Word: sunday
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Disney and Don Bluth can lead the way. Walt Disney, after all, created the genre, turning barnyard animals into superstars and a Sunday-supplement curiosity into the movie's most enduring subspecies. Bluth, a Disney renegade, showed his old masters that the cartoon possessed a social vitality for the '80s. Bluth's The Secret of NIMH was a parable on animal experimentation; An American Tail found much to say, endearingly, about melting-pot prejudice; The Land Before Time found love and death among the dinosaurs. Now Disney and Bluth have launched a welcome new Thanksgiving tradition, each producing a feature...
Prompted by those alarming demographic trends, the bishops endorsed a new rite that, if approved by the Vatican, can be used in place of Sunday Mass in parishes where no priest is available. The "Order for Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest" allows a bishop to designate a deacon or a nonordained sister, brother or lay member to lead a prayer service based on the Scriptures. The bishops took care to see that such services will not mimic the Mass. The rules do provide, however, for the addition of an optional Communion service using sacramental bread previously consecrated...
Some bishops were troubled by the prospect of substitute services. William McManus, a retired Indiana bishop, warned that the strong tradition of Sunday Mass could be undermined "if we bless this monster." Bishop Raymond Lucker of New Ulm, Minn., urged a study of the priest shortage that would face such issues as "Why can't we ordain people other than celibate males?" For the Vatican, however, that is a question not open to discussion...
Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister ad infinitum, quit? Not yet, but maybe sooner than some dared hope. Last week Thatcher announced that she would not stand for a fifth consecutive term in office. She told the London weekly Sunday Correspondent she would lead the Conservative Party into the next election, likely to be held in 1991, but after that there "will be plenty of people who can take over...
...have a paper due Sunday...