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...Hartford archdiocese and has his own radio call-in show - and the parable changed, to the story of bread cast upon the waters. He received 23,000 sympathetic letters fat with checks. Father Nadolny's deficit became a surplus of about $190,000, given to the diocesan radio and television fund...
...spouse was psychologically incapable of entering a true marriage. (The number of U.S. annulments has jumped 5000% in the past decade, to more than 24,000 a year.) The Careys an nounced last week that they will apply for a multiple annulment. That involves presenting evidence before a diocesan tribunal consisting of a judge, aided by a canon lawyer, called defender of the bond, who tries to block the annulment. These days the process has been streamlined in the U.S. Even with appeals it rarely takes more than a year...
...priests who have appointive positions in government. In Nicaragua, for example, seven priests hold high posts in the leftist revolutionary government. Among them are Jesuit Ernesto Cardenal, the Minister of Culture, and Maryknoll Priest Miguel D'Escoto, the Foreign Minister. In the U.S., Geno Baroni, 49, a diocesan priest, is Assistant Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...sometimes called "Catholic divorce." In 1968 only 338 were granted in the U.S. In 1978 there were 27,670. The increase came because U.S. annulment procedure has been streamlined, and the grounds-once limited to such strict factors as force, fraud, bigamy or impotence-have been quietly loosened. Many diocesan court judges now accept evidence of serious psychological "immaturity" as ex post facto proof of a couple's inability to enter into a valid marriage. In a little-noticed speech two weeks ago to the Vatican's marriage tribunal, John Paul said that psychological theories pressed upon judges...
...Phoenix rationale is straightforward. Marriage is a vocation. "You cannot become a plumber or an electrician in two weeks," remarks the priest who heads the diocesan tribunal. Bishop Rausch believes that lack of mature preparation is the chief cause of trouble. "We need to move our young people beyond romance or physical attraction to the sound foundations of love." It will take hard work, he adds, for Catholics to resist the trend to treat marriage and divorce casually...