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An ecclesiastical benefice cannot be obtained licitly without canonical institution.

Cannabis is licitly cultivated in some areas of China for use in commercial rope manufacturing.

But from the moment of the adoption, Hopie was licitly mine, and yes, she did wrap me around her little finger on myriad occasions.

An action which is objectively evil, even if a lesser evil, can never be licitly willed.

His effigy could licitly be there, and it could have two companions if it washed.

Blackwell, citing the Pope's call for civil obedience, advised his priests that the oath could licitly be taken.

It would not be contrary to Catholic teaching, which holds that the contraceptive pill can be licitly taken for non-contraceptive purposes.

This could happen as a result of failing to control either illicit production or diversion of licitly produced opium to illicit purposes.

Any priest, even if laicised or without faculties to hear confessions, may both licitly and validly absolve from all censures and sins anyone who is in danger of death.

Accordingly, the dune buggies the Family acquired, licitly and otherwise, were fitted, on Manson's inspiration, with machine gun mounts; while the men would drive, the girls would operate the guns.

And while the council says opium poppies should be bought by the international community and used licitly for medical purposes, Oxfam argues that such a project would be impossible given the current state of Afghanistan.

According to that report, Schedule I mostly contains hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD that are produced by illicit laboratories, while the other three Schedules are mainly for licitly produced pharmaceuticals.

To the Editor: With half of licitly traded weapons ending up supplying illicit traffic, you are right that a standardized international system for vetting and documenting exports of small arms is urgently needed (editorial, April 10).

In the Latin Church, simple priests (presbyters) can validly and licitly confirm in some circumstances, such as when they baptize adults or receive them into the Church and when there is danger of death.

A bishop is the ordinary minister of confirmation and he may licitly administer it to his own subjects everywhere and, in his own territory, even to Catholics who are not his subjects, unless their ordinary has expressly forbidden it.

Thus, fertilization is licitly sought when it is the result of a "conjugal act which is per se suitable for the generation of children to which marriage is ordered by its nature and by which the spouses become one flesh."

"A tyrant may be licitly and meritoriously, and rightly put to death by any vassal or subject, even by resorting to secret plots, adulation, and feigned friendship, notwithstanding any oath of fealty to him or treaty concluded with him, without any judicial decree or order."

Likewise Catholic ministers licitly administer the Sacraments of Penance, the Eucharist and Anointing of the Sick to Christian faithful of Eastern Churches, who do not have full communion with the Catholic Church, if they ask for them on their own and are properly disposed."

Catholic ministers administer the sacraments licitly to Catholic members of the Christian faithful alone, who likewise receive them licitly from Catholic ministers alone, without prejudice to the prescripts of 2, 3, and 4 of this canon, and can.

In consequence of the fact that they have been produced in vitro, those embryos which are not transferred into the body of the mother and are called "spare" are exposed to an absurd fate, with no possibility of their being offered safe means of survival which can be licitly pursued.

It seems to me that responsible reporting of our national drug-law-abuse problem requires that at least occasionally people be reminded that during most of American history -from the time of the Pilgrims' landing until the beginning of this century - drugs were traded licitly in the free market, instead of illicitly in the underground market.

Other churches see full communion between them as meaning that their members may licitly participate in each other's rites, particularly in the partaking of the Eucharist in closed communion denominations, and involving also recognition of each other's offices of ministry as valid and thus, in most cases, interchangeability of ordained ministers.