Word: pastorale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After two days of agonizing, three rewritings and countless hours of prayer, the 104 Roman Catholic bishops of the Philippines last week openly accused the Marcos government of rigging the presidential election. They also suggested that Filipinos could use nonviolent civil disobedience to protest the outcome. The importance of the...
Both sides were anxious about the outcome of the conclave. Challenger Corazon Aquino visited the conference Thursday to ask its president, Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, the Archbishop of Cebu, if the bishops would support her plans to begin a campaign of civil disobedience. At 2:30 Friday morning Vidal had another...
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Sinfonia Antartica. Bernard Haitink conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Angel; LP only). Many of Ralph Vaughan Williams' nine symphonies evoke a specific place or mood, among them the choral "Sea" Symphony, the matchless "London" Symphony and the gentle "Pastoral" Symphony. Others, like the exquisite Fifth Symphony, quote from...
In a wise move by Edgar, much of Jane and Guilford's love story is left unscripted, director Nunn relying instead on long, music-filled shots of the two kissing by a bubbling brook, riding over pastoral fields and playfully tickling each other in the hayloft. Reminiscent of a more...
Weakland's committee paid particular attention to positive responses from $ other bishops at last June's meeting of the 280-member National Conference of Catholic Bishops. One bishop, typifying the group's general support for the pastoral letter, told its authors, "Right on! Tighten it up. Don't back off...