Word: births
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad implementation of collegiality, or shared authority-a principle that had been enunciated by Vatican II, but never clearly spelled out. Yet Pope Paul ignored it altogether last year when he failed to consult his bishops throughout the world before issuing his controversial Humanae Vitae encyclical opposing artificial birth control. Perhaps more than anything else, the resulting uproar precipitated a crisis of authority and led to the calling of the synod...
Considerable Confusion. During one synod session, Justin Cardinal Darmo-juwono of Indonesia openly told Pope Paul that many bishops privately opposed his birth-control ruling. He recognized that the Pontiff was free to use his supreme power as he saw fit, but in "grave and major matters" affecting the entire church, the cardinal said, it was only fitting to use the advice of bishops. Otherwise, there might well be a repetition of the birth-control crisis...
...dismissing the suit Judge Ronald A. Drechsler declared, "The natural birth of a healthy child, with no injury to the mother, is universally considered as a joyous event." He added that he was convinced that the child "certainly is not unloved...
...MILWAUKEE, Wise.- The mother of a baby girl, a woman whose birth control pills turned out to be cold tablets, had her $250,000 lawsuit dismissed by a judge who said the result was "a joyous event...
...proud parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Szczerbiak, said that they had not wanted any more children and charged in their suit that the druggist filled the birth control prescription incorrectly...