Word: connors
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...matter, of course, could not end there. After Cuomo sardonically noted that he had been "cursed . . . even to hell," John Cardinal O'Connor, Vaughan's superior, declared that the bishop had the duty to warn any Catholic against pursuing a gravely evil course of action. Thus Vaughan's statement was in the tradition of saints like John the Baptist and Thomas More -- one of Cuomo's acknowledged role models -- who also reproached public figures from prison for misconduct...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has argued that if Cardinal O'Connor and Bishop Vaughan had been sounding off when Kennedy was running for President, he would not have been elected. True, but irrelevant. Whatever lingering suspicions exist about supposedly divided loyalties ought to have been dispelled by the number of lay Catholics, including former Democratic vice- presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, who have taken a pro-choice position on abortion...
...Morgan and Brian Wright O'Connor, managing editor of the Bay State Banner, a Boston weekly, said that the media's focus on the Stuart case is representative of a larger trend of exploiting stereotypes of Blacks instead of covering other serious issues in the Black community...
...Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one," O'Connor said. He said that balanced racial coverage will not be achieved until more minorities become media owners and editors...
Lawyers for Swaggart's ministries, supported by religious groups ranging from Protestants to Hare Krishnas, argued that the tax conflicted with First Amendment rights. But the Justices saw it as a commercial issue, not a spiritual one. Wrote Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: "The tax is not a tax on the right to disseminate religious information, ideas, or beliefs per se; rather it is a tax on the privilege of making retail sales of tangible personal property...