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Computer Attack. Meanwhile, a church historian, Dr. Giuseppe Alberigo, and a team of scholars at the Institute of Religious Sciences in Bologna, also examined the new document and promptly issued a 60-page attack on it. They used an unorthodox but ingenious tool to aid their analysis: a computer. The team fed into it terms from both the proposed Lex and Vatican II documents. The computer revealed distinct differences between them. "Although the Lex is filled with references to the council," Alberigo charged, "its faithfulness to it is much less real than a superficial reading would indicate." As examples...
...Alberigo cited other reasons why the draft was unacceptable. Canon 23 of the text states that no one's "good repute" can be injured "illegitimately," implying, Alberigo argued, that persons could be injured "legitimately." This, he said, could lead to a return of inquisitorial processes like the 1968 interrogation of Radical Educator Ivan Illich, then a monsignor, on such charges as "subversive interpretation" of church discipline. Canon 90 declares that the church "has the inherent right to acquire, conserve and administer those temporal goods needed to pursue its proper objectives," a statement, said Alberigo, that sounds like "a group...
Short Pants. Indeed, Alberigo would prefer to see no Lex Fundamental at all. "A committee of human beings cannot expect to sit down and design this divinely created organism. A design of the church when put into written words no longer is the church of God but the church of a Felici or a commission or a Pope." Though defenders of the concept have argued that any Lex would be amendable, Alberigo contended that the church moves so slowly that "the pants will always be too short." To attempt to construct a constitution at this point in history, he said...
...interview with Director Richard Guilderson of the National Catholic News Service. Though the cardinal left open the question of "whether or not a constitutional law of the church is at all possible," he assailed both the timing and the content of the present draft, borrowing liberally from Alberigo's study...