Word: canonically
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...secret ones. Most impressive of all, the observers were given copies of the Schemata-the supersecret council agenda that has been seen by no one but the council fathers. "When I heard that they had the Schemata. I almost fell over,'' said an American monsignor. Replied Anglican Canon Bernard C. Pawley matter-of-factly: "If we didn't have the Schemata, how could we really understand what's going on here...
...MARRIAGE. The council will almost certainly issue a strong denunciation of divorce and of artificial contraception-but may also point out that some Catholic couples may limit the size of their families. German bishops are pressing hard for some modification of the canon law on mixed marriages, which
...LAITY. In the past, church leaders have tended to think of the layman simply as someone who was neither a monk nor a cleric; only three items in canon law specifically apply to the ordinary churchgoer. The council is almost certain to upgrade the status of the faithful by defining their place in their church, make suggestions on how the lay apostolate can fulfill the mission of Christ's church in the world. But the council is likely to reject proposals that laymen be allowed to elect their bishops, or that the Pope constitute a lay senate comparable...
...PAUL JOHNSON, M.D. Canon City, Colo...
...Bach lived, Miss Boron maintains, he intended to have 14 fugues each preceded by a canon "in the manner of meditations or commentary on each Station"--with canon 1 at the unison, canon 2 at the second, etc. (a scheme Bach did in fact employ in the Goldberg Variations). But of the four canons Bach did write (omitted in this performance), one is by augmentation in contrary motion, which already upsets her numerical scheme...