Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to Pope Paul's latest encyclical, sexual intercourse may only take place when procreation is the object of such intercourse. What then is the position of a woman who marries when past the age of childbearing? Are the parties to such a marriage to forgo sexual intercourse? In which case the marriage will remain forever unconsummated...
...former college history professor, McGovern was under no illusions that his presidential campaign, for the present at least, would be anything more than a holding action designed to rally Kennedy forces. He suggested that a principal object of his candidacy was to apply additional pressure on party regulars to adopt strong platform planks on ending the war and resolving the urban crisis. He praised both McCarthy and Humphrey, who was his neighbor in Chevy Chase, Md., for nine years. He pledged that if either wins the nomination, "he will have my active support-not only for his own considerable merit...
...Object of the unbankerly attack was a 29-year-old, Yale-educated multimillionaire named William Mathews White Jr., a bachelor who tools around Denver in a fire-engine red International Scout, acts on the belief that "the only people who are ever heard are those who stand above the crowd and shout...
...effect, an ironical move to weaken further a basic principle of the Christian faith: that every human life has worth. It has always been the tendency (whether sound or unsound) to value items in proportion to their multiplicity or scarcity-value increasing with the rarity of the object and decreasing with its abundance. Thus the explosion of the population has tended to cheapen human life in the eyes of many. It becomes increasingly difficult to say "thou" to a mass of flesh that bumps and pushes and encroaches more and more on free space, sacred privacy and a diminishing food...
Natural Law. Although not explicitly stated in the encyclical, the reasoning behind Humanae Vitae was based on natural law. A concept borrowed from the Stoics, this philosophical theory has been interpreted in traditional Catholic thinking to mean that man can properly define the nature of an object from its apparent purpose; just as the ear is for hearing, the argument runs, the sexual organs are for generating. In the name of natural law, which is really God's law, and in defense of the sanctity of life, the bishops of pagan Rome went on record early in condemning abortion...