Word: trapasso
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...that screen will be their experience of the game. By comparison, the actual teams will be little dots scrambling on a field far below - except in the rare cases when the two worlds collide. In a much discussed incident during a preseason game at the stadium in August, A.J. Trapasso of the Tennessee Titans managed to bonk the JumboTron with a punt, which set off a fuss about whether it would have to be hauled higher. Jones has refused, and for now the NFL has ruled that if another punt hits the big TV, it's a do-over...
Jones thinks Trapasso hit the screen deliberately. If that's true, you have to wonder: Did he do it just to show the big TV that there are still some flesh-and-blood players in this game...
...that she would recover. As their testimony in court revealed, Mrs. Quinlan was the first to accept the inevitable, followed shortly after that by her two natural children, Mary Ellen, 19, and John, 17. But Joseph Quinlan kept talking about a miracle. His own parish priest, the Rev. Thomas Trapasso, said, "I was beginning to fear that Joe was not in touch with reality." The priest had to persuade him that Catholic theology does not require that life be preserved indefinitely by artificial and extraordinary means (see box, page 58). In early September, Quinlan testified, he gave...
When Joseph and Julia Quinlan asked that their daughter be allowed to die, they had the full support of their Roman Catholic priest, Father Thomas Trapasso of Our Lady of the Lake Church. Said he: "Extraordinary means are not morally required to prolong life." The vice chancellor of his diocese, Father Herbert Tillyer, agreed: "There is a profound difference between killing someone and allowing a person to spend his or her last few hours or days free from the maze of machinery that is beautiful only so long as there is hope for some recovery...
...this then the Vatican view? Father Trapasso's diocesan authorities insisted that both comments were merely private opinions, an accurate statement since only unsigned editorials in L'Osservatore are used to reflect papal thinking. In Rome, one theology professor fumed, "Concetti is no moral theologian, and what he wrote is stupid." Said Father Sean O'Riordan, a moral theologian at Rome's Alphonsianum College: "Concetti's article is clearly contrary to the teachings of Pope Pius XII and the unanimous moral tradition existing for centuries...