Word: papally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Papal Pal. To bed indeed. Fanfani already had news of the massive gains of Palmiro Togliatti's Communists, who improved their position as the country's second largest party (after the Christian Democrats), won 25% of the entire nation's votes, and 26 new seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The Reds now hold a total of 166 of the Chamber's 630 places, compared with the Christian Democrats...
...what we are for rather than what we are against," said Pope John XXIII last January, while proposing a new encyclical on world peace to a group of Vatican aides.* It was a point well taken: too many papal pronouncements in the past have displayed a finger-wagging, negative tone. Perhaps because of John's injunction to think positive, work on the new encyclical, the eighth of his pontificate, went rapidly; the Pope was pleased with the first draft, had only to pencil in a few flourishes of his own. Last week...
...Thant chimed in with "respectful homage" to the Pope for "his great wisdom, vision and courage." As a description of personal rights and the role of government, Pacem in Terns so closely conformed to Western practice and ideals that the U.S. State Department abandoned its custom of ignoring papal encyclicals and said: "No country could be more responsive than the U.S. to its profound appeal to, and reassertion of, the dignity of the individual, and man's right to peace, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." An American diplomat in Rome exulted: "It embodies everything the U.S. has been...
...free will." As such, he is endowed with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty, assembly and association, "free initiative in the economic field," a just wage and decent living standards. He even has a right to unmanaged news-"to be informed truthfully about public events." In one of the strongest papal statements in history on religious freedom, Pacem in Terris says also that "every human being has the right to honor God according to the dictates of an upright conscience, and therefore the right to worship God privately and publicly...
...Proposes . . ." After other newsmen left, Adzhubei and Rada were ushered into the papal library, there spent 18 minutes alone with John and his interpreter. Adzhubei told the Pope that he was known and admired in Russia as a fighter for peace. John answered that he was only doing God's will. The Pope recalled his own journeys through the Balkans as a Vatican diplomat. Adzhubei apparently gave the Pope a personal message from Khrushchev, who had instructed the Russian members of the Balzan Foundation to vote the Peace Prize to John, and had sent word that he was delighted...