Word: wegner
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Domino Theory. A Minneapolis housewife, Delores Wegner, 37, recently voiced just such a note of loss in a distressed letter to her diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Bulletin. "What was the first snowflake of compromise," she asked, that led to the "present avalanche of spiritual and religious concessions? Was it the first time we said 'Holy Spirit' instead of 'Holy Ghost'? The first hamburger we ate on Friday? The first time we stood to receive Holy Communion?" Believing in an ecclesiastical domino theory, Mrs. Wegner and many like her find the beginnings of Catholic troubles in even...
...running back was sentenced to 30 days in a Lincoln, Neb., jail for driving with a suspended license. Rodgers' lawyer had attempted to get him a work release program at Boys Town, the school near Omaha for orphans and other underprivileged youngsters. But the director, Monsignor Nicholas H. Wegner, seemed to think they had no room for big bad boys. "We don't want him," he said...
Father Flanagan originally set up Boys Town to provide a home only for mentally and physically sound boys. Under the directorship of Father Nicholas Wegner, now 73, the institution has refused to alter that policy, even though foster homes now accommodate more of the kind of boys that Flanagan meant to help. The town's population has fallen from around 900 in the early '50s to under 700 last year...
...Father Wegner responded to Buffett's story by explaining: "This is a business. No business ever stops trying to save for unknown contingencies. If we go into the retarded business, we'll need the money." That is true enough; caring for retarded children costs considerably more than the $6,000 per boy the town now spends each year. In fact, providing such care is one of the new directions that Boys Town may take in a belated effort to catch up with the times. Recently its 17-member board voted to seek outside professional counsel in charting Boys...