Word: vatican
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...remarry and remain Catholics in good standing may seek an annulment, in which the church rules that a valid marriage never existed in the first place. Once a rarity, annulments in the U.S. have grown from a mere 338 in 1968 to around 32,000 last year. In the Vatican last week the International Canon Law Commission sent to Pope John Paul for approval the final draft of a new code that would slow down U.S. annulment procedure, but streamline things in much of the world...
...annulments are handled by a local church tribunal. When an annulment is approved, the American hierarchy assigns a bishop to accept or reject it. Almost all local verdicts are approved. But other nations are required to hold a time-consuming second trial, after which couples may appeal to the Vatican. The new proposal calls for a regional panel to review all the testimony after a local tribunal has endorsed an annulment, but not a second trial...
Over the years, the shy, slow-speaking Keillor, who has written all the scripts, has peopled Lake Wobegon with enough walk-on eccentrics to fill an English garden party. Father Emil, the priest at Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Church, for instance, who has not paid much attention to Vatican II, figuring there is only one Vatican and that is enough for him. And Jack, who runs Jack's Head Stop Center, which teaches intellectuals things like bowling. There is also the fellow who runs the Fearmonger Shop, which caters to paranoids of all persuasions. The shop offers...
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