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...that were not even codified until 1918. That code is now undergoing a massive revision, and a bloc within the Vatican is asking for a kind of preamble to it that would become a new "fundamental law" for the church-one to which all canon law would have o conform. This Lex Fundamentalis, as it is known in ecclesiastical circles, would define the church's nature, its mission, its structure and its place in the world. The proposal to create such a constitution, and in particular the latest draft to be produced, has opened yet another hot debate between...
...religious institution. Referring to the three penny tax on-tea that precipitated the American Revolution, he argued: "Who does not see that the same authority, which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever...
...policy and then carefully laying out their reasoning in depth. The proliferation of papers, the cabled requests for clarification, the briskness of language but not of logic, convey an impression of harassed men, thinking and writing too quickly and sometimes being mystified at the enemy's refusal to conform to official projections...
...immense resiliency of nature. When man realizes that technology cannot solve all human problems, nature bounces back from our abuses. The fundamental aberration of scientific technology during the past 100 years is embodied in the motto of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair: Science Finds/ Industry Applies/ Man Conforms. In fact, man still lives with the genes of the Old Stone Age hunter and the New Stone Age farmer. We must make industry conform to man by adapting it to his genetic limitations. For example, we know that the temperature of the human body varies from day to night...
...objects he makes?" Paul also scores the "ill-considered exploitation of nature" that may create "an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable." Yet on population control he hews to the line he established in Populorum Progressio: governments may encourage only those birth control methods that conform to "the moral law" (i.e., rhythm...