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...duty to "defend their model of the family"-a clear directive to repeal divorce. Most of the country's 190,000 priests and nuns campaigned vigorously for repeal; but many clerics defended divorce, and they were promptly disciplined by their superiors. After the balloting, Pope Paul VI expressed his "astonishment and pain" at the results. The referendum has already triggered new demands for revision of the 1929 concordat between Mussolini's government and the Vatican, which established Catholicism as Italy's official religion and still regulates church-state relations...
...VI: KEEPING HENRY CURRENT...
...document itself sheds no new light on the subject of birth control or family planning, but reiterates the stand taken by Pope Paul VI in his 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae; it states flatly that "some questions are not open to controversy." However, it encourages Catholics to "avoid giving the impression that the concern of the Church regarding contemporary demographic trends is determined by its teaching on the morality or immorality of birth control methods...
...causes. Named to the diocese in 1961, Shehan issued, a year later, a blunt pastoral letter demanding the end of racial discrimination in all phases of Catholic life. He lent personal weight to his words by joining Martin Luther King's 1963 march on Washington. When Pope Paul VI named him cardinal in 1965, Shehan viewed the honor as a papal endorsement of "racial justice." But he was not always so heartily endorsed at home; testifying in favor of open housing in 1966, he was booed and jeered. His own mounting concern about the war in Viet Nam finally...
Last week word came from Rome that Pope Paul VI had accepted the cardinal's resignation as archbishop, tendered last year when Shehan reached the recommended retirement age of 75. Baltimore's new archbishop will be Bishop William Borders, 60, of Orlando, Fla., a prelate known for his programs to help migrant workers and other poor. Shehan will remain a cardinal for the rest of his life...