PRESIDENT IN IVOIRE CATE: The Catholic Episcopate must tell the truth in Ouattara without fear - Africa Education

"Roma locuta, causa finita" (Rome spoke, the cause is heard). This formula was once used in Catholic circles to mean that, when the pope had spoken or decided, the debate was closed. Priests and lay faithful had more than just to obey or to execute. The pope's word is no longer seen as a definitive word since 1968, when many Catholics criticized "Humanae vitae" (on marriage and regulation of births), the encyclical in which Paul VI prohibited ar…