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...ranks of the Catholic clergy. Some of the loudest complaints have come not from traditionalists who think celibacy might be undermined but from liberal priests and nuns. One reason: the U.S. converts are mostly theological conservatives who left the clergy of the Episcopal Church because of that denomination's leftward drift on liturgy, doctrine and discipline -- particularly the Episcopalians' decision in 1976 to admit women priests. Also the wife of one priestly convert told Fichter she had run into resentment from nuns who wanted to become priests...
Willem, influenced by the less strident opinions of his mother's family, began veering leftward while editing a Calvinist monthly, Word and Deed, in the mid-1950s. "I gained this insight that apartheid is not a just dispensation, not a solution for South Africa, not founded in morality, not common sense," he recalls. He began speaking out against such National Party measures for entrenching apartheid as the Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act and the move to give blacks voting rights in so-called black homelands rather than in South Africa proper. He has committed what many Afrikaners consider...
...says that the apparent leftward movement of the official candidates is only an example of the Alumni Association's attempts to offer voters a diverse set of choices...
...Revolution has backfired to the point that Bush no longer finds it necessary or even politically convenient to walk in Reagan's shadow. Bush has taken large steps leftward toward his pre-Revolution political philosophy...
Southern white leaders are already sounding alarms about any leftward tilt. Some pols running this year are maneuvering to put distance between themselves and the national ticket in order to avoid a liberal taint. Jon Mills, speaker of the Florida state assembly, warns that Dukakis "has to show us that he isn't just another northeastern liberal. He's going to have to give us some material to work with." Texas Democratic Chairman Bob Slagle, a Gore supporter, fears that Jackson will nail even more left-wing planks into the platform than were there in 1984. "If Dukakis gets pictured...