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Religious barriers hardly exist any more in church publishing. Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford writes for the lay-edited Catholic weekly Commonweal, and Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan is a regular columnist for Denver's Catholic diocesan weekly, the Register. Last week Pittsburgh's Catholic Duquesne University Press published a new Journal of Ecumenical Studies; the editors include Brown, Catholic Theologians Hans Kung and Gregory Baum, Lutheran George Lindbeck...
...marital contract-was not easy to get. The Roman Catholic Church believes that marriages blessed in heaven cannot be dissolved on earth, and does not permit divorce. It will agree that some marriages were null and void from the beginning, but such cases are rare. In 1962, the diocesan and regional marital courts of the church around the world probably annulled fewer than 2,000 marriages. The Rota, Rome's final court of appeal for most annulment claims, handled only 124 cases, gave decrees of nullity to a mere 64 claimants...
However, before marrying Radziwill, Lee had already applied for a decree of nullity from the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, which handles some cases involving mixed marriages, only to be told that the case first had to be heard by a diocesan tribunal...
...dates back to Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury in the 7th century. Today the Church of England has 15,488 priests for its 14,491 parishes, but no equitable way to distribute them. Only about 6,000 of the church's clerical livings are directly assigned by bishops and diocesan authorities. Nearly 2,600 are benefices controlled by Anglican laymen as private patrons. Others are filled by Oxford, Cambridge and the Crown, which have the right to appoint rectors on behalf of benefactors who are aliens, lunatics or Roman Catholics. A few parish advow-sons (the right of filling...
...year ago, Stockwood opened a diocesan training center where laymen meet for intensive study and lectures on the relevance of faith to modern life, from the morality of expense-account living to the morality of strike tactics. Stockwood is encouraging putting off baptism until a child has some grasp of its meaning, and also favors "full-rite visitations," in which baptism, confirmation and First Communion are all administered to the same recipient on the same...