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GENERAL ABSOLUTION
Vatican rejects U.S. bishops' ceremony
WASHINGTON NC). — The Vatican's Doctrinal Congregation has explicitly rejected as "inappropriate" the "convocation of a large crowd for the primary purpose of giving general absolution." The congregation's corn- ception and not the "corn(Memphis Bishop mentary apparently stemmreplies Page 8) (• Continued Page 2)
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Coed John XXIII College The familiar Loreto chapel tower (pictured) is now guardian of the new John XXIII coeducational college. This week Archbishop
GOODY was pictured
with Mary WHITE and John WRAY, joint presidents of the Students' Representative Council of the coeducational college. that embraces the form-
er campuses of Loreto, Claremont and St. Louis School.
Archbishop Goody met the chairman of the college council, Mr. Kevin SULLIVAN and the headmaster, Father Dayen DAY, S.J., in a visit to meet senior staff. Others present were Sister Bernadette ZIESING and Mr. Frank OWEN, joint deputies of ihe college, and Mrs. E. FAR RELLY, Mr. D. HALL, and Sister Maureen LAVALLE who are in charge of the three
lower-school communities respectively. The combined enrolment of the four communities (two at Loreto and two at St. Louis) has almost reached the projected figure of 1,200, there being 588 boys and 564 girls with some enrolments yet to be completed. The balance of boys and girls is relatively even through all years, one to 12, with boys showing a slight preponderance in years five, six, eight and eleven.
ed from wide publicity giv en last year to two massive rites of reconciliation with general absolution conducted by Bishop Dozier, of Memphis. The congregation also raised a strong question whether Catholics who are divorced and illegitimately remarried can receive Communion after general absolution without private confession, although this was reportedly done by some in the Tennessee rites. The rites in the Memphis diocese, conducted during Advent, were publicised beforehand as an effort to draw inactive Catholics back into full communion with the Church.
11,500 ATTEND The fact that general absolution without individual confession would be given was widely 'clewed as the major distinguishing aspect of the liturgical events. The Penance rite was followed by Mass and Communion. The first rite, in Memphis, attracted 11,500 people, and the second one, in Jackson, drew 2,000. The two rites also attracted national television and Press coverage, including front-page headlines in most Catholic papers. The practice also evoked controversy, considerable leading Archbishop Bernardin to issue a public statement reaffirming that general absolution is the ex-
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