Word: connors
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Cardinal O'Connor raises a new ruckus over penalizing pro-choice Catholics. -- America's biggest Protestant group opts for Fundamentalism...
Stumping for the White House, John F. Kennedy promised voters he would leave office if his Roman Catholicism ever interfered with his political duties. Last week New York's John Cardinal O'Connor proclaimed that Kennedy was wrong: Catholics should fight, not quit. In a strongly worded twelve-page statement published in the archdiocesan weekly, the Cardinal declared that Catholic officeholders had an obligation to support their church's moral teachings -- especially on abortion. Failure to do so, he said, merited excommunication...
...Where Catholics are perceived not only as treating Church teaching on ^ abortion with contempt," wrote O'Connor, "but helping to multiply abortions by advocating legislation supporting abortion, or by making public funds available for abortion, bishops may decide that, for the common good, such Catholics must be warned that they are at risk of excommunication." Though the Cardinal emphasized that he was not writing on behalf of the U.S. episcopate, his words will inevitably have nationwide impact, and could fuel a backlash against church incursions into politics...
Decisively coming down on the side of free expression last week, the court gave that statute a broad interpretation. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor declared that the law's equal-access requirement can be triggered by the presence of any group, even a chess club, that does not "directly relate to the curriculum." She maintained that, just like college students to whom the court has previously applied equal-access principles, "secondary school students are mature enough and are likely to understand that a school does not endorse or support student speech that it merely permits on a non- discriminatory basis...
...show went on, but only after a hectic week of damage control. Other musical guests, the Spanic Boys and Julee Cruise, were hired to replace O'Connor. The writers pulled all-nighters to come up with new material playing off the controversy. Just before airtime on Saturday night, police had to clear chanting protesters from the lobby of the NBC studios. Clay, after fending off some hecklers during his opening monologue, promised to mind his mouth: "What do I need -- more p.r.? I couldn't get more p.r. if I took out my penis and wrapped it around a microphone...