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Priests are inarguably in short supply now--by some estimates there are 2,000 parishes (out of a U.S. total of 19,723) without a resident priest--and the dearth, barring a miracle, will get worse. The number of U.S. Catholics has grown 15% over the past 10 years and stands at just over 60 million. Contributing to this number is the massive immigration of predominantly Catholic Hispanics. Today roughly one-third of the American Catholic population is Hispanic, and that portion will continue to grow. Some Los Angeles parishes in or near Hispanic sections must now schedule...
That much modern psychopathology grows out of the dynamics of economic freedom suggests a dearth of miracle cures; Utopian alternatives to captialism have a history of not working out. Even the more modest reforms that are imaginable--reforms that somewhat blunt modernization's antisocial effects--will hardly be easy or cheap. Workplace-based day care costs money. Ample and inviting public parks cost money. And it costs money to create good public schools--which by diverting enrollment from private schools offer the large communal virtue of making a child's neighborhood peers and schoolyard friends one and the same. Yikes...
...Radcliffe 35 the reunion class voted yesterday afternoon to withhold its class gift of $92,000 from Harvard to protest the dearth of tenured female faculty at the University, according to two members of the class...
...much of her college career involved in women's issues, I am the first to admit Harvard's shortcomings where gender is concerned. After all, I've pointed them out clearly enough--most notably on this editorial page. There are issues such as the all-male final clubs, the dearth of women faculty and also the obstacles women have faced leading different organizations on campus. Yet while the University has seemed to move slowly and ponderously, the reality is that changes have been implemented; over the past several years, women have begun to be heard--and hopefully, will continue...
This campus seems to have come across a dearth of things to care about, and so we attach ourselves, tightly, to causes without a valuable purpose, without a valuable end. We eager beavers--always on the search for a cause--seem to care more about having a cause than what that cause...