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...musicals. Nowadays, such things appear mainly in the continuing fad for nostalgia, as exemplified by Ken Russell's new version of The Boyfriend. For the rest, a striking number of film producers arc celebrating Christmas with a new wave of violence and bloodshed. Among the entries: Macbeth, Roman Polanski's first film since Rosemary's Baby; Dirty Harry, a tough police melodrama starring Clint Eastwood; and, once again, Sean Cannery as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever. Here is a look at three of the season's most interesting films-and their directors...
Officially, the Roman Catholic Church hews to its strict teaching that everything from impure desires to adultery is serious sin, but a modest liberalization is going on at two levels. First, increasing numbers of pastors are softening their application of the traditional morality, often on the grounds that people who engage in illicit sex may be so immature that their guilt is not always a serious matter. Second, some theologians are challenging the "natural law" doctrine that lies behind the church's moral standards. According to natural law, an act is wrong if it is "against nature...
Local response has already been heartening. Ford officials say that Detroit businesses have indicated interest in occupying as much as 2,000,000 of the project's 5,000,000 sq. ft. of office space. As for Detroit Mayor Roman S. Gribbs. he summed up his feelings about Ford's action in a word: "magnificent...
...Roman Catholic Church has maintained itself with pride as a completely male dominated and male controlled institution for 20 centuries. Because of the serious questioning that has assaulted the Catholic Church during the last five or six years, its survival in the future is strongly tied with how it will respond to the needs of the female half of the Catholic constituency...
...president of the U.S. Catholic bishops conference is more than just the symbolic leader of America's 48 million Roman Catholics. In his three-year term the president has much to say about selecting members of the church's national bureaucracy and can influence the appointment of bishops. Moreover, his philosophical cast can determine what direction the church's national program takes. Thus, in Washington last week, there was far more than ceremonial significance in the U.S. bishops' vote to give the office to Philadelphia's John Cardinal Krol, the American hierarchy's outstanding...