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Falwell's mood picked up. Abortion is no longer a Roman Catholic issue, he said with satisfaction, but a Moral Majority one. His 261 clinics to assist pregnant women in having their babies and placing them for adoption, Falwell explained, will eventually swell to 10,000. If the Supreme Court sees such an alternative system, he predicted, the Justices will surely reverse the 1973 decision legalizing abortion, especially after Reagan appoints some new members. Falwell sees a new attitude among young people. "More and more of them have decided the social experiments of the '60s and '70s have failed...
...himself, thinks that the religious right makes quite accurate assessments. Antireligion and amorality have in fact been spreading in the public schools, he asserts, and "a majority of Americans are scandalized" by the apparent flouting of traditional values on television and in the press. Similarly, Michael Novak, the neoconservative Roman Catholic, says that the mass media so neglect the nation's deep-seated religious feelings that believers of all types "feel they live in a hostile culture...
This year has proved equally perilous. In January eight men wielding automatic rifles pulled the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, 50, director of Beirut's Roman Catholic Relief Services, from his car in West Beirut. Two months later, Terry Anderson, 37, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, disappeared. In May six assailants snatched David Jacobsen, 54, director of the medical center at the American University, from the campus. Only five days before Flight 847 was commandeered, several gunmen captured Thomas Sutherland, 52, the university's dean of agriculture. Jeremy Levin of the Cable News Network, another American hostage taken...
...branches of the worldwide Anglican communion, including the U.S. Episcopal Church, have admitted women into the clergy, the Church of England, the parent body, has refused to follow their example. Leaders in the mother church have feared that such a move would end all hope of future reunion with Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox, and prompt wholesale defections of Church of England traditionalists...
...spurned earlier offers of release under similar conditions. Vatican officials suggested the Chinese government acted because it did not want the aging bishop to die in prison. The Vatican asked for Gong's freedom when Jaime Cardinal Sin of Manila visited Peking last year. At least twelve other Roman Catholic priests are believed to remain in Chinese prisons or labor camps...