Word: cletus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anguishing is divorce. It was 93 years ago, at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, that the U.S. hierarchy decreed excommunication for those who divorce and then enter second marriages against church law. Ever since, those who divorce and remarry have been treated as "lepers and outcasts," says Bishop Cletus O'Donnell of Madison, Wis., the plain-speaking progressive who heads the bishops' canon law committee. The Baltimore decree "is doing us no good," he argues...