内容摘要：He made it easier for married Catholics to get an annulment, allowed priests to absolve women who had had abortions and decreed that priests could bless same-sex couples. He opened debate on issues like homosexuality and divorce, giving pastors wiggle room to discern how to accompany their flocks, rather than handing them strict rules to apply.

He made it easier for married Catholics to get an annulment, allowed priests to absolve women who had had abortions and decreed that priests could bless same-sex couples. He opened debate on issues like homosexuality and divorce, giving pastors wiggle room to discern how to accompany their flocks, rather than handing them strict rules to apply.

He was on eight winning Walker Cup teams, and played as the captain in 1983 and 1985.SAN DIEGO (AP) — Bob Filner, a 10-term U.S. congressman whose long political career ended abruptly after he was elected mayor of San Diego and driven from office amid sexual misconduct allegations, has died. He was 82.

Filner passed away April 20 with his children by his side, according to an obituary published Tuesday in the San Diego Union-Tribune. No cause was given. The newspaper reported that he was residing at an assisted living facility in Costa Mesa in Orange County.Filner largely disappeared from public life after his 2013as mayor that reflected the same fiery, defiant tone that launched the political career of the former congressman and 1960s civil rights activist. But, ultimately, Filner agreed to step down as leader of the nation’s eighth-largest city amid the flurry of sexual harassment allegations from at least 17 women.

months later to charges of false imprisonment and battery involving three women. He was sentenced to three months of home confinement and three years of probation. The city of San Diego spent more than $1 million to settle multiple lawsuits filed by women.He had held the office for less than nine months of a four-year term after becoming San Diego’s first Democratic mayor in 20 years.

Born Sept. 4, 1942, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Robert Earl Filner waded into politics as a sophomore at Cornell University, when he joined the Freedom Riders in the 1961 in their campaign against a segregated South. He spent two months in a Mississippi jail for inciting a riot after he and others confronted an angry mob at a bus station.

In 1970, he accepted a position at San Diego State University, where he taught history for more than 20 years before running for a seat on the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education.LYRIC: Down in the shadow of the penitentiary, out by the gas fires of the refinery: I’m 10 years burnin’ down the road; nowhere to run, ain’t got nowhere to go.”

YEAR/ALBUM: 1984, “Born in the USA”BACKSTORY: Springsteen’s most misinterpreted song — misread by Ronald Reagan and many politicians after him — tells the tale of a Vietnam vet who lost his brother in the war and came home to no job prospects and a bleak future. The driving, catchy chorus — composed primarily of the words from the song’s title, which made misunderstanding it easier — turned it into an anthem, albeit one that was not a burst of patriotism but a bitter description of veterans’ circumstances.

LYRIC: “Now Main Street’s whitewashed windows and vacant stores/Seems like there ain’t nobody wants to come down here no more.”YEAR/ALBUM: 1984, “Born in the USA”