NEATNESS COUNTS 

Sisterlife, published by Feminists for Life of America, credits Samuel A. Nigro, M.D., of Case-Western Reserve University, for this Q. and A.: 

“What happens when you give anything to adolescents? What 4: 4 December 1992 happens when you give them a car? When you give them al- cohol? When you give them cigarettes? I’ve been saying for years, ‘No adolescent should be allowed to obtain contracep- tives from a school-based clinic or anywhere else unless they have a note from their mother that their room has been prop- erly cleaned for an entire month.’” 

ASK AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN 

Reportedly, a re mark offered by Auxiliary Bishop Austin B. Vaughan during the recent meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops has splintered the ranks of those who are praying for acceptance of women’s ordination. “A woman priest,” said Bishop Vaughan, “is as impossible as for me to have a baby.” The insurgents in the prayer group contend that petitioning the Lord for a moment of metanoia among the hierarchy on this topic is presumptuous since it asks for the impossible. Better to ask for an outbreak of male parthenogenesis among the anointed.