Word: roman
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...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." (History...
Pope John Paul II's position on abortion is firm and uncompromising: it is morally wrong and equivalent to infanticide. That papal teaching, along with its corollary that Roman Catholics should actively seek to overturn legislation that allows the taking of prenatal life, has put the Vatican in a confrontation with 24 American nuns that could lead to their expulsion from religious life. The nuns are among 97 Catholics, including three men who belong to religious orders, who signed "A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and + Abortion," an advertisement published in the New York Times last October...
...first. Said the group: "We are appalled by the recent action of the Vatican against women who are members of religious orders. We believe that this Vatican action is a cause for scandal to Catholics everywhere. It seeks to stifle freedom of speech and public discussion in the Roman Catholic Church and create the appearance of a consensus where none exists...
...hesitate to slug it out. When the tabloid New York Post reported that her parents had once been arrested on gambling charges, the furious Ferraro said Post Publisher Rupert Murdoch "doesn't have the worth to wipe the dirt from under my mother's shoes." Ferraro's own Roman Catholic Church attacked her pro-choice stand on abortion, but she insisted that the decision must be a woman's, not the state's. When heckled by antiabortion activists, she shot back with wisecracks learned on the streets of New York. Throughout, Ferraro remained courageous, tenacious, womanly; she may have lost...
Despite that record, the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. felt compelled to speak up for those who have not shared in the general prosperity. A controversial draft of a pastoral letter presented to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops criticized the "massive and ugly" failures of American capitalism. Noting that more than 15% of the U.S. population lives below the official poverty level, the bishops called for increased Government spending on welfare and jobs programs. Critics maintained that the bishops' economic prescriptions had been tried in the past and failed. Said William Simon, a former Secretary of the Treasury...