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...past decade or so. Mainly among clergymen is the capital-punishment issue argued on moral-religious grounds. The Roman Catholic Church defends society's right to take a criminal's life as an act of collective self-defense, and a spokesman of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod says that "the Bible seems to permit the possibility of capital punishment." Several of the other religious groups in the U.S. have taken stands against capital punishment: the Methodist Church, the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the Protestant Episcopal Church, the American Baptist Convention, the Central Conference of American Rabbis...
Athenagoras has said he will call an Orthodox synod this fall to consider whether Greek Orthodox churches should accept Pope John's invitation to participate in a new ecumenical council to pick up the unfinished business of the Council of Florence...
Bishop Luigi Traglia, 64, born in Albano, near Rome, has worked in the church's administrative headquarters, the Curia, for the past 30 years. As vice regent of the diocese of Rome, he was in charge of the recent synod of the Roman clergy (TIME, Feb. 8), has made an impressive record as a builder of churches and organizer of new parishes...
None of the articles are as sweeping as those of the 1461 synod, which was directed at the tightening up of the laxities of Renaissance Rome, and established the Easter duties of confession and Communion, set up temporal penalties for blasphemy, forbade gambling, fortunetelling, sorcery, secret marriage, marriage with blood relatives, marriage in Lent and Advent, ordered parents to keep infants under one year in cribs and ordered priests to eschew fancy hairdos. For the most part the new constitutions restate and re-emphasize existing provisions of canon law, apply old disciplines to new situations. Items...
Glorious Celibacy. In one of his four major Latin addresses to the synod, Pope John offered some fatherly advice to the priests of Rome. "We are grieved," he said, "that some people should talk excessively about the possibility, or even the convenience, of the Catholic Church's giving up what has been for centuries, and still remains, one of the noblest and purest glories of her priesthood"-i.e., celibacy. He urged priests to pay close attention to head, heart and tongue: to study all their lives, to fill their hearts with love, and to know when to speak...