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...Although Mankoff finished training only three months ago, he already has 10 talks scheduled before March around the country, everywhere from high schools and church groups to city hall. So far, he says he has been overwhelmed by the community's reception to the program, adding that 90% of the groups he reaches out to are eager to have him speak. "It's a powerful presentation and people are really moved when they see it," Mankoff said. "The movie may exist, but people are more likely to see it if they find out that some community event is occurring around...
There is no holier icon in the church of the first Amendment than the anonymous leak. Ever since columnist Robert Novak published the identity of a cia officer nearly four years ago, voices of journalism have delivered sermon after sermon about the centrality of leaks not just to journalism but to democracy itself: We need leaks to keep the government honest...
...treating the meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops [RELIGION, Nov. 24] as if it were a political campaign, you mislead your readers. The church is not a democracy, nor should it be. It is a congregation of people who accept the Pope's pronouncements on faith and morals as the teachings of Christ. If a member cannot accept the doctrine, he or she should leave the church and join another religion. James H. Walter Rancho Murieta, Calif...
Through divisiveness brought about by centuries of unacceptable domination imposed by Rome, the world has a Greek Catholic Church, a Russian Catholic Church and an English Catholic Church. The time is ripe for an American Catholic Church. The U.S. bishops should begin now to circumvent the archaisms of Rome and formulate a relevant church in which all American Catholics can thrive in their religious lives. Emily Langford Bennett Princeton...
Conference participants included moderate business, church and political groups, as well as officials of the all-white Natal provincial council and blacks from largely self-governing KwaZulu. The ruling National Party sent observers but did not participate in the sessions. The meetings in which the reforms were drawn up became known as the Indaba, the Zulu word for meeting...