Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drawer pressure. In any case, star-quality executives who are let go rarely land new jobs commensurate in perquisites or prestige with their old ones. Often they must take a dramatic cut in pay. Some prospective employers fear that the former ruler of a corporate kingdom will resent suddenly having to take orders. Says Sheldon Hirsch, a Los Angeles executive recruiter: "The higher the level, the more difficult it is for them to find something...
...international expansion of the diaconate. A deacon since 1970, Schaller has made his "parish" a newly built quarter on the periphery of Lyons. There he is president of a tenants' union, which defends renters in disputes with landlords. He also performs marriages and baptisms for anticlerical couples who resent the presence of priests but are willing to accept the new deacons...
...directive given "by his own hand") envisioned the diaconate as a substitute ministry where priests were in short supply. It is the motu proprio that demands, somewhat unrealistically, that unmarried deacons take lifetime vows of celibacy; as a result, few single men have applied. Most of the married deacons resent the Pope's ruling that a widowed deacon cannot remarry, even though that ruling could leave young children motherless (one Detroit deacon has 13 children). Many American bishops would like the Vatican to rescind both stipulations...
Some deacons complain that parish priests see them as "unpaid janitors." Some priests, for their part, resent the fact that a few deacons wear the Roman collar, a practice that local diaconate program directors would like to stop. More important, there is increasing pressure from women to be ordained as deacons, as they are in the Episcopal Church.* Though there are no theological obstacles to such a move-indeed, there seems to be precedent for it among early Christians-Rome is likely to yield only slowly to the concept...
Moreover, a successful integration program requires certain advance planning and sensitivity on the part of school officials. Repeatedly, when such planning has been absent, the result has been a heightening of hostility between the races. Blacks come to feel that they are not welcomed at the school, and whites resent the increased physical violence that frequently occurs. In many cases students are afraid to use the restrooms. One white mother whose son had been beaten up twice in the restroom explained: "Integration has made my son a racial bigot...