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...bishops support the Marcos regime, but many others openly criticize its social and economic priorities and have spoken out against political abuses or military atrocities in never ending counterinsurgency campaigns. Seeking to throw some sort of unity over this divided church has been Manila's Jaime Cardinal Sin, 52, who follows a policy toward the Marcos regime known as "critical collaboration." Lately, Sin has been more critic than collaborator, however...
...forget because to forget is to be doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. Father, A Model Childhood is dedicated to the difficulty of remembering, of separating what was from what is, while preserving a sense of relevance. Is it, Wolf wonders, "impossible to escape the mortal sin of our time: the desire not to come to grips with one's self?" The existence of the book seems to prove that it is not impossible; at least it underlines the value involved in the attempt to face one's past. Sifting through the jumble of memories with the author...
Lewis likened the adoption of the third plan to supporting "a system for living in sin" once one realized sin could not be abolished. He added, "The general perception would be that it was okay not to show up for a final exam...
...Nagy responded that the option--which would reduce the "Armageddon mentality of finals" by urging professors to increase the importance of earlier work--"wouldn't institutionalize [sin] in the form of a make-up exam, which lets a student take an unfair advantage by saying he's sick...
...nothing else, the Pope's visit will serve to regularize a number of informal liaisons among Filipino believers. Father Melchor Dano, pastor of a parish in Tondo, last month performed a mass wedding for 36 couples who had been living in sin. He followed that with a mass baptism for their children-so that all concerned could greet the Pope as bona fide Catholics...