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Brian /p> p> I would like to know the reference for the statement that before Vatican II, the Holy See proscribed the ordination of a member of religious orders who was "afflicted with evil tendencies to homosexuality or pederasty." br> -- K. McMahon /p>George Neumayr replies: That quote appears in The Canon Law Digest (Officially Published Documents Affecting the Code of Canon Law 1958-1962). The website diocesereport.com has posted the relevant section.
p> PATIENCE RITES br> Re: Jed Babbin's Let's Immanentize Their Eschaton : /p>I thought I had a mind for trivia, remembering that expression from Buckley in the '60s, during my political awakening.
Then he was writing about the impatience of the New Left, and I was thinking of the term about an hour ago while listening to Sean Hannity talking to a conservative caller who was whining about compromises made by President G. W. Bush.
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