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Should the Roman Catholic Church have a constitution? It has existed without one for more than 19 centuries-unless one considers the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the commission to teach that Gospel a constitution. Of course the church has had rules and laws aplenty, an accumulating and confusing morass of canons that were not even codified until 1918. That code is now undergoing a massive revision, and a bloc within the Vatican is asking for a kind of preamble to it that would become a new "fundamental law" for the church-one to which all canon law would have...
...anachronism. The council made its name by creating a fresh, vigorous image of a growing "pilgrim" church, a "People of God" joined in a community that was more mystery than institution. Much of the new image was not dissimilar to the vision of reformers inside and outside the Roman Catholic Church over the centuries: an invisible church of the spirit as opposed to a visible one of structure and hierarchy. Now that idea was part of Roman Catholic theology as well, and progressive theologians were quick to project it into a dynamic, evolving church. That apparently made Pope Paul...
...Ulster open to the infamous "plantation" of 1608. The earls' vast lands were forfeited to English and Scottish colonizers, who in turn were pledged to settle them with British farmers of the Protestant faith. These new landowners began the harsh social and economic domination of Ulster's Roman Catholics...
...when many other Roman Catholic priests choose to marry first and ask questions later, the Rev. Daniel C. Maguire, 40, has been something of an anomaly-and a considerable problem for his ecclesiastical superiors. Maguire wanted to marry, but was determined to win papal permission-beforehand. He also happened to be a respected moral theologian teaching at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He meant to retain that position after marrying...
Church of America (a schismatic denomination splintered from Roman Catholicism in the 1890s). His services now are still masses-in the ancient and quite orthodox Gallican liturgy...