Word: canonize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris, but dry white wine with crème de cassis is an old Burgundian pick-me-up known as rinse cochon, pig rinse. As Mayor of Dijon the good Canon Kir must know the drink's real name. I wonder if he finds it flattering...
Pope Paul called the Second Vatican Council "the beginning not the end" of renewal in the Roman Catholic Church, but apart from the vernacular liturgy, change has come slowly. To get on with reform, a study group of the Canon Law Society of America-representing the U.S. experts who teach and explain the church's juridical code-met this month in Pittsburgh and put forth a series of recommendations for carrying out the spirit of Vatican...
...proposals, which emphasize human rights rather than church discipline, deal not only with the canon-law code but with basic constitutional problems of the church. Arguing that the church should incorporate more of today's democratic ideals in its structure, they urge a more distinct separation of executive, legislative and judicial functions. Under the present code, explained Jesuit Ladislas Orsy of Catholic University, there is a certain "imbalance" in church government: in practice, the offices of the Roman Curia both plan church regulations and enforce them. A wiser mode of government would be to have the law-creating function...
Elected Bishops? In the same spirit, the study group, which included theologians and Biblical experts as well as canon lawyers, proposed restoration of the ancient tradition by which laity and priests participated in the selection of bishops and elimination of free-and-easy transfer of bishops from see to see. Other proposals...
...much better-and in some ways worse -than what they would receive back home. While U.S. seminaries have all but abandoned Latin for lectures and brought their curriculums closer to those of secular liberal-arts colleges, the courses at Roman universities are still heavy on dogmatic theology and canon law, and the emphasis is on rote learning rather than creative thinking...