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Francesco Bracci, 79, oldest of the new cardinals, is known as "the man who never laughs." In 1914 he became a lawyer in the Sacred Rota (Vatican high court), became a top expert on matrimonial cases, is now a full judge of the Rota and secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments...
André Jullien, 76, born near Lyon, France, taught canon law at the seminary there before becoming a judge of the Rota. Since 1944, hardworking, modest Msgr. Jullien has been dean of the Rota...
...Rome certified that the Peruvian President's grown children are not illegitimate, since they had been "sired in good faith." He conceded that the Prado case got "extremely rare" Vatican consideration. Instead of passing the decision of Lima's ecclesiastical marriage court to the Sacred Roman Rota for final action as is customary, the Pope appointed a special committee of cardinals to review Lima's decision. The deliberations took "several years." In the end, the cardinals' committee approved the annulment...
...four years of construction, U.S. bases in Spain are 80% completed. The network: three full-fledged SAC bases (at Torrejon, Zaragoza, Moron), completing a chain that stretches 1,200 miles from England to Morocco; a supply base at San Pablo, near Seville; a big sea and air base at Rota, commanding the Atlantic side of the Strait of Gibraltar; a 485-mile underground fuel pipeline linking the bases. Total cost of the bases when completed: $340 million...
...During 1956. the Vatican announced, the Sacred Rota had 976 applications for marriage annulment, considered 259, granted 128, denied 128. (In three cases special formulas for separation were found.) In 1946 only 63 annulments were granted...