Taking dictation.According to a report in the National Catholic Reporter (September 1), the Vatican has told the U.S. bishops that the general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops has to be a priest, and that the NCCB NCCB National Council of Catholic Bishops (now United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) NCCB Netherlands Culture Collection of Bacteria NCCB National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting NCCB North Cheshire Concert Band must change its bylaws The rules and regulations enacted by an association or a corporation to provide a framework for its operation and management. Bylaws may specify the qualifications, rights, and liabilities of membership, and the powers, duties, and grounds for the dissolution of an to reflect that requirement. Sister Sharon Euart, currently an associate general secretary, was being considered for the post, hence the inquiry by the bishops to Rome: Could a lay person or a religious be elected? Rome says no. Euart, a highly respected canon lawyer, has held her current job for more than a decade but will leave at the end of this year. According to a later NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers report (September 15), she has been forced to resign by the incoming general secretary, Monsignor William Fay. We turned to a long-time Vatican observer, Father Guido Sarducci Father Guido Sarducci is a fictional character made famous by American comedian Don Novello. Sarducci, a chain-smoking priest with tinted eyeglasses, works in the United States as gossip columnist and rock critic for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. , for an assessment of this decision by Rome. He offered the following: "First, the Vatican has no objection to women being secretaries, they simply cannot be general secretaries. Second, Jesus never chose a woman to be a general secretary, nor did any ecumenical council, including Vatican II. Finally, the general secretary might have to act, in emergencies, in persona Christi In persona Christi - a Latin phrase meaning "in the person of Christ" - is an important theological concept of the Catholic Church which refers to the action of a priest while celebrating a sacrament. . And, for iconic purposes, biology counts." |
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