Word: papally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miss the point. In the long run, Christianity in Latin America will be relevant only to the degree that it becomes identified with the contemporary social revolution. The Catholic Church has begun to realize this. By lending technical and professional assistance to church-sponsored programs of social reform, Papal Volunteers are witnessing to the fact that Christ came not to save souls, but to love...
...have been the apogee of the church's denunciation of birth control. Five years after it appeared, German Theologian Herbert Doms was tentatively proposing a personalist theology of marriage that gave primacy to love rather than childbearing. Although the Vatican at the time criticized Doms's theories, papal statements on marriage were soon to shift emphasis. Even as he denounced "the pill" as immoral in 1951, Pope Pius XII strongly affirmed the spiritual values of sex. "The conjugal act," he said, "is a personal action, which, according to the word of the Scriptures, effects the union...
...third session of the Vatican Council, three cardinals and a patriarch of the church openly acknowledged the agonies of conscience that the church's traditional teaching creates for millions of married Catholics. Pope Paul acknowledged it, too, as he beseeched a papal commission of experts to help him formulate a modern-day principle of Christian marriage. Although he does not prophesy what Pope Paul may ultimately decide, Noonan cautiously concludes that there is no valid reason why the church cannot move with the times. Already it has come a long way toward acceptance of the principle that other personal...
Meeting in emergency session in Washington, the Organization of American States asked Msgr. Emanuelle Clarizio, the papal nuncio in Santo Domingo, to negotiate a cease-fire until a five-man truce team could fly down to work out a lasting settlement. Wessin y Wessin and other loyalist commanders and some rebel elements agreed under two conditions: that no one would be punished for any acts during the fighting, and that the OAS would supervise the formation of a provisional government. Even as Msgr. Clarizio reported the hopeful news to Washington, rebel forces captured Ozama Fortress, the police headquarters, with...
...governors, first the French in 1809, then the Spanish who had tried to reassert their dominion. No sooner had the Dominican Republic declared its independence in 1821 than it was invaded by neighboring Haiti, which occupied the country for 22 brutal years. The Haitians banned all foreign priests, severed papal relations, closed the University of Santo Domingo, and levied confiscatory taxes. Not until 1844, when Haiti was torn by one of its many civil wars, did the Dominican Republic finally break free?only to stagger through 22 revolutions over the next 70 years, including a brief period (1861-65) when...