Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pope John Paul II has repeatedly exhorted Roman Catholic clergymen to hold themselves above the run of politics, and he himself, unlike some of his predecessors, has shown little interest in Italian affairs of state. But the Pontiffs pastoral responsibilities to speak out on an issue of deep moral concern to the church have plunged him, inevitably, into a heated political controversy over the most volatile social issue in Italy: whether or not women should have the legal right to have an abortion...
Drinan, a former Congressman, did not seek reelection last year after Pope John Paul II decreed that Roman Catholic clergymen holding political office have a conflict of interests with the church...
...promised income tax cuts, and Congress has indicated its willingness to legislate at least some of them-maybe. But as many as 3,500 taxpayers in the Flint, Mich., area just cannot wait. They have been refusing to shoulder their federal burden by claiming dubious tax exemptions as clergymen, filing their 1040 forms with UNCONSTITUTIONAL! scrawled across the page or in some cases claiming as many as 99 dependents in order to reduce federal withholding from their paychecks to zero...
...result: "The idea of an immortal soul, the seat of individuality, which had long been cultivated in the world of clergymen, gradually spread, from the 11th to the 17th century, until eventually it gained almost universal acceptance. This new eschatology caused the word death to be replaced by trite circumlocutions such as 'he gave up the ghost' or 'God has his soul...
...former hostages accused the three American clergymen who visited them last Easter of having been overly sympathetic to their Iranian captors and of having given the American public a false impression that the hostages were being treated well. The ex-captives recalled that one of them had given a clergyman a written message complaining about mistreatment, but the clergyman turned the note over to the Iranian guards, who then treated the Americans even more severely. Sergeant Lopez told a member of his family: "If you see that Reverend Rupiper, spit in his face for me." Lopez was referring to Darrell...