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YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- Saint Rocco the Trubador on USA Day 1 – A soft landing: “Welcome back!”
- on USA Day 1 – A soft landing: “Black to move and mate in 4. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
- on Rome 24/10 – LAST full Day 42: chores: “November 13. Saint Diego or Didacus is a saint from Spain who died in 1463.”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 41: Another heartbreak: “My understanding of Traditionis Custodes is still limited, but what I do know leads me to be…disinclined toward it. In…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 41: Another heartbreak: “@Fr. Reader Not to pile on, (and as I have X/twitter blocked and cannot see anything), but if a dog…”
- on Rome 24/10 – LAST full Day 42: chores: “Fr. Z: Have a safe return to the USA. I hope you are able to visit family members after you…”
- on Catholic Unscripted on FIRE: “Excellent analysis on authentic feminine vs perverted feminine, much better diagnosis than just a blanket “feminization is what’s wrong with…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 41: Another heartbreak: “If this is the kind of messages that people who attend the extraordinary form write, we better cancel it, the…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 41: Another heartbreak: “I fear what happened in Tyler will happen in Boston. Cardinal O’Malley basically ignored TC and the TLM is currently…”
- on Rome 24/10 – LAST full Day 42: chores: “After White plays 1. Qa1, there is no move Black can make to prevent mate by 2. Qh8++.”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 41: Another heartbreak: “Fr. Mawdsle in a reply blamed the loss of his ministry on “ jewish organised covid tyranny and the jewish…”
- on Catholic Unscripted on FIRE: “They are very good and very orthodox. I think Gavin could have been accepted as a priest in the Anglican…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 41: Another heartbreak: “@Fr. Reader The cruelty of the modern world is that it both demands that every man, woman, and child speak…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 41: Another heartbreak: “Regarding the message of Fr J Mawdsley to bp Vazquez. I don’t think this is the kind of messages that…”
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Tag Archives: latae sententiae excommunication
ASK FATHER: Can a person commit a schismatic act and not be in “full” schism? “Schroedinger’s Excommunication.”
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Thank you for all of your wonderful, and sometimes saddening articles. They are truly a joy and blessing to read. They have helped me to educated myself in my faith better as well. I was wondering, … Read More
ASK FATHER: Is Francis an Antipope because Cardinals conspired and the conclave was invalid?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: In your podcast the other about [Fr. Thomas G.] Weinandy’s idea of an “internal papal schism” you said that nobody is saying that Bergoglio is an Antipope. But there are people saying that and Bergoglio is … Read More
ASK FATHER: Was I automatically excommunicated?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Since latae sententiae excommunication is not incurred without committing a mortal sin, and acting against one’s conscience regarding something one thinks might be mortally sinful is itself a mortal sin, is excommunication incurred if one thinks … Read More
ASK FATHER: “Disposing” of the Eucharist and the Sacrarium
From a reader… It is my understanding that if a Communion host or the precious blood has to be disposed, it is to be poured into water to dissolve/mix with the water, then poured into a sacrarium or into the earth. My … Read More
Some clarity about the faculty Francis gave priests to “absolve the sin of abortion”
At CNN we find a story about how Pope Francis extended to priests indefinitely the ability to absolve the sin of abortion. He had hitherto given it only for the Year of Mercy, which is now closed. (CNN)Pope Francis has … Read More
ASK FATHER: Returning to the Church from schism
From a reader… I’ve heard a lot recently about ordinary priests being given the power to lift excommunications for abortion, what with the Year of Mercy. What about other sins that carry an automatic excommunication, like schism? I left the … Read More
Was the election of Pope Francis “invalid” because Cardinals committed certain crimes?
Canonist Ed Peters looks into the issue of the excommunication incurred by a cardinal elector who “canvasses” for votes in the context of a papal conclave. HERE I won’t, here, get into Dr. Peter’s proposal that automatic (late sententiae) excommunication should … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged Card. Danneels, Cardinal Electors, cardinals, latae sententiae excommunication, UDG 81
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Ed Peters on the ‘sin’ of abortion, the ‘crime’ of abortion, and excommunication
The distinguished canonist (and commentator here) Ed Peters has a useful post at his fine blog In The Light Of The Law about the distinction of the sin of abortion and the crime of abortion and the sanction/censure that can be incurred … Read More
QUAERITUR: I found a Host at my mother’s house. Wherein Fr. Z rants a little.
From a reader: While visiting my parents’ home (they are not Catholic; I am a convert), I was invited up to look at something on Mom’s prayer table. I forget what it was … but out of the corner of … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, O'Brian Tags, Our Catholic Identity, Preserved Killick, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Year of Faith
Tagged can. 1367, Communion in the hand, graviora delicta, host, latae sententiae excommunication, sacrarium
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QUAERITUR: Joining the Polish National Catholic Church
From a reader: Some relatives told me they were considering joining the Polish National Catholic Church. I see from what you have previously written they have valid sacraments (that’s good) but they don’t seem to be in union with our … Read More
QUAERITUR: Help! I don’t know if I was absolved of helping with an abortion.
From a reader: Father, back in a “former life” I committed the grave sin of assisting a young lady I knew in grad school to commit an abortion. I regretted it from the start and within a year I had … Read More
PODCAzT 81: Benedict XVI’s Letter on SSPX excomms; your voicemail
A fast PODCAzT this time. I am so grateful to the folks who sent the new microphone and the boom. They really help. In this session I read Pope Benedict’s Letter to Bishops on the lifting of the excommunications of … Read More
Saint Rocco the Trubador on USA Day 1 – A soft landing: “Welcome back!”
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