Category Archives: 1983 CIC can. 915

‘c’atholics for Free Choice? Quislings in our midst.

Posted on 28 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From CNA about the quislings in our midst:

Catholics for a Free Choice spends millions in Latin American abortion support
Lima, Peru, Nov 26, 2012 / 04:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The abortion advocacy group Catholics For a Free Choice has invested more … Continue reading →

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UK: Legal path set to deny charitable status to Church which exclude anyone from Communion, sacraments

Posted on 10 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Tales of the Bizarre.
This is from LifeNews:
UK Catholics might lose charitable status for not offering communion to everyone
BY HILARY WHITE
LONDON, November 7, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Conservative Party MP has accused the government’s Charity Commission of attempting to suppress Christianity … Continue reading →

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A canonist explains something about can. 915 & can. 916

Posted on 31 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The Canonical Defender, Prof. Ed Peters, is back at it after his synodal  sojourn in Rome.
A recent offering:
Catholics, Communion, and Controversies
by Dr. Edward Peters
Controversies over participation in holy Communion by Catholics publicly at odds with Church teaching cannot be usefully … Continue reading →

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VP Biden’s last ditch effort to fool Catholics. Revolting.

Posted on 30 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From LifeNews:
Pro-Abortion Biden Claims He’s a “Practicing Catholic” In New Ad
by Steven Ertelt
In a last-ditch effort to get Catholic voters to support pro-abortion President Barack Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden, who also backs abortion, has released a new web ad. In … Continue reading →

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VP Biden: Planned Parenthood “under law cannot perform any abortions”.

Posted on 12 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I subscribe to the plan of voting for the most conservative candidate who has a real chance to win. The candidate might not be perfect, but, as the young papist Tom Peters put it today, imperfect is better than evil.
Evil … Continue reading →

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Jon O’Brien’s (“catholics For Choice”) spittle-flecked nutty in HuffPo about Sr. Walsh’s remarks

Posted on 9 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

HuffPo has posted a spittle-flecked nutty from  Jon O’Brien, president of the disgusting pro-abortion catholic group, Catholics … catholics For Choice.
O’Brien’s nutty was sparked by a post on the USCCB blog by Sr. Mary Ann Walsh.
Sr. Walsh wrote:
“Going to Catholics for Choice … Continue reading →

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Caroline Kennedy… can. 915

Posted on 7 September 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This is what Caroline Kennedy said during her address to the Democrats Convention:
KENNEDY: His commitment to women is about even more than economic rights. It’s about health care, reproductive rights and our ability to make our own decisions about ourselves, … Continue reading →

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Pelosi… can. 915… Pelosi… can. 915… Pelosi… can. 915…

Posted on 5 September 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From CNSNEWS:
Pelosi: GOP ‘May Have a Religious View About Abortion — but Birth Control?’
By Eric Scheiner
(CNSNews.com)- At a breakfast rally for the California Democratic Party earlier this week, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she understood the religious views … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Does kneeling for Communion show a “spirit of disobedience”?

Posted on 30 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Our new pastor recently published a letter in the bulletin [I've cut that out in order to "anonymize" this.] in which he uses the GIRM [General Instruction on the Roman Missal] to argue that those who genuflect before … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Of “Vicars General” and of “Ordinaries” – UPDATED

Posted on 6 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
When Canon Law speaks of diocesan Ordinaries, or those equivalent to them in law – are they speaking of Apostolic Administrators or Vicar Generals or both? I know that pragmatically, an Apostolic Administrator has Ordinary powers but is … Continue reading →

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