Word: canonizations
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...Pollock is one of the legends of modern art. American culture never got over its surprise at producing him; fairly or not, he remains the prototypical American modernist, the one who not only "broke the ice"-in the generous words of his colleague Willem de Kooning-but set a canon of intensity for generations to come. The sad fact seems to be that no younger American artist, in the 25 years since his death, has quite got past Pollock's achievement. His work was mined and sifted by later artists as though he were a lesser Picasso; seen through...
...good standing may seek an annulment, in which the church rules that a valid marriage never existed in the first place. Once a rarity, annulments in the U.S. have grown from a mere 338 in 1968 to around 32,000 last year. In the Vatican last week the International Canon Law Commission sent to Pope John Paul for approval the final draft of a new code that would slow down U.S. annulment procedure, but streamline things in much of the world...
There are two factors in annulment, grounds and procedure. The grounds in the existing canon law code of 1917 are generally technical: bigamy, fraud, insanity, coercion and the like. But over the past two decades church tribunals have expanded psychological incapacity as a basis. The proposed new code recognizes this principle, known as "serious lack of due discretion...
American bishops lobbied strenuously to keep their privilege in the new code. An American member of the canon law commission, Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati and his canon law adviser, Monsignor John A. Alesandro of Garden City, N.Y., say that the boom in U.S. annulments is the result of social factors. They cite the high number of divorces and the high number of mixed marriages in American society. U.S. annulments now will drag out somewhat, agrees Bernardin, but he says, "We feel this is something we can work with." To which Alesandro adds, "We're not handing...
Industry experts were puzzled by Sony's early announcement of the new camera. The company is normally a quiet, conservative firm that only unveils a product once it has been perfected. There was speculation that Sony was trying to ward off competition from companies like Canon and Hitachi, which may be about to announce another version of the electronic camera...