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...promises that the Vatican will soon amend a canon law that forbids Catholic funeral services -or even burial in consecrated ground -to "public sinners," a category that has often included Catholics in "irregular" marriages. The new law will allow religious funerals for those who, "although finding themselves in a manifest situation of sin, have retained their attachment to the church and have shown some sign of penitence." Pastors must avoid "public scandal," however, and can do so by explaining the "meaning of Christian funerals, in which may be seen a recourse to the infinite mercy of God." Thus, while irregularly...
...believe that our record and our conscience can be fully clear until we manifest our willingness to entertain an ROTC program on terms compatible with our usual institutional standards," Bok said...
...dark corners and at locker room blackboards fro five uninspirational years, hoping at each turn in the road that the solution, the missing link, the lost piece in the jigsaw puzzle would stumble against his feet, and allow at long last his masterplan to reach a productive and manifest fruition. Harry, who was to bring the Big B into vogue in Cambridge, and make the James Browns and Floyd Lewises into superhuman and unquestioned BMOCs. Harry, who hoped to transform the phone booth gymnasium perched atop the ancient. IAB complex like an ascetic's mountain retreat into a hotbed...
...possession. Ruled Marshall: "The President, although subject to the general rules which apply to others, may have sufficient motives for declining to produce a particular paper ... I can readily conceive that the President might receive a letter which it would be improper to exhibit in public, because of the manifest inconvenience of the exposure." Jefferson handled the problem by denying that the court had a right to subpoena his papers; then he went ahead and produced the letters anyhow. Thus the issue was never forced to a final test...
Asked whether he felt the Justice Department's decision to drop charges indicated an effort to placate a generally aroused media, Oliphant said that the indictment was discarded when he and his lawyers had made manifest their intention to fight "like wounded steers...