Word: canonized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YARROW, AS an aspiring solo artist, faced a grave problem. A year and a half ago, he said he had ideas of following in the path of men like Pete Seeger, writing, as he still does, idealistic songs of love and the search for peace to add to the canon of traditional folk. But P, P & M-style arrangements were no longer the language of national sentiments. That musical language had shifted to rock...
...indeed insist-that confession must never be denied to a child who is ready for it. But they also maintain that a child cannot be required to receive the sacrament unless he is conscious of serious sin. Jesuit Francis Buckley of the University of San Francisco points out that canon law itself defines the age of reason differently for the reception of the Eucharist and penance...
...Roman Catholics who have divorced and remarried have rarely had the official sympathy of their church. Indeed, unless the first marriage can somehow be proved invalid, the second union is considered to be no marriage at all, and canon law bars the partners from the sacrament of the Eucharist. Even so, there has been one slight softening in Rome's attitude. A recent letter to the world's bishops promises that the Vatican will soon amend a canon law that forbids Catholic funeral services -or even burial in consecrated ground -to "public sinners," a category that has often...
...DEVILS AND CANON BARHAM...
Edmund Wilson, who wrote those lines almost two decades before his death last year at 77, obeyed the bell to the end. The ten essays and reviews collected in The Devils and Canon Barham are the last turns in what he once called the All-Star Literary Vaudeville...