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...this were clear and high: mental illness of either spouse, for instance, or impotence at the time of marriage. In 1968 only 338 decrees of nullity were granted in the U.S. But in the early 1960s, John Keating, a young American priest, wrote an influential doctoral dissertation summarizing Vatican rulings that justified the use of "psychological insights" to assess failed marriages. Since then American clergy have psychologized enthusiastically. The Archdiocese of Chicago, for instance, will now consider annulling the union of a "person [who did] not intend to care for his/her partner...
...consequences of such liberalization have not pleased the Vatican. In 1993 Archbishop Vincenzo Fagiolo called the American annulment figures "a grave scandal." Robert Vasoli, author of the forthcoming book Tearing Asunder: Annulment American Style, says that on this issue, "the church in the U.S. is practically in schism with Rome." An overstatement, perhaps, but in 1994 Pope John Paul II warned the Roman Rota, the Vatican court to which Rauch Kennedy has appealed, against a "mistaken idea of compassion and mercy" that might cloud true justice...
APPOINTED. FRANCIS GEORGE, 60, doctrinally conservative but socially progressive Roman Catholic prelate; as Archbishop of Chicago, by Pope John Paul II; in Vatican City. A Chicago native, George is a relative newcomer to episcopacy, having served for a year as Archbishop of Portland, Oregon, and six years as Bishop of Yakima,Washington...
...precautions comes on Sunday when the Pope, speaking in Serbo-Croatian, will address as many as 60,000 Catholic pilgrims at a mass in Kosevo Stadium. Many of the pilgrims traveling to Sarajevo will first have to pass through territories held by non-Catholic ethnic groups, a fact the Vatican has emphasized in detailing the attrition undergone by the Catholic Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina since war erupted in 1992. From a pre-war high of 530,000, Bosnian Catholics living in and around Sarajevo now number only...
...Richard McBrien feels that we have quite enough heaven now, thank you. McBrien, a liberal Catholic theologian at the University of Notre Dame who has skirmished on occasion with the Vatican but whose theological and historical grasp few would question, believes that before the Vatican II reforms of the mid-1960s, his church had slipped into the lazy role of using heaven and hell as "stories meant to encourage and frighten." Catholicism's once vivid otherworldliness had devolved into a sort of rote board game, in which preoccupation with involved scenarios of the life to come became an excuse...