Word: protesting
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...burgeoning resistance to Rome is best demonstrated in Seattle, where Catholic activists last week presented Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen and Auxiliary Bishop Donald Wuerl with petitions signed by more than 13,000 parishioners over the past month to "protest the injustice" of Vatican intervention in the archdiocese. Earlier this year, in a virtually unprecedented step that was long kept secret, John Paul stripped authority from Hunthausen on moral teachings, marriage annulments, sacraments and the training of priests, bestowing those responsibilities upon the conservative Wuerl. Among Hunthausen's supposed transgressions: allowing altar girls and permitting a cathedral Mass for gay Catholics...
Still, if poetry and politics are bedfellows in certain ways, the bed is rarely comfortable. Poetry has none of the active power that politics has. It can protest or commemorate a war but cannot cause one. Assessing the poet's responsibility in the world, Allen Tate derided the romantic notion that if poets "behaved differently . . . the international political order itself would not have been in jeopardy and we should not perhaps be at international loggerheads today." Poets do not have that sort of influence, and undoubtedly would abuse it if they...
Despite having misled the public and having managed an investment portfolio at odds with the principles he touts in protest of the University's stance toward divestment, Bozzotto has not been forthcoming on further information or explanation...
Activism against Harvard's wrong-headed investment policy is an example to us all. Such action should remain clear of any allegations of hypocrisy or cover-up. Bozzotto ought to get his own house in order if he wants to protest at Harvard...
Nicaragua sent the United States a note of protest Wednesday and called on the Reagan administration "to abandon its politics of force, threats and intervention in Central American, and accept the path of dialogue...