Grantville Gazette V by Eric Flint

Author:Eric Flint [Flint, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science fiction; American, Fantasy, Seventeenth century, Space Opera, Alternative histories (Fiction); American, General, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy fiction; American, Fiction, Short Stories
ISBN: 9781439132791
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2009-08-10T23:00:00+00:00

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"I think," Bernadette said firmly, "that you had better hold a hearing. At least get the testimony down in black and white, while it's as fresh as possible in everyone's mind. If you want

to wait until Larry Mazzare gets back to do anything about it, that's one thing. But the least you

owe him is to get all the ducks in a row in advance. In my humble opinion, of course."

Father Athanasius Kircher looked at the opinionated middle-aged woman who might

possibly, depending on how things worked out, become the most influential mother superior in

the German church one of these years. If she got the new women's religious order she was

proposing off the ground. That, too, was waiting for Larry Mazzare to get back from Italy. In her

humble opinion. Hah.

"I'll consult with the others," he said. There were a half-dozen down-time Jesuits in residence

at St. Mary's parish these days.

"Take a hard look at consent," Bernadette said. "Have Hanni Heinzerling look around in the

storage rooms and attics to see if she can find the applicable edition of canon law. The parish

should have had a copy back in 1968. From everything I've picked up, it's entirely possible that

when Pat married Francis, she wasn't capable of rendering informed consent. I was only twelve

or so at the time, but Mom and Dad say . . ."

"My," Kircher said at the end of her story. "That's astonishing, if true. And the canon lawyers

will be fascinated, because it will, indeed, revolve around the consent issue. Well, in essence,

marriage questions almost always do. It's too bad that in the absence of a bishop, Thuringia

doesn't have a properly constituted Ehegericht. There's nobody who can establish a marriage

court. Administratively, we are still in a mess with Larry Mazzare being a cardinal but not, as far

as we can tell, a bishop. There's just no clear jurisdictional chain of command between St. Mary's

parish and, well, the pope himself. And it's not much better in Franconia, with Hatzfeld in exile

still. There's only so much that a suffragan can do."

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