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Total Overhaul. Many critics think that the present system of ecclesiastical marriage tribunals should not so much be revised as abolished-and that all canon law on marriage needs total overhaul. Authors West and Francis argue that a person's confessor ought to have primary discretion in determining a moral right to remarry in "obvious cases" of marital tragedy. In doubtful cases a pastoral group of clergy and married persons, competent in medicine, law and domestic relations, might be consulted. Similar parish teams have been suggested in Germany to investigate and possibly approve remarriage in the church itself...
...believes no change is occurring. He finds he does not believe very deeply in the rules of the church." With that, says Schallert, he begins to ask, "Who am I?" He seeks help from someone, whom Schallert calls the "crucial other"?a friend, a superior, a confessor. He does not find it, and finally he decides to leave. "Once that decision is made," says Schallert, "he may develop a close relationship with a woman. When we start talking with him, the thing on his mind is the woman. Then we start probing to find out when this all started...
...Devils. The libretto sketches the facts surrounding the torture and execution of a Jesuit priest in a 17th century French provincial town. Sister Jeanne of the Angels, prioress of St. Ursula's Convent, asks Father Urbain Grandier (sung by Baritone Andre Hiolski) to become the cloister's confessor. When the worldly, sensual priest declines the offer, Sister Jeanne has a series of hysterical sexual hallucinations that soon infect other nuns in the convent. Eventually, the sisters accuse Grandier of indecent and immoral behavior, which has led to their being possessed by the devil. The charges coincide with certain...
...Wandering Jew himself, Fidelman goes out to face the comic disasters that life has waiting for him. He falls in love with Annamaria, a female painter distinguished mostly for her distracted eyes and tense neck, who rewards him by alternately treating him as a chore boy and a father-confessor, but almost never...
Cardinal Bea, a Jesuit, also served for a number of years as rector and professor of the Old Testament at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, one of the two official centers for Biblical studies in the world. He also served as confessor to Pope Pius...