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...canon law, the penalty for a priest who marries without being dispensed from his vow of chastity-something that is rarely granted by the Holy See-is automatic excommunication, revocable only by Rome. Equally in trouble with the church is Father Black burn, who was previously reprimanded by the archdiocesan chancery for conducting experimental folk-song Masses on the campus. For celebrating the marriage of a priest, he too may be subject to excommunication...
Chicago's Catholics freely credit Cody with a number of notable reforms: he has modernized the archdiocesan seminary, raised the salaries of lay teachers in parochial schools, let assistant pastors elect two representatives to Chicago's influential board of priest consultors (previously all members had been appointed by the archbishop). By the same token, Cody is something of an authoritarian; both his priests and his parishioners complain that his communications, far from being two-way, consist of his sending the word on down. Last month an ad hoc committee organized three meetings attended by 400 Chicago clerics, recommended...
...Archdiocesan Seminary Cardinal...
...Latin America. The Jesuits insist that the assignment was "routine." Berrigan's friends believe that his exile was forced upon the Jesuits by the Most Rev. John Maguire, who was acting head of the New York Archdiocese while Francis Cardinal Spellman was in Rome for the Vatican Council. Archdiocesan officials say that they were "not involved with the reassignment." Berrigan, now staying in Cuernavaca, Mexico, says that he is delighted with the chance to visit Latin America, but that his trip "was arranged mainly to remove me from the movement of protest against the war in Viet...
...experiment by both Meyer and his predecessor, Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Cody's taut-ship policy might create some strains. A past president of the National Catholic Educational Association, Archbishop Cody has a special interest in schools and will have under his jurisdiction the nation's largest archdiocesan system: 437 elementary and 90 high schools. "I feel that the education of our Catholic youth is one of the most important functions of the church," he says...