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...Vatican Council (1962-65), especially its modernization of the 16th century Latin Mass. Even Lefebvre, however, was not conservative enough for Fernández, who broke with the Ecône faction to join a French group called the Sedevacantistes. The group's name derives from its basic tenet: that the See of Peter has been vacant since the 1958 death of Pope Pius XII, whom they consider the last orthodox Pope. Fernández may face a high penalty for acting on his beliefs: he was formally arraigned in Lisbon on a charge of attempted murder. A conviction...
...CONSERVATISM is less' sanguine about the supposed case with which the public good can be produced." Will starts. The problem with government, he says--challenging a standard right-wing tenet--is not that it is too big but too weak. Our leaders too often capitulate to popular caprices rather than trying to shape those desires. "A society that dedicates itself to the pursuit of happiness had better dedicate itself, including its government, to the pursuit of virtue indispensible to ordered liberty...
...refusal to pay Social Security taxes did not stem from any disrespect for the law. He personally has no quarrel with the Social Security system, and believes it is fine-for those who need it. But it is a tenet of their religious belief that the Amish people should take care of their own. They do not collect unemployment or welfare benefits. They do not buy insurance of any kind. By an act of Congress in 1965, self-employed Amish men are exempt from paying Social Security taxes on religious grounds. But the act does not cover Amish...
WHAT, THEN, of the other tenet in the new common wisdom--that young conservatives have carved out and pocketed a sizeable chunk of the campus political scene? At Harvard, there has been considerable action on the Right...
...Princeton approach reflects on is tough to tell, given that current Coach Bob Callahan is the third in three years Perhaps it's a pervading mind set bigger than one man. But, regardless of who fills the roles, the hard-sell tenet seems to have remained constant...