Word: archdiocesan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apostolic Delegate, Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani of Washington, can now assign appeals from marriage cases to any archdiocesan court in the U.S., instead of forwarding them to the Roman Rota for decision. Marriage cases (socalled because the Catholic Church does not recognize divorce, though it sometimes grants annulments) make up most of the Rota's docket...
What was cocky Charlie Coughlin up to now? Guarded statements to the press, by Detroit archdiocesan officials, revealed that Father Coughlin's speeches had long been passed upon by a special archdiocesan censorship committee. Possibly, said the Detroit archdiocesan chancellor, Father Coughlin had declined to alter last Sunday's speech in accordance with the censors' suggestions...