Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...education, two-career families, and the premature influence of the sex-filled mass media. The diagnoses of both sociologists and moralists imply that we need to rebuild teens' social environments to condition young adults better. This is not a constructive recommendation, because it rests on the assumption of moral or social decay. Claiming that things were better in the good old days gets us nowhere...
...decades Moral Theologian Charles Curran of the Catholic University of America vexed the Vatican with his liberal ideas on birth control, homosexuality, abortion and divorce. In 1986 Rome declared him unfit to teach in the church's name. The university suspended him last year, but a review committee declared that, while the school's trustees could withdraw Curran's "canonical mission" as a church theologian, they must guarantee his tenure. The trustees (one-third of them bishops) agreed last week, announcing that Curran could teach in an "area of his professional competence," presumably moral theology, but not at the Vatican...
Experts on ethics in scientific research and animal rights advocates say they fear that, in the rush to make advances in genetics research, the moral questions of creating and patenting animals are being ignored...
PROFESSOR of Government Martin Kilson played a moral trump card yesterday. In a letter to the editor, Kilson took issue with a column in which my editorial page colleague Matthew Joseph argued that Jesse Jackson lacks elective experience necessary to be president of the United States. Kilson labelled Joseph's views "neoracist...
...last Sunday's meeting, a motion for an informal vote on the issue was debated for an hour before failing to pass. Bok and his advisers have decided to address this pressing moral question by resorting to procedural wrangling. But while the meaningless arguments continue, the efforts at obfuscation increase, and the gamesmanship goes on, in South Africa as Transafrica's Randall Robinson said at Harvard, "the clock continues to tick...