorite prelate of many U.S. Catholic progressives. Thoughtful and articulate, he has thought of himself as a bridge between radicals and conservatives in the church; yet his own liberal views may well have prevented him from getting his own diocese. After Shannon appeared in an NBC documentary discussing tensions in the church, Los Angeles' crusty James Francis Cardinal McIntyre complained to the U.S. hierarchy, reportedly calling Shannon's, tolerance for change an "incipient schism...
...responsibility is greater than that of the individual Catholic." Shannon himself hopes to continue to teach at St. John's College through the summer. If and when the Pope accepts Shannon's resignation as Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and as pastor of St. Helena's Church in Minneapolis, he will remain a bishop-but without portfolio. As for the birth control controversy, his challenge to the encyclical makes it clear that the issue is not dead. Indeed, one Vatican rumor has it that Pope Paul is preparing yet another encyclical on the subject...
Though the statement troubled some delegates, the 25-nation meeting declared that "the church and the world are filled with blatant institutional racism." They recommended economic sanctions against "corporations and institutions" that practice discrimination, and said that "guerrilla fighters struggling against racist regimes must be given the support of the church if all else has been seen to fail." Under the chairmanship of Democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, a Methodist lay delegate, the conference added: "The church must," in certain circumstances, "support resistance movements, including revolutions, which are aimed at the elimination of political or economic tyranny that...