Word: diocesan
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...obituary in the Brooklyn Eagle was no help. Then he remembered that the record of O'Neil's son's marriage in 1872 had contained a little mark indicating a dispensation of banns--forgoing the public announcement, on three successive Sundays, of intention to wed. Silinonte persuaded a diocesan official to take him to the Roman Catholic archives in Queens, where he found the 19th century ledgers stored in a corner. On the page was the elder O'Neil's place of birth: County Leitrim, Ireland. "You have to be stubborn," says Silinonte...
...physically and spiritually unable to sustain the responsibilities of a diocesan bishop...
...year civil war, Pope John Paul is also waging what Mexico Bureau Chief Laura Lopez calls "the intrachristian battle for for hearts and minds". In recent years, the Catholic Church has lost followers in Guatemela to an increasingly popular evangelical movement. Lopez says: "There are only 281 diocesan priests, and 952 religious workers serving the country's 7.8 million Catholics. A lack of native clergy has resulted in a sense of alienation of the faithful from the Church, and has provided opportunities for the ever-growing evangelical movement...
Fewer and fewer men, says Richard Schoenherr, a former priest, now married and a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Last year he coauthored a book called Full Pews and Empty Altars. By his projections, the number of active diocesan priests in the U.S., which stood at 35,000 in 1966, will have dropped 40%, to 21,000, 10 years from now. Schoenherr blames the shortage on mandatory celibacy, a long-standing discipline within church law that John Paul has refused to reconsider. After surveying male Catholic students in 1985, Dean Hoge, a sociology professor...
...three times for permission to enter a monastery; each time, the Archbishop would hear none of it. He did not want | Wojtyla walled in as a mystical recluse. Could not the young man see what God really wanted him to do? Wojtyla got the message. He would become a diocesan priest, serving the people directly, a pastor ministering to the immediate needs of the faithful in Poland. Sapieha ordained him in 1946. And thus, it began to come to pass...