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...To the Editors: Ten years ago when the encyclical Humanae Vitae was published,Iwasshockedatthe limited understanding of some theologians concerning the available philosophical defenses of the papal teaching on artificial birth control...
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...From the published writings of van Hildebrand it is pellucid that his entire treatment of Ethics in general and marriage in particular is all in terms of values...
...Is the Encyclical really the primary cause of the decline in Roman Catholic practice in the U.S...
...Pegis was a disciple of the Thomist, Etienne Gilson, not of Jacques Maritain...
...That reminded me of the old joke about how most of the blessedin heaven have to celebrate quietly so as not to disturb the Catholics who are also in that state...
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...To the Editors: Father Charles E. Curran [July 7] still sounds like a haughty (Continued on page 575)NEWS & VIEWS: 540COIgRESPONDENCE: 54T EDITORIAL:54T DAMN THE REFUGEES & FULL SPEED AJEAUD: Thomas Powers 540 ADORTIONS AND ADMIKqlONS: Paul H. Connolly 5S...
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...But it is precisely his concentrationonpersonalistvaluesthat leads this highly gifted thinker to a strong complete agreement with the Catholic teaching on artificialbirth control.UntilFr.Curranhonestly faces his opposition, his integrity as a scholar is to be highly questioned...
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...Ten Years Later," July 7) It took time, patience, and education for Europeans to understand our Constitution and pluralism, while Americans were hardly aware of what the Popes condemned as "modernism" and Ralf Dahrendorf descrihes as the German heritage of Prussian state authoritarianism...
...DEWmS V~LLUCCl OOOOOOOOO CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 547) intern informing the Chief of Surgeons how to operate on the head and the heart of the Mystical Body...
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...Curran's piece [July 7] in spite of myself, especially the reference to D. Maguire and his insistence that "magisterium" has a plural...
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...It inevitably involves the foreseeable rejection of fertilized ova, or even the calculated abortion of defective fetuses...
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...To the Editors: Isn't what Father Curran is objecting to, the debate between the professional theologians and the hierarchy on Humanae Vitae, the very same process he finds so praiseworthy in the debate on separation of church and state...
...Nevertheless, Bernard's candor about himself, about the people he encounters and the places he visits,makes Witnessing: The Seventies a unique chronicle of individualexperience thathelps to identify the elusive spirit of the decade...
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...Mary Jo Bane recently termed school a "massive intrusion" in the life of the child, but surely in the life of the family as well...
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...Obviously the Pope and his advisers miss it[ What of the parallel decline in Catholic schooling, when never before in our history have more children been isolated in school for more of the day, more of the year, and more of their formative years...
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...It seems to me that civilized conversation could also be a function of the teaching office of the church...
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...It's that elusive "Faith"~in Christ, of course, and HIS choice of Peter the Rock...
...To the Editors: The article by Rev...
...To the Editors: Reference is made to John Deedy's statement in "The Changing Scene" [News & Views, July 7...
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...OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TEST-TBE BABIES Louise Brown may have been the first human to make the cover of Time before she was even born...
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...Does the insistent, ubiquitous propaganda of Planned Parenthood and Zero Population Growth play no part...
...Thinking about "test-tube babies" seems to fall into three categories: The anathema response: The entire innovation is morally unthinkable...
...Curran has not learned otherwise with the passage of 10 years...
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...In sum, it stands in a line of technological horrors, from gas chambers to nuclear weaponry, and it points directly toward the genetic engineering and assembly-line breeding of Huxley's dystopia...
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