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Article: Bring back the beadle: new regulations proposed by the Vatican show a church ever more consumed by minutiae.(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- November 21, 2003
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Not long ago, Jean and I went not far away to the magnificent rococo Dewes Mansion to witness the wedding of two good people of deep faith and exquisite taste.
We have known "David" for years and, through him, we met "Margaret," who has attended Mass in our parish. She is a cradle Catholic with a graduate degree from Loyola University Chicago. David was baptized and raised a Presbyterian. Later, when he married his first wife, he converted to Judaism. They had two wonderful kids before the marriage crashed.
Margaret had never married and she sincerely wanted a Catholic wedding. However, the complications concerning the annulment of his first marriage ...