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...public expressions of insubordination," the Vatican not only turned down DuBay's appeal of his suspension but also ordered him to end the sale and distribution of his book. What were the legal grounds? The book did not have his bishop's imprimatur, as required by canon law. DuBay protested that many other Catholics have published without imprimatur, that the church is making a special case out of him, and that he had been "tried in absentia by anonymous judges." Contending that the order "goes completely against the Vatican Council's statement on freedom of religion, conscience...
Some other Catholic theologians agree with Lepp's proposal. In the same issue of Marriage, Benedictine Father Dennis Doherty, who specializes in moral theology, suggests that the church might find a way out of the dilemma by redefining what it means by a valid marriage. According to canon law, a marriage is valid if it has been properly witnessed and then consummated sexual ly. If some essential requisite in the sacrament is missing, the couple may later be able to gain an annulment, which means in effect that the marriage was null and void from the beginning.* Divorce...
...Welles to join in; construction of St. Mark's, which will cost $400,000, is expected to start in November. Designed to fit the liturgical needs of the four faiths, the church will seat 300 people in pews on three sides of a simple altar. To get around canon law, St. Mark's will technically be known as a "chapel of ease" rather than a parish for Catholics, but it will nonetheless be an approved place of worship...
Part Two of Henry IV is the fourth-longest play in the canon. Anthony decided on a running time of two-and-a-half hours, and did a good deal of cutting. A sizeable number of characters have been eliminated entirely. Anthony has cut the epilogue, and altered the ending a bit to leave the banished Falstaff all alone repeating over and over to himself, "I shall be sent for tonight . . . tonight . . . tonight...
Neither university officials, the Detroit chancery nor Cross's Jesuit superiors would comment on the case. But under canon law, the penalty for a priest who marries without being dispensed from his vow of chastity-something that is rarely granted by the Holy See-is automatic excommunication, revocable only by Rome. Equally in trouble with the church is Father Black burn, who was previously reprimanded by the archdiocesan chancery for conducting experimental folk-song Masses on the campus. For celebrating the marriage of a priest, he too may be subject to excommunication...