Word: papally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NIXON administration is not alone in its battle against troublesome security leaks. The Times of London recently published a front page article entitled "The Vatican Widens Its Birth Control Campaign" which included several excerpts from a "confidential" Vatican document. The papal instruction was issued last October to establish a uniform Church position towards the United Nations' World Population Year. According to The Times, the document urges "mobilisation of all legitimate forms of pressure on governments and international agencies in order to have Catholic teaching on birth control spread as far as possible and accepted as widely as possible...
...blunt pastoral letter demanding the end of racial discrimination in all phases of Catholic life. He lent personal weight to his words by joining Martin Luther King's 1963 march on Washington. When Pope Paul VI named him cardinal in 1965, Shehan viewed the honor as a papal endorsement of "racial justice." But he was not always so heartily endorsed at home; testifying in favor of open housing in 1966, he was booed and jeered. His own mounting concern about the war in Viet Nam finally grew into an angry 1971 declaration that the conflict was "a scandal...
...cornerstone of the Reformation 456 years ago, the object of his bitterest invective was the Pope. Last week, as part of a continuing ecumenical study on doctrinal problems dividing Lutherans and Roman Catholics, a commission of 13 Catholic and 13 Lutheran theologians issued a remarkable statement. The issue of papal primacy, they said, "need not be a barrier to reconciliation" of the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches...
...agreement posed questions for both communions. It asked Lutherans to consider "the possibility and desirability of the papal ministry... in a larger communion which would include the Lutheran churches." The Catholic Church was asked to consider "the possibility of a reconciliation which would recognize the self-government of Lutheran churches within a communion...
...commission is still studying the most controversial issue of all: papal infallibility. And last week's statement emphasized that for Lutherans, any function of papal primacy must not "subvert Christian freedom." Moreover, none of the theologians' dramatic agreements so far have been translated by either communion into effective action, such as the approval of exchanges in celebrating the Eucharist. The statement suggested a growing impatience for such a move. One of the questions posed for the Catholic Church was whether "in the expectation of a foreseeable reconciliation," it is ready to accept the Lutherans as "sister churches, which...