Word: diocesans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celibacy. Even though Pope Paul has made it clear that he will maintain the rule of wifeless priests, a surprisingly large number of clerics think that some modification is in order. This month Kansas City's enterprising National Catholic Reporter published a survey of 3,000 U.S. diocesan priests, conducted by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter of Harvard. His finding: 62% of the clergy believed that priests should have the choice of marriage or celibacy; 31% might marry if the church would allow...
...Diocesan Lay Reader in Charge Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Forney, Texas
...plan church regulations and enforce them. A wiser mode of government would be to have the law-creating function carried out by a separate, non-Curial agency-such as a senate of bishops. Another problem is that the church's courts-from Rome's Rota down to diocesan tribunals-have no real powers to interpret the code of canon law, but merely apply...
Worried by this vulnerability, the Vat ican Council urged diocesan bishops as well as parish priests who are "less capa ble of fulfilling their duties properly be cause of the increasing burden of age or some other serious reason" to resign voluntarily from office. Last month Pope Paul VI, who is 69, "earnestly request ed" that bishops and priests leave office on their own initiative...
...papal request affects two U.S. cardinals, New York's Francis Spellman, 77, and Los Angeles' James Francis Mc-Intyre, 80, as well as 18 diocesan bishops. Though Cardinal Spellman has given no sign that he plans to retire soon, he has delegated part of his authority. This month he granted extensive new powers to six of his auxiliary bishops, putting each in charge of areas within the New York archdiocese. Other prominent cardinals who are 75 or older are France's Achilles Lienart, Germany's Josef Frings, Czechoslovakia's Josef Beran, Argentina's Antonio...