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Since Vatican II, a number of U.S. dioceses have adopted formal procedures to readmit estranged Catholics to Communion without judging the validity of their existing marriage. One of the first to do so was Portland, Ore., where archdiocesan chancellor, Father Bertram Griffin, set up a so-called "good conscience" plan seven years ago. Says Griffin: "We were trying to bring canon law and pastoral practice together...
...consideration to readmit Philipp O. C. Schorsch to the Business School Doctoral Program will follow established procedures, the Doctoral Faculty voted yesterday in executive session...
...Pike's first marriage was annulled and his second marriage ended in divorce. In certain cases, the Episcopal Church offers a private procedure in which excommunicated divorced persons can apply to a bishop to "bless" their marriage and then readmit them to the church after suitable time and scrutiny. But, technically at least, there is no remarriage in the church...
Amendment V, which allows the CRR to readmit a student "for purposes of obtaining a degree," while refusing him permission to return to the University. Doctoral students who need only submit a thesis to receive a degree, or students thrown out just before they finished their senior year are two groups affected by this change. The CRR considered cases of both types last Fall...
...Committee on Rights and Responsibilities has been hearing readmission's cases of students forced to leave the University because they participated in the University Hall occupation two years ago or in militant actions during the Cambodia strike last year. Considering about a dozen cases, the Committee has voted to readmit every student who has applied. Newspapers have not covered these meetings; no reporters are permitted to attend. (All descriptions of CRR meetings in this article are based on accounts by those present.) Many people have forgotten about the CRR, and a whole freshman class has never heard...