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What is modern? There are people now living who can remember when it was a dirty word-something to do with illicit sex, postimpressionist painting and obscure and alarming techniques of writing. For others, perhaps less aged, the word once evoked a passionately held conviction that "modernity" in the arts announced a revolution in the mind and sensibility-offering insights into the nature of life once claimed by religious illumination...
...incoming President of the Philippines has taken office with a vow to clean up the corruption that plagues the nation, and the country's new leader is no exception. In fact, Ferdinand Marcos' main campaign plank was a promise to weed out crooked officials and halt the illicit traffic in whisky, cigarettes and luxury goods that cheats the national treasury of an annual $125 million in import duties. It is a huge task, but Marcos has got off to an impressively early start...
Lack of procreation or of marriage vows is not the issue; even Roman Catholic authorities hold that an illicit hetero sexual affair has a degree of "authentication," while a homosexual relationship involves only "negation." Roman Catholic thought generally agrees that homosexuality is of and in itself wrong because, as New York's Msgr. Thomas McGovern says, it is "inordinate, having no direction toward a proper aim." Even in purely nonreligious terms, homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty and, in the words of one Catholic educator, of "human construction." It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute...
...have some ground rules to play the game." Princeton's Paul Ramsey argues that traditional Christian moral principles are authoritative and that "how we do what we do is as important as our goals." In 1956 the Holy Office condemned situation ethics for Roman Catholics as an illicit brand of subjectivism. Attacking Fletcher's presentation in Commonweal, Dominican Theologian Herbert McCabe argues that the new morality has no criteria to distinguish love from what is really self-interest. "How do you know that what you are doing is loving?" he asks. McCabe also charges that situationism fails...
...Mary Ann was packed off to a state school for juvenile delinquents-while Mrs. McLaughlin was arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. In effect, charged the prosecution at her trial, Mrs. McLaughlin's advice on how to avoid pregnancy had encouraged Mary Ann to have illicit affairs. A jury found Mrs. McLaughlin guilty as charged, and she was given a suspended sentence of one year in the workhouse and a $200 fine...