Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Other consumers are taking advantage of home-equity loans to consolidate their other debt. The equity loans are attractive for their long maturities and because the interest is tax deductible. Home-equity loans will grow about 27% this year, much faster than other consumer borrowing. "It definitely provides a cushion...
Throughout black history in the U.S., the church has been the central institution in the African-American community, a fact still true in a country with 65,000 black congregations. As Baptist Pastor J. Alfred Smithing Sr. of Oakland's Allen Temple Baptist Church puts it, "The black church is...
THE Catholic Church is not an ideally liberal institution. Its historic treatment of women, homosexuals, Jews and heretic Christians, among others, has been quite appalling. Although the Church is truly universal in that it includes members from all races and on all continents, its Roman hierarchy is still dominated by...
What many non-Catholic and Catholic Americans alike fail to understand is the nature of a non-democratic institution such as the Church. Change is much slower in such a body; it simply cannot react to social change as fast as a democratic legislature can, so Americans often find its...
I readily admit that I am not the best Catholic or the best liberal. I am very human; thus I am often very wrong. Likewise, the institution of the church has made many mistakes through the centuries. But as the Bible makes clear, any human institution is imperfect because of...