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...superiority of gender. The document added, however, that there is a "profound fittingness" in having priests with "natural resemblance" to the male Jesus Christ, since they represent him in the Mass. "If you were staging a Nativity play, would you have Cary Grant or Nick Nolte play Mary?" asks Ronda Chervin of St. John's Seminary in California, one of two women advisers who have lasted throughout the U.S. Catholic bishops' work on the pastoral letter...
...same point is made by a more conservative thinker, Ronda Chervin, a philosophy professor at the seminary of the Los Angeles archdiocese. Chervin is one of the three official consultants on the bishops' pastoral letter who have remained throughout the project. She does not see the all-male priesthood as an injustice and predicts, "There will be more and more women confidently within leadership positions. It will be taken for granted that women will teach in seminaries, manage finances or act in diocesan or parish leadership roles...
...stock-car racing's roots in moonshining. During the 1930s and '40s, drivers running corn whisky from backwoods stills to thirsty customers needed their cars to be a little lighter and quicker than the sheriff's in order to remain in business. Bootleggers like the legendary Junior Johnson of Ronda, N.C., took to tearing out the radios, door handles, glass and backseats from "stock" cars (i.e., directly off showroom floors) and muscling up the engines in their own garages. Although Johnson had to take an enforced break from driving to serve a 10-month bootlegging sentence, his road skills...
...Ronda said that she has spoken with all theworkers whose eligibility has been questioned bythe University and they have agreed that a quickunion election for all the support staff is moreimportant than time-consuming hearings about a fewworkers...
...Ronda said the University was trying to delayan election for strategic purposes. Both sideshave agreed that the more a vote is delayed themore it hurts union support...