Word: rescript
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This requires a dispensation from the obligation of celibacy as part of a "rescript of laicization." The decree makes the priest, for all practical purposes, a layman, relieving him both of his obligations and priestly functions. Technically, he is a "priest forever" according to the ordination rite, and laicization deprives him only of the licit use of his powers, not the powers themselves. In emergencies, laicized priests are permitted to use their priestly faculties, for instance to give absolution to a person in danger of death...