Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tremendous response to the Holy Father proves that a strong-willed people can endure and triumph over those who wish to suppress them...
...National Pro-Life Political Action Committee. Based in Chicago, this group is headed by Father Charles Fiore, 45, a Dominican priest with a reddish beard and a combative temperament that sometimes offends his superiors. When Father Fiore urged Catholics to stop contributing to any community fund drive benefiting organizations that aid abortions, John Cardinal Cody ordered him to stop preaching in the Chicago archdiocese. One reason: some of the same fund drives also support Catholic charities. Uncowed, Father Fiore asks: "What does it profit an archdiocese if it gains $3.7 million and suffers the loss of its own soul...
...league last month enlisted some 100 clergymen and -women of various faiths to apply pressure by lobbying members of Congress, hoping to blunt the religious side of the abortion issue, which has long been dominated by the Roman Catholic clergy. Said one rebellious Catholic priest, Father Joseph O'Rourke, who was among the pro-choice lobbyists in Washington: "The antiabortionists are antifree, antiwomen and anti-Christian...
...more than anecdotal. But there are a few provocative bits of information. Among medical workers who are around anesthetics regularly-and thus presumably take in some of the gases-there seems to be a higher rate of spontaneous abortions and birth defects: these findings apply to the males who father the children as well as the mothers. This week, at a National Foundation-March of Dimes-sponsored Birth Defects Conference in Chicago, Dr. Louis Bartoshesky of Tufts-New England Medical Center is scheduled to discuss the case of a baby born with signs of fetal alcohol syndrome. Only the father...
...squads are everywhere. Hitler and Stalin control the moves offstage, ever willing to sacrifice Spaniards to German and Soviet causes. Contradiction is the order of the day: "How do you explain that?" inquires a woman. "?Dios mio! The people who destroy holy images kiss them." On the left, a father and son have their own civil war and lead separate socialist organizations. Yet throughout, the reader is struck by the dignity and character of ordinary people who endured and prevailed. Theirs is the Blood of Spain, and their total recall is more valuable than any number of academic speculations...