Word: diocesan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real attempt has been made to formulate the principle in this matter. Congress must make sure it is on the right grounds constitutionally, and come to proper decisions." Added Boston's Roman Catholic diocesan weekly, The Pilot : "Plainly we have been moving on the edge of this large question for many years but we have never probed it. Now is the time for Congress to take the initiative and seek a definitive answer...
...between the Pope and the Archbishop was arranged. Last month Roman Catholic Archbishop John C. Heenan of Liverpool, a member of the forthcoming Ecumenical Council's Secretariat for Christian Unity, reported that Pope John had recently expressed "great affection for the Anglicans." And Dr. Fisher, in the Canterbury diocesan leaflet, praised the new secretariat as "full of godly promise...
Right & Duty. It seemed doubtful, despite the fuss, whether Munoz Marin would get much relief from the Vatican. Last winter, at a diocesan synod of Rome (TIME, Feb. 8), Pope John XXIII asserted the right and even duty of the church to advise the faithful on how to vote in elections. In practice, the Vatican seems to prefer that this right be exercised with great restraint by the hierarchy of the United States, to which the Puerto Rican bishops belong. But 90% Catholic Puerto Rico, though a part of the U.S., has a Spanish-speaking population and Spanish traditions...
...Rota does not, properly speaking, annul marriages-it declares them never to have existed. Most such "declarations of nullity," can be disposed of by the tribunals at diocesan level: in Italy no case is considered by the Rota unless it has gone through two such lower courts, and cases outside Italy must have been judged by at least one. Even so, the Rota's load has grown with the times. In 1937 it handled 70 cases. Last year there were 198, in 88 of which declarations of nullity were granted...
...editor of the Catholic Register since its founding in Denver in 1913; following abdominal surgery; in Denver. Starting with a circulation of 2,800, Father Smith worked "ungodly hours" to expand the Register into the world's biggest chain of religious newspapers, with one national and 32 diocesan weekly editions, an international semimonthly, and a combined circulation of 850,000. Under Father Smith, the Register's interests ranged from speculation on church appointments (FOUR RED HATS EXPECTED) to Catholic views on U.S. foreign policy (CATHOLIC...