Suchergebnisse

Daniel Maguire presents the work of the 'Sacred Choices Initiative' of the Religious Consultation on Population Reproductive Health, and Ethics. This initiative aims to change international discourse on family planning and rescue the debate from superficial sloganeering

The Government fashions an imaginary world that pleases it, and then conies to believe in the reality of that world and acts as though it were real.-Hans J. Morgenthau, New York Times Magazine, April 18, 1965Words are like people; they have many relatives and companions. When you decide to marry a word to your particular purpose, it is thus well to make clear in advance that it is the word you want and not the whole family of associations. "Myth," of course, is a much-used and well-battered word. But in spite of varied usage, "myth" remains in linguistic currency and, if carefully defined, can be serviceable.

It is invigorating to speak of "man come of age" and to proclaim that modern man has marched, with noble maturity, from his sacral and myth-bound past into the secular present. An abundant and exuberant literature has celebrated this grand event. Sacral man, however, is alive and thriving and finds himself in something of the position of Mark Twain who, when he read of his own death in the paper, immediately wrote to the editor: "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."