Word: papally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the first copy of a new papal encyclical on the subject became available. Its essence was contained in these uncompromising words: "Conforming to fundamental principles of the human and Christian vision of marriage, we must once again state that there must be excluded absolutely, as a licit way in which to regulate births, the direct interruption of the generative process...
...PAPAL INFALLIBILITY. The Pope reaffirmed the unchallengeable authority of his office: "We believe in the infallibility enjoyed by the successor of Peter when he teaches ex cathedra [that is, solemnly on matters of faith and morals] as pastor and teacher of all the faithful, and which is assured also to the episcopal body when it exercises with him the supreme magisterium." Thus his only concession in the entire credo was a nod in favor of the concept of collegiality, approved by Vatican II, under which bishops and cardinals can more fully share power with the Pope. Paul also expressed...
Fish on Fridays. A common yearning for the good old days of Latin liturgy, fish on Fridays, and unchallenged papal authority was what united delegates to the three-day meeting. An annual event sponsored by The Wanderer, a conservative Catholic weekly published in St. Paul, the forum drew a predominantly middleclass, middle-aged audience from 24 states and Canada. Its theme was "The Crisis of Belief-What Must Be Done...
...initiative," a slightly less formal pronouncement than a papal encyclical...
...since the play-bizarre, hallucinatory and electrifying-is framed within a play. Hadrian VII ends where it begins, in the bare, shabby lodgings of an eccentric, starving, middle-aged writer named Frederick William Rolfe as the bailiffs arrive to strip him even of the manuscript of his novel. The papal reign has all been a dream, an illusion: the primal stuff of theater...