Word: healthiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other characters are well adjusted. Hank has made a very serious commitment in leaving his wife for Larry. And Harold [the freaky birthday boy] is very well adjusted to his homosexuality: he knows his neuroses and lives with them. I'm not saying that Harold's way is the healthiest way of life, but at least he's not in the dark about himself. Michael is a conflicted character. He doesn't know what he wants, and still hangs on to vestiges of his childhood-like the church and its teaching that homosexuality...
...outcome of today's clerical exodus? Where and when will it end? Neither the exiting priests and nuns nor those who remain strongly faithful to their vows have an easy answer. Maryknoll Psychologist Eugene Kennedy of Chicago predicts that in the next decade "the most creative and healthiest will continue to depart in mounting numbers, leaving their conservative colleagues with the balance of power" in the church. He predicts that this will be "an illusory victory for the traditionalists" since they will not be able to recruit the kind of successors they want. "At this stage, which will be reached...