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...expects to continue for the next two years. Commercials for national brands like Geico and Volkswagen can now be heard along with spots for Verbal Advantage vocabulary builders (one of Limbaugh's early sponsors), sexual potency pills and "clinical hypnotherapist" Wendi Friesen's promises of happiness, weight loss and freedom from nicotine addiction if you'll just let her talk in your sleep...
Contradictory? No. All these diverse positions represent this Pope’s love of real freedom and human dignity. Willing to take a stand on almost any issue put before him, John Paul II constantly reminded us of the hope that is our Christian religion, the hope that the goodness we attempt to live may lead us in the direction of Truth, that the countercultural ends we serve may be what is the best and the good. Reminding us, as Saint Paul did, that Christians are to be in this world but not of it, this Pope challenged...
This King burst onto the scene most spectacularly in 1967 in an anti-Vietnam War speech that won him not monuments or holidays, but disparaging criticism. As U.S. Cold War posturing and Vietnam militarism derailed the support of the black freedom struggles of the 1960s, King began to see that America’s global imperialism, obsessive pursuit of free market capitalism, and white supremacy are intimately intertwined and connected to each other. Reconciling his profoundly humanist sentiments with the reality of modern racism, capitalism, and imperialism, King saw black civil rights as merely a prelude to the larger struggle...
...individual conscience) and hierarchical openness (collegiality). He did not. As it turned out, he favored only the "most exact execution" of the council's directives, rebuffing not only traditionalists who derogated it but also those who saw it as a blueprint for church democracy. For all his support of freedom in the outside world, he enforced an ever more stringent conformity within...
...clear that he did not consider individual conscience a legitimate rationale for believers' second-guessing the church's positions on birth control, abortion, female ordination and a host of other teachings. "Opposition to the church's pastors," he wrote, "cannot be seen as a legitimate expression of Christian freedom. It is prohibited--to every one in every case--to violate these precepts...