Word: papally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long based its marital teaching on the Biblical injunction "Increase and multiply," while ignoring an equally important Scriptural imperative: "They shall be two in one flesh." Suenens proposed that the Council commission responsible for Schema 13 ("The Church in the Modern World") should work with a recently appointed papal team of birth-control experts to frame a doctrine on marriage that would take into account new medical discoveries. "We have learned many things since Aristotle," he said. "I urge you, brothers, let us avoid a new Galileo case-one is certainly enough in the history of the church." Even more...
...future scientific discoveries will clear the way for church acceptance of some form of birth control. However, as Bishop Emilio Guano of Leghorn pointedly reminded the council after an audience with Pope Paul VI, the birth-control issue will ultimately be decided by the Pontiff himself after a special papal commission has completed a thorough study of new contraceptives...
When the nation's Anglican divines in 1789 chose to call themselves "the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.," the name seemed like a suitable description. Originally applied to German Lutherans in 1529, "Protestant" then implied rejection of papal authority, which Anglicans had stood for since Henry VIII; the word also paid tribute to the influence of Luther, Calvin and other Continental reformers on Anglican doctrine and liturgy. "Episcopal," on the other hand, was a reminder that Anglicanism preserved the ancient tradition of rule by bishops, and was still a branch of the "one, holy, Catholic and apostolic church...
Ominous Title. Felici's ambiguously phrased letter implied that these directions had come directly from Pope Paul VI himself. Actually, as Bea and his secretariat soon discovered, the letter did not have papal approval. The suggestions had come from Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, who had no authority of his own to give the orders, despite his important roles as Vatican Secretary of State and president of the Council's Coordinating Commission...
...eyes of many observers, the council seems finally to be coming to fruition. The first session saw a well-mannered power struggle between contending ecclesiastical viewpoints, and the gradual unfolding of progressive strength; the second was bogged down by papal indecision and defensive parliamentary maneuvering by Curial forces. But by the end of the third session's second week, the bishops had taken 37 votes on sections of the 219-page schema De Ecclesia (On the Church), rushed through discussion of two other chapters, started debate on a schema outlining the duties of bishops, and drafted declarations concerning religious...