Word: licitness
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...lack of membership in a Club, though some, no doubt suffer mild disappointment. The possibility of belonging simply leavens the loaf for those eligible and interested, while inflicting little harm on any interested but ineligible. In treating the matter otherwise, I believe that the College has erred, confusing licit discrimination with that which is properly abjured...
...dissenters within the church, however, have zeroed in on this element of doubt. For these Catholics, including a few theologians, the primary questions are: When is a fetus a person, and how do we know it? The implication, that there may be a brief period during which abortion is licit, is not new in the church, though it has been a minor refrain in Catholic theology and explicitly rejected many times by the Vatican. An influential 17th century theologian named Torreblanca taught that before the fetus is animated by the soul, a woman may have an abortion...
...show recounts the misadventures of a troupe of fifth-rate actors as they perform a sex farce titled Nothing On during a fleabag provincial tour. The plot of Nothing On involves a ditzy maid in an English country house, a wayward plate of sardines, an illicit couple, a licit couple dodging the taxman, a sheik and a bibulous burglar. Doors slam (the set contains seven of them) and trousers drop with dizzying abandon...
...Roman Catholic Church has traditionally seen no contradiction in its opposition to abortion and its teaching that capital punishment can be morally licit. But Catholic criticism of the death penalty is growing stronger, even as the church remains steadfast in its belief that abortion is equivalent to murder...
Philadelphia's influential Archbishop, John Cardinal Krol, 72, is liberal on disarmament and conservative on church discipline and doctrine. He suggested that the pastoral letter should more clearly acknowledge a nation's right to resist attack and tyranny from unjust aggressors by all means that are morally licit...