Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIVORCE. The Catholic Church has never recognized divorce in any marriage that it considers valid. The American bishops in 1884 decreed automatic excommunication for divorced Catholics who remarried while their original spouses were alive. "A Call to Action" asked that the church repeal the excommunication edict. It also opposed any practices that "brand separated, divorced, and divorced remarried Catholics as failures or discriminate against them and their children...
...forgotten. The age of throwaway containers has relegated the containers of work, worship, play, the family and the community to no-deposit, no-return status. Unless a building is consecrated "historic" by some authority, no one thinks to recycle it when its original function ceases to be historically valid, or when the structure can no longer hold the activity for which it was built. Instead, we replace the old construction with something which serves the demands of the moment and the market...
Scalise said he let them play to the same extent that their excuses were valid...
...love--are each immured in a prison of words. Marchbanks, an intruder into Morell's apparently idyllic Victorian home, attacks the vacuity of the parson's Christian Socialist platitudes; but his own endless flights of romanticism are no better. Both forms of verbiage are equally foolish--and equally valid. Neither is, in Auden's words, "a way of happening," let alone an incitement to change...
...fundamentally irreligious society through a religious haze. The lines that emerge as the play's philosophical premise--"So man created God. What for? To see limits on himself."--never become very meaningful or especially convincing. Nonetheless, on opening night one could extract a snippet, albeit strained, of still-valid revelation from the Ex's proficient production... When the cast shared apples from the Tree of Knowledge with the audience, somebody murmured amid the general crunching, "It's delicious...