Word: vow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study, New Zealand's Father O'Neill suggests that while celibacy should not be abandoned, priests unable to live up to the vow might be allowed to marry and then continue with their duties. Thanks to pressure from missionary bishops, the council did clear the way toward the ordination of married deacons, who could distribute Communion and give instruction but not hear confessions or celebrate Mass. Some theologians predict that eventually the church will let priests marry or not as they wish, requiring celibacy only for those with a vocation to a religious order...
Every incoming President of the Philippines has taken office with a vow to clean up the corruption that plagues the nation, and the country's new leader is no exception. In fact, Ferdinand Marcos' main campaign plank was a promise to weed out crooked officials and halt the illicit traffic in whisky, cigarettes and luxury goods that cheats the national treasury of an annual $125 million in import duties. It is a huge task, but Marcos has got off to an impressively early start...
...liberalizing spirit of the Second Vatican Council has so far had little impact on the status of Roman Catholic priests, who remain firmly under their superiors' thumbs. In November, the Jesuits invoked their society's vow of obedience to send Father Daniel Berrigan out of the country for a while because of his outspoken stand against the Viet Nam war (TIME...
...Roman Catholic clergy has certain military parallels. A priest, having taken the vow of obedience, can be moved from place to place at his superior's will. For many, such shifting around means only a creative variety of duty. But for others, just as for some soldiers, transfer implies punishment, or at least temporary removal of an inconvenience. Giving no reasons, bishops or religious superiors can move a priest or fire a professor who has done nothing more than exercise what others would call his constitutional right of free speech...
...herself does not show herself as a place of freedom?" No Catholic questions that authority is essential in the church, or that bishops and superiors have the right to expect obedience from their priests-and from laymen as well. But many also feel that canon law and the vow of obedience give superiors too much control over their subjects on nonspiritual matters that could and should be left to the individual priest, provided his actions do not embarrass or compromise the church, or violate moral teaching. Says Dr. Eugene Fontinell, a philosophy teacher at Queens College and co-founder...