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Leaving Notre Dame stadium, one feels like a Roman patrician second-guessing his thumbs-down decision on a vanquished gladiator. Leaving Soldiers Field, one usually wonders how the experts are going to explain this...
...whom much is given, of him will much be required," he warned the Apostles according to the Gospel of Luke, "and of him to whom men commit much, they will demand the more." A surprisingly tough editorial in the Catholic Standard and Times, weekly newspaper of the conservative Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, voices the prevailing discontent: "It is discouraging for law-abiding citizens to see that presidential duplicity goes unpunished and that the considerable perquisites of power continue undiminished, while perpetrators of acts with less far-reaching effects feel the full weight...
...moral objections to birth control have declined radically in the U.S. in the years since World War II. Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish teachings generally consider contraception morally wrong. But many members of these faiths do not, and some two-thirds of American Catholic women now admit that they practice birth control. In the U.S., in fact, more than 80% of the 26.5 million married women in their fertile years now use some kind of contraceptive regularly, more than a third of them relying on the Pill to prevent pregnancy. Sterilization of both men and women is also...
...connection with their fetal research, the concern that swept the medical community was not so simple. The doctors' experiments--published in The New England Medical Journal in June of 1973--had involved abortions, and area researchers saw the indictments as an effort by the authorities in this largely Roman Catholic community to arrest all fetal research. As Rudolph Pierce, Berman's attorney, said last week, "The issue here is not the direct legal one but the underlying emotional one." And in what is partially an effort to keep the emotional issues out of the courtroom, Pierce and his colleagues have...
...When fighting between Portuguese colonial troops and Mozambique liberation guerrillas was at its fiercest, Roman Catholic Archbishop Custodio Alvim Pereira of Lourenço Marques had little patience with some of the Catholic missionaries who denounced Portuguese atrocities. The denunciations were "Marxist propaganda," he thundered, adding that priests who indulged in such criticism were departing from their role as ministers of the Gospel. When a fellow prelate disagreed, Pereira had him hustled off to Portugal under military escort. Last week the archbishop found himself being hustled away. After a visit from a Vatican cardinal, Pereira abruptly resigned his Mozambique diocese...