Word: pastorale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As pastoral shepherd to Boston's two million Catholics, the 52-year-old Law has quickly pushed himself into the political spotlight, declaring during the presidential campaign that abortion is the preeminent issue for all Catholics and last month pledging expense-free health care to the Hub's pregnant women...
Despite that record, the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. felt compelled to speak up for those who have not shared in the general prosperity. A controversial draft of a pastoral letter presented to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops criticized the "massive and ugly" failures of American capitalism. Noting...
Nor can arguments about the timing of the pastoral letter obfuscate the Bishops' message. Some critics have angrily accused the Catholic hierarchy of waiting until after the Presidential election to release a document implicitly critical of the Reagan Administration, thus sparing the President unnecessary political damage. On the contrary, the...
But if a counter-pastoral letter written by a group calling itself the Lay Commission on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy is any indication, then Americans just might not be ready for the radical changes called for by the Bishops. Jointly headed by former Treasury Secretary William E...
In the end there can be "no legitimate disagreement on the basic moral objective" of the Catholic Bishops letter, the pastoral reads, although the matter of how to protect the human dignity and economic rights of all may be disputed. For like a single voice crying out in the wilderness...