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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...away from us our right and duty to follow our conscience." They noted the dilemma of "faithful couples" who cannot easily support another child, and of wives whose health might be endangered by pregnancy. The statement added that Humanae Vitae contains "no threat of damnation" against Catholics who fall short of its teachings and that, "far from being excluded from the sacraments, those in difficulties are invited to receive them more frequently." The Canadian bishops even more strongly suggested that in the conflict between the encyclical's teaching and the burdens of parenthood, "whoever honestly chooses the course which...
...come to pass that one of the best-known and most creative theologians in the Roman Catholic Church will have to stand trial for doctrinal error, an accusation not far short of heresy. Dominican Father Edward Schillebeeckx, the principal theological adviser to the Dutch hierarchy, has been under investigation by Rome. According to a Vatican source, the charges concern "certain apparent errors in his teachings and writings, aspects of which do not seem to conform to norms established by the church...
Free Meals. The show is a hit. "We get blizzards of mail," says Prison War den Wayne Patterson. "There's no short age of speaking invitations." So enthusiastic is the public that Denver area Kiwanians recently raised $4,000 to provide the convicts with two station wagons. Some restaurants give them free meals, and a motel in Denver lets them stay overnight for nothing...
...patient's tremor, muscle rigidity, forward-falling posture, hasty gait and "pill-rolling" movements of the fingers. As with most diseases of which the basic causes are unknown, there is a yard-long list of drugs that have been tried; some give modest relief, but all fall far short of cure. Even radical brain surgery usually relieves only some of the symptoms. Now a new drug has been found that is more effective in most cases than earlier medicines and promises real progress in future Parkinsonism treatment, once it is thoroughly tested. Unfortunately, it has already touched...
...drug is L-dopa, short for Levo-dihydroxyphenylalanine. The rationale for its use lies in the fact that the brains of Parkinsonism victims are deficient in dopamine, a natural body chemical essential to normal nerve activity in the midbrain. So, researchers reasoned, why not give the patients extra dopamine? The trouble is that dopamine cannot cross the natural barrier be tween the bloodstream and the brain to reach the deprived cells. But dopa, an amino acid that comes in three forms including L-dopa, crosses the barrier by a process not yet fully understood. It is broken down...