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...ordination advocates claim that the Church is guilty of the 'sin of sexism' and that women being barred from the priesthood is oppression. Most people would confess that all churches have grossly belittled women in the past, but the central issue remains that many also believe that it would be wrong before God to allow women to enter the priesthood. This is not based on the whims of human prejudice, but on very clear Scriptural statements. The New Testament is very clear on this. If one believes the Bible to be wholly true and authoritative, then the statements...
...HAVE TO CONFESS to a certain amount of bias on my part as I begin to review this book. Except for my parents, there was no greater force on my formative years than the cartoons in the New Yorker...
...dining hall in which the Dunster House soccer team ate here Friday night had a big "Beat Harvard" cake in the center of the floor. (I must confess, however, it was far tastier than any cake I've eaten in a Harvard dining hall...
...arrogant city that made aliens of us and condemned each of us, for the better part of a year, to the company of none other than ourselves. I can't think of a single of my Harvard companions who would willingly have submitted to that trial, and I confess that if I'd foreseen it myself, I might not have gone. But now I feel better and stronger for having done it, and I suppose that the next time someone lavishes envy on me for having spend seven precious months in the City of Light I will compose myself...
...ties to VIP's. A friend of mine got his ticket from a friend of his who had an acquaintance in the Fly Club, to which several tickets had been donated by an Fly alumnus who had once owned part of the Milwaukee Braves. And, I might as well confess, my ticket too was unearned, a gift from a friend in Washington--where tickets were easier to come by than in either Boston or Cincinati--a friend who knew a Pennsylvania congressman who happened to have a buddy...