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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...
Most recent previous correction of the papal succession was in 1947, when the Yearbook's compiler decided that Athenian Pope St. Anacletus (circa 100-112) and Roman Pope St. Cletus (circa 78-90) were really the same man; therefore he dropped Anacletus. Confusions and discrepancies abound in ancient records. St. Felix, who died in 365, is erroneously listed as Pope Felix II (355-365); scholars still are not sure whether Dioscorus, who died in 530 and is listed as an antipope,* was not in fact legitimate, or whether Leo VIII (963-965), the candidate of Emperor Otto...
...popes had to be dropped: one (Donus II) never existed; two (the supposed third & fifth Popes Cletus and Anacletus) were the same man. But three new popes had been found: Boniface VI (for a few days in 896), and, possibly, Discorus (for 22 days in 530) and Leo VIII (from 963 to 965). In the case of no fewer than 74 popes, changes had to be made in such matters as their names and dates...
...balmy spring night last week two men were alone in a big brick building on the Princeton University campus. Physics Professor Rudolf Walter Ladenburg, 53, and Research Associate Cletus Clinton Van Voorhis, 50, were so interested in their atom-smashing experiments that they had come back to the physics laboratory to work after dinner. For bullets they used neutrons. The neutrons were knocked out of beryllium by alpha particles from radium. The beryllium and 200 milligrams of radium sulphate, worth $4,000, were in a metal tube. One of the scientists started to solder a loose cap on the tube...