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Tag Archives: faculties
ASK FATHER: About delegation and the proper form of SSPX marriages
From a reader… I recently read your post regarding the recently-announced changes to the validity of marriages witnessed by SSPX priests, and I am confused. How does this change anything? Doesn’t Canon 1108 already give bishops and pastors the power … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Canon Law, One Man & One Woman, SSPX
Tagged can 1383, can. 1108, delegation, faculties, marriage, matrimony
23 Comments
23 Comments
Pope Francis provides for valid SSPX marriages
UPDATE 6 April: I want to make a point. Specific marriages (that is, involving real people not theoretical cases) are assumed to be valid, unless they are declared by a tribunal not to have taken place at all. Some marriage … Read More
Posted in One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, SSPX, The future and our choices
Tagged faculties, marriage, matrimony, SSPX
24 Comments
24 Comments
ASK FATHER: Faculties of the Missionaries of Mercy after the Year of Mercy
From a priest… QUAERITUR: Do the missionaries of mercy still have the faculty to remit censures arising from reserved delicts? I’m working with a priest who is worried (I think he’s ok actually). But if a trip to the missionary would be able … Read More
ASK FATHER: Confession on a train when going through another diocese
From a reader… A priest from Diocese X and a lay person travel by train to some place. During the trip the latter feels the need to confess sacramentally. The train at that moment is in Diocese Y, where the priest has no … Read More
Card. Burke on attending SSPX chapels: only when “absolute necessity”
At the Deus Ex Machina Blog there is a video of a presentation given by Card. Burke (bow low here) on the occasion of the publication of his book Divine Love Made Flesh in Polish. Included at the blog is … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, SSPX, Year of Mercy
Tagged Card. Burke, faculties, SSPX, Year of Mercy
54 Comments
54 Comments
SSPX reacts to Pope Francis concession for the Year of Mercy
For the Year of Mercy Pope Francis has (in an indirect way) granted to the priests of the SSPX the faculty validly to absolve penitents in routine sacramental confession. HERE Under normal circumstances, the priests of the SSPX do … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, SSPX
Tagged Bp. Fellay, confessions, faculties, SSPX, Year of Mercy
21 Comments
21 Comments
More about this whole Pope Francis, SSPX lack of faculties, Year of Mercy confessions thing
More needs to be said about this whole Pope Francis, SSPX lack of faculties, Year of Mercy confessions thing. As I wrote before, the Pope, in his letter to Archbp. Fisichella, did NOT say that the priests of the SSPX will … Read More
A note about the necessary faculty priests must have licitly and validly to absolve sins
I want to clear up something related to the upcoming grant from Pope Francis (I repeat… upcoming, and not yet) to SSPX priests to absolve the sins of penitents who come to them. Some people are claiming that the SSPX already validly absolve … Read More
ASK FATHER: “I went to confession at a SSPX parish for several years.”
From a reader… QUAERITUR: After I became Catholic, some friends introduced me to tradition and I began to attend a SSPX parish with them. I went to confession at this SSPX parish for several years. I have heard that the validity of … Read More
ASK FATHER: Priest couldn’t hear confession in Spanish.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Today I went to confession at a nearby bilingual Novus Ordo parish. The priest was visiting, and informed us that he didn’t speak Spanish and could only hear confessions in English. I know that in the … Read More
ASK FATHER: Valid absolution from Orthodox priest, but not from SSPX priest?
From a reader… Quaeritur: Why is absolution from an Orthodox priest valid but absolution from an SSPX priest invalid? I was told by someone that this is one argument from the SSPX as to why their Confessions are valid. This … Read More
QUAERITUR: Confession at regular parish but Sunday Mass at SSPX?
From a reader: Howdy Fr. Z [Fine, thanks!] I had a question about fulfilling my Sunday Obligation at an SSPX chapel. First let me say, I am 100% with the bishops and the pope. I prefer the Latin Mass. I am about … Read More
QUAERITUR: Why won’t the bishop let a priest come to say the TLM?
From a reader: Can my Bishop refuse to allow a priest from another diocese to say the TLM in our parish? Our priest needs someone to cover the Latin Mass during the summer and a priest from an another diocese … Read More
QUAERITUR: Confession to an SSPX priest a sin?
From a reader: While doing research I came across something that said that one of the faithful who knowingly receives a Sacrament from a priest without faculties commits a sin. I have always attended SSPX chapels and gone to confession … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, SSPX
Tagged absolution, can. 1379, can. 966, confession, faculties, sins, SSPX, validity
18 Comments
18 Comments
QUAERITUR: Can the newly ordained hear confessions? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
From a reader: Being that it’s ordination season and there’s lots of new young priests eager to do priestly things, there’s something that crossed my mind recently. My understanding is that in order to hear confessions and absolve sins, priests … Read More
French site Golias out Tablets the Tablet on a possible SSPX solution
This morning I posted an response to a query about the validity of marriages witnessed by an SSPX priest (short answer: they are invalid because of defect of form since the priest is suspended a divinis). Synchoronicitously…. if that is … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged a divinis, Card. Castrillon, faculties, Golias, reconciliation, SSPX
8 Comments
8 Comments
BeatifyStickler on Daily Rome Shot 1189: “The Sisters have great music. Diocese are going bankrupt and orders are wrapping it all up permanently. These groups are…”
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