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...author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes." I had asked him to comment on the big story of the last few weeks - pederast/pedophile priests in the Catholic Church - and, earlier, he had offered up a few suggestions including bringing back the Church's universal language, Latin (you can read his other ideas in a special Forum in this week's TIME). Later on, however, he came up with another thought: abolish the underworld. His e-mail continued: "[Hell] is the big stick Mother Church uses all the time to keep the faithful in line. Abolish hell...
...against the ordination of women as priests. But the current debacle will be compounded if the debate becomes a merely technical discussion of fixes and ignores the overall danger to the church. A Catholic Church that is losing so much ground around the world (to evangelical Protestants in Latin America, Africa and Asia, for example) and has such difficulty in recruiting new priests cannot afford the caviling, obdurate smugness of centuries past. Allowing priests to marry, and ordaining women, would do an important thing: begin to change the culture of the priesthood--a culture that needs very considerable changing...
...stakes are high. The Administration wants to extend NAFTA to 31 more countries in Latin America. If investor protections are also offered through the World Trade Organization, Methanex-style suits could spread through the global trading system. That would open the U.S. to corporate claims from scores of countries, but the effect on Third World nations might be even more dramatic. Could a developing country stand up to a timber giant wanting to clear-cut the rain forest? A multinational retailer flouting labor laws? Says Mary Bottari, of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, a liberal activist group: "The mere...
...vote came after recent efforts by the Campaign for a Democratic Future, a group of high school students from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) who have been pushing to lower the voting age for several years...
Flores said that HACIA, hoping also to pique Harvard students’ interest in Latin American politics, recently inaugurated the Democratic Forum, an informal series of discussions with Latin American policy makers...