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...superiors in the Sisters of Mercy have refused Szoka's appeal that they compel her to step down. Unless a compromise can be worked out, the issue will end up at the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes. The congregation's deliberation would take months, if not years, and by then the church's new code of canon law will be in effect. If the congregation goes by the book, it will back Szoka. New canon No. 285:3 "flatly forbids a nun or priest to hold public office in any circumstances...
...dismissed them as teachers at a parochial school in Hampton. Rather than obediently bowing out, the sisters sued the bishop in a civil court for reinstatement, arguing that their contracts guaranteed an explanation and a hearing. The New Hampshire Supreme Court last December rejected the bishop's contention that secular judges had no business ruling on a purely ecclesiastical dispute, declaring that it was a civil matter with no bearing on doctrine. The supreme court remanded the case to a county superior court for a hearing to begin next month. Insists Sister Catherine Colliton: "The bottom line is the contract...
...Association of Evangelicals loved it, and gave Reagan a thunderous ovation, to strains of "Onward, Christian Soldiers." In the secular realm, less fervently religious elements didn't quite seem to know how to digest the rhetoric, so they ended up dismissing it. The editorial page of the New York Times and House Speaker Tip O'Neill Jr. both softly chided the President, while confidently predicting a return of the same politics of compromise. A Reagan staffer remark typified the general lack of serious concern about the speech: "What? That's just rhetoric...
John Paul actually had launched his counterattack earlier in the day, while visiting Nicaragua's second largest city León (pop. 92,000). In a speech to an audience consisting mainly of campesinos, the Pope challenged a new law on education that favored secular schooling. Instead, John Paul championed the right of all to receive a Christian education. He also called on Christians to examine the teachings of the church in their search for social justice. Said the Pope, in a thinly veiled attack on Marxist-oriented "liberation theologians": "It is not necessary to hold alien ideologies in order...
...Vatican's code of canon law, priests can hold government jobs if they have received permission from their local bishop. Two priests have prominent positions in the Nicaraguan Cabinet, Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann of the U.S. Maryknoll Society, and Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal, a secular priest and noted poet. Four others hold high government posts. But in 1981 Nicaragua's bishops withdrew their approval. A truce was arranged: the priests would remain in office, but they would have to wear civilian clothes when carrying out official duties and not perform religious functions. However, the revised...