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...Catholics think that the law should permit abortion for a danger to the mother's life, and 44% for social reasons, such as a family's poverty. American Catholics widely disregard the Pope and bishops on birth control. Says Loyola University of Chicago Psychologist and ex-Priest Eugene Kennedy: "You can't deliver a Catholic vote on anything any more-Catholics are not one isolated bloc with homogeneous interests...
...today's bishops: their concern with humanity as well as with doctrine. "They embrace what is good," says Hesburgh, "and a little imperfection too. They know that it's better to encourage little flowers than to sweep the ground clean. It's exciting to be a priest in the middle of an exciting development: the blossoming of the Gospel in new ways...
Bearing in mind the mistakes of the past, Bernardin says that he has no intention to "lord it over others." In his daily business Bernardin dresses more like an ordinary parish priest than a prospective prince of the church. He has invited two priests and three nuns to share the cavernous brick mansion he inherited from Cody, and prefers to drive his silver Oldsmobile himself, all in keeping with his notion of a no-frills clergy. Explains Bernardin: "I consider myself a servant first of the Lord, then a servant of others for the sake of the Lord...
...Peter's Square. No, Yasser Arafat has not been made a Cardinal. No, a Swiss Guard has not run away with Koo Stark. (That's just my little joke.) Instead, some movie people have made a big expensive picture about, get this, an American priest who finances the papacy with money he got from the Mafia. He also has a real steamy love affair with a French lady who is studying to be a nun. And, on top of that, this scheming monsignor is played by Christopher Reeve-that's right, Superman-so he's supposed...
...that teaching is a fraud. His much younger wife (Nancy Snyder) is as smarmily supportive as she is unbearably actressy. And then there is Barnard Hughes, a man who enhances the scope and embellishes the vocabulary of acting every time he steps on a stage. He plays a tart priest whose vocation has gone AWOL...