Word: monsignor
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...sides disagree not only about morality but also about what approach would be most effective. "We don't say, 'Smoke carefully.' We say, 'Don't smoke,' " argues Monsignor John Woolsey, director of Family Life for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York City. "A huge campaign could work to stop kids from having sex. We don't water down principles." The goal, echoes John Walsh, spokesman of the Archdiocese of Boston, is to teach children to be good, not just safe. "AIDS was caused in this country by promiscuity and casual sex. It is not traditional values that have brought...
...varies greatly among schools, even among teachers. The most ardent proponents argue that health education should begin in kindergarten and eventually include detailed instruction about the nature and risks of homosexual and heterosexual intercourse. Conservatives are appalled. "We've seen the ACT-UP and Planned Parenthood curriculum proposals," says Monsignor Woolsey. "I wouldn't put them in Times Square bookstores, let alone schools. The average parent would throw up reading them...
...Monsignor John F. Morales forsake the Almighty for the almighty dollar? That's what federal authorities claimed last week, as they put Morales on trial in Hammond, Ind., along with assorted officials of Steelworkers Local 1014, for skimming profits from a multimillion-dollar bingo operation...
Angry parents, politicians and clergy gathered on the steps of New York's city hall last week amid placards that demanded STOP FERNANDEZ FROM TEACHING OUR KIDS GAY SEX and DUMP KING CONDOM FERNANDEZ. What schools chancellor Joseph Fernandez is doing, warned Monsignor John Woolsey of New York's Roman Catholic Archdiocese, amounts to a "ratification of sexual promiscuity." Said outraged parent John Murnane: "Fernandez is insulting our children by telling them they cannot be educated as to what is right...
...image. But Carril actually did try, taking up orange-and-black bow ties at one point. That is Armond Hill's first memory of him, when Hill was a senior at Bishop Ford High School in Brooklyn. (Carrilism: Always recruit at schools whose names begin with Bishop or Monsignor.) "I saw this short guy with a bow tie and a big cigar lying down in the bleachers," Hill recalls. "After the game he came down and told me everything I did wrong and that he could make me a better player. It was that, more than the mystique of Princeton...