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...government of a Christian country survive the defiant opposition of its churches? Rhodesia is about to find out. The churches have never condoned Prime Minister Ian Smith's white supremacist policies. Now, on the eve of a critical general election on April 10, the Roman Catholic Church has directly challenged them...
...internationally classified as "the most defiant priest" for having declared my marriage. My wife and I never dreamed that so much would happen so soon. Today, as "father" of the fathers who have married, I can only say, "How sweet it is." Vindication, that is. (THE REV.) ANTHONY J. GIRANDOLA...
...famous priestly rebel, Martin Luther, proudly uttered his defiance of church authority?"Here I stand; I can do no other"?before the Diet of Worms. With an equivalent sense of drama, some of today's priests-in-exodus have proclaimed their departures at televised press conferences or in defiant, soul-searching manifestoes. But whether their departures are public or private, the vast majority are in honest rebellion against what they feel is an authoritarian, outmoded church organization that unfairly limits their freedoms and responsibilities and frustrates their desire to serve God by serving man. Catholics are not alone...
...title proclaims Spock's values: not good v. evil so much as decency v. indecency. Spock is an almost luminously decent man himself. If translated into a television series, he might well be played by Robert Young. Despite his defiant opposition to the war in Viet Nam, the edifice of his thought is a white clapboard New England house where tolerance, patience and kindliness prevail. But his middle-class values are rescued from complacency by an articulate and increasingly outraged social concern. It is difficult to imagine "Marcus Welby, M.D.'' standing trial for conspiracy to subvert...
...support of public education to the end" than Governor John McKeithen told the delegates: "I will not allow my children to be bused." McKeithen, who has ambitions to run for the Senate, had brought along a more moderate speech, but realized that there was more political capital in the defiant version. He was right. The speech was televised, and immediately afterward his office received 1,500 calls and telegrams endorsing his stand. In decrying busing, McKeithen and the other Governors are largely attacking a straw man. They talk as if busing were the law; in fact, the Supreme Court...