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...revised that stance. Thanks to John's Second Vatican Council, Mass was now in English and the priest and congregation interacted. In retrospect, she thinks this may have kept her in the church. But in that year John's successor and the council's inheritor, Paul VI, loosed a thunderbolt: Catholics could not use artificial means of birth control and remain in good graces. "No way," says Betty. "No how. Period...
Suddenly the Pope was neither remote nor abstract; he was in Betty's bedroom. "For the first year and a half after Ed and I were married in 1970, we were not in a position to have any children," she says. "I saw Paul VI as representative of a very conservative Vatican. Obviously these people weren't out in the trenches." Like many American Catholics, Betty and Ed embraced a concept extolled by liberal American clerics: "We heard, 'a matter of conscience,'" she says, "and we declared birth control to be one. We would decide it according...
...pacify their disappointed audience with the promise of big-screen movies to come, but the three Next Generation films so far have been only mediocre. While more exciting than an average episode of the TV show, these movies lack the energy and the appeal of films like Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the last movie with the original cast...
...first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." King Henry VI...
...addition to such current shows, re-runs of NBC's "St. Elsewhere," ABC's "Spenser for Hire" and MTV's "Real World VI" offer viewers glimpses...