Word: documental
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Though the document cited Scripture, it relied more heavily on tradition, perhaps because the Vatican's own Biblical Commission concluded last spring that nothing in the Bible specifically forbids women priests. The new decree acknowledged that female ordination represented "an ecumenical problem" that would "perhaps cause pain." It insisted that its rejection of women as priests would "help in deepening understanding of the respective roles of men and of women." There was no question of equality involved, it said, because "priesthood does not form part of the rights of the individual" but derives from "the mystery of Christ...
...settlement is reached, what kind of document are you prepared to sign...
...context of achieving a just peace, we agree to sign such a document as the one stipulated in U.N. resolutions, which indicates the transfer from a state of war to a state of peace; namely, a document ending the state of belligerency. This document is a peace document. All efforts for peace, including the Geneva Conference, are taking place within the framework of the U.N. and under the aegis of the two superpowers. Our concern is to achieve peace, and the document to be signed should be a peace document. To make it clearer: we are either in a state...
DEAN FOX'S PLAN for the housing system, while hardly convincing in its argument for eliminating freshmen from the Quad, is at least a consistent document. It shows that Fox knows his efforts to make the House system more uniform--and in his view, more equitable--cannot go halfway. By moving freshmen out of the Quad and reducing or eliminating the student choice factor in housing assignments, Fox's plan has a chance--in theory, at least--of making the Houses more equal in students' minds...
...rate it as evidence that the Constitution is a brilliant document that had the flexibility and strength to cope with a situation that the founding fathers anticipated, which was weakness of human nature. If we'd just go back to that and not think we could legislate morality and not keep thinking about this business of everybody being superhuman. The country stood strong, the people stood calm, and he is out. We are now back to normal. This is the thing my brother talks about-this mystical thing that is democracy...