Word: draft
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...start in the right direction. The House bill, for instance, requires permits for dumping and imposes penalties of up to $50,000 on violators, with each day of violation considered a separate offense. There is urgent reason for speedy enactment. In the 15 months it took to draft the House bill, New York Representative John M. Murphy has reminded his colleagues that the nation's tidal lands have soaked up 62 million additional tons of industrial wastes and human excrement and materials dredged up from rivers and harbors...
...which all canon law would have o conform. This Lex Fundamentalis, as it is known in ecclesiastical circles, would define the church's nature, its mission, its structure and its place in the world. The proposal to create such a constitution, and in particular the latest draft to be produced, has opened yet another hot debate between Roman Catholic liberals and conservatives...
Despite Felici's considerable influence in the Vatican (he is often mentioned as the top conservative candidate in the next papal elections), the project moved slowly. Finally, after the commission had produced three earlier versions, Felici sent a 9,000-word Latin draft of the law to the 3,386 bishops of the world last February, asking for their comments at summer...
Alberigo cited other reasons why the draft was unacceptable. Canon 23 of the text states that no one's "good repute" can be injured "illegitimately," implying, Alberigo argued, that persons could be injured "legitimately." This, he said, could lead to a return of inquisitorial processes like the 1968 interrogation of Radical Educator Ivan Illich, then a monsignor, on such charges as "subversive interpretation" of church discipline. Canon 90 declares that the church "has the inherent right to acquire, conserve and administer those temporal goods needed to pursue its proper objectives," a statement, said Alberigo, that sounds like "a group...
...attacked the Lex Fundamentalis in an interview with Director Richard Guilderson of the National Catholic News Service. Though the cardinal left open the question of "whether or not a constitutional law of the church is at all possible," he assailed both the timing and the content of the present draft, borrowing liberally from Alberigo's study...