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Pope John Paul II has repeatedly exhorted Roman Catholic clergymen to hold themselves above the run of politics, and he himself, unlike some of his predecessors, has shown little interest in Italian affairs of state. But the Pontiffs pastoral responsibilities to speak out on an issue of deep moral concern...
This month the bishops of the Basque cities of Bilbao, San Sebastián and Vitoria said as much in a pastoral letter that warned of the "coercive pressures" of the military on individual liberty. The three prelates condemned ETA's continuing terrorism, but they also cautioned that the...
The nation's current antiabortion crusade was originally spearheaded by the Roman Catholic Church. A Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities, approved in 1975 by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, committed the church to antiabortion educational activities, counseling programs for women with problem pregnancies, and a political effort...
The question was almost unthinkable. Sixteen months ago, as Britain rocked with revelations that Sir Anthony Blunt, the Queen's own art curator, had been a Soviet agent, Writer Chapman Pincher, dean of Fleet Street's spy watchers, pondered in the Daily Express: "Was M15 Chief Hollis linked...
When Dale, former assistant professor of English and senior tutor at Adams House, was denied an associate professorship last spring, he turned down the offers of several other universities and left Cambridge for the pastoral setting of Davis, California.