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Reynolds' rhetoric shows how profoundly the Administration misunderstands--or wishes to subvert--the nature and function of the judiciary. Reagan and team are playing games with the Constitution and mocking the court. The real goal, Reynolds has now told us virtually point blank, is not communion with the ideas of the Founding Fathers or a judiciary that defers to the other branches of government, but rather a right-wing Court...
...crackdown, church policy has been ambiguous in some cases. Shortly after Curran's ouster, the Catholic University board granted tenure to Canon Lawyer James Provost, whose writings had irked the Vatican. In gaining tenure, however, Provost had to agree to write clarifications of his past support for first Communion before first confession and for giving Communion to some Catholics who divorce and remarry without annulments...
...ways it cannot control: without the English and French languages, | public business in most countries would come to a halt. Western moral standards have often seemed as impenetrable to Africans as theirs have to us. "Early European missionaries," Mazrui notes, "found it easier to admit a slave owner to Communion than a member of a polygamous household." Meanwhile, Africa still has to import most of the manufactured goods made from its own abundant raw materials. For all its polemics, The Africans has a great deal to say, and it does so with eloquence and power...
...Anglican Church allows women to become priests but prohibits them from conducting communion services. Bennett--who was ordained in Hong Kong and is now affiliated with St. Martin-in-the-Field, London--held the communion service during the annual meeting of the London-based Movement for the Ordination of Women...
...governing body of the Church House alsoissued a statement, calling Bennett's performingthe Holy Communion "an affront to the Queen," whois the figurehead of the Church of England