Word: pontificale
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The funeral obsequies themselves were planned to take careful note of the detailed habits and personal preferences of der Alte. Through the streets of the village of RhÖndorf, where he had so often walked, rolled his caisson, passing the white Catholic church in which he had worshiped, crossing...
Hardly had the pontifical commission on birth control submitted its findings to Pope Paul VI last year when word was passed that most of the commission's members had recommended abolishing the Roman Catholic Church's ban on contraception. Most people took it for granted that the news...
Transignification. The New Catholic Encyclopedia includes reports on many subjects that were ticked off in a sentence or two in the old edition-contraception, for example, was barely mentioned in the entry on marriage. The new reference book contains an eight-column treatise on the subject by Notre Dame Law...
Later, he went to work for the liberal Manchester Guardian, composed pontifical editorials that often ended: "It is greatly to be hoped . . ."
Question of Conscience? Paul thus rejected, for the present at least, the recommendations submitted last June by his pontifical commission on birth control. A majority of the commission, headed by seven cardinals, proposed that the church take a new tack in its theology of marriage that would sidestep the natural...