Word: churches
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...billion last year on sales of $139 billion. It serves 90 million to 100 million customers each week. So while Wal-Mart is a conservative company born of the rural South, it hasn't let that get in the way of some basic considerations of commerce. Years ago, church leaders were unhappy, and unavailing, when the company began to open its stores on Sundays. The customers, not any other authority, would be obeyed...
Fears about editorial integrity have been Topic A at the Times since 1997, when Mark Willes, 58, the former General Mills cereal executive, became publisher and vowed to take a "bazooka" to the wall dividing "church" and "state"--the editorial operations and the business side. While journalists quaked, business types argued that it was a needed dose of cold realism for a paper whose profits had dropped and daily circulation had slipped from a peak of 1.24 million in 1991 to 1.1 million. Since Willes gave up the publisher's job to become chairman of Times Mirror Co. earlier this...
Eight of the nation's 13 largest health-care systems are Catholic, according to Catholics for a Free Choice, an advocacy group critical of the church's stance on reproductive issues. There were some 120 mergers between Catholic and non-Catholic institutions from 1994 to 1998, and CFFC estimates that reproductive health care was reduced or eliminated in half those cases...
...Though not conveyed in the most ingenious manner, these themes in Dogma remain provocative, to say the least. They often take the form of shots at the church (to lessen the ennui, a churchgoer reads "Hustler" during a service Bethany attends), but never do they lead to God-bashing. You see, Smith doesn't satirize God, per se--he satirizes the inadequate human perception of God. Our quest to interpret the will of the divine has lead humans to murder, war, persecution, suspicion, and a bevy of other moral wrongs. The funny (and much less extreme) situation that Smith uses...
...question is whether schools will agree. Religion is an issue many school districts don't want any part of, since feelings run so hot on the issue and courts have traditionally given a strict interpretation of the Constitution's separation of church and state in the classroom. But the new booklet draws its inspiration from the most famous ruling on the subject: a 1962 Supreme Court ruling that, while it banned school prayer, did say that the Bible could be included in school curricula if taught objectively. "After the 1962 ruling a lot of administrators, just...