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Category Archives: Canon Law

An Ex-Sede, the Motu Mass and Refusing Sacraments

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

A CASE TO RESOLVE: Father Romanus, a sedevacantist, is asked to offer Mass for and address a small gathering of traditionalists in another state. The topic of his address: Why one should not actively participate in “una cum” Masses — that is, Masses at which the name of Benedict XVI is put into the first [...]

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The “Canonized” Mass and Abp. Lefebvre

Thursday, August 16, 2007

QUESTION: In your Quidlibet article “Quo Primum: Could a Pope Change It?” I read your comment that a future pope after St. Pius V could, as a supreme legislator, abrogate this Bull.
However, I still wonder why the Bull then states that “and that this present document cannot be revoked or modified,” which could only [...]

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Can an Excommunicated Cardinal be Elected Pope?

Monday, June 25, 2007

QUESTION: The Constitution of Pope Pius XII that establishes the rules for a papal conclave says the following:
“34. No Cardinal, by pretext or reason of any excommunication, suspension, in-terdict or other ecclesiastical impediment whatsoever can be excluded in any way from the active and passive election of the Supreme Pontiff. Moreover, we suspend such censures [...]

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Quo Primum: Could a Pope Change It?

Thursday, May 17, 2007

QUESTION: During a recent argument with a Novus Ordo friend, she told me that (according to her priest) popes can change whatever they want, as long as it is not dogmatic. We were discussing “Quo Primum.” I told her that it was forever, but she said that even if the pope said “forever” another [...]

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