Word: vow
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...Fourth Vow. One issue that Paul seemed to have in mind was a proposal that the Society of Jesus play down somewhat the privileged status of the select "professed" priests, who are allowed to take a fourth vow of special obedience to the Pope in addition to the normal vows of chastity, poverty and obedience. Under the old rules, only professed priests were eligible to reach executive office in the Society; one change made by the congregation was to give membership on the advisory councils of the provinces to nonprofessed priests and lay brothers...
...Guards began carrying out Chen's version of Mao's "thinking" early last week by posting along Peking's major streets a "Declaration of War on the Old World." The Guards' vow: "To mercilessly destroy every hotbed of revisionism." Down the streets they rampaged, roughing up Chinese in foreign dress, ordering shopkeepers to stop selling books except those that reflect Mao's thinking and to rid themselves of imported articles or luxury items. In the place of cosmetics, ordinary floor-scrubbing soap was put on sale for facial care. Also on the taboo list: goldfish...
Neither university officials, the Detroit chancery nor Cross's Jesuit superiors would comment on the case. But under canon law, the penalty for a priest who marries without being dispensed from his vow of chastity-something that is rarely granted by the Holy See-is automatic excommunication, revocable only by Rome. Equally in trouble with the church is Father Black burn, who was previously reprimanded by the archdiocesan chancery for conducting experimental folk-song Masses on the campus. For celebrating the marriage of a priest, he too may be subject to excommunication...
...than any of their tribesmen, could cut iron with their swords, throw the bar farther or wind the horn louder than their fellows-Achilles and Ulysses, Siegfried and Roland, Beowulf and Richard the Lionhearted." Their latter-day American equivalents might be Douglas MacArthur, reconquering the Pacific, true to his vow, "I shall return," and Ike Eisenhower, commanding the massed D-day armies or winning his sweeping 1952 election victory. But it is difficult to imagine Beowulf getting only ten nominating votes as Republican candidate for President (which is what happened to MacArthur), or Roland trying to govern with benign passivity...
Bound by the vow of obedience, he is absolutely subject to the commands of his bishop, has no canonical means of protesting a tyrannical order, and sel dom gets more than $150 a month plus food and lodging...