Excommunicate sex abusers.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

National Catholic Reporter | July 25, 2008| | Copyright

* Dennis Coday's article "Women priests carry on despite Vatican" (NCR, June 27) cites the Vatican General Decree issued by Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, which states, "If he who has attempted to confer holy orders on a woman, or if the woman who has attempted to receive holy orders, is a member of the faithful ... they will be punished with major excommunication." It's puzzling that the decree cites Canon 1378 of the Code of Canon Law as its authority for the excommunication of a priest when he acts against the prescript ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1954: Onassis' Fortune Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune ; ...Herald Tribune 06-10-2004 NEW YORK: It took Aristotle Socrates Onassis less than 30 years to rise from the bottom to the...is the hardest to earn in any man's life. Mr. Onassis says there is no great mystery in his case: his...
	22 years after death, Warhol's junk lends insight News Wire article from: AP Online ; ...of a naked Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. These are some of the many...through handwriting comparisons _ Onassis was a frequent visitor to Warhol...after her second husband, Aristotle Socrates Onassis, got a paparazzi to take pictures...
	Andy Warhol's junk pile is a gold mine; $600,000 project has archivists digging it.(NW Arts&Life) Newspaper article from: The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA) ; ...of a naked Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. These are some of the many...through handwriting comparisons -- Onassis was a frequent visitor to Warhol...after her second husband, Aristotle Socrates Onassis, got a paparazzi to take pictures...
	Nude signed pic of Jackie O, old cake found in Warhol's junk.(NEWS) Newspaper article from: The Record (Kitchener, Ontario) ; ...of a naked Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. These are some of the many...through handwriting comparisons - Onassis was a frequent visitor to Warhol...after her second husband, Aristotle Socrates Onassis, got a paparazzi to take pictures...
	Goodbye to all that. (nostalgia for the past elegant social life in Monte Carlo, Monaco) (Column) Magazine article from: National Review ; ...Beaverbrook and Dubonnet, Niarchos and Onassis, Agnelli, Picasso, de Stael...Spiegel, and the Christina of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, the uncrowned king of Monte...after the abdication; while Onassis, not to be outdone, had the...
	Even after `John-John' grew up, the world watched Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ; ...she tried to protect them from one of the brightest of limelights even as she dated and married Greek tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis, whose pioneer development of super tankers made him one of the richest men in the world. New York City became...
	Twenty-two years after his death, Warhol's 'junk' lends insight Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ; ...of a naked Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. These are some of the many...through handwriting comparisons Onassis was a frequent visitor to Warhol...after her second husband, Aristotle Socrates Onassis, got a paparazzi to take pictures...
	Kids' questions answered.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers) Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service ; ...Chicago the Second City. Q. How much money did Onassis have to make him the richest man on Earth? _Lizbeth Colon. A. Aristotle Socrates Onassis was said to have about $500 million in houses...
	Blenheim bash Magazine article from: The Spectator ; ...Stavros Niarchos, while his second, Tina, married Aristotle Socrates Onassis. George was the youngest. His father died unexpectedly...not see the ghastly Roussel but I did spot Athina Onassis, Christina's daughter, and she looked very pretty...
	From The Patriot Ledger Archives Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA ; ...Ledger Fore River Likely To Build 100,000-Ton Onassis Tanker Chances of Fore River building the biggest ship in the world, a 100-000-ton tanker, for Aristotle Socrates Onassis, were furthered over the week end when the Federal...