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...implication, Ferraro's-refusal to seek laws that would impose Catholic moral positions on all of U.S. society. Cuomo, more restrained than in his stirring Democratic Convention keynote speech but just as articulate, drew a standing ovation from an overflow crowd at the University of Notre Dame after a 53-minute discourse in which he asked a pointed question of his fellow Catholics: "Are we asking government to make criminal what we believe to be sinful because we ourselves can't stop committing...
Invited by Notre Dame's theology department to give the first in a series of lectures on the effect religious faith has on individual public officials, Cuomo attracted national TV coverage of his South Bend, Ind., speech. He, like Ferraro, had engaged in an earlier public argument with Archbishop O'Connor. Last June the Archbishop had said, "I don't see how a Catholic in good conscience can vote for a candidate who explicitly supports abortion." Cuomo had challenged this as a virtual declaration that Catholics should not vote for any candidate who supported abortion. After...
...private morality is obviously illogical." New York Archbishop John J. O'Connor had voiced similar views last month, but softened them somewhat after being challenged by Governor Cuomo. This week Cuomo is scheduled to give a long-planned address on abortion and other church-state issues at Notre Dame...
...Britain two years ago, Parliament established a 16-member committee of experts under Dame Mary Warnock to examine the social, ethical and legal implications of the new technology. Among its recommendations published in July: all clinics providing infertility services such as AID, IVF or egg donation should be licensed and regulated; research on embryos up to 14 days old could be permitted, also under license and regulation; but the use of surrogate mothers should be forbidden because such arrangements are "liable to moral objection." Critics on all sides did not hesitate to attack. A Roman Catholic spokesman called the practice...
...previous volumes, some of the writers here do not so much expose themselves as assume a role. But the masks they choose are also revealing. Rebecca West, an actress in her youth, plays her interview like Dame Edith Evans doing a scene from Oscar Wilde ("You know, I don't really appreciate the Virgin Mary. She always looks so dull"). West is mischievously iconoclastic about famous authors as only one who has rubbed elbows with them can be. Shaw's was "a poor mind, I think"; Maugham "couldn't write for toffee, bless his heart...