Word: consensus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...style. Trends are what interest him. He was one of the first to note the Republican Party's switch to a more pragmatic, less contentious brand of politics after the disaster of 1964. He was among the earliest to spot the decay of Lyndon Johnson's consensus politics and the virtual collapse of the Democratic National Committee. Rather than complain, as they might have in the case of other reporters, Democratic politicians privately thanked Broder for pointing out their delinquencies. "Seventy-five percent of covering the political beat," says Broder, "is the ability to sense when and where...
Resolutions of the Lambeth Conference are not binding on the 19 member churches, but they are intended to express the consensus of the Communion. Last week the bishops approved a formal statement reaffirming their belief in the morality of birth control. (The 1930 Lambeth Conference was the first major Christian assembly to approve contraception in principle.) Rejecting the conclusions of Pope Paul's encyclical Humanae Vitae, the bishops declared that the responsibility for deciding the number and spacing of children "has been laid by God upon the consciences of parents...
Smoking pot may be against the law, but it is not necessarily a sin. That seems to be the consensus among Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy who have had any dealings with the marijuana-puffing youth of the turned-on generation...
...documents were remarkably similar. Although the Sydney assembly could not agree on a precise definition of death, there is now a virtually worldwide consensus on the following criteria for establishing that irreversible coma, or death, has indeed occurred...
...subject that concerns marriage and the family, is this addressed to 'Venerable Brothers and Beloved Sons'? Where do the women come in?" More seriously, assailants of the encyclical were disturbed that it was a one-man decision reflecting a minority view within the church and not a consensus of the faithful. Father Joos Arts, editor of the radical Dutch Catholic newspaper Nieuwe Linie went so far as to warn that "the Pope is isolating himself from the church...