Word: pastorale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The conference of bishops' most dramatic incursion into public affairs prior to last week was a pastoral letter on nuclear war issued in May 1983. That document called for a halt on the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons, as well as reductions in the number of existing...
In the first draft of a pastoral letter, the committee praised the "impressive strides" of the U.S. economy in providing goods and services, but condemned what it called the "massive and ugly" failures of the system. Among shortcomings that the bishops cited were a "morally unjustified" current rate of unemployment...
Highlights of the proposed pastoral:
After the bishops adopt the economic pastoral, probably next year, it will become a teaching document in schools and churches for 53 million U.S. Catholics. They will be free to argue with programs advocated by the statement, but not with its goal of fostering economic rights and human dignity. "In...
The cross-cultural juxtaposition of music and poetry complement each other surprisingly well. Rock lyrics are rarely known for their intricacy, and neither are Chinese poems. As Warner commented, the poems "imagery is very simple and direct and beautiful. It's very earthy, it doesn't bullshit around. That's...