Word: upholding
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...CNCV is now fighting Trodden's ruling in Middlesex County Superior Court. Walzer is confident the courts will eventually uphold the petition. But the ruling will probably come too late for Nov. 7, according to CNCV lawyer Hans F. Loeser...
...which was published in the archdiocesan newspaper and read by Cousins on a local televi sion station, the archbishop made clear that he does not agree "with everything that Father Groppi has said and done." He also pointed out that church teachings unequivocally state the duty of Christians "to uphold law and order, without which justice is impossible." The archbishop, who only last month warned that priests and nuns should avoid demonstrations "of doubtful sponsorship," argued that the social conditions responsible for Groppi's protest campaign would not disappear if the priest were removed from the scene-a stand...
Despite the Pope's determination to uphold tradition, the conference participants concluded that the arguments about celibacy will continue-if for no other reason than the continuing exodus from the ministry of priests who intend to wed. The N.A.P.R. claims that about 400 U.S. priests have done so in the past 18 months.* Several speakers proposed structural reforms by which the church might regain the services of married clergymen. One suggestion: the creation of a special jurisdiction for married priests, within which they could continue their clerical functions. At the final session, the attending clerics overwhelmingly approved a resolution...
Pope Paul has confounded critics by his basic dichotomy of views: conservative in doctrine and theology, progressive in matters of administration and social involvement. For example, soon after he excoriated laissez-faire capitalism in his encyclical Populorum Progressio, he left Roman Catholic liberals bitterly disappointed by his decision to uphold priestly celibacy. Many of the same liberals were delighted last week as Paul ordered one of the most sweeping changes in Roman Catholic church administration made by any Pope in the past four centuries...
...kind of book he had been writing has been overworked in the United States as well as in his own career. But When She Was Good also seems motivated by a drive to make a more general point about America than Roth had previously done. Lucy is trying to uphold the morals which symbolize smalltown America and, indeed, "the American way of life." Her attempt to judge people without compassion or understanding, to fulfill an ideal of family life inevitably produces grief and destruction...