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...judges. The debate also involves whether those with deeply held views against abortion should feel compelled to oppose policies and politicians more tolerant of it. "I don't see how a Catholic in good conscience can vote for a candidate who explicitly supports abortion," said Archbishop O'Connor in June. Governor Cuomo, who opposes a ban on abortion, was angry at the Archbishop's political intrusion. The two men have since come to a consensus on the separation of church and state, even as they agree to disagree about abortion law. "The Catholic Church will not tell...
...Directed by Pat O'Connor; Screenplay by Bernard Mac Laverty
...this is a conscious choice on the part of Writer Bernard Mac Laverty, adapting his own novel, Director Pat O'Connor, whose first feature this is, and their exemplary actors. This, they are saying, is the sound of repression. They are also saying that when terror establishes itself as a habit, it passes beyond the power of reason to understand it or words to explain it. In the world they place before us, action is no longer character. Numbness...
...over the proper role of religion in the 1984 campaign. The issue cropped up early this year with Ronald Reagan's fervent advocacy of school prayer, and erupted more recently in New York with a tense exchange between Governor Mario Cuomo, a Catholic, and Archbishop John O'Connor. Democrat Cuomo accused O'Connor of implicitly advising Catholics to vote against him and other officeholders who accept the church's insistence that abortion is morally wrong but contend that as public officials they have no right to impose that belief on others. O'Connor said...
Moreover, women with political ambitions may not have to worry so much about seeming presumptuous; the uppitiness factor should fade. Maureen O'Connor has served on the San Diego City Council and as Deputy Mayor, Chairwoman of the Local Transit Board and Vice Chairwoman of a California State Housing Finance Agency. She ran for mayor of San Diego last year and lost. "Despite the fact that I was twice as qualified as my opponent," she says, "there were reservations voiced about the capacity of a woman to manage a city of this size effectively. Well, with a woman...