Word: voided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kaufman's opinion is in direct conflict with two decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, which has ruled that section of the immigration law "void for vagueness" in its application to homosexuals. Since the Supreme Court generally agrees to referee circuit conflicts, it may now take its own reading of the elusive euphemism...
...marriage. According to canon law, a marriage is valid if it has been properly witnessed and then consummated sexual ly. If some essential requisite in the sacrament is missing, the couple may later be able to gain an annulment, which means in effect that the marriage was null and void from the beginning.* Divorce and remarriage are out of the question, however...
...physical act of intercourse but as the spiritual union of two persons of which sex is the symbol. If it can be proved that this spiritual unity did not exist from the beginning, he says, the church might in certain cases be able to declare the marriage null and void. Still another approach is taken by three Dutch theologians, Fathers B. Peters, T. Beemer and C. van der Poel, writing in a recent issue of the Homiletic and Pastoral Review. They suggest that even if second marriages cannot be regularized, Catholics who otherwise display evidence of contrition and strong faith...
...then he sets aside office, finds himself imprisoned in the Tower and finally lays his head upon the executioner's block. The reasons are, of course, familiar--Henry VIII wished to marry Anne, the Pope would not agree with Henry that the royal marriage to Catherine was void; unable to put aside Catherine with the consent of the Pope, Henry put aside the Pope. More would not swear to the act of Succession, for it asserted the lawfulness of the King's acts--thus to the Tower. Falsely convicted of open denial of the King's supremacy over the Church...
...elemental octopus and love itself a surrogate ("your life, your blood in my veins"), not a solution. In despair, he turned away from human amenity and stared into the abyss of unbeing. In horror he demanded: "What is the name of the void that invades...