Word: papally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...document that inspired the convocation is one of the great encyclicals of the century. Unusually long for a papal pronouncement-more than 15,000 words-Pacem in Terris was issued by John XXIII on April 11, 1963, less than two months before his death. It was the last of his eight encyclicals, the first in history addressed not only to the bishops and laity of the Roman Catholic Church but to "all men of good will...
Pope John addressed atheists as well as believers; yet Pacem in Terris is an unmistakably theistic work. This is hardly surprising in a papal pronouncement, but it clearly sets the encyclical apart from such purely secular documents as the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Time and again, Pope John argues that the rights of men and governments stem not solely from human consent but from the design of the Creator...
...still too expensive for most families, should bring videotape recorders within the price range of most of the nation's 30,000 school districts, the second biggest potential market. In the classroom, teachers can use videotape to record important telecasts-such as Churchill's funeral or a papal coronation-and then play them back during school hours on classroom TV screens. With auxiliary cameras, some schools are already taping complex laboratory experiments, demonstrations and lectures by talented teachers, then showing them over and over again in the classroom...
...primatial Catholic see, John Carmel Heenan had a right to expect a cardinalate; so did Archbishop William Conway of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland. It was also predictable that Paul would offer a sign of the church's esteem to Archbishop Enrico Dante, 80, the lean, gesticulating papal master of ceremonies, who has nudged and poked Bishops of Rome through the intricacies of pontifical rituals for 50 years...
...Research Center showed that in one out of every ten couples of childbearing age, either husband or wife had been sterilized. The survey sampling ranged through all social strata. The only population group showing markedly lower-than-average rate was the Roman Catholics, to whom sterilization is forbidden by papal encyclical and decree...