Word: rauch
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...Labor Secretary, Robert Reich couldn't get a buzz going if he'd crossed a picket line. Now he's the talk of the town for his bestselling memoir, Locked in the Cabinet. But the talk has turned decidedly sour since one reviewer, Jonathan Rauch, saw through the forest of short-guy jokes to find a book that was too good to be true. Writing in Slate magazine, Rauch found that Reich had cooked the raw material of Washington life into an unrecognizable stew of half-truths in which he comes off as morally superior...
...attacked by cigar-puffing capitalists at a lunch speech: "There isn't a lady in the room. All men...ready for the kill." They hiss and shout, "'Wrong!' 'Bull____!' 'Go back to Harvard."' Great stuff, but it never happened, according to tapes and transcripts dug up by Rauch. Saxton was less Savonarola than Mister Rogers; the hearing was dull, even for C-SPAN. The lunch was breakfast, the room nonsmoking and nonhissing, and a third of the audience was women. Reich responds that transcripts couldn't reflect the hostility he felt. Who does he think he is--the President...
...sympathize with Sheila Rauch Kennedy in the breakdown of her marriage to Joe Kennedy II [NATION, May 12], but I regret her views on the Roman Catholic Church's process of annulment. Your story said Rauch, who is protesting the annulment of her 12-year marriage, decries "the annulment procedure's dishonesty in ruling that a once happy marriage never existed in the eyes of God." Almost half the marriages in the U.S. end in divorce, including those of Catholics. In recent decades, more annulments have been granted because of a deeper understanding of the spiritual and emotional maturity required...
...Catholic belief, no human can dissolve a marriage, a sacrament undertaken by bride and groom before God. Church tribunals do not presume to void the contract. They can only determine (to the dismay of people in Rauch Kennedy's position) that owing to human incapacity or error, a valid contract was never entered into in the first place. For centuries the standards for this were clear and high: mental illness of either spouse, for instance, or impotence at the time of marriage. In 1968 only 338 decrees of nullity were granted in the U.S. But in the early 1960s, John...
...grave scandal." Robert Vasoli, author of the forthcoming book Tearing Asunder: Annulment American Style, says that on this issue, "the church in the U.S. is practically in schism with Rome." An overstatement, perhaps, but in 1994 Pope John Paul II warned the Roman Rota, the Vatican court to which Rauch Kennedy has appealed, against a "mistaken idea of compassion and mercy" that might cloud true justice...