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...immigrant culture, and are far more likely to attend college than are Americans as a whole. Says he: "The American hierarchy and the Vatican simply haven't realized that we have a well-educated population out there whom you cannot coerce or talk down to." Joseph Pichler, an active lay Catholic and president of a retailing chain, agrees: "People won't stand for getting nailed any more. The risk the Pope runs is that in exercising his authority, he may lose it. People will quietly engage in spiritual disobedience...
...other hand, as the Pope understands Vatican II, the church should let the laity work out policy details and fill public offices. The Pope has praised and encouraged lay organizations that attempt to put Catholic ideals into practice in everyday life. Two of his conservative favorites are Opus Dei, a tightly disciplined international organization of 74,000, and Comunione e Liberazione, a less structured group with about 60,000 adherents in Italy and growing numbers in Europe and Latin America...
...countermeasures: another ad soliciting support for free speech, a series of nationwide prayer services, counterhearings to coincide with the bishops' planned hearings in Washington in March on the role of women. "This is a pivotal moment in the history of the church," says Maureen Reiff, one of the lay signers of the ad. "We all feel that the attack on us appears to be a rescinding of Vatican...
Svetlana's politics lay on the far right. She declared the conservative National Review to be her favorite publication and sent Editor William F. Buckley a $500 donation in 1981. Last August Donald Denman, a retired Cambridge University professor, invited her to visit the House of Commons to see British democracy at work. As they strolled through Westminster, Denman offered to introduce Svetlana to some Members of Parliament. A look of horror passed over her face. "I don't want to meet any Socialists," she said. "Only Tories...
...rural America. In Unionville, Mo., Bud and Hazel Hirst have decided to give away their 476-acre cattle ranch, which is $200,000 in debt. "You can't sell land here," says Bud, 53. "Nobody is going to buy it." The Hirsts have hit on a unique way to lay their burden down. They have collected poems by Hazel, 52, in a booklet titled Bitter Harvest, and are selling copies for $8 each (sample verse: "But hope won't clothe your children/ It can't their hunger salve/ It will not pay the mortgage/ And hope is all we have...