Word: papally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoped to meet with Gorbachev. Casaroli was hand-carrying the Pope's first personal letter to the party leader, a three-page missive written in Russian that referred to the human rights claims of Catholics and other minorities. The dialogue may continue face-to-face if Gorbachev includes a papal visit in his anticipated trip to Italy later this year...
Similarly, the text does not dispute the papal teaching on birth control but encourages discussion and "compassion towards those who in good conscience" disobey such teaching. Without challenging doctrine, the bishops urge that a greater effort be made to reach out to divorced women who have become isolated from the church and suggest that married women be given a "forum" in which to discuss and clarify traditional sexual teachings...
...choice of Marino seems almost foreordained. The new archbishop was one of the authors of the 1984 pastoral letter, an articulate participant in the Washington conference, and an organizer of the papal address to blacks. In his Washington speech last year, he reached back to his roots "as a young boy in Mississippi with the double -- I was going to say handicap, but I'll say blessing -- of being black and Catholic." His mother was from Biloxi, and his father, a baker, moved there from Puerto Rico. The young Marino grew up in a cultural and religious tradition derived from...
...June when he visits Austria, which is 85% Roman Catholic. When the Pontiff met Waldheim at the Vatican last summer, the audience drew protests from the international Jewish community. This time the Vatican pointed out that John Paul's upcoming encounters with Waldheim are standard protocol for papal trips abroad...
...forget the frustration. Preparing for his first trip back to Poland, in 1979, the Pontiff took advantage of his countrymen's continued fervor in opposition to Communism's ongoing freeze. In negotiating with a beleaguered regime that did not want to appear to be blocking the papal journey, John Paul forced a promise to end the near total 40-year ban on new churches...