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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A large minority of bishops at a 1980 synod on the family, meanwhile, asked that the encyclical be reconsidered.
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If only Miss Manners had promulgated, like the pope, an encyclical on proper gay conduct.
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The combination of fallout from the Council and disillusionment with the encyclical was more than many priests could bear.
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The great majority of those who still practiced their faith disregarded the encyclical .
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Tom believed that the encyclical was poorly reasoned, but his objections were more pastoral than they were doctrinal.