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Carey had all the attributes of a winning New York candidate. Brooklyn-born and bred, he had the genial but "don't tread on me" demeanor of the neighborhood Irish bartender. A Roman Catholic widower with a dozen children, he was at home with the city's ethnic denizens who ask, above all, that they not be looked down upon. At the same time, he was acceptable to the city's liberals, the imperial custodians of party affairs. Though he served Brooklyn's most conservative district, he maintained a relatively liberal voting record. Besides, after more...
Torture is still widely used in Brazil, despite pledges made last spring by the country's new President, General Ernesto Geisel, to halt the barbaric practice. According to a report compiled by Brazilian Roman Catholics, former victims and attorneys, at least 79 persons have died under torture in the past nine years and thousands of others have been subjected to beatings, electric shocks and other torments. Torture, said the report, has become "institutionalized" in Brazil, conducted mainly by military security forces. A recent victim was former United Methodist Missionary and TIME Stringer Fred B. Morris, 41, who was held...
Finally, the real reason for their interest in me emerged: my inquisitors began asking endless questions about Roman Catholic Archbishop Helder Camara, a vocal critic of the regime and a friend of mine. They were furious about stories that I had filed to TIME and the Associated Press that they considered favorable to the Recife archbishop and unflattering to the dictatorship. They cursed Dom Helder, claiming that he was a liar when he accused the government of condoning torture. Their tirade was accompanied by more shocks and my screams. Twice during the afternoon they tortured me in front of Luis...
Sandra Gail Dolley, 28, of Ludlow, Mass., is a practicing Roman Catholic who once taught catechism at her parish in Springfield. She was married in a Catholic ceremony in 1970-just as her husband began his Army service. By early 1972 the couple had separated. A priest advised Sandra to seek an annulment* but the local diocese decided there was not enough evidence to justify one. In January 1973 the couple got a civil divorce. Later that year, when Sandra began to think seriously about marrying again, she stopped receiving Communion because by remarrying she would automatically incur excommunication. Priests...
...proposal is a radical one in a church that flatly forbids remarriage to anyone who has previously had a valid Christian marriage. Roman Catholicism still teaches that once consummated, a marriage between two baptized Christians is a sacrament: it creates an indissoluble bond breakable only by death. The church has taught that Jesus' dictum "What God has joined together, let not man put asunder" means that men not only should not, but cannot break that sacramental bond. In recent years, however, Catholic theologians, psychologists and scripture scholars have begun to question whether Jesus meant that marriage is in fact...