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...DRUMMING-UP-BUSINESS DEPART MENT. "We do no soliciting," insisted the Colonel. But "quoting some canon of ethics," he declared that "it is not improper to call on a person when warranted by personal relations." As a result, the D.U.B.D. taught firm members "the need for knowing as many people as possible, particularly hospital managers, cashiers, nurses, interns, residents, practicing physicians, policemen, preachers and fortune tellers...
...Divine.* Although he named no names, Donegan said that two other rich benefactors were threatening to withdraw bequests much larger than that. The purpose of withholding the money, said Donegan, was to show disapproval of his stand on civil rights-including speeches, sending priests to Selma, installing a Negro canon at the cathedral, and integrating parishes...
Unlike the canon law of Christian churches, the Talmud reaches no final conclusions and does not try to reconcile contrary opinions. One authority will claim that a wife has nothing of her own while her husband lives; another will argue that she is entitled to personal property for her private use. In the view of one lenient rabbi, the Sabbath was made for man; another will demand the strict observance of so many Sabbath regulations that they seem, says a Talmudic sage, "like a chain of mountains hanging on a hair." Only by years of study can Talmudic scholars learn...
...bishops may be content to draw back from the full implications of aggiornamento. Already there are Catholics who complain that the council is a failure for having avoided the real issues facing the church?Christian unity and a radical revision of the church's institutions and forms. England's Canon F. H. Drinkwater, for example, wonders how Pope John would feel about his council "wasting month after precious month over such trivialities as concelebration, or Communion in both kinds, or new definitions about Our Lady...
...Priestly Life and the Ministry. Also rejected at the third session and now drastically rewritten, the schema outlines the proper relationships between priests, their laity and their bishops, urges creation of special postgraduate training centers for the clergy, proposes a revision of canon law to insure better distribution of priests around the world (Ireland has one for every 800 Catholics, Guatemala one for every...