Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constant adaptation." In defense of his teacher's leg acy, he began by reappointing all the important Ministers in Salazar's Cabinet to their old posts. And he reaffirmed his predecessor's basic policies of holding onto Portugal's colonies and keeping dissent well under control at home. But at the same time he said that his regime would seek greater communication with the people. He did not elaborate on what form that communication might take, but Portugals' long-oppressed liberals dared hope that it might mean a relaxation of the rigid press censorship that...
...encyclical. As O'Boyle began to speak, about 400 worshipers, roughly one-third of the congregation, rose and walked out of the church. Despite this stunning rebuke, prearranged by two local organizations, the cardinal calmly delivered his message, which warned against "false prophets" who contend that birth control is a matter for individual conscience.* "Even a few of my brother bishops in other lands," O'Boyle lamented, "seem to have adopted 'the new morality...
...personal conscience has the final word." West Germany's bishops conceded that "a Catholic Christian might have serious reasons for wanting to deviate" from the Pope's teaching. The Belgian episcopate ruled that any Catholic "who is capable of forming a well-founded judgment" on the birth control question "has the right to follow his conviction, provided that he remains sincerely disposed to continue his inquiry" into the issue...
...pastoral letter, signed by the Dutch bishops, that proposed decentralization of authority in the church. Matters came to a head last July, when Monsignor Angelo Felici, the papal internuncio to The Netherlands, suggested to Schillebeeckx that he might help rehabilitate himself by introducing the Pope's birth control encyclical on Dutch television. Schillebeeckx refused. He has been dropped from lectures and other public functions sponsored by the Dominican order...
...attempted: 1) manned rendezvous and docking in space, and 2) an unmanned soft landing on the moon. Unmanned Russian spacecraft have twice rendezvoused and docked auto matically in earth orbit, but the technique would be far more difficult near the moon, 240,000 miles away from terrestrial control stations. And the Russians have yet to demonstrate a soft-landing system as reliable as the one that lowered five U.S. Surveyor spacecraft gently to the lunar surface...