Word: canonized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catholic Church. Now, such suggestions are not uncommon. A group of Catholic churchmen meeting in Germany last summer acknowledged that the ideal of permanent marriage is not easily achieved in practice and that Catholics involved in successful second marriages should not be denied the sacraments of the church, as canon law now requires. One American canonist in Rome notes that the law does not work anyway, since it frequently proves no deterrent to civil divorce. "The old penalties-excommunication, suspension, interdicts-have less and less meaning or effect today," he says...
...book, Scandal in the Assembly. The book appears to owe a considerable debt to a scholarly but not widely circulated 1967 work, Divorce and Remarriage, by a U.S. canonist, Monsignor Victor J. Pospishil. But it dwells more extensively on the individual injustices created by the incredibly complex code of canon law on marriage. Indeed, the authors charge that present Roman Catholic marriage laws are "bad laws, derogatory of hu man dignity and based on un-Christian concepts of the human person." Church marriage tribunals, they allege, fail "to dispense either natural justice or Christian charity...
...pending Italian divorce bill and even briefly took to Vatican Radio to beam its protest to the Italian people. Yet the Vatican's own reforms-even such enlightened measures as the new American regulations-will be crippled by a woeful lack of skilled manpower. One fairly optimistic Vatican canon lawyer estimates that only 18 of the 160 U.S. dioceses have an adequate tribunal staff...
Total Overhaul. Many critics think that the present system of ecclesiastical marriage tribunals should not so much be revised as abolished-and that all canon law on marriage needs total overhaul. Authors West and Francis argue that a person's confessor ought to have primary discretion in determining a moral right to remarry in "obvious cases" of marital tragedy. In doubtful cases a pastoral group of clergy and married persons, competent in medicine, law and domestic relations, might be consulted. Similar parish teams have been suggested in Germany to investigate and possibly approve remarriage in the church itself...
...less than aspirin and the facts of sexual intercourse. An educational version of it was, in fact, invented for our "benefit." The world was made disproportionately small by our teachers and our textbooks, its inequities ignored, its differing cultures approximated, its messages equivocated, its complexity reduced to a sacrosanct canon of saccharine passages and colored pictures. It was a world from which textbook writers had effectively exorcised all inferiority and superiority, all ethical dimension. In our history books, other cultures were dealt with almost secondarily: America, like its TV heroes Ward Cleaver and Garfield Goose, survived all calamities and obstacles...