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Knowledge & Rumor. Only Rome appeared to be considering compromise. Publicly, to be sure, it was trying to stay aloof from the quarrel. "We know nothing about the dispute except what we read in the papers," said Monsignor Fausto Vallaine, speaking for the Vatican. At week's end, though, there were rumors that a papal emissary was already in Warsaw to talk about the seminaries. But remembering Gomulka's rude veto of a papal visit during the millennium, few observers thought that the state was about to modify its stand. And no one expected that the rugged old cardinal...
Married. Robert G. Wesselman, 38, former Roman Catholic monsignor and official of the diocese of Belleville, Ill., who resigned from the priesthood last Oct. 24; and Frances Burton, 36, divorced mother of two; in Hardin, Ill., on Nov. 18. Wesselman, who intends to take a job in an antipoverty program, said he had resigned because the church had failed "to sufficiently identify with those who suffer from prejudice...
...church's old teaching against birth control a doubtful law? Although many theologians cannot see how the matter could be interpreted otherwise, Rome insists that the answer is no. Monsignor Fausto Vallainc, the Vatican's official press officer, said that the present teaching is still to be considered "certain," and that if the church changes, it will be "from one state of certainty to another state of certainty...
...John XXIII set up a pontifical commission in 1963 to revise the code. Pope Paul augmented the Commission, which now includes 61 cardinals and 88 consultors-nearly one-fourth of them Italians. Although the makeup of the commission suggests that reform of canon law will be slow and cautious, Monsignor Willem Onclin, its Belgian co-secretary, was present at the meeting of the U.S. Canon Law Society that received the study group's proposals, and returned to Rome astounded and pleased by the adventurous spirit of the suggested reforms. The recommendations will be received "with gratitude," Onclin assured...
...Died. Monsignor Frederick Hochwalt, 57, executive secretary of the National Catholic Educational Association, an eloquent spokesman for the church's position that parochial schools should share in aid to education, a view he helped persuade Congress to incorporate...