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Students from the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and women from the Catholic Students Association (CSA) gathered to hear Landry’s ideas about the role of religion, and particularly her own Catholic faith, in debates over abortion and other women’s issues.
In responding to a question about how the Catholic Church could better support its female adherents, she said that “being outspoken in issues that oppress women would buy the Christian community a lot of viability in other issues.”
Although the meeting focused on Landry’s experiences, students also asked questions about the role of government in regulating abortions, the Catholic church’s attitude towards women and the abortion debate within minority communities.
By then, all conventions were out the window. The introduction of the birth control pill on May 9, 1960, had unleashed the sexual revolution. Pope John XXIII led an ambitious attempt to modernize the Roman Catholic Church when he convened Vatican II on Oct. 11, 1962. The Beatles heralded not...
SENTENCED. MICHAEL LAU, 42, ex-priest convicted of molesting a 15-year-old altar boy, to 41/2 years in prison; in Hong Kong. Lau is one of eight current or former priests of Hong Kong's Roman Catholic Church accused of pedophilia, and he was defrocked in 1995 after an...