Paul is also remembered for his two most important encyclicals, or teaching documents, which have had a profound effect on the church: One denounced the mounting inequality between rich and poor, and the other reaffirmed the Catholic church’s opposition to artificial contraception. The stark prohi...
While encyclicals carry “substantial doctrinal authority,” Richard Gaillardetz, a Boston College theologian, said individuals can judge whether a specific policy recommendation best fulfills church teaching. Francis called for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he said was a “structurally perv...
Later on during his “papacy” – when he was “John Paul I” – Luciani often quoted from the pronouncements and encyclicals of Paul VI. Notably absent was any reference of John Paul I toHumanae Vitae.[12] On April 13, 1968, Luciani talked to the people of Vittorio Veneto about this ...
On 18 July 1985 Louis Hubert Remy and Monsieur de la Franquerie and Francis Dallais met with Cardinal Siri. After asking him whether he had been elected Pope in 1963 "He started by remaining silent for a long time, then raised his eyes to heaven with a rictus of suffering and pain, ...
“The Great Western Mexican Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons,on the occasion of the death of John XXIII,makes known its sorrow for the disappearance ofthis great man who revolutionized the ideas, thoughts, and forms of the Roman Catholic liturgy. His encyclicalsMater et MagistraandPacem in Te...
[]. On June 7, 2010 Francis visited the Jewish Center in Argentina[6] and called Jews “our elder brothers” and “the chosen people of God”[7]. He also prayed in front of list of deceased Jews in order to honor them.“That reminder... is another link of pain, persecution and ...