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...parents should bring, the paper said, "birth certificates bearing their [the girls'] pictures." At a press conference Gilani defended the trials and executions of the girls. "By the Islamic canon," he said, "a nine-year-old girl is mature. So there is no difference for us between a nine-year-old girl and a 40-year...
Glum at the outcome, church leaders vowed to continue their right-to-life fight from the pulpit. Canon law holds that abortion is a grave sin and that all those involved in it-doctors, nurses, as well as patients-incur automatic excommunication. Anastasio Alberto Cardinal Ballestrero, president of the Italian Bishops Conference, noted that the church must "never renounce its mission of evangelization and education of the human conscience.'" Said Vittoria Quarenghi, a Christian Democratic member of parliament and a leader in the antiabortion drive: "We have not lost the war, only a battle." -By George Russell. Reported...
...Young Socialist canon comprises equal parts of rage against the Thatcher government and extremist idealism. Young Socialists demand full employment, a 35-hour work week and a guaranteed annual minimum wage of $9,434; the group would also curb "militarism" by creating soldiers' unions, free elections of officers and mandatory retirement of all generals currently in service. Notes Antimilitarist Coates: "Real Communism would make Brezhnev choke...
...Vatican's administrative leadership. He is also obliged to carry out all initiatives decided on and signed by the Pope. Among them: the long-planned creation of a pontifical council on the state of the family, and the publishing of the Pontiffs new decrees on the reform of canon law. But Cardinal Casaroli has no authority over policy on matters of faith or morals. Nor can he deal with petitions from priests requesting permission to leave the priesthood or grant any requests for marriage annulments. Perhaps more important, Casaroli cannot appoint cardinals or bishops, even though it is known...
...marriage. (The number of U.S. annulments has jumped 5000% in the past decade, to more than 24,000 a year.) The Careys an nounced last week that they will apply for a multiple annulment. That involves presenting evidence before a diocesan tribunal consisting of a judge, aided by a canon lawyer, called defender of the bond, who tries to block the annulment. These days the process has been streamlined in the U.S. Even with appeals it rarely takes more than a year...