Percentage of Cook County criminal defendants who are represented by the Public Defender’s Office: 85 (Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, September 5).
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So you want the good old 1950s back? Here’s how: “Marriage preparation programs would make natural family planning an integral part of their instruction. Contraception would not be presented as a personal choice.” Human Life International expounds on how it would celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 1968 papal encyclical against “artificial” birth control, in Social Justice Review (July/August), published in Saint Louis. “We would hold a three-day conference for all the clergy of the diocese with the bishop present during which reputable theologians faithful to the Magisterium would explain the encyclical….The clergy would build a consensus which is faithful to the Church as well as intelligent….The same policy on the sexual ethic would be presented throughout the diocese. Any form of contradictory plurality would not be tolerated. Catholic moral teaching would not vary from parish to parish….Married couples who contracept would be encouraged to make frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and the Eucharist as they begin to dislodge the sinful habits of contraception….Catholic colleges and universities in the diocese would come under close scrutiny on the entire Catholic sexual ethic. Religious teaching in the diocese would be asked to teach the Catholic sexual ethic or to leave.” But it would all be worth it: “Our families would be strengthened. Divorce rates would decline. A greater spirit of love and self-sacrifice would appear. There would be a diminishing of promiscuity, STD’s, AIDS, teenage pregnancies, divorce, abortions and their terrible aftermaths…. With the example of loving parents and rich family life, resulting in larger families, vocations to the priesthood and religious life would inevitably reappear.”
Vacant lots in the Loop? No problem, says Howard Decker in Inland Architect (September/October): “Even temporary structures could deal with the open site issue: my partner and I once proposed a temporary market for the State and Adams site, and we received many phone calls from people wanting to rent space.”
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Carl Kock.
