Word: canonizes
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...bishops who head Polish dioceses. But he enjoyed the confidence of the previous primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died May 28. Before he became Bishop of the Warmia region in 1979, Glemp spent a dozen years in Wyszynski's secretariat, first as an adviser on canon law, then as the Cardinal's private chaplain...
...parents should bring, the paper said, "birth certificates bearing their [the girls'] pictures." At a press conference Gilani defended the trials and executions of the girls. "By the Islamic canon," he said, "a nine-year-old girl is mature. So there is no difference for us between a nine-year-old girl and a 40-year...
Glum at the outcome, church leaders vowed to continue their right-to-life fight from the pulpit. Canon law holds that abortion is a grave sin and that all those involved in it-doctors, nurses, as well as patients-incur automatic excommunication. Anastasio Alberto Cardinal Ballestrero, president of the Italian Bishops Conference, noted that the church must "never renounce its mission of evangelization and education of the human conscience.'" Said Vittoria Quarenghi, a Christian Democratic member of parliament and a leader in the antiabortion drive: "We have not lost the war, only a battle." -By George Russell. Reported...
...Young Socialist canon comprises equal parts of rage against the Thatcher government and extremist idealism. Young Socialists demand full employment, a 35-hour work week and a guaranteed annual minimum wage of $9,434; the group would also curb "militarism" by creating soldiers' unions, free elections of officers and mandatory retirement of all generals currently in service. Notes Antimilitarist Coates: "Real Communism would make Brezhnev choke...
...Vatican's administrative leadership. He is also obliged to carry out all initiatives decided on and signed by the Pope. Among them: the long-planned creation of a pontifical council on the state of the family, and the publishing of the Pontiffs new decrees on the reform of canon law. But Cardinal Casaroli has no authority over policy on matters of faith or morals. Nor can he deal with petitions from priests requesting permission to leave the priesthood or grant any requests for marriage annulments. Perhaps more important, Casaroli cannot appoint cardinals or bishops, even though it is known...