Word: documented
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...CATHOLIC Bishops' Conference ruffled more than a few feathers last month in issuing a controversial document condemning the inequities of American capitalism...
...Pope's lectures reaffirm a centuries-old Catholic belief, formalized in Pope Pius XI's 1930 encyclical Casti Connubii and Paul VI's 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae. The Pauline document, which created a furor, declared that "every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life." The reason: "In the plan of God" there is an "inseparable connection" between the "unitive meaning and procreative meaning" of the marital act. John Paul, when he was Bishop Karol Wojtyla, wrote an enthusiastic preface to the Polish edition of Humanae Vitae and was among the bishops who most vigorously...
...letter was greeted with a sigh of relief by White House officials, some of whom feared that the document might be polemically shrill. Spokesman Larry Speakes said that President Reagan "welcomed" the economics draft and shared "the bishops' concern for the poor." Speakes cited the fact that "more than 6 million people have gotten jobs in the last 22 months" as evidence of the success of the Administration's policies...
...document should have a smoother passage to adoption than the nuclear letter, if only because it appears to be closer to established Catholic social teaching. But it might gain wider acceptance, both inside and outside the church, if the bishops heed criticism that some of their economic prescriptions are outmoded...
Even so, many questions have been raised about the way in which consent was obtained. The hospital's refusal to release the text of the form signed by Fae's parents fueled the controversy. This document "is crucial," says Arthur Caplan, a medical ethicist at the Hastings Center in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. "Were the parents informed about the possibility of a human heart?" Others felt that Bailey may have misrepresented the facts about the "Norwood procedure," a surgical treatment recently developed to help infants with hypoplastic heart. Indeed, in his public statements, Bailey understated the success rate of this...