Word: pontiff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have set aside a full afternoon to air their views on an 81-page third draft of the proposed letter. As the bishops deliberate, the campus will provide space for a simultaneous gathering of liberal caucuses that are dissatisfied with the church, its all-male priesthood and its reigning Pontiff, John Paul II. The counterconference will feature an ersatz Mass, celebrated by women...
...Pope himself. When Innocent VIII hired him to decorate the chapel of the Villa Belvedere in the Vatican, he was puzzled to see, tacked onto allegorical roundels of the Seven Virtues, an eighth that held the sketched-in figure of an old woman. What did she signify? asked the Pontiff. "Ingratitude," snapped Mantegna, who had not yet been paid...
...expected, at least to some degree, that her popularity would grow. What was far less predictable was the outpouring of new interpretations of the Virgin's message for believers. In his writings, the Pope has given a conservative tilt to the meaning of Mary's life. The Pontiff's 1988 apostolic letter Mulieris Dignitatem (On the Dignity and Vocation of Women), citing positions taken at Vatican II, declared that "the Blessed Virgin came first as an eminent and singular exemplar of both virginity and motherhood." He extolled both states as ways women could find their dignity...
...Catholic values that had helped deliver ) them from communism. He saved his most stinging comments for abortion, which has been legal since 1956 but is now in danger of being outlawed by a church- backed bill under consideration in Poland's parliament. At an outdoor Mass in Radom, the Pontiff compared abortion to the Holocaust and sternly asked, "What parliament has the right to say, 'You are free to kill'?" The polite applause bore witness to Poles' growing ambivalence toward church interference in government policy. According to recent surveys, almost 60% of Poles oppose the antiabortion bill and consider...
With Pope John Paul II due to visit his native country in June, Poland's Roman Catholic prelates busied themselves preparing a present for their Pontiff: strict antiabortion legislation that would ban the procedure completely, including cases stemming from rape and incest. The antiabortion bill, which the church lobbied for mightily in the Polish Sejm, or lower house of parliament, prescribed jail terms for doctors who performed abortions, even on women whose lives were endangered by pregnancy...