Word: canon
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...American President signing a bill into law, Pope John Paul II, flanked by seven top-ranking aides, last week put his name to a document at a ceremony he proudly called "a historic event." The moment deserved such solemn words; the Pope was promulgating a new code of canon law, to take effect Nov. 27, that is intended to govern in detail the religious practices of 796 million Roman Catholics around the world.* It is the first revision of the statutes since...
...code is the latest manifestation of the church renewal begun by the Second Vatican Council, which ended in 1965. Indeed, Pope John XXIII proposed a revision of canon law in the same 1959 speech that announced his intention to summon the council. The new document is infused with the liberalizing spirit of Vatican II; it is far more pastoral in tone than the 1917 code, recognizing the rights of Catholics and minimizing penalties. For example, the number of ecclesiastical offenses that call for automatic excommunication has been reduced from 37 to seven (one of them is having or procuring...
...again. In both the U.S. and Australia the bishops' conference has the right to waive a second trial of the marriage's validity, which is required for Catholics elsewhere in the world. Nor does Rome review American cases as it might those from other nations. The revised canon law essentially endorses the American system, with some procedural modifications...
...chief executive has high hopes for the new 10 series of copier-duplicators, introduced last month and designed for customers needing copies in medium to low volumes. The lower-volume machines are directed squarely at Japanese-made products sold abroad by such competitors as Canon and Ricoh. While boosting sales, Kearns is also struggling to get costs down. From his tastefully furnished office in the company's headquarters building in Stamford, Conn., Kearns has this year slashed the company's worldwide work force of 120,000 by up to 4,000, almost as many people as the company...
Exegetes of the Bond canon can debate the weighty matter of which movie is gospel and which apocrypha. Octopussy is based on the title of an Ian Fleming novelette-like most Bond movies it makes only vagrant nods to the original plot-and is supervised by Albert ("Cubby") Broccoli, who has produced or co-produced all but one of the previous Bonds. Never Say Never Again, based on the original story for Thunderball, is produced by Jack Schwartzman, a lawyer and movie executive who acquired the rights after a complicated set of maneuvers. Schwartzman also managed to lure Connery...