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* Last week O'Boyle summarily rejected a suggestion that he submit to arbitration his dispute with 47 Washington priests who have dissented from the encyclical. The National Federation of Priests' Councils proposed that the argument be resolved by a commission of the U.S. hierarchy. O'Boyle, who has suspended at least 17 of the dissenters from one or more of their pastoral functions, answered that "a doctrinal matter is not subject to mediation."