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...than pictured. Tagged forever by a tiny asterisk on their ID cards, they often cannot get the jobs that the government has promised. "It's a little like hiring an ex-convict," says one Chieu Hoi official. Even if an able hoi chanh lands a job, he must contend with the jealousy of fellow workers and the hatred engendered by more than 20 years of fighting. A typical reaction is that of one South Vietnamese: "Why should we take the risk of making friends with an ex-V.C. when our lives are al ready so filled with suspicion...
...theologians today who reject the whole idea of natural law as e'ther philosophically untenable or inadequate as a way of interpreting God's mysterious ways. Still more insist that natural law must be constantly reinterpreted in light of man's expanding knowledge. Thus, some thinkers contend that the Pope's rejection of birth control because it interferes with procreation is based on a static and incomplete understanding of sexuality as a merely biological function. A complete natural-law theory of intercourse should include its total significance for man within marriage. To most modern couples...
Pyramid of Wisdom. The likelihood that Humanae Vitae would prove to be a dead letter within months after its publication raised a far more fundamental ecclesiastical question, the role of papal authority in the church. Many theologians contend that there has been an unhealthy overemphasis on the teaching voice of Rome since the definition of papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council in 1870. In effect, the church has been a pyramid, with all wisdom flowing downward from the top. Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council suggested the possibility of a more democratic, decentralized concept of Catholicism. Paul...
...McKenzie of Notre Dame believes that "with this pronouncement on birth control, the papacy is going to lose its leadership, which will take 200 years to recover-if ever." Although the downgrading of papal authority would unquestionably lead to a period of confusion within the church, some progressive Catholics contend that dissolution of the papacy as an absolute monarchy would lead to a new and healthier concept of what authority is. The church of the Bible, they argue, was not an authoritarian state but a community of shared decisions, which were not made by the hierarchy alone. Without denying that...
...fair. Can it be that from the chairs around the table of the smoke filled room that the Black man was not included when someone uttered the words "Liberty and Justice For All"? I along with H. Rapp Brown and other so dubbed militants by White America contend that when the term "justice" came up at the table, White folk meant "Just Us" (meaning just Whites...