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On the international front, the first draft of the pastoral letter encourages the U.S. to pursue equitable and otherwise morally defensible economic policies towards the Third World. The letter specifically denounces an excessive level of military spending in which this country "budgeted more than 20 times as much for defense...
It is uncertain how much influence the letter will have on an increasingly independent-minded American Catholic laity. Says the Rev. Richard McBrien, chairman of the theology department at the University of Notre Dame: "Now that so many U.S. Catholics are in the management class and enjoy a more positive...
The letter is the latest in a long series of Catholic pronouncements on economic questions. Beginning with Pope Leo Kill's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, which stressed the right of individuals to a living wage, the church has consistently called for improvements in the lot of workers. In 1919...
Conservatives, on the other hand, felt the draft had little to offer. While applauding the well-intended goals of the bishops, they said that many of the specific proposals were shopworn ideas that had failed in the very recent past or might prove counterproductive. Many economists, for example, believe that...
The mood of Supergirl seems almost pastoral compared with that of The Terminator. This picture barrels with swank relentlessness through a giddily complicated premise and into an Armageddon face-off between another New Woman and a Man of Iron. The man (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is really a machine: sturdier than a...