Word: papally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medievalists carried the day, and it is difficult to see why. Some junior representatives feared that voting for the bill would endanger their careers. And of course there were those who were waiting for a papal bull before they would change their views. But in the face of support by Catholic leaders and lack of opposition by Catholic voters--who would follow Cushing's lead anyway--the bill's defeat was a mockery of a rational democratic process. The statements of social workers and doctors who deal with the squalor of over-sized, low-income families and who see women...
Teachers have growing unions. Papal encyclicals have strongly defended the right of men to form voluntary associations and protect special interests. Why, then, should there not be an American Federation of Priests for those low-paid, hard-working servants of the Roman Catholic Church? Last week...
...differences between Protestants and Roman Catholics are normally defined in terms of doctrine-papal in fallibility, Marianism, the nature of the church. But there is a difference that lies deeper than dogma: the basic approach of men to prayer and piety. It is possible, for example, that a Southern Baptist could become intellectually convinced by the claims of Catholicism. Yet, accustomed as he is to a tradition of free prayer, Bible-centered sermons and mighty hymns, he might still feel alien to a church that offers its believers private confession of sins to a priest, solemn Mass with incense...
...second papal change touched on the sore issue of Biblical error. Catholic Biblical scholars admit that on a factual level the Bible does make mistakes-Daniel, for example, calls King Darius a Mede when he was certainly a Persian. The drafters of the decree on revelation wrote that the Bible presents "salvific truth"-that is, the right knowledge of those things concerned with man's salvation. Pope Paul insisted that salvific be dropped...
...Tutti Buoni." To great, deafening, farewell cheers, the papal motorcade then whisked to the World's Fair for a brief tour of the Vatican pavilion. There, visibly exhausted, the Pope stared blankly for a while at Michelangelo's Pietd in its unaccustomed setting,* gave his blessing to the modest crowd that braved the night air for a final glimpse of the Pontiff. Then he was hurried back to Kennedy Airport for the TWA flight home-14 hours after his arrival in New York...