Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Ed Peters Sees Canon Violation in Vatican Snub

Edit: Waaaaaaa! Team America isn’t welcome at the Vatican. I wonder if it means Cardinal Dolan won’t be the first high school wrestling coach to be the pope. Obviously, George Weigel has had some issues with this current papacy, since he doesn’t quite get the access now he once enjoyed under John Paul II, but Ed Peters finds another avenue to object to this state of things in the Vatican. It’s probably too much to expect that they were disinclined for doctrinal reasons?

George Weigel’s essay on the shut-down of the American press conferences is spot-on, in my view, and I post here only to add a canonical perspective on events.Law.1983 CIC 212 § 3. According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they possess, they [the Christian faithful, which includes cardinals] have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful, without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons.Universi Dominici imposes secrecy concerning all matters directly or indirectly related to the election of the Roman Pontiff. UDG 10, 12, 48, etc.

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4 comments:

  1. Aged parentMarch 13, 2013 at 12:47 PM

    More tiresome remarks from the self-proclaimed Supercanonist, Ed Peters.

    No, Mr Peters, the American Cardinals were (and are) a public embarrassment in their crass electioneering and in-your-face Americanism.

    The only thing more disgusting than the antics of these cardinals is their defense by such as Weigel and Peters. Hopefully the election of an Argentinian will at least cut them down a few pegs.

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    1. AnonymousMarch 13, 2013 at 12:57 PM

      And hopefully the name Francis indicates a rebuilding of the Church, nearly destroyed by fifty years of antiCatholics. Lets just pray his idea of rebuilding does not include any of what has been rammed down our throats by the destroyers.

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  2. DaneMarch 13, 2013 at 12:53 PM

    A horse is a horse of course, of course
    And nobody can talk to a horse of course
    That is of course
    Unless the horse
    Is the famous Mr. Ed

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  3. AnonymousMarch 13, 2013 at 8:49 PM

    I agree with Aged Parent. I had said pretty much the same to a particular person who kept on with the ++Dolan,++O'Malley thing.

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