Word: topically
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...nation. And the document that the bishops debated, instead of being couched in the traditional terms of moral certitude, asked Catholics not to read and obey, but to weigh and consider the conclusions, much as had the bishops themselves. Both the candid, probing manner of the debate and the topic of their discussion reflect the enormous changes that are sweeping through the Catholic Church in America...
Next year the bishops will take up a topic that is potentially as divisive as abortion or nuclear weaponry. A committee led by Milwaukee's Archbishop Weakland is conducting a thoroughgoing moral evaluation of capitalism. The bishops have already advocated the redistribution of economic wealth in the U.S., and have blamed Third World poverty on an exploitive U.S. economic policy and multinational corporations. Conservative critics find this an appallingly simplistic view of economic realities, amounting at best to a kind of global sentimentality and at worst to a repetition of left-wing propaganda platitudes. Last week, without specifically mentioning...
Historic persecution of the Jewish people does not excuse Israel from treating her neighbors in a just and civilized fashion. But we must remember that anti-Semitism is not merely a topic for the history books--it remains a powerful and destructive force, often lurking beneath apparent objective political critcism of Israel. We must be especially thoughtful in forming our opinions of Israel to ensure we do not rely on--or adopt--a perspective skewed by prejudice and hatred. On the scale of right and wrong, such sensitivity to Israel's unique situation is the only way to keep...
After the event, Fricdan told IOP Director Jonathan Moore she was angry that her name had been used to bring people to the Forum for DSA fundraising. She was also upset that the third panelist, Ms. Magazine contributing editor Barbara Ehrenreich went "off the topic to attack me," adding. "I feel I was taken advantage...
...topic has come to preoccupy residents of two undergraduate Houses, and understandably so In a university where every structure larger than a lunch-tray has a historic name attached to it, residents of North and South Houses have no such heritage in which to steep themselves; in recent weeks they have begun to speak out. "They aren't names--they're points on a compass," North House Master J. Woodland Hastings has bemoaned...