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...Pope issues a new and more flexible code for Catholics
Rather like an American President signing a bill into law, Pope John Paul II, flanked by seven top-ranking aides, last week put his name to a document at a ceremony he proudly called "a historic event." The moment deserved such solemn words; the Pope was promulgating a new code of canon law, to take effect Nov. 27, that is intended to govern in detail the religious practices of 796 million Roman Catholics around the world.* It is the first revision of the statutes since...
...code is the latest manifestation of the church renewal begun by the Second Vatican Council, which ended in 1965. Indeed, Pope John XXIII proposed a revision of canon law in the same 1959 speech that announced his intention to summon the council. The new document is infused with the liberalizing spirit of Vatican II; it is far more pastoral in tone than the 1917 code, recognizing the rights of Catholics and minimizing penalties. For example, the number of ecclesiastical offenses that call for automatic excommunication has been reduced from 37 to seven (one of them is having or procuring...
...keeping with Vatican II, the new code emphasizes the role to be played by lay Catholics as part of the "people of God." Various provisions explicitly authorize them to perform certain liturgical functions, such as reading the Old Testament lessons and epistles at Mass, helping to administer a diocese, serving on marriage tribunals and even running parishes if no priest is available...
...after Harvard survived two early penalties, the game took on a see-saw pattern that continued until overtime. Blueliner Code knotted it early in the third stanza when another of his off-speed slapshots beat Sylvestri on the stick side...