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Battles & Skirmishes. Folk singing today is a multilateral practice. It is on one hand art, on another entertainment-terms which are not mutually exclusive, except to the purists. In the purists' severe canon, which holds that it is not art unless it is faintly boring, there are three categories...
...Holy See rather than the council that ordered a specific change in liturgy last week. Pope John decreed that the name of St. Joseph be inserted after that of Mary in the Canon, the most solemn part of the Mass. The Pontiff's motive for making the first Canon "change since the 7th century was billed as an honor for the patron of the council, but the timing was strange. Extra honor for Joseph had been discussed inconclusively in the council. Council fathers conjectured that the Pope might be setting an example of liturgical change-or that he might...
...secret ones. Most impressive of all, the observers were given copies of the Schemata-the supersecret council agenda that has been seen by no one but the council fathers. "When I heard that they had the Schemata. I almost fell over,'' said an American monsignor. Replied Anglican Canon Bernard C. Pawley matter-of-factly: "If we didn't have the Schemata, how could we really understand what's going on here...
...MARRIAGE. The council will almost certainly issue a strong denunciation of divorce and of artificial contraception-but may also point out that some Catholic couples may limit the size of their families. German bishops are pressing hard for some modification of the canon law on mixed marriages, which
...LAITY. In the past, church leaders have tended to think of the layman simply as someone who was neither a monk nor a cleric; only three items in canon law specifically apply to the ordinary churchgoer. The council is almost certain to upgrade the status of the faithful by defining their place in their church, make suggestions on how the lay apostolate can fulfill the mission of Christ's church in the world. But the council is likely to reject proposals that laymen be allowed to elect their bishops, or that the Pope constitute a lay senate comparable...