Continuing the Conversation
medical science, especially organ transplants and genetic manipulation, combined with notions of unfettered individual choice and self-determination, are eroding even those barriers. When...
...When everything has a price, we are unable to determine the value of anything...
...Today, they support the Milosevic government against the Contact Group's demands...
...The Serbian people had their chance last winter to depose Slobodan Milosevic...
...all the superiors of all the men's orders were there, none of the women superiors...
...Father Larry Lorenzoni may now be entitled to paraphrase Armstrong's line...
...By defying the United States last fall, and again last month, the Iraqi dictator has fired national pride and won an increase in permitted oil sales and humanitarian imports...
...for example, "Women are of little consequence in the church...
...There's no point in publishing the names of women superiors because who needs to know them...
...C The similarities, and the differences, influenced the response to the Kosovo crisis of the so-called Contact Group in London in early March...
...Our thinking about human procreation obviously has a profound impact on our attitudes toward children and how we understand what it means to be a human person...
...Hussein went to war with Iran in 1980, thinking to overthrow the revolutionary government there (and enjoyed tacit American sympathy in doing so, as well as subsequent intelligence and arms help...
...Kosovo, in terms of international law, is a Serbian internal affair...
...WILLIAM PFAFF BLO@DSHED |M K@$0u What can be done...
...Whatever the violence committed against its Albanian minority, international law and convention limit the intervention of foreign governments to persuasion, or to measures of sanction or boycott that in practice tend to punish the population...
...Well, the College of Cardinals still has no co-eds...
...And if medicine can't restrain itself, the federal government or state legislatures should...
...Fast forward--with all deliberate speed--to today...
...For some time, deference to medical professionals and compassion for infertile couples has stayed the hand of regulatory bodies...
...As previously noted in this magazine (December 16, 1994), Lorenzoni once had occasion to look up, in quick succession, the names of the superiors general of the Fathers of Mercy, an order with exactly seven members worldwide, and of the Salesian sisters, with nearly 18,000 members...
...the female was not...
...he can say: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for womankind...
...Lorenzoni wrote a piece about it in the Irish Religious Lift" Review, suggesting some of the messages being sent...
...Shi'ites in the southern half of the country, and the Kurds in the north, resist Baghdad's domination, but that predates the present regime...
...In 1994 Archbishop Maurice Couture of Quebec pointed to the Annuario's odd custom as an instance of churchly discrimination against women...
...onsider Kosovo and Iraq...
...In Iraq, where an even more ruthless apparatus of political control exists, no outsider can know what the scale of opposition to Saddam Hussein really is...
...In both cases, he relied on the Annuario Pontiffcio, the Vatican yearbook...
...The father superior of ten men is more important than the mother superior of 10,000 women...
...But the leaders of the democracy demonstrations, which then seemed so impressive, squandered that opportunity in sterile personal rivalries...
...But when he invaded Kuwait, it was not difficult for the Bush administration to organize an international coaliCommonweal 6 March 27, 1998...
...But it has become clear that at least in the case of some new infertility treatments, physicians are themselves incapable of controlling and restraining their own practices...
...It drew agreement from various Vatican eminences who saw it at the time...
...It is time for the appropriate professional bodies to do it for them...
...One giant leap...
...The hysteria which often surrounds discussion of Saddam Hussein obscures the fact that because he has been an international aggressor he has been easier to deal with than Slobodan Milosevic...
...The Review article appeared in 1985...
...There is an immense emotional charge behind their belief that Kosovo, because of Serbia's history, is an inalienable part of Serbia, whoever actually may live there...
...If Saddam Hussein keeps the promises made to Kofi Annan concerning arms inspections, he is within sight of an end to sanctions...
...It wasn't an accident...
...I do not say the innocent population, because the voters of Serbia unquestionably support repression of the movement for Albanian autonomy or independence in Kosovo...
...And in 1996 (again in 1997) women superiors general acquired names and recognition in the Annuario...
...Giving technology and commerce such a large role in babymaking will increasingly compel us, legally and in other ways, to think of new life as an object to be manipulated and sold like any other...
...The male name was there...
...Ladies Last Stepping to the surface of the moon on June 20,1969, Neil Armstrong radioed a prepared message back to Earth: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind...
Vol. 125 • March 1998 • No. 6
