Word: quinn
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...homosexual behavior. But this teaching has laid the church open to charges that its attitude is out of step with the times. Nowhere in the U.S. has its stance caused more problems than in San Francisco, where the homosexual population is estimated at 20%. In 1980 John R. Quinn, the Archbishop of San Francisco, issued a pastoral letter to the archdiocese saying that the church, while showing compassion, must oppose homosexual or any other sexual activity outside of marriage...
...year later, after a flurry of violent attacks on homosexuals by Latino youths, the commission on social justice of Quinn's archdiocese appointed a Task Force on Gay/Lesbian Issues. Among its 14 members were nine laymen, two priests, one brother and two nuns (one of whom was associate director of the archdiocese's office of religious education). Some members were homosexuals. The chairman was Psychotherapist Kevin Gordon. After 17 months of deliberation, the task force produced a 132-page report, "Homosexuality and Social Justice," published last week. The commission endorsed the document for study but warned that...
Though Archbishop Quinn remained silent, the first reaction from the archdiocese emphasized the task force's good intentions rather than accusing it of doctrinal errors or sins of naiveté. Said an editorial in the archdiocesan newspaper The Monitor: "We do not agree with many of the report's findings and recommendations. On the other hand, we respect the report for what it is-a working document, voicing the real feelings of real people who have had the courage to speak out." Last week the archdiocese's senate of priests resolved to seek a plan for ministering...
...Peter Quinn, manager of the Newton Court project, said most residents of his apartment have spent "easily one, two, or more" years on the waiting list before gaining entrance into the program. He said the majority have moved to public housing from privately-owned units with skyrocketing rents...
...body and the writing are found by American soldiers, liberators of the death camps. Captain Freyberg, a fanatical Nazi-hunter who ironically places the Dachau gate sign, ARBEIT MACHT FREI (Work shall set you free), over his desk, checks off Mauberley as one more fascist corpse. Lieut. Quinn is not so sure. He begins to examine the handwriting on the wall...