Word: canonically
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...John's Episcopal Church in Savannah, founded in 1840, is the largest and richest parish in the diocese of Georgia, which encompasses the southern half of the state. It has also been steadfastly segregated. But the Episcopal Church's Canon 16, as amended last October at the General Convention in St. Louis, bans the exclusion of any member from worship in any parish on racial grounds. Rather than obey the ruling, St. John's is leaving the Episcopal Church...
...where the mother was condemned to die. Then the execution was stayed long enough to allow the child to be born. The situation progressed very little until the 1940s when a few U.S. courts began allowing plaintiffs to recover for damages suffered before their birth under the ancient canon that where there is a wrong, there must also be a remedy. These scattered rulings, plus the compelling evidence of modern medical research, started the new trend...
...Serious Division." Unlike male deacons, for whom the office is normally a one-year prelude to ordination as a priest, deaconesses have not been al lowed to distribute Communion or administer sacraments to the sick. Pike believes that he can change this rule because of a word-switch in canon law made by the church's General Convention last year; women now are "ordered" deaconesses by a bishop, instead of "appointed." The convention also dropped the canonical provision that deaconesses must be single or widowed, but Mrs. Edwards says, "I have no desire to marry again...
...commission members include doctors, moralists, sociologists and population experts from a 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...
...this book appeared in 1912, Loeb ranged in poplar opinion with Galileo, Newton, and Darwin: he was a great-scientific innovator, who applied the principles of his science to the problems of ordinary men. This second edition of Loeb's most famous book-recalls an alternative to today's canon that the principles of scientific inquiry may be legitimately applied only to the defined problems of science...