Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...ecumenist long before the word became popular. At Vatican II, he attracted worldwide attention when his speech in support of the council document on religious liberty for all -including atheists-was hailed by the assembled churchmen with a burst of forbidden applause. Then, typically, he walked out on the council when it went on too long, claiming that he had more important things to do in Boston. For these reasons-and for many others -Gushing has become perhaps the best known of the American cardinals...
...high Vatican official, anticipating reaction to the pronouncement, admitted that few women are expected to take the vows. The ritual will probably be used mostly by those in religious orders as a way of renewing their original dedication. "This document has not been issued with the intention of urging Catholic women to take the vows," the official says. "We are not beating the bushes to persuade women to swear to remain virgins...
...ordinary corporate prospectus, a document prepared for prospective investors in a new stock issue, is perhaps 25% livelier reading than the Manhattan telephone book. One recent prospectus, however, is on the way to becoming a Wall Street bestseller, mostly because it convulses readers with often grim laughter. Brokers and other businessmen have been discussing it in board rooms and over luncheon tables; investment firms have ordered extra copies in quantity...
...posthumous rage and disgust. Reck seems more alive than the 65-year-old Speer, whose coolly confessional document sometimes suggests a cadaver performing an autopsy on itself. · R.Z. Sheppard
Paul believes that there is no reason to leave the burdens of office behind at the Vatican, and his days at Castel Gandolfo have produced some of his most important pronouncements. Last summer, for example, he did much of the work on his mixed-marriage document at the villa. From the same location, in the summer of 1968, he also issued Humanae Vitae, his church-shaking encyclical condemning all forms of artificial birth control...