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...Babbitt, it comes from the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam War and America's indifference to the poor. But Neuhaus, 39, a white pastor of a largely black Lutheran church in Brooklyn, has always kept everyone off balance. When he led his parish in an antiwar protest service in 1967, he insisted that the youths who were turning in their draft cards join in a lusty chorus of America the Beautiful...
...been U.S. Attorney in his native New Orleans for five years, was appointed to the bench in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman. In the years since then, he made a number of pioneering rulings in civil rights cases, including a 1966 order forcing school integration in Plaquemines Parish, La., one of the longest Deep South holdouts against federal desegregation laws...
They were bolstered by long soul-searching talks with their other two children and their Roman Catholic parish priest. Father Thomas Trapasso advised them that there was "no moral obligation to use extraordinary means to sustain life when there is no realistic hope of some recovery." But when the Quinlans asked doctors to let their daughter die, the doctors refused. Karen was not a minor, they said, and they might be held responsible for her death...
...Words. In the U.S., Jadot "looks upon the whole country as his parish," a fellow bishop notes. "He has grasped the ethnic culture of Cleveland and the Chicano culture of the Southwest. He understands Guam and the problems of blacks." Jadot's casual style is in itself quite American. A few weeks after his arrival in Washington, a group of priests invited him to dinner; he accepted on condition that he could wear sports clothes. He will spend hours chatting over beers with young seminarians, or take a break from his 16-hour workday to tool...
...status of the others: three are seminary teachers; two are parish assistants; one quit parish work because the lay board did not back her, had a baby, and is now job hunting; one is a counselor and parish assistant; one works with women prisoners; one runs a small religious order and one has become a Methodist minister...