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...blast from Bologna may have been the harshest so far, but it was not the most influential. That came last month when Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, primate of Belgium and outspoken leader of the "loyal opposition" within the church (TIME, Aug. 1, 1969), attacked the Lex Fundamentalis in an interview with Director Richard Guilderson of the National Catholic News Service. Though the cardinal left open the question of "whether or not a constitutional law of the church is at all possible," he assailed both the timing and the content of the present draft, borrowing liberally from Alberigo's study...
...separation is the third harshest penalty in the entire range of University punishments, exceeded in severity only by dismissal, which requires a two-thirds Faculty vote for readmission, and expulsion, which forbids the student to return and expunges him from University records. Separation is only rarely invoked, and it has not been used since the aftermath of the painters' helpers protest in late...
Sons of Thunder. Some of the harshest words against abortion have come from church spokesmen. After New York State passed one of the most liberalized abortion laws in the country last year, the Roman Catholic bishops of the state warned Catholics in the medical profession that participation in an abortion would earn them automatic excommunication. In Boston, Archbishop Humberto Medeiros caused an ecumenical fuss by calling abortion "the new barbarism." Yet the conservative Protestant journal Christianity Today went further, describing abortion-on-demand as "mass homicide." Such language, argues Lawyer John Noonan, an articulate foe of abortion (see box), obscures...
Though conservatives often lament the welfare mess in the harshest terms, they have offered few realistic and workable alternatives. Senator Barry Goldwater, in The Conscience of a Conservative, advocates turning all welfare over to private institutions?an 18th century solution for a 20th century problem. His onetime adviser, Economist Milton Friedman, and the Senate's newest prominent conservative, James Buckley of New York, both favor a modern concept, the negative income tax. But Friedman shackles the idea to what he calls, without being specific, a "modest" level of aid. Under the NIT, the tax scales would be continued downward past...
...Pennington did very well, getting suspended sentences. Whitney may have lost very badly. He got a year and a half for assault and battery on a policeman. He will appeal. The real political lesson to be learned from the four trials is in why Whitney's sentence was the harshest...