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...Rome's positions on divorce and birth control. The U.S. bishops' rapport with the Vatican, says President Quinn, is "good, because it's not bad." The U.S. hierarchy has rejected challenges to such Vatican policies as clerical celibacy and an all-male priesthood issued by diocesan delegates at last year's "Call to Action" meeting. But decisions are still pending on proposals made there for reform of the church and its social stance. Quinn says that one major task of his three-year term will be "an orderly plan" to carry out Call to Action recommendations...
...investigation has not determined whether the exorcists, Anneliese's parents or Bishop Stangl might have negligently contributed to Anneliese's death. The bishop himself, in a thoughtful and somewhat apologetic supplement to the Würzburg diocesan paper, explained that exorcism was meant to be nothing more than a prayer for a "person who feels at the mercy [of other forces] and cannot pray for himself." Any necessary medical help must accompany it, he insisted...
Another sign of disaffection: the divorce rate among American Catholics is approaching that of non-Catholics. As one result, diocesan marriage tribunals have been examining an increasing number of broken marriages, and last year granted almost 10,000 annulments - declarations that a sacramental marriage never existed. Says Monsignor Marion Justin Reinhardt, judge of the Brooklyn tribunal: "If two people really cannot live together, there must be some reason why not, and it should be up to us to find that reason. If we find it existed at the time of the marriage, then that marriage must be null and void...
...finally resolved until the Episcopal Convention next September. Meanwhile, Cheek, who lives in Annandale, Va., with her husband, a World Bank executive, is happy about her "freedom in limbo." In November 1974, she became the first woman to celebrate Communion in an Episcopal church in defiance of the diocesan bishop, and last August was installed as assistant priest at the Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation in Washington. Says she: "I am convinced that the only crime I have committed in this matter is to have been born female...
...appointment showed that a vast majority of priests opposed their new bishop-is as tense as ever. In Holland some married priests continue to wink at Vatican rules and act as ministers in liberal parishes. Attendance at Mass has plummeted 50% in a decade, and in 1973 only seven diocesan priests were ordained. Willebrands has ranked high in speculation on candidates to succeed Paul VI. If he can unify the Dutch church, he might well deserve a promotion...