Word: canonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contested elections for high office, Challenger Leon Watts was defeated by General Secretary Espy, 382-100, and Mrs. Wedel outdrew Albert Cleage for president, 387-93. A former vice president of the N.C.C. and wife of Episcopal Canon Theodore O. Wedel, Mrs. Wedel will succeed Arthur S. Flemming, former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...shocked. The court did nothing to change the logic of decisions based upon the Brown precedent. Rather, the issue was timing: by commanding immediate compliance with the law, the Justices brought an urgent new perspective to the complex and long-delayed process of integration. The decision establishes a judicial canon that will probably end dejure segregation before the start of the 1970 school year, though full integration in the physical sense is a very different matter. At the same time, the judgment may well provoke confusion, scattered violence and, temporarily at least, some damage to public education in parts...
Shannon might have asked to leave the active priesthood and marry, but such permission is granted slowly, if at all. Without it, under Roman Catholic canon law, the marriage automatically excommunicates Shannon, though there was no formal condemnation.* Said Shannon: "The fact that we have acted contrary to this particular law does not by any means indicate that we do not respect the church, its canon law, or its need for norms in the liturgy and the life of the people." Indeed, Shannon said, he had written to Pope Paul VI to assure him that "I will...
...Belgium's Desire Cardinal Mercier. The young Suenens chose the progressive cardinal as his spiritual director and carried on a close correspondence with him. A brilliant student at Rome's Gregorian University, where he earned doctorates in theology and philosophy and a baccalaureate in canon law, Suenens returned to Belgium to become a professor of philosophy, at the age of 25, at Malines Seminary. A decade later he was named vice-rector of Belgium's famed Louvain University, and in 1945, was consecrated a bishop...
Furthermore, there is an unusual imbalance in the proportion of prose to poetry; Much Ado has fewer lines of verse than any other work in the canon except the farcical Merry Wives of Windsor. And the best writing in the play is in prose...