The ?Humanae Vitae,? meaning ?Of Human Life? and subtitled ?On the Regulation of Birth,? was an encyclical promulgated in Rome, Italy, on 25 July 1968 by Pope Paul VI [6]. This encyclical defended and reiterated the Roman Catholic Church?s stance on family planning [7] and reproductive issues such as abortion [8], sterilization [9], and contraception [10]. The document continues to have a contr...

This paper revisits the problem of estimating ex ante cost functions previously studied by Pope and Just (1996) and Moschini (2001). An ex ante cost function that generalizes their ex ante cost functions is introduced, and an econometric procedure for estimating a flexible approximation to it is developed. That generalized cost function is economically relevant not only for the Just and Pope (1...

Pope Francis is very concerned to transform the Church through synodality. He has chosen synod of bishops as main tool for this reform. This paper shows how functioning Synod Bishops, which pope profoundly transformed, puts project a synodal into effect. From point view, process 2018 on youth an example synodality transforming Church. By taking steps step by step, practice deeply and paves way ...

The free energies of adsorption of the monomer or dimer of the cationic beta-hairpin antimicrobial peptide protegrin-1 (PG1) in a specific binding orientation on a lipid bilayer are determined using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and Poisson-Boltzmann calculations. The bilayer is composed of anionic palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylglycerol (POPG) and palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylethanolamine ...

Gallicans like Montaigne construed the confessional struggle as a problem of jurisdiction between Crown and Pope. When he quipped “to Ghibelline I was Guelph, to Guelph Ghibelline”, thus not intimating that appeared “Protestant” Catholic side “Catholic” Protestant one. Instead, used these terms in their historical sense, designating division citramontane supporters king ultramontane pope. Betwe...