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...uncommon. A group of Catholic churchmen meeting in Germany last summer acknowledged that the ideal of permanent marriage is not easily achieved in practice and that Catholics involved in successful second marriages should not be denied the sacraments of the church, as canon law now requires. One American canonist in Rome notes that the law does not work anyway, since it frequently proves no deterrent to civil divorce. "The old penalties-excommunication, suspension, interdicts-have less and less meaning or effect today," he says...
...Morris L. West (The Devil's Advocate), a divorced and remarried Catholic, and Robert Francis, an Anglican, in their new book, Scandal in the Assembly. The book appears to owe a considerable debt to a scholarly but not widely circulated 1967 work, Divorce and Remarriage, by a U.S. canonist, Monsignor Victor J. Pospishil. But it dwells more extensively on the individual injustices created by the incredibly complex code of canon law on marriage. Indeed, the authors charge that present Roman Catholic marriage laws are "bad laws, derogatory of hu man dignity and based on un-Christian concepts...
...More allowance for local variation in applying a legal code that currently attempts to be universal in scope. As one canonist foresees it, church law in the U.S. might some day use some of the procedures of English common law rather than those of the more codified Roman law that underlies the existing canons...
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