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Taken before Acting Principal Peter Lopiparo, she claimed that she had crammed for the exam and had scribbled down the notes during the first half-hour of the test period. Lopiparo refused to believe her, asked her to copy them as fast as she could. After 20 minutes, recalls Lopiparo...
If it is true that a manifesto is more appropriate to the summer of 1967 than a Confession, an interesting possibility is raised. Is it possible that committed unbelievers may be of more help to the Church in fulfilling its stated task than many of its members?
What happened was this. The Presbyterian Church in May completed a nine-year process of revising its confessional standards. Under the American equivalent of the Scottish Barrier Act (which guards against hasty ecclesiastical legislation by requiring that changes in church law be approved by a General Assembly, then be sent down to the presbyterians for their approval, and finally be approved by the next annual General Assembly), what is called "The Confession of 1967" was presented to the General Assembly meeting in Boston in May, 1966. It included a phrase that urged the pursuit of peace, "even at risk...
As a result of the church's puritanical approach to moral issues, says Kavanaugh, "the Catholic is obsessed with sex"-and he, for one, seems to be. About three-fourths of his examples of church-imposed agony involve sex; most of the cases are described in prose that might...
There could be no complaints about sentimentality in the case of Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walkin'. The original lyric is a mildly defensive warning to an errant lover that "one of these days, these boots are going to walk all over you." In Czechoslovakia...