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...news spawned furious reaction in the press, an outpouring of outraged letters from Roman Catholic doctors, and a church-sponsored protest through the streets of Paris. A month later, a shaken Roussel Uclaf yanked the drug from the market, saying the company did not want to engage in a "moral debate...
Many priests started out as altar boys, so it may be significant that Pope John Paul II appears to be prepared to allow girls to serve at Roman Catholic Masses. The shift has nothing to do with complaints from American feminists. The Pope is simply considering a practice that is already established in some parishes. After details are worked out by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, the Vatican is expected to announce the policy later this year...
...Mexico's two Roman Catholic Cardinals, Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, was killed in Guadalajara along with six others when assassins loyal to a local drug lord apparently mistook him for a rival trafficker...
...clerics, and O'Connor warns that "a grenade could explode at any time, and another and another." He had reason to urge caution. Since 1984, most dioceses have been rocked by episodes of priestly abuse. And last week a long-awaited document administered a new shock to Midwest Roman Catholics...
...free to exclude one. The liberal Babylon also decided not to rehire its top education bureaucrat after he had promoted a curriculum suggesting that six-year-olds with questions about homosexuality be sent to sources such as Heather Has Two Mommies. An alliance of the Christian Coalition and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York then proceeded to help opponents of the curriculum win seats on local school boards. Finally, President Clinton found that he could not open the military to open gays with the stroke...