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the Catholic Church, which was reviled by many of our founding fathers, including Adams and Jefferson. (“Monkish ignorance” was a clear reference to the Catholic Church.)” Second, there are no such “holdings.” Third, the first case she cited (which had long ago been discarded, if not overruled) contained—in dictum—so
much of my life to trying to turn theory into reality on an international scale. I was brought up in the golden age of human rights. Our heroes were Eleanor Roosevelt, Rene Casin and Albert Schweitzer. Our great hope was the United Nations with its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our mantra was FDR’s “Four F
which was then fighting the New Deal, excluding black lawyers from membership, and opposing the labor movement. The original guild was an amalgam of Roosevelt liberals, CIO labor leaders, black civil rights lawyers, and radicals of assorted affiliations and persuasions. It strongly supported Israel’s strugg
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theory I’ve heard is that it’s because he took on the Catholic Church. PK: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely right. His “Reli
liest remembrance of a Presi- dent was Franklin D Roosevelt. EP: Do you remember him on the radio? PK: Yes.
ey say, "We can't accept change over millions of years." And— BILL MOYERS: And the theistic theory? ZACK KOPPLIN: Theistic evolution is to say what the Catholic Church accepts, where Pope John Paul II said there is no conflict between evolution and the doctrine of faith. And they just say, "We think God started ev
punishment as no free thinkers ever have. Teddy Roosevelt, the future president, wrote a biography in which
ty." The consequence, the Pope said, of a system that has at its center an idol call=d money. At that moment, Pope Francis was not just the head of the Catholic Church. Rather, he embodied the heart of a catholic cry for jus=ice, small "c" catholic, a universal aspiration expressed in our coun=ry by the promise tha
that would put most of us to shame -- he could remember the name of someone he met just on=e, months ago, seemingly without difficulty. His secret? Roosevelt was a=le to remember the names of everyone on his staff (and everyone he met) by visualizing their names writ=en across their foreheads after being
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