Word: archdiocesan
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...dozen countries, nine from the U.S. Among them are those who favor "the pill" as a licit method of birth limitation, such as Canon Louis Janssens of the University of Louvain in Belgium, and those who oppose it, such as Monsignor George Kelly of New York's Archdiocesan Family Life Bureau. But some Catholics who want a modification of the church's position on birth control charge that the membership has been stacked in favor of the status quo. Recently, two of England's best-known Catholic doctors made public a complaint, submitted to the Vatican, that...
...Roman Catholic Church is an authoritarian, hierarchal institution whose Pope and bishops claim to govern by divine right as descendants of Christ's Apostles. This fundamental Catholic concept is now undergoing widespread scrutiny, criticism and questioning, leading to what Father Joseph Gallagher an editor of Baltimore's archdiocesan weekly bluntly calls "a crisis of obedience in the church." What is being questioned is not authority as such, but how it is exercised; not the concept of obedience, but what it means in the modern world of free...
...prelates, accepting this new theology of authority, have tried to put it into practice by welcoming laymen and priests into the corridors of power. In Atlanta, Archbishop Paul Hallinan has appointed more than 125 laymen to church commissions; Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston intends to have laymen present at archdiocesan ecumenical synods...
...year class at the Jesuits' Boston College High School. "I was as rough as any of them, and they were pretty rough," the cardinal recalls. Actually, he seems to have been a devout and hard-working student; twice he thought of joining the Jesuits before he entered the archdiocesan seminary of St. John's after completing his sophomore year at Boston College...
...Archdiocesan officials estimate that he has been responsible for at least $250 million worth of construction, including 120 elementary and high schools, 86 new parishes and four hospitals. Much of this he has managed with a financial skill worthy of J. Paul Getty. He called in all the surplus funds of his parishes and set up his own banking system, organized an insurance plan for archdiocesan property that has saved the parishes $10 million...