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...you’re a pharmacist on a power trip, might I recommend that you consider working at Rite...
...Rite Aid pharmacist––Walgreens will also do if Rite Aid isn’t hiring at the moment––you will be charged with all the traditional responsibilities of your profession: filling prescriptions, checking for drug interactions, dispensing valuable medical advice. In addition to these duties, however, you’ll have an exciting and powerful new role to play: professional moralizer...
...Preven, also called “Plan B” and the “morning after pill”––you will have the prerogative to refuse to fill her prescription on moral grounds. If you plan on working for Rite Aid or Walgreens, you had better know how you personally feel about EC, or you won’t be able to decide what is morally right for your female patients...
...finely balanced theological universe, however, it's hard to give in one area without taking away elsewhere. In this case, the loser is baptism--or at least the rite's broadest, bluntest definition. Limbo was conceived in the Middle Ages to solve a problem relating to original sin, the inherited stain of Adam and Eve's disobedience. Jesus' death on the Cross is understood to have relieved humanity of the burden of that sin, an immunity Catholicism still considers activated for each human as he or she unites with Christ in baptism...
...absence of limbo, some theologians have noticed, the rite of baptism may not seem as imperative to many Catholics as it once appeared. Despite its continued centrality as the sacramental entry to the body of Christ, some of its ASAP urgency will presumably fade. Indeed, the expected limbo ruling comes in addition to an older decision that appeared to downgrade baptism's gatekeeping role. The Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 ruled that in the case of some adult seekers of God--even non-Christians--the desire for the divine could take the place of the rite...