Word: connors
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...influence Tuesday's voting. It was sent to bishops on Oct. 22, and was distributed at a press conference last week in advance of the annual meeting of the N.C.C.B. "I for one never even thought of the possible impact on the elections," says Bishop John O'Connor, auxiliary military vicar and one of the document's coauthors. Says Chicago Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, who chaired the five-bishop panel: "I am sure no one really believes that we made public our draft to influence the elections...
...proposed letter represents a careful compromise by the authors, who studied 1,000 pages of comment on their first draft. Bishop Gumbleton pressed for the most pacifist approach, while Bishop O'Connor tended to oppose harsh criticism of U.S. policy. It specifically addresses the responsibilities of Catholics as individuals. "As citizens we wish to affirm our loyalty to our country and its ideals, yet we must also hold to the universal principles proclaimed by the church...
...opening case (Colorado vs. New Mexico, a water-rights dispute). To the Chief Justice's right was the senior Justice, William Brennan, 76, back from his Nantucket summer home, his lively eyes on full alert behind his spectacles. The court's junior member, Sandra Day O'Connor, fresh from an African safari vacation, looked stern as a schoolmarm as the first hopeful lawyer began to argue his case. The 1982-83 term of the U.S. Supreme Court was under way, and for all the normality of its start, the year promises a work load that will leave...
...particular, they're fighting tokenism harder than ever. There's no other way to explain the appointment of Sandra D. O'Connor to the Supreme Court, for she was not only the high court's first woman justice, but also the first to be taken directly from judicial ranks as low as a state appellate court. Many women's leaders have protested O'Connor's passive stances on women's rights. Another example: Michigan Republicans and Democrats last month engaged in one-upmanship in assembling their tickets for the November elections. Seeking women's votes, the GOP gubernatorial nominee asked...
Laura A. O'Connor Calumet City...