Polk chafed under Johnston's command, while Johnston found it difficult to control the bishop.
There are data showing that the state of anxiety (which is closely related to tension arousal in our study) lowers the threshold for evoking a fear response to threatening stimuli which, on the other hand, can initiate affective control mechanisms (Bishop 2008).
If they conclude that the real issue is birth control, the bishops may lose.
The other theme concerned the drive to give greater local control to bishops on pastoral or administrative matters that many here told the pope did not require Rome's intervention.
His office immediately sent out an "action alert" on gun control to bishops and other church leaders, and he said he was surprised how many wrote back thanking him effusively.
And, as Bill Moyers points out in the context of their intransigence on access to birth control, the bishops aren't content with an exception from the rule that, like other employers, they provide birth control coverage to workers in their hospitals and universities.
James Salt, the group's executive director, said it planned fund-raising efforts this year so groups would not have to lean so heavily on money controlled by bishops.
He said the base had been informed by air traffic control of the Bishop flight almost immediately, and did not consider it a threat.
The actions of the conservative bishops who control the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have attracted criticism from more liberal bishops, priests, lay employees of the conference, and officials of grassroots groups who disagree with and are embarrassed by the changes at the campaign.
Once again, the church's community must take control and elect bishops who can lead it out of this sexual morass.
The statement cited health risks associated with some forms of birth control, but the bishops' strongest objections have been lodged on moral rather than medical grounds.
