Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Essay "Rise and Fall of Anti-Catholicism" [Oct. 15], Lance Morrow stated that contemporary anti-Catholicism arises from its opposition to the idea of a natural moral law rather than our current moral relativism. His assessment is totally accurate. He has perceived something that a lot of professionals have missed in discussing the issue...
...Catholic hierarchy has not incurred the wrath of the secular humanists merely over the argument of whether moral law is relative or absolute. The underlying cause of the bitterness is the church's insistence on calling those who do not agree with it evil and immoral...
...friend of Israel. To say that I have equated the price of oil to the liberty of Israel is rank distortion." The U.S., he said, is forever committed "by moral imperative" to protect Israel. But he refused to retract his plea for a new realism, adding: "I'm only saying America has broader interests in the Middle East...
...messenger is allowed in the paneled conference room. The Justices are left alone to argue the law, their principles, their consciences. Theirs is not an abstract debate: comfortably hazy concepts like ''liberty'' and ''equality'' must be applied to urgent social and moral dilemmas-abortion, the death penalty, obscenity, busing, reverse discrimination. The conferences provide a relentless test of conviction and reason; shallowness and bluffing are not long concealed. ''It is like being naked in a steam bath,'' Justice Felix Frankfurter once remarked. ''You are totally exposed...
...year-old representative attributes her success at avoiding arrest or exile to the "moral immunity" that comes with being an elected member of Parliament. She adds that supporters of apartheid have called her the "choice of everything that is unpatriotic and anti-South African." She comments: "I get hell in Parliament, but then I expect it...I'm very provocative...