Description: Tight shots of many customers' hands paying for merchandise with dollars at checkout counter of discount store. Sound effect of old fashioned cash register. Transaction with BankAmericard (Visa). Cashier places credit card and charge slip on sliding metal plate to make impression of number; then checks printed list of invalid account numbers. Reporter explains different ways to pay including cash and check, and the increasing availability of charge cards or electronic money.
Description: State House hearing on legalized gambling. Sen. Francis Doris favors permitting Beano at elderly housing projects. Lt. Gov. Tom O'Neill opposes casino gambling; wants feasibility study of off-track betting. Rep. Mary Jeanette Murray opposes casino proposed for Hull; wants 25¢ from each lottery ticket to be earmarked as Social Security supplement for elderly. Rep. Nicholas Buglione on public employees' and teachers' pension plans.
Description: Father Peter Conley, Boston Archdiocesan spokesman, defends Pilot's editorial opposing gay rights bill. He explains Church's stance against homosexuality. Anti-Catholic protesters. Altar boys.
Description: Sacred Heart Church in Newton Center. Mostly older parishioners in pews recite mass. Some hold rosary beads. Catholics kneeling, hands clasped. Call and response. Stained glass in arched window. Large Bible with gilded edges. Monsignor bows, kisses altar, leads prayer. People exit church.
Description: Theologian comments on Cardinal O'Connor's threat of excommunication for Catholics, particularly politicians, who advocate abortion rights. Mario Cuomo.
Description: Catholic Church disapproves condom as method of protection from AIDS transmission. Larry Kessler of AIDS Action Committee, himself Catholic, disagrees.