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...tiny African state of Malawi, Last week Banda concluded a five-day state visit to South Africa; he was the first black President ever to visit the white-dominated Republic and the first chief of any foreign state to come calling since England's King George VI turned...
...Church over the centuries: an invisible church of the spirit as opposed to a visible one of structure and hierarchy. Now that idea was part of Roman Catholic theology as well, and progressive theologians were quick to project it into a dynamic, evolving church. That apparently made Pope Paul VI a bit apprehensive and, even as the council closed in 1965, he suggested that the church needed a fundamental law to guide it. The assignment of drawing one up promptly went to the commission already at work revising the code of canon law, now under the eye of astute Conservative...
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However conservative he may be in matters of traditional doctrine and discipline, Pope Paul VI has always had a warm predilection for 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...
...Father Duryea named his son Paul for Pope Paul VI...