Word: dissention
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WHAT LASTING MARK HAS POPE JOHN PAUL II MADE? The Pontiff is renowned, among other things, for his vigorous effort to stem dissent and clarify what Catholicism stands for. Thus the newly issued Universal Catechism "will be the signature that the Pope leaves behind him," says a ranking Vatican official. The 676-page summary of essential beliefs on doctrine and morals applies to all the world's 850 million Catholics. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Vatican's uncompromising doctrinal monitor, led the six-year project. His staff went through nine drafts and fielded 24,000 proposals from bishops. The French edition...
...Undergraduate Council, in discussions that followed the release of the Task Force report, defined rape instead as sex occurring despite the expressed unwillingness of the victim. The Council's recommendation held that a victim must express overt dissent, either verbally or physically, for the act to be considered rape...
...Sometimes, a victim experiences so much fear that she or he cannot verbalize dissent, and the U.C. definition does not account for this," says Eliza B. Clarke '92-'93, co-director of Response, the rape and sexual harassment peer counseling group...
...letter published October 26, Lydia Alix Fillingham criticized the Civil Liberty Union of Harvard's definition of rape as sex that occurs "despite the expressed dissent and/or in the presence of threats, intimidation, coercion or lack of an ability to dissent...
...think it's pretty clear that it stems from peoples' dissent about the course of the country in the last year or so," Hagen said...