Word: pastorale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The document under discussion was the draft of a pastoral letter, addressed to 51 million American Catholics, on the morality of nuclear war. In it, the bishops are seeking to develop a theology of peace that challenges some of the fundamental assumptions and defense strategies of every American Administration, and...
What impact will the bishops' words on weapons have? "It's too early to say what activism will mean in the broader American context," says Harvard Political Scientist Stanley Hoffmann. "Certainly in terms of numbers alone the Catholics represent a potent political force. In part it depends on...
The bishops, of course, have no intention of filing away their forthcoming pastoral letter. But the day is long past when the bishops, or even the Pope, can tell the American Catholic community what to think, let alone how to act. On the issue of abortion, linked so closely by...
Morreau on the one hand paints a pastoral landscape with all the interwoven relationships of a small, isolated community. Marie's grandmother (Simone Signoret) acts as an omniscient narrator, lyrically introducing all the characters and explaining all the village's social intricacies. All sorts of representative characters abound--star crossed...
"This is not the faith that nourished me," protests Michael Novak. A former seminarian and now resident scholar at the Conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, Novak is a leading lay thinker in the U.S. Catholic Church. He is the author of The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, which posits that...