Further, that the marriage was alleged as a divine prophecy which never occurred and that subsequent clarifications were after-the-fact explanations.

I did not find the subsequent clarification by the Vatican of Cardinal Ratzinger's remarks (news article, Nov. 19) satisfactory.

In a subsequent clarification of the original article KVOA reported that one of the two professors contacted the station and disagreed that PWU was a diploma mill.

Most of those Republicans said they initially believed that Mr. Specter's subsequent clarification would protect him.

This led to criticism regarding his lack of foreign policy experience due to his admitted unfamiliarity with the issue and need for subsequent clarification.

Leaders of Jewish organizations involved in dialogue with the Vatican, however, said in New York that the Ratzinger interview and the subsequent clarification "raise a number of fundamental issues which are deeply disturbing."

Mr. Kallstrom's subsequent clarification - he said he was merely predicting that a Navy ship would be in a position to retrieve important wreckage within 48 hours - did not mitigate the safety board's uneasiness.

But the original comments, and the subsequent clarification, show the problem Merrill faces.

Some of the concerns expressed by the committee of guarantors may be considered to have been dealt with by the subsequent clarifications supplied by the Commission regarding, for example, the scope of the system.

This advice led some Catholics to believe (mistakenly, according to subsequent clarifications) that the prohibition was no longer in force, and that the Church no longer had objections to Freemasonry.