Word: pichler
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...longer constitute an immigrant culture, and are far more likely to attend college than are Americans as a whole. Says he: "The American hierarchy and the Vatican simply haven't realized that we have a well-educated population out there whom you cannot coerce or talk down to." Joseph Pichler, an active lay Catholic and president of a retailing chain, agrees: "People won't stand for getting nailed any more. The risk the Pope runs is that in exercising his authority, he may lose it. People will quietly engage in spiritual disobedience...
...Buildings. But Roger Altman, managing director of Shearson Lehman/American Express and a self-described "serious Catholic," was sympathetic. Said he: "Our society has an obligation to the underprivileged, and the degree to which we haven't made progress in raising their living standards is enormously troubling." Observed Joseph Pichler, a Catholic who is president of Dillon Cos., a major grocery and retail store operator: "There's much to agree on in the document, particularly when they speak of the dignity of man and the dignity of work. But their policy recommendations, I predict, are going to be widely...