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...well, so easily. Paramount has secured him for a concert film, referred to familiarly at Paramount as Beverly Hills Cop Goes to London, and five features, possibly including a Cop sequel. His fans--just about everyone--need no catchy titles for his movies. Just call them Eddie V, Eddie VI, Eddie VII. Then watch the lines form and the smiles start to glow...
...hormonal birth control method in the 1950s with Biologists Gregory Pincus and Min-chueh Chang. Because the pill they developed used two body substances, estrogen and progesterone, Rock, a daily Mass-going Roman Catholic, believed the church might accept it as a "natural" family-planning device. When Pope Paul VI banned all forms of artificial contraception in a 1968 encyclical, Rock angrily accused the Pope of abdicating "responsibility for the ultimate welfare...
...Pope's lectures reaffirm a centuries-old Catholic belief, formalized in Pope Pius XI's 1930 encyclical Casti Connubii and Paul VI's 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae. The Pauline document, which created a furor, declared that "every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life." The reason: "In the plan of God" there is an "inseparable connection" between the "unitive meaning and procreative meaning" of the marital act. John Paul, when he was Bishop Karol Wojtyla, wrote an enthusiastic preface to the Polish edition of Humanae Vitae and was among the bishops who most vigorously...
...Paul VI based his pronouncements on "natural law," principles built into creation by God that humanity can learn through reason. John Paul's teaching is based on natural law plus divine law, which is part of "the moral order revealed by God." For John Paul, explains one Vatican theologian, the question of contraception "takes us to the center of Christianity." The Pope also puts his teachings within the new context of his "theology of the body," which stresses human dignity and the beauty of sexuality...
...Weaker Vessel took 12 years of research, although Fraser had written on British history before. She has penned biographies on James VI, James I and Charles II. Her biography of Mary Queen of Scots won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography in 1969. At Oxford University, Fraser studied history, which taught her "form and structure." Even with her experience in publishing and research, Fraser still found problems in using sources for her latest book. "My ideal source would be a diary of an illiterate woman. You always have to try and find those silent voices...