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John Paul II rejected this worldly thinking. This Pope made Catholicism alive and real and challenged us to make radical choices for faith. He sought to remind us that she who would make a real choice, a difficult choice, must be prepared for the world to reject or punish her for what she believes. Without this risk, a choice is insignificant. Against our own mindless choices of paper or plastic, Chevy or Ford, this Pope pointed us in the direction of those choices that make us fully human...
...said they would be more likely to vote against their congressional representative if he or she voted for the recent Schiavo bill. Still, for all the speculation that Republicans may have overreached with their control of Congress, it is hard to imagine that many voters, especially moderate Republicans, will punish legislators for, in effect, trying to prolong Schiavo's life...
...month. Stéphane Rozès, deputy director general of CSA polling agency, which conducted the survey, says growing resentment over government reform, rising unemployment, falling spending power, and the E.U.'s effort to liberalize the service sector could further mobilize the disaffected. "There's growing desire to punish leaders, and blame Paris and Brussels alike for everything going wrong," Rozès explains. "Most people are basing how they'll vote on anything but the constitution itself." That's grim news for the yes side, which includes almost every major figure on both the right and left...
...citizens. They want protection from smut yet don't use the V chip. They talk about competing with pop culture to parent their children yet give kids TVs and computers in their bedrooms. They rail against sex and violence in entertainment, yet--as a group, anyway--reward it and punish the alternatives. The most wholesome new network show of last fall was CBS's Clubhouse, a sweet drama about a teenage bat boy for a baseball team, executive-produced by Mel (The Passion of the Christ) Gibson. It was canceled by November. Desperate Housewives is still going strong...
...would be great if antiabortion activists would join pro-choicers to advocate for measures to reduce abortions. But often those who most strongly oppose abortion rights do so not out of respect for life but to control women and punish them for exercising their sexuality...