ISBN: 0330025929
Godina izdanja: 1970
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Katolicizam
Autor: Strani

Morris West, Robert Francis - Scandal in the Assembly
Pan, 1970
180 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

A Bill of Complaints and a Proposal for Reform on the Matrimonial Laws and Tribunals of the Roman Catholic Church

`But there are occasions when it happens that justice produces mischief
SOPHOCLES

`More light:` (`Mehr Licht:`)
GOETHE: last words

`Who said to me, A foetus in the womb, a puling babe, `You have your life, but on the condition that You thus believe?` - No one! Not even God! So, gentlemen, I say you have no right, To make terms for my life...`
MORRIS WEST-The Heretic

CONTENTS
BOOK ONE-A Bill of Complaints
I The Particulars of the Bill
2 Marriage: The Social Contract
3 Christian Marriage - The Ideal
4 Christian Marriage The Reality
5 Roman Catholic Marriage The Law
6 Christian Marriage and Divorce
7 Christian Marriage What Recourse?
8 Catholic Marriage - The Diocesan Tribunals
9 Catholic Marriage The Sacred Rota
10 Case Histories
11 Privileged People
12 The Brother and Sister Act
13 The Case for the Complainants
BOOK TWO-A Proposal for Reforms
14 Pre-conditions for the Proposals
15 The Purpose of Reform
16 The Base of Reform Truth 92
17 The Argument for the New Criterion
18 The Method of Determination
19 The Obstacles to Reform
20 Who is Accountable?
BOOK THREE The Tolerances of the Early Church
21 Tolerance - What is it?
22 Of History and Historians
23 The Testimony of the Fathers
24 The Testimony of the Synods
25 Divorce and the Council of Trent
26 The Usage of Honest Men
BOOK FOUR-The People of God
27 The Discontents of the Assembly
28 Authority within the Assembly
29 Of Dogma, Definition and Infallibility
30 Of Law in the Assembly
31 Dissent by the People of God
32 The Protest on Matrimonial Injustice
33 Of Marriage Law and Liberty of Conscience 170
34 Of Marriage as We Know it
35 Of Celibate Lawmakers
THE SUMMATION OF THE PLEA
`But there are occasions when it happens that justice produces mischief

`Divorce is a sign of pernicious moral decadence... A PAPAL DISCOURSE

`If I could exercise in law the same discretion about motives and states of mind which I exercise in the confessional, I could wipe half the marriage cases off my books overnight! A ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP

A Catholic novelist and an Anglican writer join forces to expose what they claim to be `a scandal of large dimensions` in the Roman Catholic, Church.
The case they make is that many of the marriage laws in the Roman Catholic Code of Canon Law are bad laws and that the administration of these laws through the marriage tribunals of the Roman Catholic Church fails to dispense either natural justice or Christian charity.
Their plea, passionate and closely reasoned, is for immediate reforms in accordance with traditional Christian tolerance.
Their challenge to the Roman Catholic Assembly is a blunt one: Refute the complaints or reform the laws.



Nonfiction, Religion, 0330025929