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...20th century, British Catholic pressure on the Vatican helped persuade the papacy at one point to outlaw even contacts with non-Catholics as undermining the concept of the One True Church. But in 1958 Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncalli, the Patriarch of Venice, was elected Pope John XXIII after the death of the doctrinally stern Pius XII, and a new mood about Christian unity took hold. Two years later, John established the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity to further ecumenism among all Christian groups. And the Second Vatican Council, called into session by Pope John XXIII in 1962, began...
...should be seeking an alternative to the deterrence system itself. Postwar U.S. policy revolves around protecting Western Europe from conventional Soviet attack by the threat of an all-out strategic response, to leave open the "nuclear option"--and thus to avoid any arms control treaty which would outlaw nuclear war or eliminate nuclear weapons. As early as 1946, an important secret study prepared for Harry Truman concluded that the U.S. "should entertain no proposals for disarmament or limitation of armament as long as the possibility of Soviet aggression exists. Any discussion of the limitation of armaments should be pursued slowly...
Seeking to outlaw the operation seems as futile a gesture as the 18th amendment's attempt to prohibit the sale and manufacture of liquor Prohibition made "America safe for hypocrisy," but little else, since the laws were neither obeyed nor enforced. Prohibition violations were "naughty," but were victimless. Illegal abortions, however, can prove tragic...
...focus this week in the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to vote on a constitutional amendment proposed by Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah. The amendment, if passed by two-thirds of both houses and three-fourths of the states, would allow any state, or Congress, to outlaw abortion. Many conservatives prefer a more radical statute, sponsored by Helms, which declares that human life, as protected under Constitution, begins with conception. any Helms' bill abortion does would not be attempt murder. to the Constitution, it needs only a majority in Congress to pass...
...public policy issues properly left to the electorate."Also nettlesome to conservatives is the lobbying that poverty lawyers occasionally engage in. In California, for example, an air-conditioning company foreclosed on a purchaser's home if he missed payments; legal services attorneys persuaded the state legislature to outlaw the practice. Under the rules set last week by Congress, both class actions-and lobbying will be all but eliminated...