Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refusing to provide abortion on request." A Virginia group of Catholic laymen urged a "symbolic gesture": excommunication of William Brennan, the court's only Catholic and part of the majority. Naturally, the decision brought cheers from pro-abortionists-and equally prompt action. One shut-down abortion clinic in Detroit had equipment flown in right after the court acted and performed 20 abortions by the next evening. By week's end three more private clinics had opened in the Detroit area. The feminist Women's Health Center in Los Angeles also announced it would soon have a clinic...
...Detroit, a Roman Catholic advertising executive officiates at the wedding of his daughter. In New Mexico, an Air Force major conducts a Catholic burial service. In the high country of Bolivia, an Indian divides his time between farming and preaching the Gospel. These men are reviving an ancient form of Christian ministry that has been virtually unknown in Catholicism for centuries. They are ordained, permanent deacons...
...motu proprio that demands, somewhat unrealistically, that unmarried deacons take lifetime vows of celibacy; as a result, few single men have applied. Most of the married deacons resent the Pope's ruling that a widowed deacon cannot remarry, even though that ruling could leave young children motherless (one Detroit deacon has 13 children). Many American bishops would like the Vatican to rescind both stipulations...
...period of successful stimulation that produced ever more ebullient reports on the economy's boom. Last week alone the Government estimated that the gross national product bounded ahead in the last quarter of 1972-for a "real" gain of 8½% at an annual rate, and Detroit automakers reported that they sold more new cars during the first ten days of January than during any similar period since 1966. Ahead lay Nixon's best opportunity yet to shape the economy-and through it, many of the nation's social priorities -along the laissez-faire lines that...
Still, it is clear that the proposals of the Democratic platform will cost money. But it is equally clear that the money is better spent here than on Detroit's planned obsolescences, and that the nation has the resources to pay for the housing, schools and hospitals it needs, be it from economic growth, the closing of tax loopholes, or higher taxes. After all, as Lyndon Johnson has said, perhaps it is the Republicans who are downgrading America in preaching economic timidity, in saying that necessary programs will "spend the coontry into bankruptcy...