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...LEARY. IF HE'S NOT IN CHURCH, HE'S PROBABLY IN JAIL. As it turns out, O'Leary is a chaplain at the Manhattan House of Detention, the infamous Tombs. Other ads show a black priest who runs a community center in Harlem, and a monsignor in Peekskill, N.Y., whose most important job, during a twelve-hour working day, "is to celebrate the Mass...
...ground among U.S. Catholics. It is being led by theologians, canon lawyers and even concerned bishops. The latest arguments for change include a sharp criticism of Roman Catholic annulment procedures by the Canon Law Society of America, and a thoughtful book entitled Divorce and Remarriage for Catholics? (Doubleday) by Monsignor Stephen J. Kelleher, onetime presiding judge of the marriage tribunal of the Archdiocese of New York...
Welcome Home. In his book, Monsignor Kelleher recommends scrapping the tribunal system because it imposes a legal solution on what is essentially a complex personal affair. The better the courts work, Kelleher says, the closer they come to granting de facto divorces with permission to remarry. The process demeans both the law and the marriage partners, he argues, because it requires a declaration that the first marriage never existed, often on grounds that imply that one or both partners were somehow unstable. Kelleher does not say that the church can or should "dissolve" a troubled marriage, but rather that...
...surprisingly little controversy in France itself. When the Bishop of Orleans publicly castigated the government's nuclear armament policy last week, Admiral Marc de Joybert, naval chief of staff, haughtily told the bishop in an open letter to Le Figaro: "Take care of your own onions. Your job, Monsignor, is to teach the faith and spread charity. Our role is to defend France." For the time being at least, the French public seemed more concerned with the battle between the bishop and the admiral than with the contaminated winds sweeping the Pacific...
...fleet-footed running back was sentenced to 30 days in a Lincoln, Neb., jail for driving with a suspended license. Rodgers' lawyer had attempted to get him a work release program at Boys Town, the school near Omaha for orphans and other underprivileged youngsters. But the director, Monsignor Nicholas H. Wegner, seemed to think they had no room for big bad boys. "We don't want him," he said...