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DIED. James Rausch, 52, bishop of the diocese of Phoenix who, as general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1973 to 1977, became a leading spokesman for liberal factions and helped propose such progressive resolutions as calls for a married priesthood and the ordination of women; of a heart attack; in Phoenix...
...pontifical council on the state of the family, and the publishing of the Pontiffs new decrees on the reform of canon law. But Cardinal Casaroli has no authority over policy on matters of faith or morals. Nor can he deal with petitions from priests requesting permission to leave the priesthood or grant any requests for marriage annulments. Perhaps more important, Casaroli cannot appoint cardinals or bishops, even though it is known that John Paul is anxious to name new bishops in order to give Africans, Asians and Latin Americans greater representation in the church...
...contained a text of Smith's blessing, including these crucial words: "... the anointing of the progenitor shall be upon the head of my son, and his seed after him, from generation to generation. For he shall be my successor to the Presidency of the High Priesthood: a Seer, and a Revelator, and a Prophet, unto the Church; which appointment belongeth to him by blessing, and also by right...
Purists among his colleagues shudder at such popularization and simplification. After all, science has a long tradition, often violated to be sure, of modesty and understatement, even of calculated obfuscation, so that only an elite priesthood will be privy to its secrets. Other than the irrepressible Sagan, how many scientists would buzz a simulated Martian volcano, as he does in one Cosmos sequence; or rummage through a re-creation of the famed library of Alexandria, pretending to read long-lost papyrus scrolls; or attempt to explain the paradoxes of special relativity while bicycling through the hills of Tuscany, where...
Bausch suggests that the Monsignor's conversion may have to be a journey away from the priesthood to the fatherhood of the forlorn Bexley family. It is a measure of this fine first novel's catholicity - with a lower-case c- that the choice seems almost irrelevant. In or out of the collar, this Shepherd seems at last to have found his calling...