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One trend that aids such an ambition is the acute shortage of priests. Already thousands of women fill in by doing chaplains' work, counseling, Bible readings, indeed, all the tasks of a priest except consecrating the Eucharist, hearing confession, confirming members and administering last rites. Some feminists complain that such...
"We do not take polls to determine what the faith of the Church is... You don't get morality by counting noses... If, for example, in Mississippi in the early '60s, a poll had been taken to determine whether or not racism was a sin, whether racial segregation was an...
Still, it is Regan's emergence that seems certain to keep Washington astir with fresh uncertainties, intrigues and potential clashes. While Treasury Secretary, Regan seemed to relish a good brawl. He butted heads with Volcker and with Martin Feldstein, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. After seriously considering...
The testimony came none too soon for Poland's Communist government. Although Polish Premier General Wojciech Jaruzelski has promised the trial will not be a whitewash, many Poles believe that the government will now be able to declare that justice has been served and that a widespread investigation is unnecessary...
In a rare confession of a Soviet mistake, the Soviet news agency TASS said the missile went off course after it was launched during an exercise in the Barents Sea, "and disappeared in a westerly direction." The apologetic tone contrasted sharply with the Soviet reaction following similar events. When, for...