[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Re: From Canon Law

Can. 901 A priest is free to apply the Mass for anyone, living or dead.

Anyone? I find that worrying. Are they suggesting that they are free to apply the Mass for decent people like you, me, our children and deceased ancestors ... and also for the president of France and Pol Pot? This is very reminiscent of the Mor(m)ons, with their random baptism of anyone whose name they get hold of when they go through your trash.

Stuff like this seems to be a feature of false religions which base their mumbo-jumbo on statues, golden plates and made-up scriptures. These so-called churches should be banned.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: From Canon Law

I had assumed that dead people, I suppose they'd be thought of as present for the occasion, constituted the priest not celebrating eucharist by himself. And after Attila-the-Hun they could do Charles Dickens (per Can. 906) and so on.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Re: From Canon Law

I had assumed that dead people, I suppose they'd be thought of as present for the occasion, constituted the priest not celebrating eucharist by himself. And after Attila-the-Hun they could do Charles Dickens (per Can. 906) and so on.

I suppose it depends on what "apply a mass" means. Not being a Catlick, I neither know nor care, though it sounds like applying a poultice of figs in the style of 2 Kings 20:1-7. (Incidentally, Hezekiah was a bit of a drama queen about a mere boil, wasn't he?)


But I digress. I have heard Irish people wittering on about "saying a mass for" someone - usually but not always dead. Sometimes comatose from the drink perhaps, or maybe away with the fairies as they say in their quaint idiom. So, they would be technically living, but not as we know it.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Christian dad new here

906 rules for behaviour?

More.

Here for example are Cann. One Thousand seven hundred and forty seven (to) One Thousand seven hundred and fifty two. Interminably self-referential, I've included can. 1747 and preserved links in the text where—by following them—you'll enter a labyrinth hosting neither Pasiphaë nor her Minotaur but a fish aficionado in full regalia tormenting the God we love.

Can. 1747

§1. The removed pastor must refrain from exercising the function of pastor, vacate the rectory as soon as possible, and hand over everything belonging to the parish to the person to whom the bishop has entrusted the parish.
§2. If, however, the man is sick and cannot be transferred elsewhere from the rectory without inconvenience, the bishop is to leave him the use, even exclusive use, of the rectory while this necessity lasts.
§3. While recourse against a decree of removal is pending, the bishop cannot appoint a new pastor, but is to provide a parochial administrator in the meantime.

Can. 1748

If the good of souls or the necessity or advantage of the Church demands that a pastor be transferred from a parish which he is governing usefully to another parish or another office, the bishop is to propose the transfer to him in writing and persuade him to consent to it out of love of God and souls.

Can. 1749

If the pastor does not intend to submit to the counsel and persuasions of the bishop, he is to explain the reasons in writing.

Can. 1750

Notwithstanding the reasons alleged, if the bishop decides not to withdraw from his proposal, he is to consider the reasons which favor or oppose the transfer with two pastors selected according to the norm of can. 1742, §1. If he then decides to implement the transfer, however, he is to repeat the paternal exhortations to the pastor.

Can. 1751

§1. When this has been done, if the pastor still refuses and the bishop thinks that the transfer must be made, he is to issue a decree of transfer, establishing that the parish will be vacant after the lapse of a set time.
§2. If this period of time has passed without action, he is to declare the parish vacant.

Can. 1752

In cases of transfer the prescripts of can. 1747 are to be applied, canonical equity is to be observed, and the salvation of souls, which must always be the supreme law in the Church, is to be kept before one’s eyes.