Word: populorum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social activism. As Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini of Milan, he initiated a range of programs for the workers and poor of that problem-plagued archdiocese. In his travels as Pope, he has repeatedly made a point of seeking out the sick and impoverished. His remarkable 1967 social encyclical, Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples), called on nations to engage in a worldwide program of aggressive social action. Now comes an apostolic letter* in which the Pope addresses his appeal for social reform to the individual Christian, describing personal involvement as a duty...
...needs are ingeniously created. Is [man] not now becoming the slave of the objects he makes?" Paul also scores the "ill-considered exploitation of nature" that may create "an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable." Yet on population control he hews to the line he established in Populorum Progressio: governments may encourage only those birth control methods that conform to "the moral law" (i.e., rhythm...