Word: churches
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...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 try by my life style, with my wife, who shares my deep Christian views, to pray and work...
...many in the magazine's Aug. 23 issue. "Morale sinks lower," Reedy writes. The marriage is a "cloud of distraction" that may now encourage conservatives to "tune out all that Bishop Shannon was saying because 'all the time, he just wanted to get married.' " Underground churches, says Reedy, will be tempted anew to disregard church discipline, however much Shannon himself may protest-as he still does-that he disapproves of such tactics...
...church's embarrassment continued to grow over the troubles of Munich's Bishop Matthias Defregger. Last month, he was implicated in the World War II execution of 17 hostages in Italy, where he served as a German army captain (TIME, July 18). Apparently wanting to wash its hands of the affair, the Vatican denied that it had knowledge of Defregger's wartime past when it made him bishop last year. The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano reported that only Defregger's "immediate superiors"-led by Munich's Julius Cardinal Döpfner...
...Defregger] is today, spiritually and morally, a 'new man.' " The editorial somewhat ambiguously cited "elements of interior forum" that must be considered-which some Vatican insiders interpreted as strong encouragement for the bishop to examine his conscience and then resign his post in the interest of the church. Perhaps the worst aspects of the Defregger imbroglio are its repercussions in the religious life of Germany. For the first time in years, the German Evangelical (Lutheran) Church has broken a carefully maintained harmony with the Catholic hierarchy to criticize Catholic handling of the case, and the prestige of Cardinal...
...demography. A deadly series of floods and bad harvests had left much of Europe's population ill nourished and more susceptible to plague. And he is able enough in suggesting some of the plague's historic results. It permanently helped weaken the authority of the Catholic Church in a way important to the Reformation: priests had proved unable to protect themselves or their people from what was widely assumed to be God's vengeance. By lowering the value of land -because there were few workers left to till it-and raising the price of labor, the death...