Word: canonizations
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...Roman Catholic Church have a constitution? It has existed without one for more than 19 centuries-unless one considers the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the commission to teach that Gospel a constitution. Of course the church has had rules and laws aplenty, an accumulating and confusing morass of canons that were not even codified until 1918. That code is now undergoing a massive revision, and a bloc within the Vatican is asking for a kind of preamble to it that would become a new "fundamental law" for the church-one to which all canon law would have o conform...
...evolving church. That apparently made Pope Paul VI a bit apprehensive and, even as the council closed in 1965, he suggested that the church needed a fundamental law to guide it. The assignment of drawing one up promptly went to the commission already at work revising the code of canon law, now under the eye of astute Conservative Pericle Cardinal Felici...
Alberigo cited other reasons why the draft was unacceptable. Canon 23 of the text states that no one's "good repute" can be injured "illegitimately," implying, Alberigo argued, that persons could be injured "legitimately." This, he said, could lead to a return of inquisitorial processes like the 1968 interrogation of Radical Educator Ivan Illich, then a monsignor, on such charges as "subversive interpretation" of church discipline. Canon 90 declares that the church "has the inherent right to acquire, conserve and administer those temporal goods needed to pursue its proper objectives," a statement, said Alberigo, that sounds like "a group...
...anaesthesia, acupuncture had changed little. The original text is a book about 2,300 years old. Dr. Ilza Veith, professor of the history of health sciences at the University of California (San Francisco), has translated it as The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine. According to this canon, the body has twelve more or less vertical channels or "meridians," and along these are 365 points at which the insertion of a needle will have a physiological effect. These points do not follow any anatomical system recognized in the West...
...decision have been greeted with responses ranging from indifference to incomprehension. Few of the 96,000 whites-chiefly Afrikaners, Germans and Britons-doubt that South African rule is for the best. Among blacks, there is tribal loyalty but no feeling of nationhood. Says Dr. Romanus Kapungu, a doctor in canon law from Rome University and chief councilor of the Kavango tribal authority: "If you asked most of our people, they wouldn't know what all the fuss is about...