Word: acted
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...nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the U.S. Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the U.S. to the Monroe Doctrine may force the U.S., however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power...
...only eight U.S. institutions, but could foreshadow church-wide rules in a forthcoming code of canon law. The document requires that the Vatican approve or disapprove the orthodoxy of tenured professors, and urges local bishops to take any doctrinal complaints to the Vatican if the schools themselves do not act...
...Americans, including many Roman Catholics, in dealing with sexuality. In the U.S. generally, sexual pleasure has lately come to be regarded as a matter of personal gratification unconnected with social responsibility or, of course, with sin. Even among U.S. Catholics the trend is toward the belief that any individual act whatever is acceptable if it can be thought to foster love or self-esteem and enrich the life of the participants. The position of the Roman Catholic Church is that self-gratification alone is morally dangerous and that sex must be linked to commitment to marriage, children, the family, society...
...20th century, when improved techniques-and laxer morals-led to widespread use of birth control devices. By 1930 the Anglican Church hierarchy at the Lambeth Conference reluctantly accepted birth control. Reacting to this, Pope Pius XI issued his encyclical Casti Conubii (On Chaste Marriage), declaring that "the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of children. Those who in exercising it deliberately frustrate its natural power and purpose sin against nature and commit a deed which is shameful and intrinsically vicious...
...position, however, the report called for collaboration with "men of learning and science" to find "decent and human means" of birth control (by implication, the Pill). Morality depends on the good of the child, the couple and the family, not "the direct fecundity of each and every particular act," the report concluded. But in 1968 Paul's encyclical Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life) totally rejected this theory. It declared all "artificial" methods of birth control unacceptable, thus touching off a sustained campaign of public dissent by theologians and wide disobedience among the laity, especially in the U.S., that...