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...portraying the trials of her heroine in this simple-minded, self-indulgent manner, Gray does a disservice to those who must confront them in real life. Stephanie, in her interminable conversations with a hip Jesuit friend, rhapsodizes about her yearning for freedom. Yet every time he suggests that she take a real step towards it, she lapses into a whining refrain about how tough it is for women. By this time, of course, one has completely lost interest in any of the things Stephanie is searching for; it becomes increasingly hard to believe that what she wants can be worth...
Signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, an ex-Jesuit seminarian, after weeks of personal agonizing, the California bill implicitly recognizes the validity of "living wills." Long a subject of debate, these are documents in which a patient directs doctors to "pull the plug," in effect, if life-sustaining procedures serve no other purpose than to postpone the moment of death. Under the California legislation, such directives can now be drafted by any adult, must be witnessed by two people who are neither related to the patient nor involved in his medical treatment, and must be renewed every five years...
When the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its 5,000-word statement on homosexuality, premarital sex and masturbation, it was responding in part to complaints that the church was not providing sufficient guidelines for sexual behavior and attitudes. Days later, Father John McNeill, a Jesuit priest and former teacher of moral theology at the now defunct Woodstock College and at Fordham University, won the designation Imprimi Potest (it can be printed) for a book strongly attacking the church's views on homosexuality. It had taken two years to win that designation, which is not an endorsement...
...most impassioned messages to those assembled dealt with the basic world hunger for bread. In the Civic Center auditorium, Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe said that if each U.S. Catholic fasted for one meal a week, the money saved could buy $2.5 billion worth of food for the needy each year. (By such fasting over the past year, U.S. Catholics had already saved enough money to buy a shipload of rice, which they sent to Bangladesh during the congress.) Brazil's activist Archbishop Helder Camara called the world's unequal distribution of wealth "the greatest scandal...
...Louis Johanson said that he would not vote for Carter under any circumstances. But he did-after his fallen favorite, Scoop Jackson, asked him to. By then the still-cynical Johanson had heard Brown address the delegation and cracked that "the difference between a babbling Baptist and a jumping Jesuit isn't that much." One reluctant Manhattan delegate, Harold Jacob, criticized Carter for not making clear where he stands on Israel and other issues (like emigration from the Soviet Union) of concern to Jews, but he softened after the nomination of Fritz Mondale; he "has a good record...