Word: proprio
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...text had been written and edited, and official translations from the Latin approved. In fact, Pope Paul's long-awaited motu proprio* on birth control was already rolling off the presses in a secret section of the Vatican's printing office. Last week, just before the statement was to be made public, it was suddenly scrapped...
According to Vatican sources, the motu proprio would have overruled and ignored the findings of the pontifical birth-control commission, which recommended by a 4-to-1 majority that the church relax its traditional opposition to contraception (TIME, April 28, 1967). In its final form, the Pope's pronouncement would have outlawed any mechanical or chemical form of birth control, including the Pill. In effect, it would have held the church to the judgment on procreation handed down by Pope Pius XI in 1930-that "any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that...
Last week Pope John XXIII put at least some of the fears to rest. In naming the cardinals who will guide the council deliberations, and outlining the council's rules of order in a 48-page Motu Proprio (a "White Paper" issued on the Pope's personal authority), he made it clear that hierarchical reformers would have plenty of opportunity to make their cases...
Limiting Speeches. The papal Motu Proprio predictably decreed that all public sessions will take place in St. Peter's, where bleachers are now being built in the nave, and that the official language of the council would be Latin (translators will be on hand to help prelates through verbal thickets). Other procedural decisions: Council members will be forbidden to leave Rome without written permission from the presidential council. Clerics who wish to speak on the floor will present written requests to the presiding cardinal, then wait their turn. "Church fathers," the booklet noted, "are requested to limit their speeches...