Word: vatican
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Pope John Paul II rarely minces words. In both affluent America and impoverished Africa, he has made it clear there will be no Vatican compromise in the ban on artificial birth control. Last week, however, John Paul sat intently listening in the Vatican's starkly modern Synodal Hall as an equally forthright churchman declared that the present church policy simply is not working...
...huge problems of world poverty and population growth. The church, he said, must go beyond "a simple repetition of past formulations" and search for "nuances and clarifications, further considerations and greater pastoral insights" that will make the policy more palatable. He called upon John Paul's Vatican to undertake a "widespread and formal dialogue with Catholic theologians throughout the world." The talks would include some of the ranking theologians who have made repeated public attacks on the papal teaching...
Quinn's appeal was in stark contrast to the stand-pat paper the Vatican had sent out prior to the synod. Other synod speakers joined in lamenting the growing gap between Catholic teaching and observance, but the first week's deliberations were cautious. Some conservatives said the church should do more to enforce its policy and a powerful Vatican conservative, Pericle Cardinal Felici, told the bishops, "There is nothing to re-discuss. I consider the encyclical closed...
...When the Vatican ordered Massachusetts Democrat Robert Drinan, a Jesuit priest, to withdraw from public office last May, 15 politicians lunged for his seat in Congress. By August, polls indicated that Barney Frank, 40, a Harvard-educated former aide to Boston Mayor Kevin White and a popular state legislator for eight years, was the clear favorite. Frank had been endorsed by Drinan and Senator Edward Kennedy. Moreover, voters in the largely liberal district, which includes wealthy Boston suburbs and factory towns in central Massachusetts, liked the rumpled candidate's advocacy of more public spending on mass transit, senior citizens...
...Robert Drinan (D-Mass.), forced to give up his political career by a Vatican edict earlier this year, continued to stump for Frank as his successor, pointedly ignoring the Medeiros letter...