Word: catholicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Pope listed four principles for a Catholic judge to follow: 1) He "cannot shirk responsibility for his decisions and place the blame on the law and its authors. When he delivers a sentence in accordance with the law, the judge becomes an accessory to the fact and therefore is...
Reaction. In the U.S. the repercussions came fast. The National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington, D.C. explained that the Pope's speech was not "a newly arrived at position . . . The common view of theologians holds that the act of the judge in pronouncing a divorce is merely an official...
But Executive Secretary Glenn L. Archer of Protestants & Other Americans United for the Separation of Church & State was not reassured. Archer flatly called for the resignation of all Roman Catholic judges who cannot affirm that they will put their oath of office before the guidance of the
Pope. And in heavily Roman Catholic Las Vegas, N.M., District Judge Luis Armijo put himself on record as having no intention of being bound by the ruling of the Pontiff. "I may be a Catholic," he announced, "but I'm a citizen of the United States first."
*Such unions, by Roman Catholic law, include those marriages of non-Catholics which the church recognizes as valid.