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...growth is most unchecked. Those Third World bishops who worry about the population problem promote only natural methods. In such nations as the Philippines and Kenya, Cardinals have publicly decried government population programs. For workaday Catholics in impoverished nations, however, it is often not bishops who define what is sinful but parish priests. On that level, the Pope faces increased individualism among priests in the Third World. Typical of many in overcrowded urban slums, Dominican Father Miguel Concha of Mexico City remarks, "If I know someone is using an artificial method, I'm not going to think they...
...moral force of the imperative you violate. In a society that grants the future some claims, a society that will not countenance the endless destruction of children by polio - or by hypoplastic left-heart syndrome - " research medicine, like politics, [becomes] a realm in which men have to 'sin bravely.' " Baby Fae lived, and died, in that realm. Only the bravery was missing: no one would admit the violation. Bravery was instead fatuously ascribed to Baby Fae, a creature as incapable of bravery as she was of circulating her own blood. Whether this case was an advance in medical...
...newspaper lying nearby, and handed it to the coroner. "It goes," he said sadly, "to the State of Maryland. The son-of-a-bitch died intestate, and with no heirs." The next day I met the coroner and found him in a low frame of mind. "It was a sin and a shame," he said, "to turn that money over to the State Treasury. What I could have done with $138.67! (I noticed he made a fair split, but collared one of the two odd cents.) Well, it's gone now--damn the luck! I never did trust that flatfoot...
...dismissal. When the synod decided to oust Roth and he refused to obey, it won a court order early this month requiring that he leave. Instead, Roth, 33, barricaded himself in the church and preached his usual Sunday sermon, telling the congregation of 75, "It is a sin to destroy people's lives. Christ would never have come out on the side of the corporations...
GENTLE READER: Miss Manners tries very hard to understand the concept of emotional human duty in a society whose members are bothered by their consciences for the deed of having pleased a grandmother by complimenting her granddaughter . . . Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue...