European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 columns the stars and stripes thursday april 3, 1986 can real catholics favor abortion today s crossword by Ellen Goodman. Providence . If you ask Mary Ann Sorren Tino 42, what her religion is she will still answer Catho  like her parents and their parents before them she was born raised and educated in the Catholic Church. For an italian american woman this is part of who i am she says. So when you announce to me Zap you re not Catholic anymore it s almost laughable. It s like saying you re not italian  but that in fact is what has happened. Mary Ann Sor Rentino the executive director of planned parenthood for Rhode Island has been excommunicated or rather self excommunicated for her work supporting abortion. The Story began last May 48 hours before her Daugh Ter Louisa s confirmation when a priest called her family in for an interrogation. He insisted that the 15-year-old girl disavow her Mother s pro Choice stand before she could be confirmed. At the same searing interview the priest informed Mary Ann that she was no longer a Cath Olic. Then in january a priest announced the excommunication publicly in a radio broadcast advertised in the Providence journal this Way can Rhode Island s leading advocate of abortion rights really be a Catholic the answer listeners were told was no. Mary Ann Sorrentino had violated a Canon of Church Law that states a person who procures a completed abortion incurs an  today wearing her notoriety with humor and a Well honed sense of irony Sorrentino says until then i did t even know that each of us had this  but if in fact Mary Ann Sorrentino self destructed if any accomplice to abortion is automatically out it would appear that she has a lot of company. If you take every Catholic woman who Ever gave another woman $10 to help get an abortion every husband who knew every doctor every nurse every politician who voted for Choice. Well there s a lot of self excommunicated in my Church she says. Sorrentino was not unaware of the Church Hierarchy s attitude toward her Job or toward those who Are publicly seen As pro Choice and Catholic. I knew i was not doing the Bishop s favorite work she admits. She had watched the Hierarchy come Down on another italian woman Ger Al me Ferraro. But it Only gradually became Clear to her and others How far Church conservatives Are willing to Boto purify the Church of dissent. The crackdown on disagreement about the abortion Issue has been Felt by those who signed two newspaper ads talking about the diversity of opinion about abortion among catholics. It has been Felt by theologians such As Marquette University s Dan Maguire who had lectures at four Catholic universities cancelled. Only one Boston College invited him Back it is seen regularly in the banners held at rallies like one in California real Cath Olics Don t support baby  the Issue is abortion but at a deeper level the Central Issue is one of real  can you disagree with the Church and still belong be a real Catholic can you disagree on abortion can you like the beleaguered moral theologian Charles Curran of Catholic University disagree on birth control can you disagree on divorce to conservatives it is a matter of order the Church obey it or leave it. The rules Are Clear they say and if you cannot follow them you Are not a member. You Are in effect an outlaw. People have no right to Call them selves Catholic if they oppose what the Bishops teach. Sorrentino does t see it that Way. People say if you dont like the rules Why Don t you switch to another u urfa i same peple if you asked them whether you should leave an unhappy marriage would Tell you to stay and try to work things  to theologian Maguire the Church is not a kiwanis club or the National football league where you play by the rules or leave. There is another concept of the Church As group believers who Are struggling together and with others to discern the will of god. We recognize that this is a Chancy process. We May miss the signals. But in a More Humble questing Church we Don t throw people  Mary Ann Sorrentino was thrown out. Now Judie Brown the president of the american life league has asked the roman Catholic Church to throw out Eleanor Smeal the head of the National organization for women. I doubt that the Catholic Church has the taste for mass excommunication even mass self excommunication there Are enough catholics who have fallen  but these Are increasingly tense times for those who believe in the Catholic Church and in free Choice. In Rhode Island 68 percent of the citizens Call them selves Catholic. So do 68 percent of the women who choose abortions. C Boston Globe Washington Post nuclear terrorism real threat to  by Andrew j. Glass Washington rapidly and in turn a tape device dials the news desks of four major television networks. A precise slightly accented voice repeats the same message before the machine hangs up meet certain demands with in six hours or see much of Manhattan blown sky High with a Small nuclear device. The notion of a state supported nuclear terrorist act on american soil no longer serves As merely escapist fiction or an improbable Nightmare. It is in fact a real threat the Cia and the Fri recently asked Congress for More Money to foil such threats. Why is such a crash Effort taking place because for both technical and political reasons the Odds favouring a successful nuclear terrorist attack against the United states Are rising the dreadful Nightmare has become a real menace. With the proper resources and skills at hand it is now relatively easy to Craft a nuclear weapon. No longer is the technology needed to build such a device secret in the commonly accepted meaning of the word. The unlocking of the atom s mysteries to potential terrorist scientists comes at a time when Radical regimes May see More benefits than risks in covertly mounting such operations against the industrialized West. In these times War has become largely theater. In such circumstances the threat of Imp riling tens of millions of innocent lives May prove More potent than arranging a sneak Pearl Harbor Type attack. The joint chiefs of staff have drawn up detailed Contin gency plans to wipe out on Short notice Tehran or Tripoli. Yet a Khomeini regime in Iran has on a relative scale much less to lose from any such tit for Tat retaliation. So for that matter has Moa mar khad Afy in Libya. This threat from suicide prone islamic terrorists has in recent years led the administration to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to improve physical Security at . Government installations at Home and abroad. However state supported violence cannot be ultimately checked by physical Means alone. Agents need to penetrate Radical groups of the right and the left to thwart such plans. In the past administrations have found it easier to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on spy satellites than to invests cant thousands in reliable intelligence. With their greater resources and lesser political con Cerns state sponsored terrorist groups could constitute a significant danger to . Nuclear weapons Sites warns new report from the Rand corp. The report commissioned by the department of Energy singles out islamic fanatics with close ties with Libya and Iran As posing the chief danger. 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