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Bishops act on decree CHICAGO (AP) — Roman Catholic bishops have acted to lift a century-old decree ex communicating divorced American Catholics who remarried. The action here does not by itself qualify them to share Holy Communion without further steps to resolve their status. “It welcomes back to the community of believers in Christ all who may have been separated by ex communication,” said Bishop Cletus F. O’Donnell of Madison, Wis., head of a canonical com mittee that proposed the action. The bishops’ decision on Wednesday to repeal the 1884 decree of the Third Council of Baltimore must be approved by the Pope. This is considered certain since the decree applies only in this country. Os the 49 million Catholics in the United States, about 5 mil lion are divorced and remar ried. Roman Catholicism forbids divorce and considers second marriages invalid unless prior unions have been annulled. Simple, broad procedures have been introduced in church tri bunals for obtaining annul ments. Excommunication, the church’s severest penalty, was a “terrible, terrible thing” for those affected, Bishop O'Donnell said, cutting them off from the church, its prayers or from holding any offices in it. “They were looked on as kind of outcasts. This was wrong.” He said the bishops’ action “is a promise of help and support in the resolution of the burden of family life. Perhaps above all, it is a gesture of love and reconciliation from the other members of the church.” O’Donnell said the step also would encourage “disaffected or alienated Catholics” to seek pastoral counseling on means to resolve their marital situations to permit them to again share Holy Communion. The excommunication had not applied to Catholics who ob tained civil divorces but only to those who afterward remarried. The bishops also signaled a likely historic change in the way worshippers receive Holy Communion, allowing them to take it in their hands instead of the current practice of being placed on their tongues. The practice of receiving Holy Communion by tongue has prevailed for 1,100 years, but a strong majority of the 246 active bishops present at the com mittee meeting voted for the change. It was not quite the two thirds majority needed to pass but it appeared almost sure through later-mailed ballots from absent bishops. In 53 other countries, bishops already have acted to allow the optional ways of distributing Holy Communion with papal approval. Ex-pastor buried LINCOLNTON, Ga. (AP) - Funeral services were sched uled today for the Rev. Warren G. Cutts Sr., who held eight Baptist pastorates in Georgia. He died Tuesday at the age of 85. Before retiring from the min istry in the early 19605, Cutts was minister at churches in New Hope, Dawson, Doerun, I Manchester, Hogansville, Car rollton, Calhoun, and Marietta, i Ga., and in Montgomery, Ala., and Norfolk, Va. Survivors include his widow, a daughter and two sons. EMPLOYE THEFT GARDEN CITY, N. Y. (AP) — There are 415 known ways to steal money and-or goods from employers and new methods are being discovered almost ev ery day, according to a recent study by the Dale System, Inc. “A clerk in a busy New York City candy store under-rings every sale by one penny and takes home $5 a day —for 22 years. 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