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...American justice to blood sport. Television does its part, contributing instant replay, analysis and gladiatorial theme music. The print media join in, all of them reduced to tabloids in their feeding frenzy. This trial should be taking place in the Los Angeles Coliseum, where the resemblance to a Roman circus would be unmistakable and the masses could seal O.J.'s fate with a simple thumbs-up or thumbs-down...
...Roman Catholic Tastes...
Just because he is pro-choice and a Protestant, is it not kosher for Nebraska Senator BOB KERREY to take Communion in the Roman Catholic Church? Kerrey had been doing that for more than a year-only to discover to his embarrassment that it's against church rules. After an official of Nebraska's Right to Life committee complained, Kerrey announced that he would no longer participate in Communion ceremonies, but plans to continue attending Mass anyway. "It's a great church," he says. "I like the values...
Before the Foster controversy blew up--and gave them a common enemy--the abortion issue was threatening to scatter and distract the G.O.P. Both the Roman Catholic Church and the National Right to Life Committee recently declared their opposition to the part of the Republican welfare bill that calls for cutting off aid to pregnant teens because they fear it will encourage abortions. ``There is a concern that it will increase the likelihood that poor women, including teen moms, may see few options besides aborting their child, particularly if there is a prohibition on increasing benefits for additional children born...
Others tell the story differently. The Roman Catholic Church consigned Valentine to an eternity of sappiness when it canonized him 200 years after his demise, according to a recent article in The New York Times. (It was a slow news day, okay?) The church intended Valentine's Day to supplant a popular fertility rite of the pagan god Lupercus, who was associated with "joy, abundance and sexual freedom." Joy, abundance and sexual freedom sound a lot more entertaining to me than the current, more greeting-card-driven ritual, but then I'm not Roman Catholic and may be missing...