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...having quite as hard a time of it. "A very good, top-notch woman has got a better chance at this point than a top-notch man," McKinney says. "Though in the soft fields, it's hard for everyone." It is "now almost the rule, not the exception," Brendan Maher, chairman of the Psychology and Social Relations Department, says, for letters from universities advertising openings to specify interest in finding qualified women or minority candidates. As a direct result of the women's movement and "the fuss that's been made," Skocpol says, "it's now easier for a woman...
...Maher is the Most Rev. Leo T. Maher, 59, the bishop of San Diego who now seems bent on escalating single-handed the 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 was traveling in Europe when his letter was first released two weeks ago. It caused consternation among San Diego priests, and Maher's aides explained that Catholics could belong to NOW-if they opposed its pro-abortion view. Upon his return Maher endorsed that shift at a testy press conference. But buoyed by a stream of favorable phone calls, telegrams and letters, he justified his condemnation of NOW by name. He also insisted that support of a woman's freedom of choice on abortion-which is NOW's policy-is as bad as promoting 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...
...Bishop Maher's position is severe by any measure. Catholic canon law provides that women or doctors who intentionally involve themselves in abortions are automatically excommunicated, but Maher is now denying the Eucharist on the basis of individuals' personal beliefs about the matter. Before it was modified, his outright ban on NOW membership was unusually extreme. Historically, Catholic bans on specific organizations have been rare and have involved only groups like the Masons, which the church opposed for many years as essentially anti-Catholic...