Word: pastorale
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Easter Week is a major holiday throughout Latin America. But in revolutionary Nicaragua there were a few differences in the seasonal festivities. The Sandinista government announced that it would ban all radio broadcasts of Easter Masses unless the regime could censor pastoral sermons. Then, as half the country prepared to...
The 365 Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. will receive an anxiously awaited item in this week's post-Easter mail: the final revision of a proposed pastoral letter on nuclear arms. The controversial 140-page document accommodates some criticisms from conservatives in the U.S. and Catholics abroad, but...
The pilgrimage had been described as a "purely pastoral" visit. But as Pope John Paul IPs eight-day trip to Central America and Haiti drew to a close last week, the dividing line between religion and politics seemed to have all but disappeared. On none of his previous 16 foreign...
Mansour did not shift her position, contending that it was acceptable under church doctrine. Szoka came under increasing pressure from conservative Catholics and right-to-lifers for being too tolerant. On Feb. 23, Szoka ordered Mansour to resign. Several hundred nuns, as well as some priests, attacked his stand; there...
On his way back to Rome, the Pope will stop for a day in Haiti to address the fourth Latin American Bishops Conference. John Paul will not have to look far to see examples of the poverty and tyranny that he wants the church to oppose with all its moral...