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...Roman Catholic Church's war on abortion. In a letter read at Masses in San Diego last week, Maher announced that no one in his 512,000-member diocese who publicly admits to membership in an organization that promotes abortion can receive the Eucharist or serve as a lector (lay reader). He specifically cited NOW for its "shameless agitation" on behalf of abortion...
Maher's move was apparently prompted by complaints from some Catholics in his diocese-a center of "right-to-life" activity-about a feminist leader named Jan Gleason. She is not only a parish lector but also a NOW member and, most upsetting of all to the antiabortionists, the national head of Catholics for a Free Choice. This group, like NOW, supports a woman's right of personal decision on abortion...
More significant, Paul also issued a motu-proprio-a decree by his own hand-that barred women from formal investiture in even such minor roles in the ministry as lector (reader) and acolyte (assistant at Mass and other services). They have performed these functions extensively, if unofficially, since Vatican II and presumably will continue to do so. In a separate decree the Pope reaffirmed mandatory celibacy for deacons who are not married at the time of ordination or who become widowers...
...poet) (Vancouver, 1943?)." Next to this, Gridley noticed, was a mimeographed supplement to the British Museum's Bulletin of Printed Books. It mentioned the acquisition of the unique volume published in 1455, Asellus Hinnibundus (Whinnying Ass). Asellus begins with the words: "In hoc libro non continentur quae expectares, candide lector" (You won't find what you expect in this book, shining reader) and ends: "Nuces tibi" (Nuts to you). The fake bulletin also states that "until further notice all Scottish books printed before 1750 will be issued only to Scottish readers...
...house. Against her children's protests she retires thither, having made most unbusinesslike arrangements with the owner, eccentric Mr. Bucktrout. She lives there happily with her old French maid, seeing almost nobody until even more eccentric old Fitz-George, a millionaire miser and famed col lector, renews an acquaintance lapsed for 50 years. Then FitzGeorge dies, electrifies Lady Slane 's family and the nation by leaving her all his immense fortune, his priceless collection. When Lady Slane in turn hands over her unwelcome bequest to charity and a museum her children are furious but her own equanimity...