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With John Paul's death the Sacred College of Cardinals faces the critical responsibility of electing a successor, a duty it has not executed in more than 26 years. Such procedures are fraught with suspense and barnacled with gossip and speculation. Secular and nonsecular observers fall over themselves trying to gauge the political and philosophical mind of the electorate before the Cardinals gather behind tightly closed doors to discuss, debate and ultimately decide who will be the successor of Peter...
...displayed, more subtly and often surrounded by secular legal symbols, in other government buildings around the country. But federal District Judge Myron Thompson said in his ruling that Roy's Rock is "nothing less than an obtrusive year-round religious display... The only way to miss the religious or nonsecular appearance of the monument would be to walk through the Alabama State Judicial Building with one's eyes closed." A federal appeals court agreed, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a stay in the case. Moore has said he plans to file an appeal with the Supreme Court...
...only is it impossible to separate the secular from the nonsecular in such church activities, said Oppenheimer, but tax exemption is well established for other charitable organizations performing the same kind of services. If religious groups were forced to give up exemptions, he concluded, "serious questions of unconstitutional discrimination might arise." In short, despite logic, Maryland believes that the Constitution can and does permit this particular reality of U.S. life. Whether Maryland is right must still be decided by the Supreme Court-if, and when, it considers Mrs. O'Hair's appeal...
Established in 1955 by Don Giacomo Alberione, now 75, founder of the Society of St. Paul, a progressive order that uses such modern means as movies, radio and TV to spread the word of Christ, Cosi competes on nonsecular terms. By its low price-Cosi sells for 50 lire (8?), about half the going rate-and by a vigorous door-to-door selling campaign, the Daughters of St. Paul say they have pushed the magazine's circulation to 300,000, respectably close to the two leaders in the crowded Italian women's field, Grazia and Annabella, each with...
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