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...discipline rather than a guideline for regulating a society of equals, canon law contains numerous inequities that have become glaringly obvious in recent years. There are, for example, almost 50 canons detailing the duties of bishops, only one on the rights of laymen in the church. When Father William DuBay* of Los Angeles charged two years ago that his bishop, James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, should be removed from office on grounds of "gross malfeasance in office," he had no chance for an unbiased hearing under church law. Had DuBay followed canon-law procedure, his complaint would have been sent...
MARC ORAISON is a Frenchman and WILLIAM DUBAY is an American, but both are Roman Catholic priests who in separate ways have challenged the Vatican's right to withhold approval from books touching on faith and morals. See RELIGION...
...intention of withdrawing his book from circulation, and nearly 11,000 copies have already been sold. Unless the Vatican gives him the ecclesiastical trial that he wants, Father DuBay threatens to bring a lawsuit against the church in U.S. civil courts for which there is little precedent...
Sharp Criticism. A tougher action was taken against California's Father William DuBay, 31, the angry curate who in 1964 called on the Pope to remove Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal McIntyre (DuBay felt the cardinal was not sufficiently active in civil rights drives). Transferred five times and finally suspended from curate duties in Santa Monica after he advocated a white-collar labor union for priests (TIME, March 4), DuBay hardly boosted his case with the hierarchy by sharply criticizing it in his recently published book, The Human Church (Doubleday, $4.50). Among his many radical suggestions: priests...
Last week, rapping his "public expressions of insubordination," the Vatican not only turned down DuBay's appeal of his suspension but also ordered him to end the sale and distribution of his book. What were the legal grounds? The book did not have his bishop's imprimatur, as required by canon law. DuBay protested that many other Catholics have published without imprimatur, that the church is making a special case out of him, and that he had been "tried in absentia by anonymous judges." Contending that the order "goes completely against the Vatican Council's statement...