Word: canon
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While obdurate dissenters will apparently not be spared in the crackdown, church policy has been ambiguous in some cases. Shortly after Curran's ouster, the Catholic University board granted tenure to Canon Lawyer James Provost, whose writings had irked the Vatican. In gaining tenure, however, Provost had to agree to write clarifications of his past support for first Communion before first confession and for giving Communion to some Catholics who divorce and remarry without annulments...
...time the next generation of students reaches college age, revered works of literature such as Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick may no longer be foremost in the American literary canon, according to four Harvard professors who spoke yesterday at the symposium, "Reexamining Masterpieces: Changes in the American Literary Canon...
Johnson said that there now exists a series of questions about what works should comprise the canon of American literature, and that a series of givens no longer exists...
...body-haunted objects by Matisse, Picasso, Archipenko, Brancusi, Miro, Calder, Giacometti and others -- but because they did not want to serve the social consensus in the way that statuary did. Consequently, few public commemorative sculptures made in the past 75 years have any real importance in the modernist canon; and conversely, modern public sculpture is mostly banal in the extreme...
...Plants), has now had the intriguing idea of compiling brief biographies of all 263 Popes (plus 39 antipopes) from St. Peter to John Paul II. It entrusted this enormous task to J.N.D. Kelly, an Anglican priest who has served as principal at Oxford's St. Edmund Hall and as canon of Chichester Cathedral, as well as chairman of the Archbishop of Canterbury's commission on Roman Catholic relations. His dictionary is correspondingly scholarly, cautious, meticulous, yet still a rich mine of arcane nuggets...