Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pope's top ecumenical adviser, Jan Cardinal Willebrands, to the 24-member Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, which is studying reunion. The Cardinal indicated that the Vatican is prepared to end centuries of refusal to recognize Anglican priests as legitimate, a stance that was formalized in Pope Leo XIII's 1896 decree that Canterbury ordinations are "absolutely null and void." If accomplished, that change would clear an important reunification hurdle. But as part of the arrangement, Willebrands asked for a formal Anglican statement of agreement with Rome on all essential doctrines regarding the nature of the Eucharist and the role...
Arguments about the Catholic Church's ability to comment on social justice issues are not applicable either. The Church has been vigorously and continuously denouncing materialism while advocating the rights of the workingman for over a hundred years. From Pope Leo XIII's call for the dignity and rights of the laborer to Pope John Paul II's recent appeal that "the needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich,"' papal encyclicals have elucidated time and time again the moral implications of economic policy-making...
...poisoning, from a fatal potion that was intended for some Cardinals. That was in 1503, and the rumors have not let up yet. Veteran Vatican observers recall the stories of how Pope Pius X died of poisoning in 1914. Then there were the whispers about how poison killed Leo XIII in 1903, Pius VIII...
...home address of Spain's 17th reigning sovereign is no small matter. By avoiding the castle last occupied by his grandfather Alfonxo XIII in 1931, Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor Maria de Borbon y Borbon is sending a signal of solidarity with his countrymen's longing for self rule...
...University payscale. That, according to Council officials, is why the salary is seemingly so high; that's the way it was written into the Council bylaws: "The Executive Secretary shall be an employee of the University, but his salary shall be drawn upon the treasury of the Council" (Article XIII, Section 131.35). So, even though they've hired a student, the Council has to maintain the official wage level...