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...Bitter Pill. The police raids constituted the latest, most serious development in an increasingly bitter confrontation between some South African churchmen and the racist government of Premier Johannes Vorster. While Vorster has repeatedly warned clerics to stay out of "politics," clergymen, especially a number of outspoken Anglicans, have steadfastly refused to ignore apartheid. Two events late last year exacerbated the conflict. After the World Council of Churches voted a $200,000 grant to "antiracist" liberation groups in Africa and elsewhere (TIME, Oct. 5), W.C.C. member churches refused to accede to Vorster's demand that they quit the organization. Then...
...showdown has been directed not so much against a denomination as such as against individual critics and anti-apartheid organizations like the Christian Institute. Aggressively promoting multiracial cooperation, the institute has been a particularly bitter pill for the government; it is led by Christiaan F. Beyers Naude, an exile from the country's dominant, pro-apartheid Dutch Reformed Church...
When Pope Paul VI confirmed the ban on use of the Pill and all other "artificial" birth control methods in his 1968 encyclical Hwnanae Vitae, a number of national bishops' conferences softened the blow. They viewed the encyclical as an ideal to be encouraged rather than an absolute restriction to enforce in all cases. And many government and private agencies went ahead with campaigns to limit population. But Pope Paul is not so easily contradicted. Now. acting through his Secretary of State, Jean Cardinal Villot, 65, he has begun a quiet counterattack, attempting to marshal Catholic forces against...
Though Dement is quick to urge pill poppers to omit the barbiturates, he does not advocate sudden withdrawal, which can cause severe anxiety or even convulsions. Instead, he urges a slow weaning. One patient who followed this advice reported significant gains in his battle with insomnia. When he took as many as five barbiturates a day, he slept only 5 hrs. 40 min. a night. After abandoning the pills entirely, he began snoring soundly for seven hours...
...exaggerated. "If I am standing next to Ottaviani, I am a liberal. If I am standing next to Hans Küng, I am a conservative." Nonetheless, he disapproves of the idea of married priests, supports Humanae Vltac "fully" and thus (unlike most Dutch Catholics) opposes the birth control pill. In theological problems, he believes that "Rome knows best...